Casey Larcomb News Today

A Wells River man is accused of using his Cadillac to assault a Lebanon police officer, two men are charged with urinating in their jail cells, and a Woodsville woman

LANCASTER — A Colebrook couple were indicted last week on a charge of second degree assault: domestic violence and strangling a 3-month old infant last April. Gerald F. Hope, 37, and Erica Weatherwax, 26, both of 9 Bridge St., Colebrook were indicted by a Coos County grand jury for abusing the baby. The indictment and arrest affidavit allege Hope sprayed milk from a bottle directly into the baby’s mouth while the infant was lying on Weatherwax’s lap. The baby was “crying, ch...