Seabrook News

Authorities made 28 arrests Friday night at a sobriety checkpoint on Route 1A in Seabrook.

Police arrested 28 people at a drunken driving checkpoint Friday night in Seabrook, N.H. Local officers, state troopers, sheriff's deputies and state liquor enforcement officers stopped cars on Route 1-A. The arrests included 11 for DWI and three on drug charges.

The Hampton Falls Police Department's holiday weekend activity included a motorcycle chase up Interstate 95.

As a result of the increasing number of incidents of drinking and driving, the New Hampshire State Police, in cooperation with the Seabrook Police Department and Rockingham County Sheriffs Office, applied for - and was granted - a Superior Court Petition to conduct a Sobriety Checkpoint.

It was a wild and contentious first session for the 2009-10 New Hampshire Legislature, and these are our top six retrospective highlights: The budget The very public sausage-making exercise in budget creation resulted in a $11.6 billion budget that left few happy about the outcome - which many consider the essence of political compromise.

The Fourth of July is an important weekend for businesses around the state. Places that sell fireworks are hoping for a strong weekend.

A Florida man with Seabrook ties involved in a bank robbery in Hampton Falls in December, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Concord to charges stemming from the incident, according to the U.S. Attorney for New Hampshire.

The state Supreme Court announced Thursday that it reversed ten convictions against Hampton Falls surgeon Putnam 'Put' Breed for his role in crimes committed at Seabrook's Bayview Crematorium.

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A bank robber who used himself as a hostage when cornered by police has pleaded guilty to the December robbery of the Citizens Bank in Hampton Falls, federal prosecutors said.

Police recently charged Bradley Upchurch, 25, of 191 Tilton St., Seabrook, with facilitating a drug or underage alcohol house party, after two teenagers were found drinking at the address over the weekend of June 6 and 7. At Hampton District Court in Seabrook, Upchurch was found guilty and fined $120. "There are always one or two houses every year ...

Greyhound racing in New Hampshire is about to become history. The state's two remaining tracks - in Seabrook and Belmont - won permission Monday to drop live racing, the New Hampshire Union Leader reports.

Writer Brendan DuBois, a former reporter for Foster's Daily Democrat and the Hampton Union, is back with a recent reissue of "Dead Sand" - which in fact was his third novel, published in 1994.

School Administrative Unit 21 will be searching for a new superintendent after Assistant Superintendent Maureen Ward told members of the SAU 21 Joint Board she would not accept the job - at least not until the board conducts a thorough search.

The Legislature made a colossal mistake this week. The rejection of expanded gambling will cost this state billions of dollars over the next several decades.

A 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student was charged with a felony yesterday in connection with a wild, 100-mph chase from Seabrook to Stratham that ended with his fleeing into woods in Lee on Sunday and being discovered, hungry and healthy, on Tuesday.

When Nicole Giladi gave birth to twins five years ago, she was stunned: Her son Sammy had copper-colored hair.

A father was arrested early this morning after police said he fired a rifle several times during an armed standoff at his daughter's high school graduation party.

The Rockingham County grand jury recently indicted David D. Janvrin Jr. on two counts of assault in the August 2008 case of the death of Scott Eaton at the former Old Firebarn Restaurant in Seabrook.

Selectmen will work with safety and public works officials to try to remedy on-going safety concerns at Seabrook Beach.