Laconia News

You may not be able to make a better mouse trap, but the plethora of cooking shows, magazines and websites attest, you can make a better burger.

Now the Bike Week, Laconia, New Hampshire has come and gone. The sun has come out for good.

Rain dampened much of Motorcycle Week 2013, though Lakes Region businesses said motorcyclists turned out in strong numbers despite the rain, especially over the weekend.

Photo by Ron Cole Sarah Yates and Danny Begin of Rochester admire a classic 4-cylinder Indian motorcycle at the Col.

Frank Brennan, night foreman in the New Hampshire Union Leader pressroom, has been with the company since 1974.

When a motorcyclist revved his bike and disrupted the lunches of outdoor diners along Nashua's Main Street last month, Nashua police pulled over the driver.

For Tiffany Bisson, attending a community college made all the difference for her and her career.

Police in the New Hampshire town of Laconia are investigating the report of an armed robbery at a local spa.

New Hampshire State Police have identified the motorcycle rider who died after failing to negotiate the turn into the former viewing area for the Old Man of the Mountain.

SAM combines several older databases that enable government agencies to identify who you are, what you do, how to contact you and how to pay you.

Willie Nelson and the Charlie Daniels Band, whose long, storied careers have made an indelible mark on country music's evolution, join forces for a double-bill concert at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook in Gilford.

Sunday, June 16, 2013 The middle of June brings a whole lotta outdoors going on.

The incident happened just before 1 a.m. Police searched the area and brought in a Gilford K-9 team to try and track down the intruder, but were unsuccessful.

A New Hampshire man has been accused of threatening a security officer after he was removed from a bar in Laconia.

An attorney for the Laconia teen charged with strangling a man to death argued yesterday for access to a sealed arrest affidavit, saying it violates Kasey Riley's rights to hold him without bail but not to provide information about the case against him.

State Police Staff Sgt. David McCormack says with people attending the event from all over, they may not know the roadways.

The State Police Major Crimes Unit truck sits outside of 24 McGrath Street in Laconia; Monday, June 10, 2013.

A 19-year-old resident of an apartment building for the mentally ill has been charged with the strangulation death of a fellow resident.

State Police Col. Robert L. Quinn on Friday received an analysis of a decade of motorcycle crashes occurring during Laconia Motorcycle Week, the results of which startled him so much he hastily called a meeting of Lakes Region police chiefs and other officials to discuss it at state police headquarters.

Yellow crime scene tape also bars entry through the front doors of the property, which neighbors said is a group home for mentally and emotionally disturbed people.