Manchester News

Manchester police were busy Monday investigating a reported stabbing on Lake Avenue.

City Councilor Bob Hamel offered a public apology Monday night for remarks he made to firefighters during a July 9 meeting. The comments were made during tense budget discussions between the council and the Fire Department.

Police are warning visitors to six city parks they plan to start enforcing a smoking ban passed last summer, after officials realized the ordinance ' initially believed to have expired after six months ' remains in effect.

A former math teacher at St. Paul's School in Concord will return to the elite prep school next month to serve as its interim rector for the 2018-19 school year.

Current and retired professors from Plymouth State University, high school guidance counselors, lawyers and psychologists are among the 23 people who wrote glowing letters to a court supporting former Exeter High School guidance counselor Kristie Torbick, who recently pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old student.

A Massachusetts man who stomped on his girlfriend's head and broke her nose during an argument will not serve time behind bars.

The next trial date for the Windham selectman charged with assault stemming from a 2017 bar fight is set for Nov. 1 at 1:15 p.m. at the Salem District Court.

Accused of fatally injuring his 2-year old daughter during a physical and sexual assault, Roger Dana wants a judge to suppress statements he made to police and, citing 'adverse and pervasive publicity,' to also move his trial, now scheduled for September, out of Coos County.

A former Scoutmaster from Newfields faced his victims Monday as he was sentenced to 12 to 30 years in prison after admitting to molesting four Scouts in the 1990s and early 2000s.

A former Center Harbor man whose conviction for stealing 409,980 from his late father has been upheld by the state's highest court, has filed a motion for reconsideration and could remain free for as long as a year before his appeal options are exhausted.

The death of fisherman and 'Wicked Tuna' cast member Nicholas 'Duffy' Fudge, 28, is being investigated, though police say foul play is not suspected.

Police say their chief suspect in a reported break-in at a Plainfield home last week is a hungry black bear.

A Massachusetts man is facing charges after he allegedly removed his clothes at the front desk at the Plaistow Planet Fitness, exercised in the nude and later told police that he thought the gym was a 'judgment-free zone' Sunday afternoon.

Fourteen people, including a young girl, were shot near downtown Toronto, police in Canada's biggest city said on Sunday, with one person killed and the gunman also dead. The young girl was in a critical condition, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said.

The State Police bomb squad was called out Sunday night when a Hooksett business owner reported he heard a ticking noise inside a trash can.

President Donald Trump warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday not to threaten the United States or face the consequences, hours after Rouhani told Trump that hostile policies toward Tehran could lead to the mother of all wars.

Shots were fired at a vehicle carrying a U.S. embassy official in Guatemala on Sunday evening but there were no injuries, a spokesman for the Central American country's national police said.

To the Editor: I'm Robert Forsythe, and I'm running for state representative for Merrimack County District 8, Boscawen.

To the Editor: Manchester is the largest city in the state and should therefore have a better mass transit system.

To the Editor: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was in the state to give a talk on the 'opioid crisis.'