Strafford County News

Urgent: Mainea s first amber alert issued for a 2-year-old girl Hailey, believed to be with her father, Gary Traynham, 38.

A Rochester man died last night after he crashed his motorcycle on Rocky Hill Road, near Rouleau Drive.

There were few surprises in Tuesday's elections as voters in the region's four cities went to the polls to choose local officials for the next two years.

There's a fluorescent pink sign hanging behind the counter of Cabot Street Market.

Downtown foot patrols continue to pay dividends for police after an officer walking along North Main Street Tuesday afternoon caught a registered sex offender who allegedly had drugs on him and had failed to register a change of address.

The attorney representing one of the suspects in the alleged "inside job" robbery at Circle K in June claims his client had nothing to do with the robbery and that a man who stabbed him five times implicated him in a police interview.

Witnesses at the store described three males entering the store, displaying a handgun and demanding cash and cartons of cigarettes.

A Rochester man was sentenced to up to five years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to a number of charges, including driving his car at police officers, stemming from a small crime spree on Christmas Eve 2008.

Four people have been charged in connection with a Circle K robbery in June, including the clerk who was supposedly victimized, in what police are calling an inside job.

While waiting to be sentenced for stealing her nanny's identity to make fraudulent purchases, Ramie Marston, formerly of North Hampton, used a city businessman's identity to charge $8,000 worth of goods, including tea products, a diamond ring, a puppy, groceries, hotel and restaurant services, furniture, music downloads and cash advances, according ...

A Rochester woman was scheduled to plead guilty to possession of child pornography Tuesday before a Strafford County Superior Court judge declined to accept her plea because she said she did not know files she downloaded contained child porn.

The Effingham woman accused of being intoxicated when she got into a car and using it to strike another woman in the Union Street parking lot waived her probable cause hearing on Monday.

The six people charged in connection with a street fight in East Rochester in August were indicted this month in the most recent Strafford County grand jury session.

A City Council candidate and his two sons are the subject of a request for a restraining order by a well-known city couple that claims the family has harassed and stalked them for six years.

The family of murder victim Kenneth Countie has been awarded $1 million in a wrongful death suit against Sheila LaBarre, who is serving a life sentence for murdering Countie and another former lover.

A former University of New Hampshire student's bid for a new trial on his negligent homicide conviction has once again failed.

The local man accused of fraudulently using his aunt's bank account and credit card to fund his Somersworth business waived his probable cause hearing on Thursday.

A Gonic man faces felony assault charges after he allegedly poured a beer on a woman's head and slammed her to the ground at her birthday party in July.

The Rye man accused of keeping child porn, serving alcohol to a minor and having contact with children through his job at Aids Response Seacoast recently reached a plea deal with prosecutors and will spend the next 10 to 21 years in state prison.

A Rochester man was reportedly drunk and looking for a fight when he engaged in an altercation with Richard Nolette in October 2008, an altercation that would later claim Nolette's life, authorities say.