New Hampshire

The trial began Thursday for the daughter of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley, who is accused of abandoning her baby after giving birth in the woods in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas night in 2022. Attorneys for Alexandra Eckersley, 27, said she didn’t know she was pregnant, thought the child had died, and was suffering from substance use disorder…

Investigators searched a property in Barrington, New Hampshire, on Wednesday in connection with a decade-old missing persons case. A spokesman for the Essex District Attorney said detectives from their office, Lynn police and New Hampshire State Police were conducting a search as part of a search for Leeanne Redden, last seen 11 years ago in Lynn, Massachusetts. Authorities say Redden…

A student-athlete wanted on a murder charge in the death of a girl in Washington State this April was arrested Wednesday in New Hampshire, the U.S. Marshals Service said. Demiko Fox, 22, was arrested without incident near Bow Junction in Bow, New Hampshire, just south of Concord, according to the Marshals. He’d been tracked to a temporary residence in...

Getting thrown into the ocean by a massive humpback whale that comes crashing down onto your boat is no walk in the park, according to the fishermen who’ve become world famous for their extremely close encounter off New Hampshire on Tuesday. “You’re basically trying to survive,” said Ryland Kenney, one of the fishermen who was dumped into the Atlantic...

A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries when he was struck by a van on Interstate 293 in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Wednesday morning. State police said they received multiple reports around 6 a.m. Wednesday of a person who had been hit by a vehicle on I-293 north in Manchester. Troopers responded and found a man with life-threatening injuries. He was taken…

Authorities are investigating a shooting that occurred on Monday night in Danbury, New Hampshire. State police said in a press release Tuesday that they responded to a residential location in Danbury shortly after 10 p.m. Monday for a report of a shooting. Around that same time, Grafton and state police responded to a home in Grafton for a report of…

An armed man was shot and killed by police in Kensington, New Hampshire, Monday night, the Attorney General’s Office said. While following up on a mental health call at about 12:05 p.m. from the previous night, an officer received information about a man in a home on Olivia Lane threatening another occupant. When officers arrived, an hours-long standoff ensued,...

A 31-year-old man is accused of stabbing another man in the neck in Nashua, New Hampshire, over the weekend. The incident happened at about 3:40 p.m. Sunday on Pleasant Street, Nashua police said. The 65-year-old victim suffered a severe laceration to the neck and substantial blood loss, according to police, who said he was then taken to the hospital, where…

Two people were seriously injured in a crash involving several cars Sunday afternoon in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. State police say troopers were notified around 12:38 p.m. about the crash on Route 12 at River Rd. N and responded to find three vehicles and five occupants involved. An investigation shows that a Toyota Sienna had been traveling northbound when it struck…

Republican Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire has signed a bill that would ban transgender athletes in grades 5-12 from teams that align with their gender identity, adding the state to nearly half in the nation that adopted similar measures. The bill passed by the Republican-led Legislature would require schools to designate all teams as either girls, boys or coed,…

Police in New Hampshire say a man was fatally pinned under a dump truck Friday afternoon in Middleton. State troopers responded shortly after 2 p.m. to Access Road, where the man was stuck under the vehicle. The man, identified as 53-year-old William Miners III of Madison, was pronounced dead at the scene. The truck rolled backward onto Miners, state police…

A 26-year-old man forcefully broke into a home in Hudson, New Hampshire, this week, according to police. The incident happened just after midnight Thursday on Towhee Drive, Hudson police said, where officers found several doors to the home physically breeched. Those inside the home at the time of the break-in had to barricade themselves inside an upstairs bedroom, police said….

Residents and businesses in an area of Northwood, New Hampshire, were told to shelter in place during an undisclosed police incident on Wednesday night. Shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday, Northwood police said in a post on Facebook that due to “a contained police incident” in the area of Ridge Road and Route 4, they were asking residents to avoid the…

A tornado hit New Hampshire during Tuesday night’s powerful storms, the National Weather Service said Wednesday night. Microbursts also hit that state and Vermont. The NWS said the tornado touched down in Lyme around 7:30 p.m., traveling 1.8 miles. It rated EF-1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, with a maximum estimated wind speed of 110 mph. In an update released…

New Hampshire public safety officials are reminding drivers to use caution on the roads after a tragic series of deadly crashes in recent days, and an overall increase in fatalities compared to last year. The New Hampshire Office of Highway Safety said there have been nine deadly crashes that killed 10 people on their road in the last four days….

Firefighters extinguished a blaze in an apartment building in Nashua, New Hampshire, overnight. The fire was reported in the early-morning hours Tuesday on Bluestone Drive. There was no immediate word on whether anyone was injured. The Red Cross of Northern New England said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that 29 of the building’s 36 unites were…

Police in New Hampshire say a Manchester man fled after hitting a person on Interstate 93 Monday morning before being arrested at the end of an hourslong standoff at his apartment. New Hampshire State Police responded around 7:15 a.m. to the hit-and-run crash on I-93 southbound in Londonderry. They found that an Acura ILX driven by 31-year-old Kyle Barka rear-ended…

Authorities in New Hampshire are urging boaters and swimmers to be cautious on the Connecticut River and other waterways as recent heavy rainfall has led to dangerous water levels. According to the New Hampshire State Police Marine Patrol, some areas getting more than six inches of rain and despite clearer weather, many bodies of water are expected to remain high…

Authorities are investigating a fatal crash between a truck and a pickup truck in Conway, New Hampshire, on Friday.

An 8-year-old child is dead and four other people injured, most of them seriously, after a head-on collision in Loudon, New Hampshire, on Friday evening, police said.