PORTSMOUTH — A video of a Monday night arrest posted on the Internet with a headline and narrative accusing city patrolmen of assaulting a woman “doesn’t seem to back up what happened,” said Police Chief Lou Ferland.

Several ideas surfaced in a Tuesday public hearing on how to best spend $590,000 the city received from its use of eminent domain for the Portsmouth Middle School expansion and renovation project.

Mark Constance is a filmmaker from Rochester who paid his dues in Los Angeles and now lives in Brentwood.

A free seminar on estate planning for the elderly is scheduled to take place Wednesday in Portsmouth.

KITTERY, Maine — The Town Council will take action on both a donation to Kittery Police Department and other funding the force needs, as well as on a pair of resignations from municipal boards when it meets tonight.

NORFOLK, VA—Ibrahima Sarr, 32, a Senegalese unauthorized alien, was found guilty today of bank fraud, conspiracy, aggravated identity theft, and access device fraud by a Norfolk federal jury after the conclusion of a 3-day trial before United States District Judge Rebecca Beach …

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Great Bay is getting a new reef full of oysters.

By David J. Hudson

DURHAM — A University of New Hampshire dean is backing off his decision to cancel the university’s community therapeutic horseback-riding program pending a full review.

The chief administrator of a Derry-based medical facility has been named the new chief executive officer of Portsmouth Regional Hospital.