Jim Phillips

Five F-15 fighter jets will fly over Eastern Massachusetts at low altitude on Thursday morning as part of a media event coordinated through the FAA.

The jets will depart Westfield Air National Guard Air Base just after 8am, and travel over landmarks such as the State House, Fenway Park and Gillette Stadium

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Patriotic songs, speakers, a fly-over and a parade were all part of Veterans Day in Fairhaven on Tuesday.  Thirty-year Army veteran Bill Kligel, a Fairhaven native, was the keynote speaker outside the High School

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Detroit tops the FBI's list as America's most dangerous big city.

Crime statistics released Monday show the Motor City led the nation last year in murder rates and violent crime rates among cities with more than 100-thousand residents

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One of the chief architects of the Affordable Care Act says it never would have been signed into law if the voters had known more about it.

Economist Jonathan Gruber made his comments at a conference last year, and they are getting attention now because a video of the comments are being circulated by a conservative group

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The Fort Tabor-Fort Rodman Military Museum is opening Tuesday with extended hours, 11am to 4pm.

Its the Museum's annual Veterans Appreciation Day, saluting local veterans who served their country from the Revolutionary War, to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan

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For Dartmouth resident and veteran Bill Cook, the day before Veterans Day was one he won't soon forget.

Cook had his right leg severed while serving with the Coast Guard in the 1970's. He's been caulking the roof on his Dartmouth home because he couldn't afford a complete replacement

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After 18 months of construction, a new three-story medical building is opening Monday  at the Hawthorne Medical Associates campus at 531 Faunce Corner Road.

The new building will house a number of departments that were located around the Southcoast

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A Nantucket man faces drug charges, following his arrest on the Island by State Police on Friday.

Police say Matthew Fry of Nantucket was stopped after driving his pickup truck without the lights on

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Dartmouth Police arrest two men and charge them with breaking into cars and stealing credit cards.

Officers were called to Walmart Saturday night, after a man attempted to purchase items with a stolen credit car

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A two car crash on route 140 Sunday morning in New Bedford sends at least one person to the hospital. The crash happened just after 6am. Police say a car was heading south in the northbound lane when it collided with another vehicle

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