abuse

There are currently no laws on the books in Massachusetts prohibiting the use of an EBT card to purchase marijuana products, medicinal or commercial. 54 percent of Massachusetts residents endorsed an initiative petition last Fall that legalizes the use, possession and even farming of limited amounts of marijuana...

A Fall River woman is being arraigned today for allegedly stealing over $120,000 from an elderly woman. The Bristol County District Attorney's Office says 60-year-old Kathleen King was indicted last week by a grand jury on a single count of larceny from a person sixty years of age or older...

Advocates came together Monday night to support animal rights in the wake of the Westport farm cruelties. The vigil was held just outside the Wesport Board of Health Department for the animals who died on the farm. Activist Jodie Greenleaf was among the speakers at the vigil...

Bristol County District Attorney Tom Quinn hosted a conference on elder abuse Wednesday. The conference aimed to educate elderly residents and their families how they can be taken advantage of in the 21st century. Quinn says scams are very popular among fraudsters these days, with the phony IRS call being one of the most effective schemes out there...

May is National Elder Law Month, and elder abuse is something Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn takes very seriously. In a press conference Wednesday, District Attorney Quinn says elder abuse cases are some of the most difficult to prosecute, especially if the victim is suffering from dementia or a similar condition...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) _ A Massachusetts jury has awarded $300,000 to a man who said his sixth-grade Catholic school teacher in Massachusetts sexually assaulted him in the mid-1980s when he was 10. The unidentified man's attorneys say the New Bedford jury made the award last month...

The discussion on solving opioid abuse continued on Wednesday night at the Dartmouth Middle School. Professionals from different fields lead the forum by speaking about their experience with drug addicts, and how to possibley help break the habbit...

The Town of Dartmouth has assembled a panel to publicly discuss the local effects of and possible solutions to the opioid epidemic. Dartmouth Police Detective Kyle Costa says Wednesday night's discussion will ask some key questions. "What can we do not only to address these issues, but also prevent them from really taking hold of the community even moreso...

BOSTON (AP) _ Newly released figures show that Massachusetts reported the highest rate of abused and neglected children in the nation during the 2014 fiscal year. The federal figures reported in The Boston Globe show that Massachusetts reported 31,863 victimized children to the federal Department of Health and Human Services in the fiscal year that ended in September 2014...

A new documentary shinning a light on the nation's current opioid abuse epidemic is focusing on a quiet Cape Cod town to demonstrate it's not only major cities dealing with this crisis.