Portsmouth News

Dorin Spivey is bringing home a belt. The veteran lightweight from Portsmouth stopped Meacher Major in the fourth round Friday night in Buffalo, N.Y., to capture the North American Boxing Association lightweight title.

After the attack at Fort Hood, the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center was on high alert Friday.

No one's getting on Naval Medical Center Portsmouth without an ID check. The increased security comes in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings.

Detectives have named a suspect in the Sunday shooting death of a 45-year-old city man.

Portsmouth police have charged a 49-year-old man in the robbery of a Portsmouth Wachovia.

Loading... Click for full view Portsmouth Mayor James W. Holley stands outside the City Council chambers on August 11, 2009, before his apology to his constituents during the meeting.

Developers and builders looking to work in this city deal with more than 200 pages of city code - most of it telling them what they can't do.

Incumbent Sheriff W. O. "Bill" Watson won a second term Tuesday by an almost two-to-one margin over independent challenger David Lee Cherry Sr., according to unofficial vote totals from the city.

Police are looking for a suspect who they say dragged a police office behind his car during a traffic stop this morning.

Loading... Click for full view Capt. Paul Hoyle of the Portsmouth Fire Department pops out the battery pack of a hydraulic power stretcher now used citywide to help protect paramedics' backs in response to increasing numbers of extra-heavy patients.

Police are investigating a deadly Sunday morning shooting in the Prentis Park neighborhood.

The man accused of fleeing after striking three teenagers with a car last October, fatally injuring one of them, was charged three months later in Maryland with driving under the influence, speeding 108 mph in a 50 mph zone, aggressive driving, attempting to elude police, and causing injury to a person.

As it gets closer to Halloween, the Portsmouth Sheriff's Department's Community Enforcement Unit is taking action to find unregistered sex offenders in their city.

Olde Towne Portsmouth Ghost Walk Region: Tidewater and Hampton Roads Locality: Portsmouth City www.oldetowneghostwalk.com Walk begins in the cemetery of Trinity Episcopal Church High and Court streets Portsmouth, VA 23704 The Olde Towne Ghost Walk, based on the famous Jack-the-Ripper Walks in London, takes spectators on a guided walking tour past ...

Police today arrested a Brooklyn man and charged him in the fatal hit-and-run death of a teenage girl in Portsmouth on Oct.

This Halloween nearly every city is stepping up sex offender patrols. Portsmouth is doing just the bare minimum to keep kids safe.

Ralph Edward Frost Jr., of Gloucester, was charged in September 2008 with murder in connection with the January 2002 shooting of Lloyd Edward Busch in Gloucester.

A Portsmouth man died early Monday morning in a single-vehicle accident on Interstate 664 in Newport News .

Morgan Harrington isn't the only person reported missing in Virginia, just the most famous at the moment.

Portsmouth became the first local city to distribute the H1N1 vaccine to students and staff at Hampton Roads public schools on Monday.