Breaking News, Busts, and Bugs

It was another busy week last week at Concord NH Patch, featuring breaking news, arrest reports, state police busts, “stink” bugs, politics, Halloween costumes and more.

Here are the top stories of the week from Oct. 6, to Oct. 12, not including political polls.

As Kasey Kasem would say, coming in at No. 1 for a second week in a row, were the video and story from last year about this time . This is the first time in nearly 18 monts of putting together the week in review post that a story has been the most viewed for two weeks in a row.

The second most popular post of the week was the tragic story about a Hooksett man who died in a car accident trying to avoid a bear on I-89, just outside of Concord.

Coming in at No. 3, was an Arrest of the Day story featuring a Concord Hospital employee who faces rape and false imprisonment charges. The story was a Concord NH Patch exclusive.

The closing of the Concord Outback Steakhouse location was the fourth most popular story of the week and a story Patch readers saw here first.

Rounding out the Top 5 was a story about “stink” bugs (or Western Conifer Seed Bugs, if you will), and how they are invading New Hampshire.

The Election Roundup from last week, asking the question of whether or not there is another blue wave coming in New Hampshire, was sixth for the week.

Another Arrest of the Day – featuring a Loudon Road mother allegedly hitting her son and his female friend with a “light saber” – was seventh for the week, another Patch exclusive.

Coming in at No. 8, was a Concord Regional Crimeline alert about the police hunting for an armed robbery suspect after an alleged incident on Hall Street.

A Concord High School student being arrested on a drug charge, another Arrest of the Day and a Patch exclusive, was ninth for the week.

And rounding out the Top 10 was a state police alert about a car accident and multiple arrests in Concord’s South End last week, a story Patch readers saw first.

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