New Hampshire

A school employee in Newmarket, New Hampshire, is being investigated for possession of child sexual abuse images, according to police. Newmarket police said in a Facebook post around noon Thursday that they received information about an incident of possession of child sexual abuse images that might have occurred in the town. They said they sought a...

A woman who worked at New Hampshire’s youth detention center three decades ago testified Wednesday that supervisors and staff were dismissive at best and menacing at worst when she reported suspected abuse. Karen Lemoine was the first witness in the first trial seeking to hold the state accountable for the abuse of children at the Sununu Youth Serv...

A New Hampshire town’s new ordinance that was pitched as “a path forward” for public artwork hasn’t resolved a bakery owner’s First Amendment dispute over a large pastry painting, and his lawyer predicts it will only lead to more litigation as town officials become “speech police.” Conway residents passed the ordinance by a vote o...

Authorities are searching for a New Hampshire inmate who allegedly walked away from a minimum-security housing unit this week. The state Department of Corrections said Jake Demeritt, 37, a minimum-security resident of the North End House Transitional Housing Unit in Concord was placed on escape status at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. He left the housing uni...

Workers at New Hampshire’s youth detention center treated a teenage boy like a “sex slave and a punching bag,” and the state itself laid the groundwork for the abuse, an attorney argued Tuesday as the first of more than 1,000 lawsuits alleging similar horrors went to trial. David Meehan, who spent three years at what was then called the Youth...

A New Hampshire man is in intensive care after he was shot multiple times Thursday outside his home in Rochester. Kyle Violette, 37, suffered injuries to several parts of his body, including his chest, stomach and face, according to his mother. “He had a bullet that went through his lip,” said Cyndi Glenn. “A round through his nec...

Kowloon, the legendary Boston-area restaurant, is planning to open a new dining and nightlife spot at a New Hampshire casino this summer. The Brook, a sportsbetting and casino gaming location in Seabrook, New Hampshire, announced the collaboration with the landmark Route 1 eatery on Tuesday morning, saying Kowloon will be bringing “a one-of-a...

David Meehan’s disclosure to his wife seven years ago set into motion an unprecedented criminal investigation into New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center, which was built in the 1850s as a “house of reformation.”

The best place to view the eclipse in totality on Monday were in northern New England, and it showed on the highways. Some people started the trek up north Sunday, others started already Monday morning. Shortly after 8 a.m. Monday, Interstate 93 north in New Hampshire was already flooded with cars trying to make the trip to both northern New…...

A tree falling onto propane tanks likely caused a house explosion that killed a woman in Derry, New Hampshire, on Thursday, fire officials said in an update Friday. The victim has been identified as 76-year-old Laura Percival, of Derry. The New Hampshire Medical Examiner’s Office said she died from complications of blast injuries after the ho...

The man who fatally shot two people in Gorham, New Hampshire, in 2022 was sentenced Friday to two life sentences without the possibility of parole for their murders, prosecutors said. Craig Keville, 35, was found guilty in late February of two counts of murder as well as for falsifying evidence and assault in the killings of Holly Banks, 28, and&#8...

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and other state officials held a press conference on Friday morning to discuss the state’s solar eclipse plans. “It’s a very big day throughout the country, but especially here in New Hampshire,” the governor said. The northern third of the state will be in the path of the total solar eclipse ...

What good is a new phone if you can’t use it? When a Greenville, New Hampshire, woman couldn’t get her phone activated, she contacted our NBC10 Boston Responds team as a last resort.  Holly Patterson says she isn’t interested in fancy smartphones.  “I know other people spend like, thousands, hundreds, and that’s fine, but I don’t u...

One person has died after a house explosion in Derry, New Hampshire, Thursday afternoon. Derry Fire Department Shawn Haggart said crews responded to reports of a house explosion on Goodhue Road around 11:40 a.m. When they arrived they found heavy fire and the building partially collapsed, with one person was unaccounted for. The missing person, an ...

The body of a man from Vermont who’d been missing for nearly three weeks was found in a river in New Hampshire on Wednesday, authorities said.

Crashes were reported across Massachusetts and New Hampshire as a result of Thursday’s nor’easter. In central Massachusetts, multiple crashes were reported on Interstates 90, 290, 190 and 495, state police wrote on social media. Police said another crash occurred on Route 9. “Road conditions are poor. MassDOT is working diligently...