Portsmouth

A man has died after a crash Wednesday evening on Interstate 95 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, state police said. The driver of a southbound vehicle was killed after crossing the median and hitting another vehicle on the northbound side of the highway, according to investigators. The other vehicle’s driver suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said. There were no passengers...

A breaching whale came crashing down on a small boat in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, capsizing the boat but miraculously leaving those onboard uninjured.

Loren Faulkner was arrested on Thursday on 31 counts of criminal mischief and hate-motivated criminal mischief for the graffiti spree targeting religious buildings and other communities in February 2023.

Two lamps were vandalized this week outside Temple Israel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Someone smashed two of the sconces that have been a part of the synagogue for more than a hundred years. “It’s a hate crime,” said Portsmouth resident Seth Campbell. The incident, which happened on Monday night, was captured on camera and police have released images of...

The robbery occurred at the Bank of America on Islington Street, Portsmouth police said.

A bank in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was robbed Saturday morning, and police are looking for the man who got away. Portsmouth police say detectives and a police dog responded to the Bank of America on Islington Street around 10:17 a.m. after they received a 911 call for an armed robbery. A search was conducted but the suspect was not found….

Police have identified the man who died early Saturday morning after eyewitnesses say he was assaulted by a group of men and then fell from a parking garage onto a sidewalk in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Portsmouth police identified the victim Monday as 28-year-old Zachary S. Colbroth, of Rochester. The assault happened between a nightclub and the parking garage shortly before…

A man is dead after he was hit by a car in the downtown area of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, early Tuesday. The city’s police department said officers and firefighters responded to the crash just before 5 a.m. at the corner of State Street and Marcy Street — right near Prescott Park. The victim was rushed to Portsmouth Regional Hospital where…

Investigators found that Ronney James Lee, who died in 2005, killed Laura Kempton in her Portsmouth apartment, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said

The man who killed a beauty school student in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, more than four decades ago has been identified, authorities said Thursday. Laura Kempton, 23, was found dead of massive head trauma at an apartment on Chapel Street on Monday, Sept. 28, 1981, according to an unsolved homicides page on the city’s website. Through DNA information and other investigative…