Hooksett News

A suspended police officer who is fighting to keep his job will plead his case at a public hearing before selectmen Monday night.

A coal burning power plant is seen Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005, in Bow. A coalition of states, including New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont, are not happy with a federal proposal to allow polluting plants to meet mercury emission limits by buying credits from plants whose emissions are below the limits.

Police on Tuesday night arrested a second person in connection with a string of burglaries on Whitehall Terrace.

A man who police say burglarized homes seven times on his own street was arrested yesterday afternoon, police said.

FOUR DAYS BEFORE Thanksgiving, Grace Barrientos couldn't have been more thankful.

As a candidate for mayor, Ted Gatsas often said he would like to redraw the lines that determine where each child in Manchester goes to school.

With Republican Sen. Ted Gatsas likely to resign after being elected Manchester mayor last week, a battle is shaping up over who will take over his state Senate seat.

The Police Department, coping with personnel disputes and disciplinary action, spent more than $175,000 in legal fees in fiscal 2009, substantially more than what was spent in some similar-sized communities.

The two people who died in a Hooksett car crash were part of a support system for AIDS patients in New Hampshire and Vermont.

Mayor-Elect Ted Gatsas resigned his state Senate seat yesterday. The announcement, coming a little more than a week after Gatsas' election to the Queen City's top political office, fulfills a campaign promise and sets the stage for a special election in District 16.

Lt. Troy Cline says the driver of a pickup truck southbound on Route 3A Wednesday apparently slumped over the wheel seconds before the vehicle crossed the center line and slammed into a Jeep Cherokee.

One person was killed in a head-on collision Wednesday afternoon in Hooksett. The crash happened on West River Road near the intersection of Hidden Ranch Road.

A firefighter who was trapped inside Mow Town Power Equipment during a three-alarm fire Monday night has been taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment of burns, a fire official said.

Fire officials say three firefighters who were injured fighting a blaze at a Hooksett business are expected to recover.

A Concord man was arrested Saturday night in connection with a burglary in Hooksett.

The saddest ones are those who have donated in past years, and now find themselves asking for help.

Likely Senatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte recently sent a mass mailer to select New Hampshire voters declaring that "doctors and patients should be making decisions on health care, not bureaucrats." Perhaps this means she has changed her position on HB 648, the medical marijuana bill, which she opposed so strenuously earlier this year when she was ...

Bill Herlicka is a self-professed beer geek. A home brewer for 15 years, he recently started White Birch Brewing to sell his creations to the public.

With seven public schools in the city being used as polling stations for yesterday's elections, schools were closed throughout Manchester and students were given the day off.

Fire crews from more than a half-dozen communities were at PSNH's main power plant this morning for a reported two-alarm blaze but a company spokesman said there never was a fire.