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Nashua Police seek robbery suspect

NASHUA – Police officers are seeking a suspect in a robbery reported at the Harbor Mart store on Harbor Avenue last week. At 1:15 p.m. Nov. 7, officers responded to the store for a report of an armed robbery. Surveillance footage appears to show the suspect brandish a knife and demand money ...

Judge cancels hearing after outburst

NASHUA – Dennis Higgins Sr.’s loud, boisterous objection to a judge’s ruling to allow a victim impact statement to be read during his recent plea hearing prompted the judge to cancel the hearing and order his five cases be scheduled for trials. Higgins, 53, formerly of Nashua but ...

Judge weighs murder suspect’s competency

NASHUA – Experts were questioned and segments of phone calls Devin Tappan made from prison were played by prosecutors, as the sides in Tappan’s murder case addressed, at his most recent hearing last week, the topic of his competency to stand trial. Tappan, who turned 32 last week, is ...

Hudson standoff ends with arrest

HUDSON – A roughly four-hour police standoff with a suspect last seen inside a Barbara Lane residence late Saturday morning ended without incident, police said, when the suspect was located and taken into custody. Police said the incident began around 11 a.m. Saturday, when officers ...

Deferred jail term for Nashua’s Webster

NASHUA – Prosecutors at Timothy Webster’s plea and sentencing hearing this week agreed to a deferred jail term and to amend a felony assault charge to a misdemeanor, as long as Webster abides by the terms spelled out in his sentencing order. In exchange, Webster, 22, most recently of 14 ...

UPDATE: Whitey Bulger, Boston gangster, killed in West Virginia Prison

BOSTON (AP) — James “Whitey” Bulger, the murderous Boston gangster who benefited from a corrupt relationship with the FBI before spending 16 years as one of America’s most wanted men, was slain in federal prison. He was 89. Bulger was found unresponsive Tuesday morning at the U.S. ...