Strafford County News

Cocheco Valley Humane Society, the animal welfare organization serving greater Strafford County and portions of southern Maine, today announced that it has entered into a long-term lease agreement with Strafford County to remain on the current property at 262 County Farm Road for the next 100 years.

A judge is deciding whether to let a police officer testify about a conversation he had with a defense attorney in a move that could have far-reaching implications.

A tentative agreement had been reached on a new contract for Strafford County employees.

A former St. Thomas Aquinas High School music teacher convicted in February of sexually assaulting a former student during a Portsmouth District Court bench trial will have his case heard by a Superior Court jury.

A Strafford County grand jury indicted a local man this month on felony domestic violence-related charges alleging he stabbed a knife into a wall next to a woman's head during an argument last year.

Charges were dropped Monday against one of the men arrested in the OxyContin reverse drug deal conducted by members of the Attorney General's Drug Task Force when no one from the agency showed up to testify.

A 26-year-old city man was ordered held behind bars after he engaged in a nearly three-hour standoff with police Wednesday night after allegedly climbing onto the roof of his house with a hunting knife and loaded .357 Magnum revolver.

A Strafford County grand jury has indicted three people who allegedly conspired to rob the Rite Aid on Milton Road in Rochester in February.

Thursday, June 25, 2009 NEW DURHAM - Police have an active arrest warrant out for a man they say is involved in a June 12 stabbing, while charges have been dropped against another man accused of first-degree assault for his alleged involvement in the incident.

A verdict is imminent in the case of former Freedom Police Department Sgt. Frank Suprenard, who was arrested last October and charged with tampering with public records and two counts of theft by deception for allegedly falsifying overtime hours and reports for grant-funded DWI and speed enforcement patrols.

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Strafford County officials have dropped a proposed cell phone ban at the county Administrative Building because it conflicts with a Supreme Court order that allows phones on "silent mode" inside courtrooms.

After a three-month Attorney General's Drug Task Force investigation that spanned three counties, police last week arrested four men in connection with a major OxyContin "reverse drug arrest" purported to be worth tens of thousands of dollars.

A police and county tactical team standoff with a suicidal man ended peacefully Friday morning at his Parker Mountain Road residence after four hours of negotiations.

Cook/Democrat photo Dave Deming, owner of Motoring Images of Lee, explains how he would install ultraviolet sheets in front of the Strafford County Jail's windows to shield the public from jail inmates at Thursday morning's Strafford County Commissioners meeting.

A Newmarket man is being held on $110,000 cash bail for allegedly stabbing a man in the chest with a pair of scissors Thursday night.

The county Sheriff's Office is investigating a May 31 jailhouse assault that resulted in serious injuries to a federal inmate.

John Huff/Staff photographer Lenny Belanger holds his 21 2 year-old daughter, Rhianna, and their new kitten, Mick, at their Milton home.

Jeremy "Jay" Semprebon was in possession of more than a hundred images of child pornography when detectives raided his personal computer last fall, say police.

A New Hampshire county jail is looking into tinting its windows after complaints about lewd inmate behavior from visitors to a nearby animal shelter.