BY DAN O'BRIEN Neighbors of a convicted child rapist whose house is within feet of a school bus stop say their concerns are falling on deaf ears. Gayle Gillespie says there was no police officer patrolling the bus stop on Monday, Sept. 28 -- something a police captain said would happen every day at the previous Town Council meeting on ...

BY DAN O'BRIEN State Rep. David Boutin has filed legislation at the State House that would allow police departments more freedom to notify residents when convicted sex offenders move to town. Boutin filed the bill on Thursday, Sept. 24, in response to a Town Council meeting a day earlier that was filled with parents upset that a convicted ...

BY JENNIFER McDOWELL Hooksett police picked up a registered sex offender for a reported sexual assault at a local motel on Monday, Nov. 5. Eric Searles, 45, was arrested and charged with aggravated felonious sexual assault after police responded to a call from the Kozy 7 Motel on the Londonderry Turnpike at around 9:30 p.m. Searles, whose ...

BY JENN McDOWELL Robert Cyra of Hooksett, 74, said if his wolf-husky mix Malibu were still alive, the three masked men who entered his home in the wee hours of Saturday morning, Oct. 27, and robbed him of  thousands in cash, jewelry and his 2004 Ford Explorer would not have gotten far. Cyra is offering a $1,000 reward for tips that come ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Melanie Cooper will only serve half of her original sentence. After Cooper pleaded guilty to hindering apprehension, a felony, in the investigation of Eric Windhurst’s 1985 murder of her stepfather, Danny Paquette, she was sentenced in December to three to six years in prison. But after a three-judge panel ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR Melanie Cooper will only serve half of her original sentence. After Cooper pleaded guilty to hindering apprehension, a felony charge, in the investigation of Eric Windhurst’s 1985 murder of her stepfather, Danny Paquette of Hooksett, she was sentenced, in December, to three to six years in prison. But after a ...

BY SUSAN WARE A brutal dusk assault on Thursday, June 14, left a 20-year-old Hooksett man fighting for his life. The next day he succumbed to the injuries from the beating while being treated at Massachusetts General Hospital. According to Senior Assistant Attorney General Susan Morrell, Ryan Carlson was assaulted at approximately 8:20 p.m. He ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNCiting more numerous and complex crimes, many committed by nonresidents of Hooksett, police officials said they couldn’t comply with the Hooksett Town Council’s request to bring forth a zero-dollar-increase budget. “It’s a growing department in a growing town,” said Hooksett Police Commission ...