Derry News

Autopsies will be conducted this week on an elderly couple, who died Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide at their home.

Autopsies were completed this week on an elderly couple who died Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide at their home.

Please join us for a Holiday Open House on Dec. 10 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the library and enjoy hot cocoa, cookies, candy canes, and more! We will have our holiday DVDs, CDs, decorating books, and cookbooks available for borrowing as well as a small book sale including many holiday VHS movies.

Investigators said 73-year-old Judith Roberts died of a gunshot wound to the head in what was ruled a homicide.

As investigators await autopsy results for Claude and Judith Roberts, there is little doubt about how -- or why -- the couple ended up dead inside their home early Sunday.

Eds: APNewsNow; CORRECTS dateline, Derry sted Concord. DERRY, N.H. a ' A New Hampshire couple in their 70s have been shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide. Police say officers responding to an emergency call Sunday morning at a home in Derry found the two residents inside.

Share + Nov 15, 2009 7:09 pm US/Eastern DERRY, N.H. A couple in their 70s who had been suffering health problems were shot to death in their home Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide. Police officers responding to an emergency call before dawn at a large mobile home in a community for people over age 55 found the retired couple inside.

When I heard the news my cousin's baby was born with complications and sent to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Elliot Hospital, I quickly left to be by her side.

A well-known downtown building is getting a new look and will offer the community a new spot to meet and enjoy a meal.

Students in local schools are helping those in need keep their cupboards full this season.

Firefighters kept an overnight watch at 105 Shadow Lake Road where a one-story home condemned several years ago caught fire.

A Derry man who was sprung from jail by friends who allegedly burglarized homes to raise bail money has been indicted in an unrelated assault, according to court documents.

A local grant program has given a big boost to technology in the Derry school district.

For 38 years, Christine Haswell has been a fixture at South Range Elementary School.

Convicted murderer Michael Benton said loyalty to Jesse Brooks and his millionaire father John "Jay" Brooks is what drew him into the murder-for-hire scheme to kill Jack Reid.

It may be time to begin a new holiday tradition now that a prominent town evergreen is gone.

The private/public roads saga reared its head again at the meeting, with council voting on whether to approve certain roads for this winter's maintenance schedule.

Manchester, NH - The Jewish Federation of New Hampshire and its resident theater group, Manchester Community Theatre Players have partnered to present the award winning, one woman play, Golda's Balcony in four New Hampshire locations during November, including at Etz Hayim Synagogue in Derry.

Birch Heights will honor veterans on Wednesday, Nov. 11, starting at 10 a.m. with a seminar about a program for veterans and their widows.

A Massachusetts man is accused of stealing $15,000 in coins and jewelry from a Londonderry home while the family was overseas on vacation earlier this year.