Police said when they stopped Derek Gauthier on Silver Street on a warrant, they also found prescription drugs and marijuana, and he was charged with several counts.

Police said a man, reportedly armed with a gun and a hammer, fled the scene after hitting a man in the head Thursday morning in a Union Street apartment.

Police credited a passer-by with reporting the blaze, which firefighters quickly extinguished.

A police officer with a dog tracked Dwayne A. Kuse, 46, into the woods where he was arrested after the dog bit him.