Portsmouth

FBI officials in Norfolk, Va., have arrested a man suspected by Howard County police in the shooting death of a Laurel man in December.Officials received a tip that Randall Bagely, 22, of Portsmouth, Va., was headed toward a mall Saturday, said Sgt. Morris Carroll, a Howard County police spokesman. Bagely was in a car driven by a woman when police apprehended him, officials said."He was arrested without incident," said Peter Gulotta, an FBI spokesman in Baltimore.Police think Donald Ray Mitchell, 43, was visiting a man who lives in the Seasons Apartment Complex in the 9500 block of Sylvan Still Road on Dec. 10 when three other men arrived.

Margaret Grace Dove, 50, civilian employee at NSAMargaret Grace Dove, a retired federal employee and lifelong Anne Arundel County resident, died of cardiac arrest June 9 at Harbor Hospital Center. She was 50.A Pasadena native, the former Margaret Shipp graduated from St. Michael's Business School in Baltimore in 1964 and worked for attorneys and businesses before entering government service.She was an administrative assistant for the General Services Administration and the Department of Defense at the National Security Agency for about eight years, and retired from NSA in 1989.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- There is a dog on death row here.Prince, a big black mostly Labrador retriever has been officially decreed "vicious," but has been described by his owner as "just a big baby." The debate over his fate has convulsed not only this old seaport city, but much of the conservative, government-hating, dog-loving Granite State."My gosh, we just got swamped with all kinds of letters and calls from people," Mayor Eileen Foley said. "People who don't want him killed, people who want to adopt him. It's been overwhelming."

Usually, when my father and I set off on a summer vacation together, we've picked a place too far.It's always a well-known place or a beautiful place that requires us to drive a little too fast for too long to get there and then, after we've spent a few days sightseeing, demands a similar performance on the long drive home.But this time, when we got to the end of the driveway, we had no destination. Did we want to go north or south? We didn't know, so we flipped a coin and headed south -- toward Virginia.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. - Construction crews working on a new Portsmouth ferry slip have unearthed the remains of what archaeologists have preliminarily identified as a late 18th-century sailing vessel.The rare find would make the ship one of only about a dozen known Virginia wrecks dating from the period, said archaeologist John Broadwater, who helped conduct the underwater excavation of a Revolutionary War vessel off Yorktown during the 1970s.It also would represent the only chance scientists have had since that time to study something more substantial than fragments that have washed ashore.

PORTSMOUTH, N.C. -- This clapboard ghost town in the sand never mastered the tides that lapped at its prosperity for centuries. So when an 1847 hurricane set in motion the silting of its inlet from the sea, the port of 1,000 people was doomed, even if the last resident didn't pack up and leave until 1971.But perhaps the storm was a blessing in disguise.Spared from the latter day onslaughts of tourism and development, empty little Portsmouth now stands to outlive the other scattered towns of the Outer Banks, at least in terms of peace, charm and natural beauty.

William B. Spong Jr., 77, whose ascent to one term in the U.S. Senate ended the political career of Sen. A. Willis Robertson in 1966, died in Portsmouth, Va., Wednesday of a ruptured aneurysm.In the 1966 Democratic primary, Mr. Spong upset Mr. Robertson, the father of religious broadcaster Pat Robertson, by 611 votes. He won the general election easily, but when he sought re-election in 1972, he was defeated by Republican Bill Scott.Bertrand Goldberg, 84, an architect who created Chicago's landmark corncob-shaped twin towers at Marina City and advocated humane public housing, died Wednesday in Chicago.

I will be in England in July and wish to go to St.-Malo in Brittany by boat. Can you tell me about service from Plymouth or Poole to St.-Malo?Brittany Ferries, at (44-990) 360360, operates several services: The service to St.-Malo runs from Portsmouth and Poole, and the service from Plymouth goes to Roscoff, which is 112 miles, or a 2 1/2 -hour drive, from St.-Malo.The trip from Plymouth to Roscoff is the shortest, and the service the most frequent: It's a six-hour journey, and there are a dozen crossings a week in July.

Paul A. Risi, a Charles Village hairstylist whose annual Christmas tree was a tradition in his Bolton Hill neighborhood, died Aug. 29 of AIDS at his home. He was 41.Mr. Risi worked at Current Rage Hair Studio, where he had begun his career 13 years ago. Earlier, he had been a waiter."He was very popular with our clients and had wonderful expertise as a cutter," said Rose Nathewitch, Current Rage proprietor. "He kept his customers for years, and that was because he did exactly what they asked and he always smiled."

The way actors Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig met and fell in love is so classic, it's almost corny. "We were, believe it or not, doing 'Streetcar Named Desire,' " says Wetting. "I know, it's so ridiculous. It sounds like I made it up. But we were doing Stella and Stanley in 'Streetcar' in Portsmouth, N.H. We met at the train station in New York City, took the train up and spent a couple of months in the dead of winter in Portsmouth.""We just fell in love with each other," says husband Olin later, "and we've lived under the same roof ever since."

