A Manchester, New Hampshire, man has been charged with assaulting a 5-year-old child, according to police.

Manchester police said they arrested 27-year-old Domingo Pacheco on Monday and charged him with second degree assault.

hey said they were notified by the state Department of Children, Youth and Families on Aug. 23 of a child who had an injury to his face. The anonymous person who reported the injury said they suspected child abuse.

As a result of their investigation, police learned that the child was in Pacheco’s care at the time of the assault.

Pacheco has been placed on preventative detention. No further information about bail or court information was released.

Former Executive Councilor Russell Prescott will challenge U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas in November after winning the Republican primary for the 1st Congressional District.

Prescott, of Kingston, was a state senator for five terms from 2010 to 2016 and later represented Executive Council District 3 from 2017 to 2021. 

He emerged ahead of a crowded field of Republican contenders Tuesday with 26 percent of the vote, beating out Hollie Noveletsky (23 percent) and Joe Kelly Lavasseur (22 percent), with 94 percent of votes counted.

A former engineer, Prescott founded a business, R.E. Prescott Company, that manufactures water treatment systems. 

He will face Pappas, who was first elected in 2018, on Nov. 5. 

Joyce Craig, who led Manchester for three terms as its first female mayor, won the Democratic nomination for governor Tuesday.

She will try to flip the office blue after eight years under Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, who did not seek a fifth term in office. Craig defeated Cinde Warmington, a Democratic executive councilor and health care attorney from Concord, and restaurant owner Jon Kiper. The Associated Press called the race at 9:48 p.m. 

With 64 percent of votes counted, Craig captured 48 percent of the vote, with Warmington getting 41 percent and Kiper 10 percent

Craig withstood attacks from both Warmington and Republican candidate Kelly Ayotte on her record as mayor, with her opponents attacking her over homelessness and drug overdoses in the city. 

On the campaign trail, she cast her tenure as mayor as a success and emphasized issues like abortion rights and affordable housing. She has called Ayotte an extreme Republican and criticized Warmington for her 2002 lobbying work for Purdue Pharma, makers of the addictive painkiller oxycontin. 

Craig was born and raised in Manchester and resides there with her family. She began her political career on the city’s Board of School Committee before spending six years as an alderman. She was mayor of Manchester from 2018 until this January.