Amherst police are investigating why two female Souhegan High School students brought brownies laced with over-the-counter laxatives and gave them to students before lunch yesterday. In a statement from the school district, the students who ate the brownies were assessed by the school nurse and sent home. The school would not comment on why the female students may have put laxatives in the brownies.
Bedbugs were found this week inside a school in the Farmington school district. Officials said the bugs were found at the Valley View Community School on one student. The school principal sent a letter to parents telling them about the bedbugs and describing what symptoms to look for. Superintendent Frank Mellaci said there's no indication that the school was infested. Farmington's town health officer says there was no cause for public alarm.
The chief medical examiner has identified the person killed in a Woodsville house fire last week as 47-year-old Lora Kydd. Dr. Thomas Andrew said she died as a result of smoke inhalation and the cause of death was ruled accidental. The Woodsville Fire Department was called to 644 Swiftwater Road just after 3 p.m. last Thursday.
Three men have been arrested in Manchester after thw SWAT team executed search warrants early Thursday morning. Police say four handguns, $22,000 in cash, 300 oxycodone pills and a half pound of marijuana were seized. Tosatti and Neville Padmore were arrested during a search at 184 Garden Drive. Gary Hawkins was also arrested. At least two of the four guns had been reported stolen.
A case of road rage resulting in a stun gun used on a pregnant woman is over with a guilty verdict. 23 year old Carissa Williams from Pembroke was found guilty Thursday of second-degree assault. Prosecutors say she pulled up to another woman at an intersection and started yelling at her about her speed. The two drivers were later at the same exit in Concord, and Williams is accused of jumping out of her car and into the victim's, using a stun gun on her. The victim was pregnant but both she and the fetus were okay. Williams will be sentenced in two weeks.
A 28 year old Milford man was sentenced to more than six years in federal prison and three years of supervised release, for the robbery of the TD Bank in Amherst in December of 2009. The Union Leader reporting Garret Ojala had pleaded guilty to the robbery and admitted entering the bank and presenting a note demanding money. The note said Ojala had a gun and he would shoot if alarms were sounded, so the teller gave Ojala money and he fled the bank on foot.
A Littleton NH man will spend the next 8 years in prison after being convicted on a charge of engaging in illegal sexual conduct. Police in Littleton responded to a domestic disburbance call last month. Police say they found Richard White living with a 15 year old female runaway from Dorchester, Massachusetts.
It's a new year and a new bill attempting to bring casinos to New Hampshire will soon be before lawmakers. It could bring a multi-million dollar casino to Rockingham Park in Salem. A bill to actually establish two casinos in the state is getting an amendment to double that number. Debate over the bill is likely during public hearings over the next few weeks. Governor John Lynch has already promised a veto, but Republican leaders want to make sure they have enough votes to override the governor's veto.
The man who killed a UNH football last year in Colorado was found guilty Thursday of 1st degree murder . A jury sentenced 23 year old Kevin McGregor to life without parole in the shooting death of Todd Walker on University Hill last year. Walker was shot after McGregor pointed a gun at Walkers friend, the men got in a struggle over the gun and it went off.
There's another casualty of the unseasonably mild and relatively snow-free winter New England has been enjoying this winter. Now it's the third annual Pond Hockey Classic in the Lakes Region. It's been recently moved from Meredith Bay to Lake Waukewan because of concerns over thin ice. There's about 175 teams and more than a thousand participants expected. As for next weekend's 33rd annual Ice Fishing Derby, plans are still moving forward on that one.
