BY JENN McDOWELL After performing alcohol compliance checks over the weekend of May 3, Salem police think businesses might be getting smart to their practices – either in not serving minors or in communicating with each other to slip under the radar. Only two summonses were issued in compliance checks of 67 Salem businesses, in ...

BY MICHELLE KIM Five Goffstown businesses failed alcohol compliance checks by selling alcohol to underage buyers Thursday, Oct. 18. The New Hampshire Bureau of Liquor Enforcement and the Goffstown Police Department ran alcohol compliance checks at more than 20 Goffstown stores and establishments. Of those businesses, employees at the Cumberland ...

BY MICHELLE KIM When Chris and Pat Blanchette saw the black pickup truck gunning towards the side of their house, they couldn’t believe it. Just moments before, they had been quietly relaxing in the living room of that very house – a neat, modest place they had built eight years ago at 151 N. Mast St. as their retirement home. ...

BY BRUCE PRESTON Salem police conducted two sobriety checkpoints last weekend, netting 24 arrests, including nine for driving while intoxicated and two for minors in possession of alcohol. Officers worked from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday,  Sept. 1 and 2, stopping a total of 470 vehicles.   On Saturday evening, six ...

BY JENNIFER MCDOWELL The number of vehicle accidents involving impaired drivers is on the rise across the state said Allenstown Police Chief Shaun Mulholland. In an effort to combat that important public safety issue, the police departments of Allenstown, Epsom, Pembroke and Chichester have teamed up with the Merrimack County Sheriff’s ...

BY DARRELL HALEN A woman who twice has been convicted of driving while intoxicated was allegedly driving drunk when she struck a police officer working a traffic detail on Route 28 in Windham. Police said Susan Foss, 43,  of 16 Windham Depot Road, Derry, hit officer Robert Moore around 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, July 25. Moore, 34, a Derry ...

BY MATT HERSH A recent alcohol sales compliance check by Salem police yielded several repeat offenders and a state liquor store. Police officials said nine Salem businesses sold alcohol to minors during the check on May 24. Deputy Police Chief William Ganley said he wasn’t expecting to see Route 28’s state liquor store on the ...

BY MATT HERSH Salem police officers made 25 arrests on Friday, May 18, after discovering a large underage drinking party. A total of 25 people were arrested when a police officer who was patrolling an area of North Salem noticed a large gathering of cars on Mary’s Lane. One teen was charged with unlawful possession and disorderly ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEY Of the 33 stores and restaurants selling alcohol in Bedford, 11 sold to a minor after checking their underage identification. “Either they are looking at [the ID] and not reading it or reading it wrong,” said Police Chief David Bailey. “A lot of it is just sloppy, sloppy work, because I don’t think any ...