Manchester News

KEENE -- Police say Jurgen Rau stole money and a cell from from the homeless man who died in the woods off Route 101.

A city man is facing charges of resisting arrest and criminal threatening after police say he exited his Clay Street residence carrying a rifle while officers performed a welfare check.

Michael Frolik scored twice, and rookie defenseman Juuso Valimaki scored his first NHL goal as the Calgary Flames beat the visiting Boston Bruins 5-2 on Wednesday night.

Jackie Bradley Jr. struck the decisive blow for a third consecutive game, and the Boston Red Sox inched one win closer to claiming the American League pennant with an 8-6 victory over the Houston Astros in Game 4 of the AL Championship Series on Wednesday.

District 7 of the New Hampshire VFW is raffling off UNH football tickets to help fund VFW programs. There are two chances to win tickets to the UNH Salutes home football game against Albany on Saturday, Nov. 10. The game starts at 1 p.m.

The New Hampshire Veterans Home is presenting two history programs, thanks to grants from New Hampshire Humanities.

The Lakes Region Detachment of the Marine Corps League will celebrate its 20th Annual 'Gathering of Marines' on Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Laconia Country Club, 607 Elm St., Laconia.

Wow! Such reaction on my recent piece on the 1942 World War II failed bombing attempt by the Japanese on the United States mainland was a pleasant and welcome surprise, and many thanks to those of you who took the time to offer your comments and opinions ' all positive so far, but you may have created a monster in the process.

A Dover man accused of dousing a woman in WD-40 and threatening to set her on fire is on trial at Strafford County Superior Court this week.

Mike Descoteaux of Architectural Birdhouses Unlimited in Amherst will discuss his craft at the Bedford Garden Club's meeting Monday in Bedford Public Library's McAllaster Room, 3 Meetinghouse Road.

Police have arrested a city man in connection to one of four reports of gunfire last weekend in Manchester.

Nope. The chicken should not cross any road in Nashua. But before someone tries to call me a hypocrite, I will share my relatives' past with the farm animal.

An engineer hired by the city to review the Environmental Protection Agency's projected costs to clean up the former Mohawk Tannery site says many of the estimated price tags are significantly low.

Tucked away in a cul de sac next to the town's post office is a company that is quietly producing the bulk of the power sources used in the most sophisticated and, at times, the most secretive defense programs in the world.

The local school district is planning to hire a life coach who will work with students at risk of dropping out of school.

The town settled a longstanding lawsuit against the engineering firm that was supposed to oversee the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant, netting a little more than 3 million in the process.

EARLY IN HIS U.S. Marine Corps career, which he concluded as a four-star general, Walt Boomer was decorated for valor in Vietnam. He distilled into three words the lesson of that debacle: 'Tell the truth.' Max Hastings, an eminent British journalist and historian, has done that in a book that is a painful but perhaps inoculating...

I AM WAY PAST deadline, trying to formulate an articulate, compelling column about something ' anything ' to do with New Hampshire politics. But I am not in New Hampshire. I am in New York, helping my Dad care for my Mom, and it is nearly impossible to focus on politics.

To the Editor: A free-thinking 15-year-old girl from a well-to-do family and a friend decide to attend a house party that some boys are having. The two girls and the four boys are drinking beer and after a while, one of the girls goes upstairs with two of the boys.

A city man is facing charges of resisting arrest and criminal threatening after police say he exited his Clay Street residence carrying a rifle while officers performed a welfare check.