A bail reduction for a Nashua man charged with felony drunk driving in a fatal crash led The Telegraph’s list of most read online stories last week.

A district court judge on Tuesday reduced by 90 percent the cash bail for Romivel Cruz, the 27-year-old man charged with felony drunk driving following the Sept. 6 West Hollis Street crash that killed Nashua resident Joseph "Joey" Mearls.

Cruz, a longtime resident of 16 South St., in Nashua, was subsequently able to post the reduced bail of $10,000 cash, and was released from custody about an hour after the conclusion of Tuesday’s hearing. The story had 8,309 views.

Another accident that injured a former Nashua teacher had the next most read spot at 6,321 online views.

New Hampshire State Police said Craig Michaud was charged with drunk driving early Sunday morning after the SUV he was driving left the Everett Turnpike and slammed into a tree, resulting in serious injuries to his wife.

Michaud, 41, was arrested shortly after the crash, which occurred at 2:13 a.m. and required Merrimack firefighters and rescue personnel to conduct an hour-long extrication operation to free his wife, Nashua resident Tara (Marandos) Michaud, also 41 and a longtime Nashua teacher now working in Manchester.

Police said they charged Craig Michaud with one count of aggravated driving while intoxicated, a felony. He was not injured in the crash, police said.

Union reaction to a plan to end a contract with school custodians had 3,471 views.

Union officials and Nashua teachers reacted Monday to the Nashua Board of Education’s surprise announcement last week it would not continue a contract with union representing more than 100 custodians’ at the end of the school year.

"This is a reckless decision. We had no notice. At the very least, they should have held a public meeting," said Jim Durkin, communications director for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees of Council 93. "The respectful thing would be to reach out to us first. We understand budgetary problems, and we could have been part of the solution."

A story on a trip to Nashua’s prohibition speakeasy-style bar had 2,309 views.

Owners Liu Vaine (pronounced "Lou"), Ryan McCabe and Sarah Maillet have brought their 1920s, Prohibition-era speakeasy theme to their new bar Codex, secreted away in a quiet corner building in downtown Nashua, near Elm Street and West Pearl Street. Codex brings the style, mystery and thrill of the forbidden gin joints of bygone days.

A story checking in on the status of the move for Alec’s Shoes had 2,281 online views.

It is still a ways off, but Alec’s Shoe Store in downtown Nashua will move into a new location in late spring at the former Oasis building at 1617 Southwood Drive.

John Koutsos, Alec’s second-generation owner, said he will be leaving the downtown with a heavy heart, because the area has been good to them.

"It’s been bittersweet – we’ll miss it dearly," Koutsos said. "But life goes on. When you leave, there will be someone to fill your shoes to pick up and run with it."

News on what Nashua Mayor Donnalee Lozeau will do once leaving office had 2,180 views.

Lozeau will be returning to a place where her roots run deep when she takes over as head of Southern New Hampshire Ser-vices in January.

Lozeau leaves office Jan. 10 and will assume her new post Jan. 17. A Nashua native, Lozeau will be in charge of one of the state’s largest private, nonprofit social services agencies.

An examination of drug cartels role in moving Heroin into southern New Hampshire had 1,996 online views.

"With the growing number of individuals with an opioid use disorder in the United States, Mexican (transnational criminal organizations) are now competing for the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic markets," the DEA’s Jack Riley testified at a U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs field hearing Sept. 14.

Their reach extends directly into New Hampshire and other northern New England communities and they rely heavily on Dominican and Puerto Rican drug trafficking organizations and national streets gangs to deliver drugs here, federal law enforcers have said.

A story on the opening of a new urgent care center in Nashua had 1,692 views.

The ConvenientMD will open at 565 Amherst St. on Dec. 15 and is just one of six more locations the company plans to open in the state, including three under construction in Nashua, Bedford and Concord.

The Pope’s visit to the United States dominated news last week, and a story about Sen. Kelly Ayotte’s planned trip to see the Pontiff with a Nashua priest had 1,509 views.

The Rev. Richard J. Kelley, pastor at St. Christopher Catholic Church, was to accompany Ayotte when the pontiff made his visit to Washington, D.C.

Kelley said Ayotte invited him back in July, providing him with one of the most sought after tickets on Capitol Hill.

The story on a rollover accident in Hudson that injured the driver of one of two cars had 1,414 views.

Police and firefighters responded to the area just south of Fox Hollow Drive around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and found two cars that had crashed and ended up off the roadway.

A subsequent story reported police determined Manur Deepa, 38, of Hudson was driving a Toyota Prius northbound that police say crossed into the southbound lane and collided with a Saab driven by Paul Addonizio of Topsfield, Mass.

Addonizio was taken to a hospital in Lowell, Mass.