Portsmouth community âdisgustedâ by surging summer gun violence
and last updated 2021-07-22 04:48:36-04
PORTSMOUTH, Va. â Community members from all walks of life took to the streets in downtown Portsmouth Wednesday demanding change.
âWe need change now,â chanted a group of more than 80 people.
The surging gun violence across the nation and in Hampton Roads has community activists like Darrell Redmond, 43, disgusted and tired. Theyâre now calling on Portsmouth city leaders to step up and take action to curb crime.
âThe community is disgusted,â said Redmond, who organized the rally. âThe City of Portsmouth is in a state of emergency right now.â
2 people displaced in Portsmouth house fire
Aleksey Stemmer;Aleksejs Polakovs
and last updated 2021-03-31 19:40:07-04
PORTSMOUTH, Va. - Two people have been displaced after a fire in Portsmouth Wednesday evening.
According to officials with Portsmouth Fire Rescue, the call came in at 6:16 p.m. for a fire at 37 Merrimac Drive. When crews arrived, they found light smoke coming from a second-story window.
The fire was marked under control at 6:32 p.m. No injuries were reported to civilians or firefighters.
The Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority is arranging housing for the displaced residents.
The fire is currently under investigation by the Portsmouth Fire Marshalâs Office.
A British fossil hunter has found a previously unidentified “sea dragon” on the southern English coast.
Steve Etches unearthed the well-preserved ichthyosaur fossil in limestone on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, CNN reports. He thought the fossil was so unusual that he gave it to experts at the University of Portsmouth, southern England, to study.
Megan Jacobs, a researcher at the University of Portsmouth and a PhD student at Baylor University, Texas, who has spent years working on ichthyosaurs, identified it as a new genus and species.
The two-meter long ichthyosaurus, which lived 150 million years ago, has been named the “Etches sea dragon” (Thalassodraco etchesi).