Condemned Homes, Hidden Camps, and Chaos: Portsmouth’s Homeless Crisis Reaches Breaking Point
Portsmouth Police found themselves racing across the city Tuesday night responding to calls that, on the surface, looked like property ...
Read moreDetailsPortsmouth Police found themselves racing across the city Tuesday night responding to calls that, on the surface, looked like property ...
Read moreDetailsWhat started as a brawl at Mound Park exploded into a high-speed chase, gunfire, and a swarm of police cruisers ...
Read moreDetailsThings spiraled fast in Portsmouth when a woman frantically called police from the Oasis Convenient Mart around 2:30 p.m., claiming ...
Read moreDetailsThe signs of Portsmouth’s growing homeless crisis aren’t just in the shelters or under the bridges—they're on porches, sidewalks, and ...
Read moreDetailsSomething about burgers brought the beef — and we’re not talking about what’s on the grill. Police were called not once, ...
Read moreDetailsA chaotic scene unfolded in the emergency room at SOMC when a woman began screaming, taunting, and threatening hospital staff, ...
Read moreDetailsA crying naked two-year-old wandering alone on Robinson Avenue sent a concerned neighbor into action — and sparked a serious ...
Read moreDetailsA routine traffic stop on 12th Street spiraled into something much bigger when officers pulled over a woman for failing ...
Read moreDetailsShe wasn’t violent. She wasn’t high. She wasn’t a threat. She was just homeless, exhausted, and out of options. In ...
Read moreDetailsWhat started as a violent street fight near a popular bowling alley quickly unraveled into one of the wildest scenes ...
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