BY LAUREN SAUSSERHooksett police officer Benjamin Beauchemin, who flipped his car off Cedar Crest Lane in Auburn last spring, was found not guilty of driving while intoxicated by a Candia District Court judge on Wednesday, Sept. 10. Judge David Lefrancois said in his ruling that the state had been unable to prove beyond reasonable doubt that ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERHooksett resident Sandy Oliver admitted that her late husband Jim wasn’t the type of man who would voluntarily consent to a building being named in his honor. But, she said, since he did serve as the Hooksett police chief for almost 30 years, the name of the town’s safety center – now the James H. Oliver Safety ...

BY JENN McDOWELLHooksett was without emergency response lines three times over the past few weeks, and the town is going to meet with the line carrier, One Communications, to discuss the glitches. The outages happened on June 25, June 28 and July 11, said Hooksett police Capt. Jon Daigle, resulting in periods of about an hour in which the ...

BY JENN McDOWELLHooksett department heads are going to have a tough time staying within their fuel budgets in the coming year given the default budget they got in March. With both gasoline and diesel fuel topping $4 a gallon right now, fire, police and highway departments are going to have to spend almost double what their fuel budgets will allow ...

BY JENN McDOWELLEpsom Police Chief Wayne Preve said he’s lost two officers this year to other departments that offer higher pay and more opportunities. Officer Joseph Lister left in April, about two weeks after the March vote, at which the town inherited its fourth default budget in a row. He took an opening with the Northwood Police ...

BY JENN McDOWELLA Bedford police officer who lives in Hooksett and just got hired in December has resigned after being arrested and charged with operating under the influence after he rear-ended a couple on a motorcycle. Alejandro Jaime, 36, of Hooksett, was off duty and driving down Tarrytown Road just south of Hanover Street in Manchester on ...

BY GRETA CUYLER A police officer was arrested by state police and charged with driving while intoxicated early Sunday, May 11, according to Hooksett police. Officer Benjamin Beauchemin has been placed on administrative leave with pay. Beauchemin was off duty, driving a Jeep Liberty on Cedar Crest Road in Auburn early Sunday morning ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAfter pleading guilty in Manchester District Court to five counts of criminal threatening, a Manchester West High School student who threatened to “do a Columbine” and shoot teachers, administrators and other students was released from jail. Sterling Lindbloom, 17, of 659 Montgomery St., Manchester, spent more than two ...

BY JENN McDOWELL Five men were arrested at Hooksett’s park and ride lot on Hackett Hill Road as police investigated the spot for reports of lewd acts in the woods there. “It’s been ongoing for years now. There’s been word that this kind of stuff goes on,” said Hooksett police Detective Sgt. Nick Pinardi of the ...

By JENN McDOWELL  The search for a missing Hooksett man could have been a lot more difficult without new technology said Allenstown Police Chief Shaun Mulholland. Searchers looking for any sign of Russell Bussiere, 70, in Bear Brook State Park earlier this month used global positioning satellite, or GPS, devices and a high-tech mapping ...