Family: Biracial boy pushed off table with rope around neck

CLAREMONT, N.H. — Teenagers taunted an 8-year-old biracial boy with racial slurs and then pushed him off a picnic table with a rope around his neck, according to the boy’s family. The boy’s grandmother tells the Valley News he was treated at a hospital for cuts to his neck following the near-hanging Aug. 28 in Claremont, New Hampshire. Lorrie Slattery says the children were in a backyard when some of the teens got on the table and grabbed a rope […]