Merrimack County News

A Boscawen man was arraigned yesterday on simple assault and criminal trespass charges for allegedly hitting his girlfriend and then fleeing into the woods.

The case against a Congolese refugee accused of raping his young relative ended in mistrial after a Merrimack County jury was unable to deliver a unanimous verdict.

A Brookline business that lets customers roll their own cigarettes has banned "pipe tobacco" from its rolling machines in response to a judge's order, the shop's lawyers said yesterday.

A former Monitor accountant pleaded guilty yesterday to embezzling a sum of money from the company that prosecutors said tops $200,000. But Lisa Grass, 46, was not sentenced yesterday, and exactly how much she took from the Monitor before leaving the company in 2004 is unclear.

Penny Young says the company rescinded her $360-a-month policy in April, four months after she underwent knee surgery, accusing her of "material misrepresentation" on her original application.

Defense attorneys for a Congolese man accused of raping a younger relative called into question yesterday the method in which the girl was tested after the assault, arguing the technique was outdated.

A Concord man was arrested Saturday night in connection with a burglary in Hooksett.

Friday, November 6, 2009 Friday, Nov. 6 BRENTWOOD - The Brentwood Baptist Church, corner of North Road and Route 125, will be holding its annual Holiday Fair Nov.

Holly Wheatley, 36, pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that she stole nearly $25,000 from the state while working for the Department of Resources and Economic Development.

Though nearly all of the city's councilors ran unopposed, the two who faced challengers held on to their seats with convincing victories in yesterday's elections.

A man who photographed his former fiancee's 10-year-old daughter more than 100 times - several times provocatively - was sentenced yesterday to 31 2 to 7 years in prison on child endangerment charges.

Republican Lynne Ferrari Blankenbeker appears to have narrowly edged out longtime legislator Jim MacKay to win a House seat in the Concord special election.

A Concord police report obtained by the Monitor describes several security problems within the Local Government Center, including employees overriding door locks and a lack of checks and balances to protect the company's sensitive data.

A former Pembroke resident who pleaded guilty to scalding his 7-month-old son's foot in a pot of hot soup will serve between two and seven years in prison, a judge decided yesterday.

A Strafford County Superior Court judge recommended the state Supreme Court rule on the legality of a proposed tax cap in the Hilltop City, a move that could affect caps currently in place in Dover and Rochester.

Local police chiefs said they will have no other option but to cancel mutual aid agreements with Webster if the town's last remaining officer is laid off or takes another job.

The Local Government Center is already in the hot seat with the Professional Firefighters of New Hampshire for not disclosing financial information the organization believes is public under the state's Right to Know Law.

A former nursing assistant has pleaded guilty to stealing checks from a 90-year-old resident of a New Hampshire assisted-living facility.

A convicted sex offender whose February trial on a child rape charge was derailed by a juror's online snooping agreed to plead guilty yesterday to avoid a new trial.

Last week, Carroll County's nursing home residents came one step closer to having a newly built facility to replace the aging Mountain View Nursing Home.