Front Line of the Crisis: Portsmouth Police Respond to Surge in Mental Health Emergencies
Portsmouth officers found themselves on the front lines of a growing mental health crisis this weekend, answering call after call ...
Read moreDetailsPortsmouth officers found themselves on the front lines of a growing mental health crisis this weekend, answering call after call ...
Read moreDetailsThis past weekend in Portsmouth, substance abuse and its ripple effects played out in real time, calling police officers, EMS ...
Read moreDetailsAt 9 a.m., a resident on Grandview Avenue made an unusual call to 911: a woman kept checking her mailbox, ...
Read moreDetailsChild welfare cases are never easy—for families, for caseworkers, or for the officers called in to help. Just after 10 ...
Read moreDetailsSchool Feud Boils Over on 16th Street What started as schoolyard drama erupted into a doorstep showdown on 16th Street, ...
Read moreDetailsHe says she aimed. She says he broke in. The truth? Still full of holes—literally. A twisted tale of family ...
Read moreDetailsWanted a threesome, got a trip to jail instead! A Dairy Queen parking lot turned into a scene of chaos ...
Read moreDetailsSomeone’s playing with fire — literally. Just before 10 a.m., police raced to a report of flaming garbage cans on ...
Read moreDetailsWilson Street neighbors were wide awake and weirded out just after 4 a.m. when some suspicious characters started dropping off ...
Read moreDetailsSomeone's fluff 'n fold turned into a full-blown felony after a thief swiped a dryer right out of the laundry ...
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