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Family of New Hampshire boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy receives new van from nonprofit organization
The family of a little boy in Bedford who lost his ability to walk now has an accessible vehicle thanks to a charitable foundation. Logan Petz lives with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare neuromuscular disorder. "The community support has been amazing. We couldn't believe how many people came out and...
Yacht Rock Legend Christopher Cross Playing Several Shows in New England
Yacht Rock. It's a music genre that used to be called "soft rock" until a 2005 mockumentary web series titled "Yacht Rock" debuted. It followed the lives and careers of American soft rock stars of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the name stuck. The Yacht Rock genre includes...
Loss in D1 state semifinal doesn't diminish the four-year run for Leominster
LYNN — The Leominster High baseball team exhibited energy, enthusiasm and encouragement from the first to the last pitch in its Division 1 state semifinal matchup with BC High. But once the final out was made, thwarting a seventh-inning rally, the Blue Devils were overcome with emotion after their 3-2 loss to the...
In red-hot real estate markets, why do certain homes just not sell?
Manchester, NH, currently holds the title of hottest market in the country, where homes typically sell after just 14 days on the market. So when a listing in this desirable city sits for 144 days, there has to be something wrong with it, right? That’s the question we asked upon spotting a three-bedroom, one-bath, 1,400-square-foot house on Central Street listed nearly five months ago for $370,000. That’s far below Manchester’s median listing price of $425,000. So why has this house sat for so long? According to listing agent Zyel Silva, with Chinatti Realty, there is nothing wrong with this house. Rather, the property has simply had a “ton of bad luck.” After...
Police Blotter: 2 women accused of filing false robbery report, costing the city thousands of dollars in police resources
NASHUA, NH – The Nashua Police Department arrested two women on active arrest warrants charging them each with one count of false report to law enforcement. According to a police narrative, Denise Connors, 54, and Stacie Gentile, 56, both of Nashua June 7 by police on the warrants after an investigation into an April 25 robbery report was filed.
Group home operated by Nashua company for people with disabilities proves disruptive in single-family Manchester neighborhood
MANCHESTER, NH – About 8 p.m. on a Saturday night in June, a huge man opened a patio door to enter the home of Will Gauthier, 85, at 63 Robert Hall Road. “He did come through the patio door,” Gauthier said in recounting the incident. “We didn’t know what was going on. Someone was trying to keep him under control and direct him back onto the patio. They looked at me and said, ‘Call the police.’”
Pamela Smart, serving life, accepts responsibility for her husband's 1990 killing for the first time
Pamela Smart, serving life sentence, accepts responsibility for her husband’s 1990 killing for the first time CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsibility for his death for the first time in a videotaped statement released Tuesday as part of her latest sentence reduction request. Smart, 56, was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began an affair with a 15-year-old boy who later fatally shot her husband, Gregory Smart, in Derry, New Hampshire. The shooter was freed in 2015 after serving a 25-year sentence. Though Pamela Smart denied knowledge of the plot, she was convicted of being an accomplice to first-degree murder and other crimes and sentenced to life without parole. Smart has been incarcerated for nearly 34 years. In the videotaped statement, she said she began to “dig deeper into my own responsibility” through her experience in a writing group that “encouraged us to go beyond and to spaces that we didn’t want to be in.”
Man airlifted to Boston hospital after fiery moped crash in Lowell
A crash between a moped and a car on Merrimack Street in Lowell left a man severely injured around 2 p.m. on June 10., according to the Lowell Police Department. By the time Lowell officers arrived, smoke was coming from the moped in the middle of the street and the moped driver had severe burns. The moped driver was taken to a nearby hospital then airlifted to a Boston area hospital.
3-Year-Old Boy Suffers Serious Injuries in Fall from Manchester Apartment Window
A 3-year-old boy was left with serious injuries following a fall from the window of a third-story building in Manchester, New Hampshire, yesterday afternoon. Officials from the Manchester Fire Department responded to the incident at approximately 1:09 p.m. at 150 Blain Street, as stated in a report by NBC Boston. Upon their arrival, they discovered a man cradling the injured child at the rear of the property.
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