DOVER — Josh St. Hilaire, whose sister, Jenna Pellegrini, was one of two women brutally stabbed to death by Timothy Verrill in January 2017, stood before Judge Mark Howard Friday morning and began counting.
Friday, May 17, 2024
Kayla Montgomery, stepmother of Harmony Montgomery, was released from prison this week, according to the the New Hampshire Department of Corrections.
It’s a quiet Saturday evening on Manchester’s West Side when gunfire splits the silence.
Salem police are investigating after three juveniles reported being robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot of a local movie theater.
Manchester police have arrested two men in connection with a gunfire incident in the city last Monday.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday upheld the six-year sentence given to a Maine woman who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of her newborn daughter in 1985.
A report about a U.S. flag flying upside-down in January 2021 outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home caused a furor in Washington, with the White House saying on Friday President Joe Biden believes the flag is sacred and a senior senator calling for Alito to step aside from two ke…
John Eastman, the first of 18 defendants accused of illegally seeking to claim Arizona’s 2020 electoral votes for then-President Donald Trump to appear before a state judge, pleaded not guilty on Friday.
The man who broke into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home in 2022 and assaulted her husband with a hammer was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.
NEW YORK — The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has dismissed an ethics complaint against Justice Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the hush-money criminal case against former President Donald Trump, a spokesperson for the judge said.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal shooting of a protester during a Black Lives Matter march, on Thursday after a review board recommended he be released from prison.
DOVER -- The double-murder case of Timothy Verrill involved a level of brutality "this court has probably not seen in my 38 years" on the bench, Judge Mark Howard said Friday morning in sentencing Verrill to two consecutive State Prison terms of 45-years-to-life.
Thursday, May 16, 2024
The owner of a Manchester in-home daycare center and three employees have turned themselves into police on child endangerment charges for allegedly adding melatonin to their food. Police said they determined that the children’s food was being sprinkled with melatonin without their parent’s knowledge or consent at the Amory Street center.
NASHUA -- A 21-year-old man from Brooklyn, New York, was taken into police custody this week on a warrant in connection with the theft in November 2023 of products valued at some $13,336 from the Ulta Beauty shop on Daniel Webster Highway.
NEW YORK — A large group of Republican members of Congress showed up Thursday in a lower Manhattan court to show support for former President Donald Trump in his criminal trial for covering up hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday unveiled a historic proposal to ease restrictions on marijuana, a rule that if enacted would also enable more research on its medicinal benefits.
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyer on Thursday accused star witness Michael Cohen of lying at the former president’s trial about a phone conversation he claimed to have had with Trump about a hush money payment to a porn star shortly before the 2016 presidential election.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
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A Sunapee couple’s victory in a two-year battle to rent out their travel trailer could persuade other communities to create more specific rental ordinances, the town’s attorney said after a state Supreme Court decision this week.
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A superior court judge rejected the state’s request to invalidate a verdict in a lawsuit alleging abuse at the Youth Development Center decades ago because of the merits of the case and the statute of limitations.
TILTON — Park Cemetery’s sexton said Wednesday that criminal activity there is rare, despite thefts last month from the Tilton family mausoleum.
CONCORD -- An owner of a Rockingham County automotive dealership who neglected to provide a customer with a certificate of title following a vehicle sale is facing multiple charges.
Two men are in custody after a woman said she was threatened with a gun and held against her will in a West Side apartment, Manchester police said.
A New York City woman has been accused of stealing more than $19,000 from a Clairton, Pennsylvania, man using a routine scam, Allegheny County Police announced Monday.
GENEVA - A Swiss court on Wednesday convicted a former government minister from Gambia of crimes against humanity under ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh and jailed him for 20 years, in a historic verdict using universal jurisdiction in Europe.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. - The Air Force on Tuesday opened preliminary criminal proceedings against a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who was convicted in federal court earlier this year of leaking classified government secrets online, alleging that he also violated milit…
A Manchester man is now facing seven charges of felony arson related to a rash of fires that occurred in the area of Merrimack, Middle and Pleasant streets in the overnight and early morning hours of May 8.
The Attorney General has filed civil rights charges against a Manchester man who allegedly shouted “racial and misogynistic slurs” at the property manager of his West Side apartment building after she left him a note asking him to move his truck, court documents show.
A Maine man was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to three years in prison for an online threat he made to Portsmouth High School last year and a related firearm charge, federal prosecutors announced.
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Authorities are looking for the people who spray-painted the phrase “UNH funds genocide” on the University of New Hampshire’s landmark Thompson Hall.
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Lawyers for David Meehan want a judge to amend a jury’s verdict by increasing the number of incidents of physical and sexual abuse he endured while a resident at the Youth Development Center in the 1990s.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Marc Jacques and Zachary Cote are just two of millions of people throughout the nation investigated and charged in recent years for the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse materials.
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
CONCORD — A school bus driver and his wife, both of Keene, have been arrested after state and federal investigators traced sexually explicit photos of children that the man posted online this month, the U.S. Attorney for New Hampshire said Wednesday.
The state’s failure to disclose evidence to Timothy Verrill’s defense counsel in 2019, which prompted a mistrial, could cause the jury to question the prosecution’s credibility in the retrial, which began Tuesday.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Timothy Verrill wasn’t the “homicidal maniac” who brutally stabbed and bludgeoned two women to death in an early-morning, drug-fueled paranoid episode in 2017, his attorney said during opening statements on Tuesday.
Monday, March 18, 2024
A Manchester couple facing sexual assault charges from more than 20 years ago turned themselves in to police this week.
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