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 Police responded to a call regarding a collision between a vehicle and and a 10-year-old boy at the intersection of Jackson Avenue and Catamount Hills Drive at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 23. Lt. Paul Paquette of the Allenstown Police Department said the boy suffered multiple injuries, but could not comment on the nature of ...

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 MATT HERSH Ryan Woodbury couldn’t stop screaming as he watched his younger brother’s SUV swerve and then roll over five times on Route 38. “It all happened so fast,” he said. “I just kept yelling his name and then I got out of my car.” Ryan, 21, had been traveling back from Pelham when he saw his younger ...