Strafford County News

Fewer people are dying on New Hampshire roads this year. The reasons are multifold and not necessarily scientific.

Millennium Gaming will use all the leverage it has to get New Hampshire lawmakers to approve a scheme resulting in the installation of thousands of slot machines throughout the state.

There was a time when the Dover Housing Authority complex called Mineral Park wasn't a safe place for police cruisers.

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A new report shows metropolitan areas in New Hampshire have grown relatively stronger in their ability to withstand the worst of the recession.

Three people have been arrested and charged in connection with an August assault on River Street where a 50-year-old man was jumped by a group of teenagers.

A University of New Hampshire expert on child abduction says while the 2-year-old girl behind the recent AMBER Alert is probably too young to grasp what's going on, she may suffer emotionally if she witnessed violence in her home.

Urgent: Mainea s first amber alert issued for a 2-year-old girl Hailey, believed to be with her father, Gary Traynham, 38.

A Rochester man died last night after he crashed his motorcycle on Rocky Hill Road, near Rouleau Drive.

There were few surprises in Tuesday's elections as voters in the region's four cities went to the polls to choose local officials for the next two years.

There's a fluorescent pink sign hanging behind the counter of Cabot Street Market.

Downtown foot patrols continue to pay dividends for police after an officer walking along North Main Street Tuesday afternoon caught a registered sex offender who allegedly had drugs on him and had failed to register a change of address.

The attorney representing one of the suspects in the alleged "inside job" robbery at Circle K in June claims his client had nothing to do with the robbery and that a man who stabbed him five times implicated him in a police interview.

Witnesses at the store described three males entering the store, displaying a handgun and demanding cash and cartons of cigarettes.

A Rochester man was sentenced to up to five years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to a number of charges, including driving his car at police officers, stemming from a small crime spree on Christmas Eve 2008.

Four people have been charged in connection with a Circle K robbery in June, including the clerk who was supposedly victimized, in what police are calling an inside job.

While waiting to be sentenced for stealing her nanny's identity to make fraudulent purchases, Ramie Marston, formerly of North Hampton, used a city businessman's identity to charge $8,000 worth of goods, including tea products, a diamond ring, a puppy, groceries, hotel and restaurant services, furniture, music downloads and cash advances, according ...

A Rochester woman was scheduled to plead guilty to possession of child pornography Tuesday before a Strafford County Superior Court judge declined to accept her plea because she said she did not know files she downloaded contained child porn.

The Effingham woman accused of being intoxicated when she got into a car and using it to strike another woman in the Union Street parking lot waived her probable cause hearing on Monday.

The six people charged in connection with a street fight in East Rochester in August were indicted this month in the most recent Strafford County grand jury session.