Jim Phillips

U.S. officials say the Boston Marathon explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 260 were triggered by a remote-controlled detonator.

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Still no official winner in the election for a seat on the Fairhaven Board of Health. 

Challenger John Wethington was declared the winner by three votes on election night,  but two subsequent counts of ballots showed incumbant Peter De Terra ahead by two votes

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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino say donations to the One Fund Boston, benefiting victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, have reached $20 million.
 
    Patrick, Menino and the fund's administrator, Kenneth Feinberg, announced details at a news conference on Tuesday

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A New Bedford delegation, in Europe to learn more about offshore wind development, is wraping up its visit to Bremerhaven, Germany. 

The 30-member entourage of business and government leaders will be moving on to Hamburg, Germany on Wednesday

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Public health officials are now saying that 264 people sought treatment at Boston area hospitals for injuries sustained in the Boston Marathon bombings.

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UMass Dartmouth faculty and students marked their return to the campus with a vigil Monday evening.  Student Collen Murphy said it was time to "take back" the campus.....

The vigil followed the evacuation of the Dartmouth campus on Friday, and the disclosure that one of the Boston Marathon Bombing suspects was a student at UMass Dartmouth

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 Democratic U.S. Senate hopefuls Edward Markey and Stephen Lynch clashed in their first debate since the Boston Marathon attacks.
 
    Lynch faulted Markey with not doing enough on security issues, including not voting for the Joint Terrorism Task Force which combines the resources of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies

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The first of two recounts in Fairhaven is over. 

John Farrell has won the one year, unexpired term on the Fairhaven Planning Board, defeating Cathy Melanson by 14 votes.  On election night, the margin was ten votes

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Members of the Portuguese Club at Bristol Community College are reaching out to residents of both Fall Rver and New Bedford, collecting donations for the victims of the Boston Marathon Bombings. 

Brian Martins says the group is collecting donations Tuesday morning at the Goulart Square Bakery on RIvet Street in the South End

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Canadian authorities say they've foiled a major al-Qaeda-supported terror plot targeting rail service between Toronto and New York City. 

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