Concord News

New Hampshire soldiers will be among 3,000 troops heading to Afghanistan next year to help train Afghan forces.

CONCORD, N.H. - Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.

Aaron Hill, 34, of Pleasant Street, Pembroke, was arrested June 25 and charged with domestic simple assault for shoving his girlfriend during a disagreement about their relationship and the care of their child, according to a police report.

A former Merrimack County legislator with a lengthy rap sheet was jailed again at the Carroll County House of Correction this week after being charged with three counts of theft from his former employer, Anchor Business Services in Conway.

NH definitely has had more than its share of rain again so far this summer and now it is Southern Breeze who is about to blow into Concord this Friday night.

Residents in Concord, N.H., are scrambling for special purple trash bags needed for a "Pay-as-you-throw" program starting Monday.

A 35-year-old Concord man is being held on $25,000 cash bail on charges he repeatedly assaulted a toddler and broke the boy's leg by throwing him on a linoleum floor.

Representatives of local chambers of commerce gathered together at the Lin-Wood Chamber of Commerce last week to discuss the legislative session and business challenges.

Gov. John Lynch added his signature to an $11.5 billion budget Tuesday that could result in up to 950 New Hampshire workers being laid off, if it isn't replaced with a furlough plan costing workers more than a month's pay over the two-year budget.

The Concord and Bow police are looking for suspects in two armed robberies early this morning, one at the Hess station on Water Street, the other at the Irving Gas Station on Route 3A in Bow.

Ed and Elaine Brown face minimum 30-year prison sentences if convicted of federal weapons and conspiracy charges stemming from a nine-month standoff with law enforcement at their Plainfield home in 2007.

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Andrew Pollack, a local entrepreneur, threw his expertise behind a project to help the Concord SPCA recently.

Police said 14 photographs worth $42,000 have been stolen from an exhibit at the Kimball-Jenkins Estate in Concord, N.H. The stolen pieces were among 20 black-and-white photos taken by Michael Garlington, a northern California photographer and printer known for his intriguing and disturbing images.

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Fordyce Pearl, 28, of Acres Road, Boscawen, was arrested Saturday and charged with sexual assault, simple assault and three counts of possession of prescription drugs without a prescription.

In This June 18, 2007, file photo, Ed and Elaine Brown talk to reporters during a news conference in Plainfield, N.H. The Browns are serving five-year federal prison terms for not paying taxes on nearly $2 million in income.

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A senior prank at Concord High School a week before graduation may have been condoned by the school's janitorial staff, but it didn't impress police Chief Robert Barry.

People with debilitating conditions who use pot as medicine may finally see the threat of criminal charges go up in smoke, as the state's altered medical marijuana bill is expected to receive a final review in the Legislature today.