Credit cards are being stolen from people working out at a YMCA in Merrimack. Police said they're asking for the public's help in identifying a person who attempted to use one of the stolen cards at a Walmart in Amherst. Police said the man was shown on surveillance video Jan. 12 trying to use a stolen card to purchase iPads. 29 year old aime Lee Zielinski of Peterborough has already been arrested and charged with theft in connection with the investigation. Police said four credit cards have been reported stolen from the Merrimack YMCA in the past month.
Gambling opponents and supporters have postponed a key vote on a gambling bill in the New Hampshire House. Ways and Means Chairman Stephen Stepanek said the number of new amendments to the bill demanded another public hearing. The Amherst Republican estimated a hearing on the amendments would take place on Monday. The House will still have to vote on the bill. The Republican-led Legislature is more open to gaming legislation than it has been in the past as it looks for new, non-tax revenue sources.
Calling gay marriage, quote, "unnatural," Republican lawmaker David Bates promised a crowd of several hundred supporters in Concord yesterday he would work to repeal New Hampshire's same-sex marriage law. Bates is the sponsor of bill that would do just that. The fight over gay marriage is expected to be one of the hot topics in New Hampshire politics this year. State records show that since the same-sex marriage law took effect last year, more than 18-hundred gay couples have gotten married in New Hampshire.
Ten days behind bars - that's the sentence for the fire chief in Hinsdale after he pled guilty to drunk driving. Robert Johnson admitted he was drinking and driving in December when he smashed his truck into a telephone pole in Massachusetts. After the wreck, he tried to get away, but was caught by police. Johnson's driver's license will also be suspended for a year and a half.
Police say they have caught the seventh and final person involved in a massive, five state burglary ring. Twenty-one-year-old Logan Critchfield was arrested Tuesday in Keene and charged with burglary and being a fugitive from justice. Police say he is one of seven people who robbed 100 homes and small businesses in states as far away as Virginia.
Three New Hampshire men were arrested early Tuesday after leading police from New Hampshire and Massachusetts on a chase after they allegedly robbed a gas station in Atkinson, N.H. The Union Leader reporting police began chasing a Nissan Pathfinder about 1 a.m. as it entered Route 114 from Route 495 in Lawrence. The four poeple in the car got out and ran. 39 year old Ihab Hussein of Manchester was arrested immediately. 38 year old Banshon Brown of Belmont and 25 year old William Boucher of Manchester were arrested after being tracked down by a police dog. Police are still looking for a fourth man.
It was a rude wake-up call for one homeowner in Rye very early Tuesday morning. Police say the driver of a pickup truck lost control of his vehicle and smashed into a house on Sagamore Road. The driver of the truck, who has not been identified, was trapped after the wreck. Investigators say the man behind the wheel was speeding and had been drinking. The walls of the home are cracked and the front porch has been destroyed from the crash.
In Alton, a man was saved from his burning house by his dog. Wayne Duquette on Monday night emptied his wood stove ashes into a plastic bucket and placed the bucket on a wooden porch and went to bed. During the night, the ashes rekindled setting the house on fire. The Union Leader reporting the smoke alarm failed to go off, but Duquett woke to his barking dog. Both safely escaped. The fire quickly spread through the house and fire officials say the house is totaled.
Jobs and the economy are still the top issues on the minds of people in New Hampshire. That's according a new poll out from the University of NewHampshire and W-M-U-R television. The WMUR Granite State Poll shows that more than one quarter of everyone surveyed listed financial concerns as the top issue facing the state. The Republican majority in the Legislature came in a distant second and the state budget was third.
Changes could be coming to the Queen City Motor Inn in Manchester. Developer Dick Anagnost has proposed changing the building and making it a rehabilitation center. Anagnost told the Union Leader he is in talks with a few health care providers, ranging from a nursing home, drug and alcohol treatment center and a physical rehabilitation facility. City planners will look at the proposal next month.
Despite little snowfall this year, one of New Hampshire's towns has the distinction of being one of the best places to ski in the world. National Georgraphic has listed North Conway as part of it's top 25 ski towns in the world!