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18-year-old turns himself into police for hate-motivated graffiti charges in NH
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.
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Police seek suspect who smashed lamps outside Portsmouth synagogue
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...
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Armed robber steals cash from Bank of America in Portsmouth, NH
The robbery occurred at the Bank of America on Islington Street, Portsmouth police said.
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Portsmouth police looking for armed bank robber
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….
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Police ID man who died after being assaulted, then falling from Portsmouth, NH parking garage
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…
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Man hit and killed by car in downtown Portsmouth, NH
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…
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Killer named in 1981 murder of NH beauty school student
Investigators found that Ronney James Lee, who died in 2005, killed Laura Kempton in her Portsmouth apartment, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said
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Man who killed NH beauty school student Laura Kempton in 1981 is identified
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…
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Man Facing Charges for Threat at Portsmouth, NH High School
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...
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Man Arrested After Dragging Trooper During Pursuit in Portsmouth, NH
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…
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At NH's Oldest Brewpub, the Food Might Just Outdo the Beer
There’s a certain sameness to so many small cities across the country, ones that have an abundance of chain shops and chain restaurants on the outer fringes (usually by a highway), a mix of chains and independent businesses downtown and perhaps more in the way of independent spots in their residential areas. Once you leave New England, it feels...
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PHOTOS: Food and Beer Are Both on the Menu at the Portsmouth Brewery
With all the food to get through, it’s almost easy to forget that the Portsmouth Brewery is, well, a brewery.
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‘Hateful' Vandalism Incidents in Portsmouth, NH
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.
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Neo-Nazi Group's Hateful Banner Over Route 1 in NH Prompts Civil Rights Charges
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…
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1 Dead, 3 Seriously Injured in Portsmouth Rollover Crash
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…