Rockingham County News

A Salem woman facing charges she stole $174,000 while working as a local bookkeeper is now being investigated to determine whether she has stolen even more, prosecutors said.

N.H. Superior Court Judge Kenneth McHugh convicted Fat Belly's Grill and Bar in Portsmouth on Monday of a misdemeanor charge of prohibited sales for serving an intoxicated Nashua patron Dec.

Rain and fireworks don't mix, so at least three New Hampshire communities are putting off their Independence Day displays.

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.

Sean Alperin may be guilty of assault but not attempted murder, his lawyer, Jacki Smith, told a district court judge on Wednesday.

A local homeless woman accused of striking a fellow resident of the Cross Roads House shelter with a cane committed the assault "because she felt like it," according to police.

Family and friends of a local man claim he wasn't feeling well from the heat when he allegedly jumped onto the hood of another driver's car and then aimed a loaded handgun at him.

A Rockingham County Superior Court judge on Monday found the restaurant group owning the downtown bar Fat Belly's guilty of serving an intoxicated patron on the night he struck a pedestrian with his car.

A felon already facing more than a dozen charges relating to thefts in three Seacoast communities, is facing three new charges alleging he stole DVDs from two local businesses and the public library.

A Kingston teen is headed to prison after pleading guilty to doctoring up store-bought shiitake mushrooms with blue food coloring and trying to sell them as a drug for $900. Tucker Cockerline, 18, of 44 Marshall Road, was sentenced to one to three years in state prison Friday for his role in the fake hallucinogenic mushroom scheme that crumbled ...

An Epping man was jailed after an allegedly pulling a loaded handgun on a driver who cut him off.

An Epping man was sent to jail after allegedly stopping traffic and pulling a loaded handgun on a driver who had cut him off, authorities said.

A city man charged by two police departments with 13 crimes was arraigned Tuesday on three new charges alleging he stole DVDs from a pair of stores and the city's public library.

A local man pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to intentionally setting fire to two Maine businesses earlier this year, including one in York, Maine.

A town fire captain is no longer employed at the department and was recently indicted by a Rockingham County grand jury.

McMahon/Democrat photo Jeffrey Marshall looks back at his family members following his sentencing hearing in Rockingham County Superior Court on Monday.

A local man out on bail on charges he left his 2-year-old child in a car while he went drinking in January was arrested again late Wednesday night for allegedly striking a woman in the face two times.

An argument about a dirty diaper led to the arrest of a local dad on an assault charge, say police.

Residents at the Rockingham County Nursing Home didn't have to wait for Saturday evening reruns of the Lawrence Welk Show to get their fix of tap dancing entertainment this week.

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.