Top Stories - August 14, 2006

The Jill Carroll Story
Chapter One

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Park upgarde, reuse bylaw face TM Thursday

There will be three articles on the warrant when Town Moderator William Carroll calls to order the Special Town Meeting set for Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Galvin School auditorium. But with a motion for indefinite postponement expected on Article 3, the remaining two articles will be the only business taken up by voters.
Twice-deported man pleads guilty to re-entering U.S.

CONCORD, N.H. --A man pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to re-entering the United States after twice being deported to his home country of Mexico.

Hector Horta-Arriaga, 32, also known as "Alberto Mendoza," was first deported in 1998 and then again in 2000. He had lived in Nashua.

This past May, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent encountered Horta-Arriaga at the Nashua District Court. The agent arrested Horta-Arriaga on a charge of illegally being present in the United States. A federal grand jury indicted him in June.

Triple-E virus found in mosquito pool in Manchester

CONCORD, N.H. --A mosquito pool in Manchester has tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis in New Hampshire, the second pool to test positive for the disease this year, the state Department of Health and Human Services said Monday.

"This positive test of a mammal-biting mosquito reinforces the need to take preventive measures," said John Stephen, department commissioner. "The last thing we want to see are any human cases of EEE in New Hampshire."

(Sources: Wakefield Daily Item, Boston Globe, Boston Herald)