Vermont
Doctors said Carmen Tarleton was unlikely to live through the horrific burns she suffered in June 2007, but she survived, left the hospital and was home in Thetford, Vt., for the holidays.
In recent months, as doctors told her she may never regain vision lost in the attack, Tarleton had prepared to be blind for the…
May 18, 2009
A Lyme psychiatrist charged with financial misconduct was able to exploit contracts between Dartmouth College and the VA hospital in White River Junction, Vt. after he positioned himself as the supervisor of the contracts at both institutions, federal prosecutors allege.
May 17, 2009
Lebanon
Katelyn Rousseau was supposed to get a ride home from the Lebanon Junior High School dance Friday, but it was one of the warmer nights of the spring, so Rousseau, 14, decided to join four friends and walk with them to their homes in downtown Lebanon.
About 9:30 p.m., as they approached a crosswalk, the friends had slightly separated. One had walked ahead and crossed the street,…
May 7, 2009
Newport
Aaron Aldridge once seemed to enjoy showing off how comfortable he felt inside the courthouses he covered as a local newspaper reporter. A former police officer and bail commissioner, Aldridge eagerly chatted up the cops and sheriff's deputies and lawyers who milled around Sullivan County's courts, chewing over the day's events.
He usually wore a suit and tie, and he sometimes bragged…
May 5, 2009
The town of Plainfield was recently dismissed as one of the co-defendants in a lawsuit filed by the family of the woman who drowned in the Connecticut River while the Cornish Rescue Squad attempted to transport her by airboat.
In a recent ruling, Judge Brian Tucker said Plainfield cannot be held responsible in the death of 64-year-old Virginia Yates just because it allocates funding…
April 14, 2009
Hanover
An elderly Hanover man was besieged by financial and health problems that drove him to fatally shoot his wife and then turn the gun on himself, according to court documents unsealed yesterday.
Elliott Lewis, 84, had up to $40,000 in credit card debt and was suffering from hardening arteries, family members told the police. In a note he left for his children, Lewis said that the…
April 8, 2009
Hanover
The adult son of the elderly Hanover couple who died in a murder-suicide and were discovered Monday say their deaths were related to the husband's failing health.
In his first extended public comments since Elliott and Barbara Lewis were found dead inside their downtown condominium, Spencer Lewis of Bethel, Vt., wrote that his father, who shot Barbara Lewis before turning the firearm…
March 20, 2009
Hanover
The elderly man who was found dead inside his downtown Hanover condominium Monday had fatally shot his wife before turning the firearm on himself, the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office announced late yesterday.
Elliott Lewis, 84, shot Barbara Lewis, 82, in the head and chest, then shot himself in the head, Chief Medical Examiner Thomas Andrew determined yesterday.
March 19, 2009
Hanover
An elderly husband and wife were found dead Monday night in their downtown Hanover condominium in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said yesterday.
The bodies of Elliott Lewis, 84, and Barbara Lewis, 82, were discovered by two Hanover police officers, who responded to the complex at 85 S. Main St. after the couple's…
March 18, 2009
Loudon
The New Hampshire Supreme Court yesterday rejected the final appeal of a Wilder, Vt., man seeking to recoup thousands of dollars in medical costs resulting from a serious brain injury he suffered while volunteering at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon.
In an opinion released yesterday, the state's highest court supported a Labor Department ruling that Rod Jenks, 49, is ineligible…
December 11, 2008
North Haverhill
A young Haverhill mother yesterday became the third person to face charges of participating in the murder of a developmentally disabled Groton, Vt., man earlier this month.
Amber Talbot, 17, appeared in court yesterday to answer charges that she helped her two housemates arrange the murder of Christopher Gray. A Haverhill District Court judge yesterday ordered Talbot held on $100,000…
October 30, 2008
North Haverhill
A drug abuser before he got to high school, Jason Cutts moved to Lebanon to get away from the drug scene in Charlestown, just as he had moved to Charlestown to get away from troubles in Claremont.
But he could not escape days like May 23, 2007. As best he can remember, Cutts, then 24, had walked from the tent off the Lebanon rail trail where he lived to a friend's nearby apartment,…
October 23, 2008
Vermont
A federal grand jury yesterday indicted the uncle of slain 12-year-old Brooke Bennett for her death, saying he drugged, sexually assaulted and then smothered Brooke with a plastic bag in a premeditated killing.
The nine-page indictment includes several "special findings" that allow federal prosecutors to seek the death…
October 2, 2008
Charlestown
A Sullivan County grand jury has indicted the son of the man shot to death by the police in Charlestown last month on four criminal charges, although one of the charges for which police initially arrested the son has been dropped.
Jesse Jarvis, 26, faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted on charges of simple assault, receiving stolen property, resisting arrest and giving a false…
August 14, 2008
