PORTSMOUTH

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…

The man suspected of threatening to “shoot up” a New Hampshire school in a video that showed him holding a gun outside the building last week is due to appear in court Tuesday, federal prosecutors said. Kyle Hendrickson, 25, was arrested on Thursday, a day after posting the threat to Portsmouth High School on his SnapChat account, according to the…

School was canceled in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Thursday, after a video on social media threatened violence at the city’s high school, according to a note from the district’s superintendent. The Portsmouth Police Department received a video of someone saying that they would commit a school shooting at Portsmouth High School, Superintendent Zach McLaughlin wrote Wednesday night, explaining the...

A man was arrested after a police pursuit in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Thursday night. Police said the man, identified as 28-year-old Michael Anthony Arrington of Orlando, Florida, fled the Portsmouth police station around 10 p.m. The car, an Audi Q5 with Florida plates, was spotted five minutes later at a local gas station, according to police. State police said…

The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office said the Department of Justice Civil Rights Unit and Portsmouth police are actively investigating at least 16 instances of swastikas and other hateful messages being drawn with red spray paint on properties around downtown Portsmouth, including a Jewish synagogue, somewhere around 2:30 a.m.

The leader of a New England neo-Nazi group and a second man are accused of hanging a hateful banner over Route 1 in New Hampshire this summer, an act that the attorney general says violates the state’s Civil Rights Act. The charges stem from actions of the National Social Club-131 (NSC-131) members on July 30, 2022. NSC-131 is a neo-Nazi…

A rollover crash in Portsmouth, New Hampshire early Thursday morning ended with one passenger dead and several seriously injured, according to police. Police say 22-year-old Tyler N. Troy of Northwood, New Hampshire was driving with five other people in a 2018 Porsche Macan around 1 a.m. when the car drove into the grass median in the center of the Portsmouth…

A 22-year-old is dead after his motorcycle and a car collided Saturday night in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, police said. Portsmouth police officers responded around 10:19 p.m. to the crash on Lang Road near Longmeadow Road and found the motorcyclist with serious injuries. He was taken to the Portsmouth emergency room where he later died from his injuries, police said. He…

Joseph Raymond Goulet, a veteran who landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France on D-Day, has died. The New Hampshire resident died on July 4. He was 99. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to parents who emigrated from Canada, Goulet voluntarily enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, according to an obituary. His math and organizational skills led him…

A public pool in Portsmouth, New Hampshire was forced to close on the July Fourth holiday after it was the target of vandalism. The city’s public works department tweeted Monday morning that the outdoor pool at Peirce Island was closed. The city hopes to have it reopened by Tuesday. It was not immediately clear what the vandalism consisted of...

Police say a gunman was firing indiscriminately at cars when he fatally hit a third-grader from New Hampshire.

An 8-year-old boy from New Hampshire was killed in a random shooting in South Carolina over the weekend.

An 8-year-old boy from New Hampshire was tragically killed in what appears to have been a random shooting while vacationing in South Carolina over the weekend, according to police. Charles Montgomery Allen, 40, was shooting at cars from his home on Old River Road in Florence, South Carolina, around 2 p.m. on Saturday when he struck the child and his…

A former emergency medical technician in New Hampshire has been charged with drugging and sexually abusing three children under the age of 13. Todd Burnim, 54, of Kensington, was indicted this month by a grand jury in Rockingham County on a dozen counts of felonious sexual assault and aggravated felonious sexual assault related to the abuse which allegedly took place…