Police investigate stabbing death

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) – A Nashua man has been arrested in connection with the death of a 21-year-old man who was stabbed in a parking lot Sunday afternoon.

Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Strelzin said Evenor Pineda, 23, was arrested on an assault charge, but could face additional charges as the investigation into the death of Kaleek Davis progresses.

Authorities said Davis, also of Nashua, died late Sunday afternoon. Strelzin said police still were trying to determine the circumstances that led to his death. An autopsy was planned for Monday.

UNH drug bust nets 9 arrests

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) – Nine people have been arrested in an investigation of drug trafficking in the Durham area, including a UNH student who allegedly was making drugs in his dorm room.

Six of the nine are UNH students, all arrested in the last two weeks, police said.

Officers say they confiscated ecstasy, marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms in Durham and on campus.

One of the suspects, John Davis, 20, from Franklin, Mass., was arrested in his dorm room and charged with selling drugs. Police say they also seized a drug lab from the Davis’ dorm room. UNH says the arrested students will face conduct hearings to determine whether they will be kicked out of school.

Propane tanks litter road sides

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – New Hampshire’s highway litter doesn’t just include coffee cups and cigarette butts. The state says more and more discarded propane tanks are showing up in the roadside garbage.

Since 2002, federal law has required propane canisters used to fire backyard grills be equipped with an overfill protection valve. It can be costly to install a new valve on an old tank and there is usually a fee to dispose of canisters at landfills, so many people are just tossing them on the side of the road.

Caleb Dobbins, who coordinates the state’s volunteer highway cleanup program, says the tanks are showing up among the litter collected in the Sponsor-A-Highway program and by state workers.

Guard thanked for patrol service

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) – They weren’t in a war zone, but many were away from home, and this weekend, the New Hampshire National Guard thanked members who helped patrol the Pease Air National Guard base for the last two years.

Twenty-seven members of the Army National Guards “Charlie Battery” were honored Saturday. Members of the unit worked 12-hour shifts, patrolling the base, during their two-year assignment.

which ended in December.

The guard says the unit’s homeland security assignment was an important part of the war on terrorism.

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