Manchester News Archives

Police were looking for a man who tried to abduct a person on South Street on Monday night. via "The nashuatelegraph.com's local, sta...

CANDIA Police say a former Manchester man facing numerous fraud and forgery charges in two New England states has been charged with felony fraud for allegedly stealing the identity of a Forest Road resident. via UnionLeader.com

“Congress must listen to the very real concerns of states and citizens and rethink the entire RealID program.”

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security agreed yesterday to postpone imposing the requirements until Dec. via UnionLeader.com

Police in Manchester are searching for a man who apparently tried to abduct a 9-year-old girl as she walked to her school bus stop. via WCSH 6 Portland

“Oh man, my mom is going to "kill”

Eliza Gibbons, 24, of Manchester smashed her car into the Currier Museum of Art's Kennard House late Thursday afternoon. via UnionLeader.com

Lawmakers are working to delay implementation of tougher shoreline building restrictions in New Hampshire. via WCAX-TV Burlington

Longtime WMUR Political Director Scott Spradling is leaving the media next month to start his own political consulting company. via New Hampshire Magazine

Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta says he will not run for governor this year. UnionLeader.com reports that Guinta believes his duties as mayor should be his top priority, especially with a tough budget season ... via The Citizen

What industries hired lobbyists last year? How much did lobbyists contribute to politicians? Click here to find out. via New Hampshire Magazine

“There was no personal information of any type that was compromised”

Inc., according to an industry trade group. Although the TJX scandal involved far more card numbers and information than Hannaford's, the supermarket's base of operations means the breach could hit a lot closer ... via UnionLeader.com

“The last time I looked, we still lived in the United States of America”

Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta has asked a school district employee to resign because of his vote on a marijuana bill that passed in the New Hampshire House this week. via Concord Monitor

“I demand payment in the amount of $1,000 in order to avoid litigation”

A lawyer who said he was just trying to settle a case has been convicted of extortion. via WMUR

Preliminary research suggests widening Interstate 93 in southern New Hampshire would attract only a fraction of the thousands of people previously estimated. via WFSB-TV Hartford

Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta has asked the spokesman for city schools to resign after voting in the Legislature this week to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. via WCAX-TV Burlington

Police Chief John Jaskolka has been with the department for 31 years. He's served as chief for the past five years. via The Citizen

“As a child, it's a very natural thing to use drawing to express yourself, but as you get older, you tend to pick up this idea that there's a correct way and an incorrect way to draw something . . . and most of us decide that we can't draw”

Zap! Kaboom! Pow! Comic books are back, folks. Once the stuff of righteous disdain, their intergalactic battles often staged by flashlight under the covers, Spider-Man and his ilk have slowly been gaining new ... via Concord Monitor

A robber with a knife gave two Dunkin' Donuts workers a scare Friday morning. The incident happened at Dunkin' Donuts on Beech and Webster Streets in Manchester, N.H. The robber allegedly ordered one worker to ... via Cw56.com

“It looked to me like he was closing the store when she shot him. That's the way the body was lying”

A woman who "came crying" to Manchester businessman Syed Ali Hussain when she was about to be evicted from her home last year now stands accused of fatally shooting him with a shotgun Tuesday outside the ... via UnionLeader.com

Cabrini College has selected a veteran academic administrator with a fundraising background to be its seventh president. via CBS 3

A Manchester man arrested last fall on charges he threatened two Secret Service agents in the city has pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge. via The Citizen

Frederick Sullivan, 27, of 36 Linwood Ave., Methuen, Mass., was charged with the Jan. via UnionLeader.com

“For God and his country, he raised our flag in battle and showed a measure of his pride at a place called Iwo Jima, where courage never died.”

"Men of Granite" by William S. McGee; Peter E. Randall; paper; 251 pages; $19.95. "The Lost Fleet" by Marc Songini; St. via Nashua Telegraph

Maybe he didn't think his prospective employer would check his references. A former assistant manager at a Manchester restaurant has been charged with stealing more than $1,200 from the restaurant. via The Citizen

“They followed standard industry practices on this”

"We believe it's from the blasting going on in the streets in the area," said Fire Capt. via UnionLeader.com

Gold Star Mothers -- women whose children die in military service -- are a big step closer to getting a memorial in downtown Manchester. via WMUR-TV Manchester

Scott Kiefner, 18, is a senior at Concord High. He hopes to study jazz performance next year in college. via Concord Monitor

“All we have is someone who has a phone in Hooksett -- or used to -- has been calling Manchester P.D.”

The 911 call yesterday morning sent police and rescue workers scrambling -- a baby had fallen from a three-story roof on Laurel Street in Manchester. via UnionLeader.com