City May Pay $1.5 Million To High School Rape Victim Whose Case Officials Hid for Almost Two Years

City May Pay $1.5 Million To High School Rape Victim Whose Case Officials Hid for Almost Two Years

City officials in Manchester, New Hampshire took a year and nine months to announce that a 14-year-old girl was raped at one of its high schools.

A 17-year-old boy was convicted on June 22, 2017 of raping the girl on September 30, 2015 in an out-of-sight alcove in an out-of-the-way hallway at Manchester High School West that school officials knew students used to skip class and smoke cigarettes and marijuana, prosecutors said. The rape was first publicly disclosed when the district attorney's office that prosecuted the case issued a press release about it.

$4.65 Million Waterfront Home Destroyed By Fire
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$4.65 Million Waterfront Home Destroyed By Fire

John Cronin

A five-bedroom house overlooking two bays in Gloucester, Massachusetts that last sold for $4.65 million was destroyed by a fire this past weekend.

The 4,921-square-foot house, which had four and a half bathrooms and 4,921 square feet of living area on a 7.9-acre lot, is owned by a trust that lists Davio's restaurants owner Steve DeFillippo as the contact person. It was built in 2007.

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