New Hampshire

Last year, a Littleton, New Hampshire, selectboard member said that “homosexuality is an abomination” and spoke of regulating art on public property, prompting a backlash and now the resignation of the town manager, whose late son was gay.

A man is dead following a fire at a home in Littleton, New Hampshire. Officials received a call around 9:39 a.m. Saturday for smoke in a residential structure at 12 Hilltop Manner Extension, according to a joint statement from State Fire Marshal Sean Toomey, Littleton Fire Chief Chad Miller and Littleton Police Chief Paul Smith. Littleton police we...

The associate medical director of New Hampshire Hospital urged lawmakers to pass gun control legislation Friday, describing the anguish that followed the fatal shooting of a security officer in the facility’s lobby last year. “A coworker was murdered 100 feet from my office,” Dr. Samanta Swetter told the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Com...

Interstate 93 south in Tilton, New Hampshire, has been shut down on Tuesday morning following multiple crashes caused by icy road conditions. State police said in a social media post shortly after 7:30 p.m. that southbound lanes of the highway were closed at mile marker 60 in Tilton “due to multiple crashes and icy road conditions.” No ...

A man and a woman were arrested in connection with a shooting that seriously injured in a 23-year-old man last week in Manchester, New Hampshire, authorities said Monday. The shooting happened at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday Blaine and Cleveland streets, Manchester police said. When officers arrived, they found shell casings on the sidewalk on Blaine S...

A teenager was shot and seriously injured early Sunday morning while confronting a man allegedly stealing from a vehicle in Claremont, New Hampshire, police announced. Claremont police say they were called to the area of Front Street around 4:45 a.m. for a report of a disturbance with shots fired and found the victim with a gunshot wound. According...

A police officer’s deadly force was justified when he shot and killed a knife-wielding teenager with mental health issues on New Year’s Day, 2023, New Hampshire’s attorney general said Thursday. Two Gilford Police officers were responding to a 911 call from 17-year-old Mischa Pataski-Fay’s mother. She said she feared for the safet...

Police say a man was critically injured in a shooting overnight in Manchester, New Hampshire. Manchester police said they received a call around 1:30 a.m. Thursday for a report of shots fired in the area of Blaine and Cleveland streets. Arriving officers found shell casings on the sidewalk on Blaine Street. A short time later, a man arrived at Cath...

The call, an apparent imitation or digital manipulation of the president’s voice, says, “Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again.”

Some of the Northeast’s best young ski jumpers took flight at the country’s oldest ski club on Sunday, continuing a comeback for the once-popular winter sport featuring speed, skill and sometimes spills. The Eastern Ski Jumping Meet took place at the Nansen Ski Club in the shadow of one of the nation’s oldest jumps during Milan’s 102nd annual...

A 37-year-old hiker died this week after becoming lost in extreme weather conditions in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.

Firefighters were still working on Friday morning to extinguish a massive fire that broke out in an apartment building in Sunapee, New Hampshire, on Thursday night. Sunapee fire officials said the fire was first reported around 10:30 p.m. on Prospect Hill Road, which was shut down while firefighters battled the flames. In a Facebook update on Frida...

A northern New Hampshire fire chief has died about a month after a pickup truck collision on Route 16 that left a woman dead as well, according to two fire associations. Errol Fire Chief Bradley Eldridge was hospitalized with serious injuries after the Dec. 17 crash that killed Linda Gauthier, the New Hampshire Department of Safety said at the time...

Numerous fire departments responded to a massive blaze burning Saturday night at a fuel company in Epping, New Hampshire. The Exeter Fire Department said around 5:15 p.m. that firefighters had responded to 76 Depot Road in Epping for a large fire involving three oil tankers and a tractor-trailer at North Atlantic Fuels. The fire was brought under c...

A man in his early forties was found dead in a wooded area behind a shopping complex in Plaistow, New Hampshire, on Saturday afternoon, police announced. The Plaistow Police Department says officers responded around 3:38 p.m. to a medical call for a possible dead person at 58 Plaistow Road. The callers told police that they went to the area to&#823...

A New Hampshire casino owned by a former state senator accused of buying luxury cars with a fraudulently obtained COVID-19 relief loan will be shut down Jan. 1 but allowed to reopen in six months if sold to a new owner, the state lottery commission said in a decision made public Thursday. The commission tried in August to permanently revoke…...