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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Authorities believe the woman whose body workers found at a Casella Waste Systems recycling processing center on Tuesday was from White River Junction, according to Hartford’s acting police chief.Workers found the woman’s body...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

The lawyer for a woman who gave birth in the woods in Manchester on Christmas called the event a “difficult and terrifying” situation in a new court filing, describing the night when Alexandra Eckersley, confused and afraid, went into premature...

Staff Report

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Grafton County Superior Court judge recently set aside Scott Traudt’s 2008 conviction for assaulting a Lebanon police officer, putting an end to Traudt’s yearslong effort to clear his name and his record a decade and a half after...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Mischa Fay got his boating license when he was 15 and would often take solo sailing trips around Lake Winnipesaukee. He was a “Star Wars” fanatic who was an encyclopedia of trivia. Like a lot of 17-year-olds, he loved pizza and hot sauce.More than...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

A Washingtonian. An estranged son. A drifter and a loner.Those are a few of the attributes that describe accused double murderer Logan Clegg, 26, who was arrested in October to face homicide charges for the fatal shooting of Concord couple Steve and...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

A investigator designated to assist towns in Merrimack County with animal cruelty cases recently left the Pope Memorial SPCA, leaving area towns and the city of Concord without an animal control specialist. The city has been without an animal control...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Police identified Ewa Martel, 75, as the Concord woman who was struck and killed by a motor vehicle on Friday, Dec. 2 near the Hood Plant on North State Street. Police and fire were called to the area of 340 N. State St. at 10:49 a.m. after Martel was...

By RAY DUCKLER

Mark Patterson of Weare had it all figured out.Fresh off six-years of service in the Navy, he’d then finish his business degree at what was then called New Hampshire College. He’d be a college graduate, the first member of his family to do so.He’d...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

A taxpayer-funded investigation into a former Canaan police officer, with findings kept secret for years and requiring a right-to-know lawsuit to access, did not substantiate claims that he used excessive force against a woman during a 2018 traffic...

By JIM KENYON

When a police officer uses his immense powers to make an unmerited arrest, it’s the job of a prosecutor to — at the very least — use her own discretion. Call it righting a wrong.Unfortunately, Charlestown prosecutor Jessica Hodgman either lacks the...

Multiple people are facing felony drug possession charges after Concord police executed search warrants at 5 and 6 Rollins Streets early Friday morning.The arrests were part of a “lengthy” drug investigation, according to Concord police, who said they...

By NICK STOICO

At the end of 2018, Bow said farewell to one of its longtime officers as Sgt. Art Merrigan retired from the department after 17 years.His fellow officers threw him a sendoff celebration at the police department with some town officials also present....

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

Police dogs used to sniff out drugs at a border patrol checkpoint on Interstate 93 last summer amounted to a violation of the state Constitution, a judge ruled, throwing out evidence against 18 defendants.The American Civil Liberties Union of New...

By NICK REID

A SWAT team descended on a felon living in the Barnstead woods Thursday and arrested him, after police said he threatened the people on whose property he was staying. Paul Elijah Tasker Jr. “made a comment that he would harm any police officer that...

By ELODIE REED

City police and a New Hampshire State Police SWAT team – complete with a BearCat – arrested six people in Franklin on Tuesday suspected of drug activity. Franklin police Chief David Goldstein said the arrests were a result of a monthslong “lengthy”...

By ELODIE REED

A Franklin woman has been sentenced 5 to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay close to $500,000 in restitution for setting fire to her apartment building last fall.The Franklin Fire Department said Friday that Amber Cowan, 29, formerly of School...