Category: new hampshire
22 August, 2008 (19:09) | Medicine, new hampshire | No comments
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama state employees suffering from obesity and three other health problems will eventually have to pay extra for their health insurance if they don’t try to control their problems.
The State Employees’ Insurance Board approved a plan that will charge state workers an extra $25 per month, starting in January 2010, if they […]
22 August, 2008 (19:07) | Parents Behaving Badly, new hampshire | No comments
MERRIMACK, N.H. — A man is facing charges after his 16-year-son got drunk at a wedding.
Police said the boy consumed more than a dozen glasses of wine and beer at a wedding on Saturday. They said his father, James Watkins, of Milford, N.H., was with him and afterwards went to drop the boy off at […]
10 August, 2008 (20:03) | News, new hampshire | No comments
CONCORD, N.H. — A Concord family is suing a regional police squad in federal court over a pre-dawn raid on their home two years ago.
Thomas and Tina Mlodzinski said their civil rights were violated when 20 officers from the Central New Hampshire Special Operations Unit broke down the door to their Bristol apartment and arrested […]
10 August, 2008 (19:57) | News, new hampshire | No comments
MANCHESTER, N.H. — A day after a 7-year-old girl was killed when her family’s car was washed away by flash floods at an Ashland campground, campers said they were still stunned by the suddenness of the disaster.
The Rhode Island girl was with her family as they tried to escape the Ames Brook Campground on Thursday […]
10 August, 2008 (19:40) | News, Shocking, new hampshire | No comments
LEMPSTER, N.H. — A driver who witnessed a crash that killed two Newport men might help investigators ascertain what happened.
The men weren’t wearing seatbelts when the sport utility vehicle drove at speeds near 50 mph off Route 10 in Lempster, state police said. Authorities said the vehicle just missed a telephone pole and landed in […]
30 July, 2008 (19:08) | News, new hampshire | No comments
HOLLIS, N.H. — A Hollis man has been charged with growing marijuana outside his home after a police officer there to serve a court summons saw the plants, police said.
David Orde, 53, has been charged with one count of manufacturing a controlled drug, and police said more charges are expected.
Police said they seized 16 pot […]
30 July, 2008 (19:00) | Entertainment, News, new hampshire | No comments
SPOFFORD, N.H. — In death, comedian George Carlin returned to New Hampshire, where some of his earliest routines were heard.
The famed funnyman died of heart failure in June. Last week, according to his last wishes, some of his ashes were spread in Spofford Lake, where he prompted laughter while at summer camp six decades ago.
A […]
30 July, 2008 (18:49) | News, new hampshire | No comments
MERRIMACK, N.H. — Crews continued their search Wednesday for a 48-year-old woman who went underwater at Wildcat Falls and never resurfaced.
Witnesses said Susan Bonitatibus was in about a foot of water with a friend Tuesday when she apparently got swept up in the swift current of the Souhegan River and went over the falls.
“It’s very […]
30 July, 2008 (18:44) | News, Parents Behaving Badly, new hampshire | No comments
FRANKLIN, N.H. — The father of an 8-year-old girl who, police said, was severely beaten by her stepmother has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
Dan LeBlanc was arraigned Wednesday morning on the misdemeanor charge. Investigators said LeBlanc withheld necessary medical treatment for the girl.
Cara LeBlanc, 29, was charged with assaulting the girl […]
26 July, 2008 (21:56) | News, new hampshire | No comments
DEERFIELD, N.H. — A tornado tore through nine New Hampshire towns on Thursday, experts confirmed Friday.
At least six homes were destroyed and hundreds damaged in the violent storms that moved through the state. The National Weather Service said that a tornado touched down in Deerfield before moving through Epsom, Barnstead and Alton. It then tore […]
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