Authorities believe an escaped inmate in New Hampshire may have travelled out of state. The Sullivan County Sheriff's office has notified the U.S. Marshals Service and the Connecticut State police about 45-year-old Robert Hale III. He was discovered missing from the Sullivan County Jail in Unity early yesterday. Investigators learned last night Hale could possibly be in a gray Chevy pickup with New Hampshire registration 259-8874. They said he was last seen in Colchester, Conn.
A Manchester man has been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in the beating deaths of a woman and her boyfriend. Todd Peters, 36, was convicted yesterday in the deaths of Edith Riley and Timothy King, who were killed with a baseball bat on Oct. 2008, in Riley's apartment. As he was led from the courtroom, he told the victims' families he didn't commit the crimes.
A Maine man who sparked a three-state Amber Alert earlier this month will soon face charges in his home state. Gary Traynham waived extradition today. WMUR-TV reports he is facing a sexual assault charge in Maine. Police say he assaulted his daughter's mother before taking off with the 2-year-old girl. A hunter found Traynham and his daughter hiding in the woods in Milton, New Hampshire.
The father of one of the teenagers charged in connection with the fatal attack in Mont Vernon is speaking out. James Marks, the father of 18-year-old William Marks, says he wishes his son had learned from a previous mistake. Last summer, the younger Marks was arrested with Steven Spader for chasing down another vehicle and ramming their car into it. James Marks says he wishes a judge had thrown his son in jail then, instead of suspending their sentence. William Marks is charged with Burglary in connection with the attack that killed Kimberly Cates and injured her daughter Jaime. Spader has been charged with murder.
The attorney general's office wants to force a mortgage company that closed suddenly into bankruptcy. Financial Resources Management of Meredith closed abruptly Nov. 9 as did two other businesses sharing its address. Since then, the attorney general's office has heard from people claiming to have
lost $23 million owed to them, and the FBI is investigating. The state asked a bankruptcy court to appoint a trustee to oversee the companies' assets.
Governor John Lynch is making food deliveries in Manchester just in time Thanksgiving. The Governor joined the New Hampshire Food Bank this afternoon, handing out shopping bags of turkeys, potatoes, cranberry sauce, and other fixings. The food is being given to residents of the Elmwood Gardens apartment complex. A number of food drives are also being held across the state, including in Bedford, Concord, and Milford.
A serious accident in Hudson has left one man with life threatening injuries. Police say the accident happened around 9 last night on Derry Street. A car driven by 24 year old James Parker of Hudson, struck two utility poles. Parker's car was split in two and he was ejected. The crash remains under investigation, however police say Parker will be charged with felony DUI.
Nashua Police make another arrest in connection with a burglary of 322-thousand prescription pills from a Massachsuetts pharmacutical warehouse three years ago. 32-year old Tam Mitchell joins 28-year old Amanda Patton who was arrested earlier this month when police found 7-thousand of the pills at her home. Patton is charged the illegal sale of the drug Klonopin with intent to distribute the drug and with the sale and intent to distribute Xanax.
Responding to a domestic disturbance last night Manchester Police officers were attacked as a woman who assulated her boyfriend was being taken into custody. 26-year old Matthew Moriarty intervened in the arrest and and engaged in a violent struggle, punching an officer in the face and at one point grabbed for the officers gun. After a lengthy struggle, Moriarty was taken into custody and had to be subdued at police headquarters. He faces numerous charges including resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer.
New Hampshire real estate sales show the local housing market is in the midst of a slow and steady recovery. According to the New Hampshire Association of Realtors October home sales were up 8 percent, compared with sales in the same month last year. The Union Leader reporting this morning that residential homes sales during the first 10 months of 2009 were also up, compared with the same period last year. The real estate group said these numbers indicate the year-end housing sales will end up higher than last year for the first time since 2004.
A federal agency says 136 people died in New England from work-related injuries last year. That's 27 fewer than in 2007 and the lowest number since it began compiling the statistics in 1992. The 2008 preliminary figures show there were 24 deaths in Maine, 10 in Vermont, seven in New Hampshire and six in Rhode Island.
