New Hampshire

A 70-year-old man was killed in Manchester, New Hampshire, over the weekend after being hit by a vehicle, police said Monday. The crash occurred at about 10 p.m. Sunday in the area of Kelley and Alsace streets, Manchester police said. Kimberly Hill, of Manchester, who was driving a Toyota Venza, wasn’t injured in the crash, according to autho...

Two people seriously hurt in a crash in Gilsum, New Hampshire, last month have died of their injuries and a man accused of driving under the influence during that crash has now been charged with negligent homicide, New Hampshire State Police said Friday. Alexander Bazarnicki, 29, was suspected of driving under the influence during a crash at 644 Ro...

A New Hampshire man is facing drunken driving and numerous other charges after leading police on a multi-town pursuit on Thursday night. New Hampshire State Police said they received a “be on the lookout” notification around 8 p.m. Thursday for a 2016 Jeep Cherokee suspected of being driven by a man wanted by Rochester police in connect...

A New Hampshire man was arrested Thursday night after he was seen shooting a gun in the breakdown lane of Interstate 93. Around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, New Hampshire State Police responded to I-93 north in Salem for a report of shots being fired. Multiple witnesses told police that a man was indiscriminately firing a gun in the breakdown lane near&#823...

Attorneys defending the state of New Hampshire on Thursday began highlighting the past misdeeds of man who says he suffered horrific physical and sexual abuse as a teenager at the state’s youth detention center. Eleven former state workers have been arrested since the state launched an unprecedented criminal investigation into the Sununu Youth Serv...

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.”