CONCORD, NH — After nearly a quarter of a century of analyzing online news data, it is no surprise that breaking news is popular with readers, including at Patch in New Hampshire. For 13.5 years, starting first in Concord and expanding to other cities and towns, Patch has worked to provide as much information as […]
AURORA, IL — A single-family house in the 400 block of Superior Street in Aurora caught fire on Dec. 28, killing two pets and displacing a family, officials said. Click Here: Kanken No. 2 Backpack A total of 26 personnel responded to the 2.5-story residence at about 7:36 p.m. Saturday. The first arriving units reported […]
LA GRANGE, IL – La Grange police are issuing far fewer traffic tickets than they used to, a state database shows. In 2023, the village gave 458 tickets, far fewer than the 2,800 in 2009. From 2020 to 2022, the village failed to turn in state-mandated annual traffic stop reports. Click Here: penrith panthers rugby […]
LONG ISLAND, NY — As the search for Emma Gervasi reaches three weeks, members of the community have come forward with the organization of a search party on New Year’s Eve in Shirley, a neighborhood she has been known to frequent. On Dec. 9, she told her stepmother that she had to get something from […]
CONCORD, NH — Tuesday marks the end of the career of John Thomas, the deputy chief for the Concord Police Department, as a police officer for the city. Thomas started working for the department in July 1994, right out of school, when the city was a little different than it is now. Its population was […]
ENFIELD, CT — The latest installment of this periodic informative series on Patch sites in northern Connecticut, providing facts and figures about some of the state roads which wind through the area, features a route which begins in Massachusetts and ends in Connecticut, yet only traverses one town in each state. Route 220 begins as […]
NORTH BABYLON, NY — Party supply retail chain Party City will be closing 14 stores on Long Island, including its North Babylon location the company said in a statement on Saturday. An employee told Patch the store on Deer Park Avenue will close its door for good on Feb. 28, 2025. Until then, it’s offering […]
ELMHURST, IL – A former Elmhurst School District 205 official used his credit card for $47,615 in personal expenses over more than two years, but paid back those costs monthly, public records show. Is there a possible criminal charge for the situation involving Todd Schmidt, the district’s former facilities director? Some of the facts resemble […]
MASTIC BEACH, NY — A man escaped from a partially submerged SUV at Jefferson Drive Beach in Mastic Beach on Christmas night, Suffolk police said. He was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked 2006 Land Rover at Jefferson Drive and Dock Road at around 4:45 p.m., when the tide came in and the […]
JOLIET — More than two years have passed since Joliet Patch reported that the Bed, Bath & Beyond storefront at 2850 Plainfield Road was going out of business as part of a nationwide downsizing negatively impacting 56 stores. The national retailer sold a variety of home goods, bedding, kitchenware, towels and other home decor. Now, […]