CONCORD (AP) – Pamela Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, was denied a sentence reduction hearing Wednesday nearly 30 years after a sensational trial that inspired books and a Nicole Kidman movie. Smart was 22 and working as a ...
NEW YORK (AP) – A medical examiner who performed an autopsy on Eric Garner says a police officer’s chokehold set into motion “a lethal sequence of events” that led to his death five years ago. Dr. Floriana Persechino detailed the findings in testimony Wednesday at New York Police ...
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) – Two students suspected of shooting nine classmates, one fatally, in their Colorado charter school appeared in court Wednesday to face dozens of criminal charges that included murder, attempted murder, theft and arson. The charges were filed on the same day a ...
NASHUA -- Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said if elected, she would use executive action to ban imports of all AR-15-style assault weapons. The U.S. senator from California plans to formally announce this strategy during her town hall-style meeting, set for 9:30 a.m. today at ...
NASHUA – While patrolling Main Street early Sunday morning, a police officer said loud shouting, infused with profanities and racial slurs, caught his attention as he passed East Pearl Street. The ruckus was coming from a sidewalk, the officer said in his report, and upon investigating, he ...
NASHUA – Joshua Fournier-DeJesus allegedly punched and kicked a man in an early-morning fracas during the weekend, but contrary to what police and prosecutors allege, there is no evidence he used a knife in the attack, Fournier-DeJesus’s lawyer argued in court Monday. Whether enough ...
