The HMS Bounty said farewell to one of its most hospitable ports just before 8 yesterday morning, leaving behind a lot of happy memories and possibly a legacy for other tall ship visits to Portsmouth. Connecticut's attorney general has filed several Freedom of Information requests in Massachusetts in preparation for a possible lawsuit against the New England Patriots and the National Football League. Today's Top Story Senator Edward Kennedy looks into the ocean off Martha's Vineyard while being transported on a Coast Guard patrol boat yesterday. Showing no inclination of backing down in his standoff with China, President Lee Teng-hui said today that Beijing must gradually come to terms with his affirmation of Taiwan's statehood. A U.S. envoy arrived to discuss Lee's new position.
Chinese leaders see as a serious threat to their rule.
The outright nastiness that greeted Smith's decision to bolt from the GOP in his presidential bid sheds some insight into why Sen. Smith decided to leave the party in the first place. The savvy reader knows they're just pithy snippets of random advice whose actual relevance to our lives is either purely coincidental or completely nonexistent. The cerebral slapstick humor of world-renowned Herald columnist John Breneman. In fact, she didn't wear anything at all. Seacoast Online posts the top news stories from the Portsmouth Herald newspaper every day.