BY JENN McDOWELL Salem police arrested 20 people, all of them under 21, in connection with a large underage drinking party that got out of control. One of them was arrested after fleeing the party when police showed up. He was charged with destroying mailboxes on Zion Hill Road. Nine cars were also towed from the scene, police ...

BY JENN McDOWELLWindham Windham police are still searching for the driver of a large red SUV who rearended a 22- year-old Windham Marine who just returned from two years of active duty in Iraq. He’d just returned home for good five days prior to the accident, having sustained no injuries while there. Mike Tierney, of 4 ...

BY JENN McDOWELL A Windham man convicted of breaking six ribs and the tailbone of his infant son has been sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison. “There are no winners in a case like this. It’s just a matter of attempting to provide justice for a 6-month-old child,” said County Attorney James Reams after the sentencing, ...

BY JIM DEVINE SALEM – Police arrested a Windham man suspected in a series of car break-ins this past month after he peered into a decoy car police left out as bait for him. Police said they witnessed Daniel Racca, 46, of Windham, pulling up to a decoy car police set up to catch the suspect on Monday, May 19. After Racca pulled ...

By Darrell Halen The driver of a FedEx truck that collided with a school bus carrying 27 middle school students has been charged with failing to keep on the right side of the road.    None of the Windham Middle School students was injured when the collision occurred on Cristy Road around 2:40 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 2. But the ...

By Darrell Halen Police are investigating a rash of car break-ins in Windham that were committed in late November and early December, according to Capt. Patrick Yatsevich. Items were stolen from at least five vehicles on Oriole Road. One woman reported that someone broke a car window and stole her pocketbook, which was later recovered with ...

BY DARRELL HALEN A Windham man went on trial this week, accused of breaking two dozen of his infant son’s bones. A jury hearing the case at Rockingham County Superior Court in Brentwood will decide if Gurrie Fandozzi II, 41, is guilty of 24 charges of first degree assault. He has pleaded not guilty. The trial began Monday, Nov. 5. In ...

BY DARRELL HALEN The New Hampshire Supreme Court recently ruled that a former Windham selectman can be tried on a felony charge of assaulting an election worker. Christopher Doyle wanted the charge dismissed, arguing that Gail Webster was disqualified from acting as an election official at the polls on March 8, 2005, because her name was on the ...

BY DARRELL HALEN A Florida man faces at least 10 years behind bars after being convicted of luring a 15-year-old girl from her Windham home. Following a three-day trial, Daniel M. Lenz, 26, of Jacksonville, Fla., was convicted in U.S. District Court in Concord. He had been charged with causing the transportation of a minor in interstate ...

BY DARRELL HALEN The 4-year-old daughter of a man accused of injuring his infant son cannot testify against her father at his trial, a judge ruled. Rockingham Superior Court Judge Tina Nadeau ruled that based on the girl’s testimony at a competency hearing, she lacked “the ability to comprehend the importance of truthfulness and the ...