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Knife Assaulter From New Hampshire Wanted On Parole Violation: Corrections Department

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2 years ago

May 10, 2024

Knife Assaulter From New Hampshire Wanted On Parole Violation: Corrections Department

CONCORD, NH — The New Hampshire Department of Corrections is asking for the public’s help finding convicted first-degree assaulter and past fugitive of the week who was granted parole again and has disappeared.

Keith Alan Hutchings is 32, white, about 5 feet, 11 inches tall, and has blue eyes and brown hair. He has a 6-point Star of David tattoo and a Pitchfork tattoo. Hutchings also has scars on his forehead due to a car accident, officials said.

Hutchings is wanted for parole violation stemming from a first-degree assault conviction where he stabbed a person in the neck with a knife. He was a fugitive of the week about 13 months ago.

“After being arrested,” an alert stated, “he was granted parole again, and then, absconded from supervision.”

The warrant for his arrest was issued on April 25. A “considered armed and dangerous” was issued as part of the alert.

“Hutchings has a history of absconding from supervision, multiple assaults including the use of a weapon, and burglary,” investigators said. “Hutchings is known to abuse drugs.”

Hutchings has ties throughout Carroll County, was last known to be in Madison, and frequents the Manchester area. Due to a lack of a license or a vehicle, Hutchings may rely on others for transportation.”

According to superior court records, Hutchings’s criminal history dates back nearly 15 years, when he was involved in a second-degree assault in Conway. He pleaded guilty to the charge in December 2009 and received a 12-month sentence, all but 30 days suspended for 11 months, and two years probation. Seven months later, he violated probation and was sentenced to two to four years in prison, all deferred and suspended for three years.

Hutchings was involved in burglaries in Madison in October and November 2009 and was charged in February 2010. He pleaded guilty to both charges in July 2010 and received a year in jail, stand committed, and a year in jail on the second charge, suspended for two years.

In January 2012, he was charged with criminal trespass in Ossipee and pleaded guilty in January 2013. Hutchings was sentenced to another suspended year in prison.

In Conway, in December 2015, he was accused of attempted murder, attempted robbery, and first-degree assault in two separate incidents. As part of a plea deal, the murder and first-degree charges were dropped and he pleaded guilty to a single count of robbery and was sentenced to three to six years in prison, stand committed, with 190 days credit of time served.

Hutchings was accused of drug possession in Berlin in February 2018 and pleaded guilty to the charge nine months later. He received a two to four-year sentence with a year suspended and $434 in fines suspended for two years. In June 2020, the sentence was amended.

If you know where Hutchings is or see someone who looks like him, do not try to apprehend him. Contact local police or the corrections department at 603-271-1804.

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Firefighters Extinguish House Fire In Concord’s South End: Video

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3 hours ago

May 24, 2026

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Firefighters Extinguish House Fire In Concord’s South End: Video

CONCORD, NH — Concord fire and rescue teams were sent to a house fire in the South End on Saturday afternoon.

Around 3:15 p.m., Concord Fire Alarm began receiving reports about smoke coming from a home on Brookside Drive. Engine 4 arrived first and confirmed smoke was coming from the building. About 10 minutes later, a firefighter stated the fire appeared to be coming from the basement.

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A few minutes later, firefighters reported putting water on the fire.

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Feds put ‘severely disruptive’ restrictions on applying for green cards

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15 hours ago

May 23, 2026

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Feds put ‘severely disruptive’ restrictions on applying for green cards

In a monumental shift in policy, the federal government plans to bar noncitizens from changing their immigration statuses except in extraordinary circumstances.

Local immigration attorneys say the move by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will impact thousands of people in the middle of the process and those planning to adjust their statuses in Massachusetts, and millions of foreign nationals nationwide. That includes students, temporary visa holders, and tourists, say attorneys.

Adjustment of status is when a noncitizen lawfully in the U.S. tries to switch to lawful permanent residence, known as a green card. It has been routine within the USCIS for decades. Adjustment of status has long allowed noncitizens to do so within the US without having to return to their country of origin.

“It’s extremely disruptive and is only going to further burden and complicate the system. It makes no sense,” said Robin Nice, a local immigration attorney.

Todd Pomerleau, a local attorney who has won cases before the Supreme Court, said that the USCIS “can’t eliminate statutory protections nor can it rewrite regulations while going through the proper channels. Otherwise, we’ll sue them in court.”

USCIS released a memo on Friday saying that the system has been abused. Specifically, the memo says the process that allows green card applicants to remain in the U.S. while applying was never intended to replace the system of applying for a visa from abroad. It instructs officers to treat adjustment of status applications as an exceptional, discretionary benefit, and that it is now “an extraordinary form of immigration relief.”

The agency says that even if applicants meet requirements for permanent residence when they’re about to apply in the US, they must leave the U.S. when their current visa ends, and wait for the State Department to process their case.

“It affects every person within the United States that is seeking adjustment of status. It affects students, it effects temporary protected status holders, it affects business visa holders,” said Annelise Araujo, a lawyer who runs an immigration practice in Boston.

Given the backlog of cases, attorneys say noncitizens will have to wait abroad for an indefinite period of time, and potentially be ineligible to return.

USCIS spokesman Zach Kahler said the change is about “returning to the original intent of the law.”

“This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. When aliens apply from their home country, it reduces the need to find and remove those who decide to slip into the shadows and remain in the U.S. illegally after being denied residency,” he said in a statement. Kahler said nonimmigrants, like students, temporary workers, or people on tourist visas, come to the U.S. for a short time and for a specific purpose, and they must leave after.

Nice said the policy will drive immigrants “underground” and force them to pay thousands of extra dollars annually in renewing temporary statuses and work permits, since they won’t want to go abroad.

Araujo said the policy change will have a large impact on students. F-1 student visa holders can currently apply for green cards with limitations.

“They may change what their goals are, right? They may decide that they want to permanently stay after they’ve entered the United States and they may look for a job here. And that’s why adjustment of status exists,” she said.

Both Nice and Araujo said USCIS is wrong that this has previously been standard policy.

Araujo said the change will also impact people on work visas, like CEOs of multinational corporations, or on specialized visas, like an H-1B, a visa for foreign nationals with specialized knowledge in fields like technology, engineering, healthcare or finance.

“They can go from a non-immigrant intent, which was the intent they had at the time they applied to enter, to a immigrant intent after they’ve been in the United States,” she said. Noncitizens told they can’t have a path to a green card and work lawfully may start considering other countries.

Pomerleau recommended noncitizens thinking of adjusting their status or in the middle of it consult with an immigration attorney.

“This is just yet another sign of the government trying to make things difficult for people that are even able to follow the laws that Congress created,” said Pomerleau.

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