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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.

Virginia Beach politics was front and center Wednesday as six candidates for the House of Delegates took questions at the Central Business District Association of Virginia Beach.

A Portsmouth woman is honoring her grandmother's memory and raising awareness about breast cancer.

When the first Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race started in Baltimore in 1989, only six boats headed for the line and the 127-nautical-mile trip to Olde Towne Portsmouth.

Police have charged a Portsmouth man with reckless driving in the crash that killed a 72-year-old on Interstate 664 about 8:30 this morning.

Celebrate the finish of the largest schooner race in the world when over 50 schooners Race to Save the Bay in the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race from Baltimore to Portsmouth, raising funds for student education programs.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. - A Coast Guard helicopter crew located and rescued a man at 3:48 a.m. Sunday after his boat capsized near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel . A Virginia Beach 911 dispatcher relayed to Sector Hampton Roads watchstanders at 1:45 a.m. that a man called in from the hull of his capsized boat reporting that he was near the first island ...

Loading... The extended Truxtun neighborhood has about 600 houses. The original area was built in the early 1900s to house black shipyard workers.

MAP: Attempted abduction in Portsmouth A man tried to abduct a 10-year-old boy on the 3600 block of Griffin Street in Portsmouth Total Locations: Griffin St.

Family members and friends of Demetris Edens and Darren Wilson say they are at city hall to continue fighting for answers The two men were shot and killed by Portsmouth police during a drug bust in Chesapeake last April.

Police Chief Ed Hargis was at his desk Wednesday morning, writing orders to his staff to complete an in-house investigation of two of his officers who had killed two suspects in Chesapeake six months ago.

A man has died at a local hospital after being shot in Portsmouth late last night.

Police are looking for a man who attempted to lure a 10-year-old boy into his van on a Portsmouth street yesterday afternoon.

A 41-year-old man was found shot to death in southeast Virginia on Saturday night, and the principal of Rutland High School in Bibb County said Monday the victim was a teacher at the school.

Investigators say the two Portsmouth officers tried to stop the men inside their car.

Female firefighters from around the state gathered in Portsmouth on Friday to talk about how far they've come in a male-dominated profession and how far they still need to go.

Two Portsmouth police officers involved in a deadly shooting have been cleared by a Chesapeake prosecutor who says they acted in self-defense. For months, they've cried foul, shouted 'murder' at Portsmouth police for shooting two unarmed men 15 times during a drug bust in Cheapeake back in April.