On April 17, 2009, DOROTHY ELIZABETH BYERLEY; beloved daughter of the late John T. and Marie E. Byerley, loving sister of William J. Byerley of Portsmouth, VA. Also survived by cousins and friends. Arrangements by the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton exhaustively answered hours of questions from New Hampshire voters yesterday, displaying a cool mastery of topics from health care to global warming as she made a final pitch for her candidacy. But one query broke through her defenses. For a moment, the woman teetering on the cusp of a second consecutive defeat in the race for the Democratic nomination revealed an emotional side rarely seen in public. "My question is very personal," said Marianne Pernold, 64, a freelance photographer attending a Clinton breakfast for undecided voters at a coffee shop in Portsmouth.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- With the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at his back, Sen. John McCain, the former naval aviator and Vietnam prisoner of war, officially declared his candidacy for president yesterday, kicking off a key stretch in which he will be under pressure to revitalize a campaign that has gone far worse than many expected for a man once seen as the dominant Republican in the race. McCain offered sharp criticism of the Bush administration for its handling of the war in Iraq and promised that he has the experience to solve big problems and keep the nation safe.

On Monday, July 17, 2006, RAYMOND F. SMITH, age 81, of Owings Mills. Born February 17, 1925 in Portsmouth, OH, he was the son of the late Stanley and Lucina Giles Smith, his beloved wife of 53 years Betty Jane Smith died in 2001. Mr. Smith served honorably with US Army in WWII, he was a conductor with the Norfolk and Western Railroad in Portsmouth. Mr. Smith along with his friends were part of the coffee community at the local Starbuck in Owings Mills every morning. He was an avid jazz fan and amateur photographer and a horse racing enthusiast.

Dover, NH BURNHAM BURNEY JOSSELYN, 92, of 288 Dover Point Rd., died Tuesday Feb. 7, 2006 at Wentworth-Douglas Hospital. He was born on Jan. 27, 1914, in Malden Mass., the son of Herbert and Helen (Wiggin) Josselyn. He was raised in Colraine, Mass. and Newington, NH. He attended NH schools and graduated with the Portsmouth High School Class of 1931 while living in Newington. Additionally, he graduated from the New England Aircraft School in Boston. Burney was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1941, and served in the Signal Corps, being promoted to Captain and serving in the South Pacific until being honorably discharged when World War II was over in 1945.

On September 22, 2005, WILLIE LEE SR., died in his home in Portsmouth, VA. He is survived by his loving wife Eveyln, son Cedric; two daughters Cindy and Tammy Glover, all of Portsmouth, VA, one son, Willie Jr., who preceded him in death, sister Helen Byrd of Maryland and brother Dr. Bernard Glover (Juanita) of Suffolk, VA and a host of relatives and friends. Friends may call at the Chatman-E. A. Hughes Funeral Home, Portsmouth, VA. on Sunday from 2 P.M. to 8 P.M. Phone calls may be received at 1-757-393-0609.

On June 24, 2004, DEACONESS SUSIE SIMS VINSON, age 97, formerly of 1008 Centre Avenue, Portsmouth, VA; beloved wife of the late Deacon Clarence L. Vinson Sr.; and devoted mother of Marjorie Vinson-Crawford. She is also survived by a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Relatives and friends may call at Corprew Funeral Home, 1822 Portsmouth Blvd., in Portsmouth, VA, on Tuesday, June 29, from 2 to 6 P.M. Family hour will be held on Wednesday, June 30 at 12 noon. Funeral Service will follow at 12:30 P.M. Interment in Lincoln Cemetery.

On May 7, 2004, KEVIN Mc ANDREWS, longtime partner of Joseph Menor of Silver Spring, MD. Brother of John Mc Andrews of Reading, PA. Terrence Mc Andrews of Ellicott City, MD, Timothy Mc Andrews of Scranton, PA and Karen Mc Andrews-Luft of Pateros of WA. Mr. Mc Andrews was predeceased by his parents and his sister, Maureen Brown of Portsmouth, N.H. Family will receive friends at the family owned Slack Funeral Home, P.A., 3871 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. - APM Terminals, a sister company of the Maersk Sealand shipping line, said yesterday that it will spend more than $450 million to build a 300-acre container terminal in Hampton Roads that could increase by 50 percent the port of Hampton Roads' capacity to handle shipments. Gov. Mark R. Warner, speaking to business and government leaders at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal against the backdrop of the McKinney-Maersk container ship, said the investment is the single biggest private investment in Hampton Roads' history and one of the largest ever in Virginia.

PORTSMOUTH, England - Colin Nhennah is 74 and has lived here in the south of England his entire life, in the county called Hampshire. He is pretty sure he knew that people from his area colonized what is now part of the Northeast of the United States. As far as he's concerned, though, nobody from his side of the Atlantic can be blamed for the peculiar U.S. presidential election system, which today focuses on New Hampshire, his home's namesake. "As far as I'm concerned," Nhennah said, puffing on his pipe and sitting on his bar stool at the Ship Anson pub on Portsmouth's waterfront, "we have a cuckoo government over here and you have a cuckoo government over there, and any election that put those governments in power is cuckoo itself."