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BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) - Authorities in Massachusetts say a police cruiser hit and killed a pedestrian overnight on Cape Cod. Barnstable police Sgt. Jason Laber says the crash happened around 2 a.m. Sunday on state Route 28. Details on what led up to the crash weren't immediately available...

NEW BEDFORD - Police have charged a city man they say was drunk when he hit two cars with his vehicle Monday afternoon. New Bedford Police responded to 289 MacArthur Drive at 4:16 p.m. Monday to a report of a hit and run accident in which a driver struck a parked vehicle, causing damage to the rear bumper, and then sped north on Acushnet Avenue...

UPDATE (4 p.m.): The accident has been cleared and traffic on the bridge has returned to normal. Traffic has slowed down on the New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge following a three-car accident at about 3 p.m. Friday afternoon. The accident happened at the Fish Island area of the bridge...

DARTMOUTH - Massachusetts State Police have identified the passenger killed in a crash on I-195 eastbound in Dartmouth Thursday. The woman has been identified as 21-year-old Stephanie Merejildo of New Bedford. Merejildo was the passenger in a 1998 Honda Civic when the car veered off the highway and struck a tree in the area of Reed Road Thursday afternoon...

FALL RIVER - A Seekonk man is dead after being thrown from his motorcycle in Fall River. Massachusetts State Police say the accident took place on Route 24 north in Fall River at 10:25 p.m. Thursday when a 2006 EX640 motorcycle operated by 22-year-old Joshua Silva veered into a guardrail, throwing Silva from the bike...

NEW BEDFORD - A 21-year-old New Bedford man is recovering after the motorcycle he was riding collided with a car Monday night. New Bedford Police say the accident took place just after 8 p.m. Monday at Ashley Boulevard and Victoria Street...

.FAIRHAVEN - No substantial injuries after a car plowed through the front window of the Fairhaven 7-Eleven at the corner of Huttleston Avenue and Alden Road Wednesday morning. Fairhaven Police Sgt. Kevin Kobza tells WBSM News the accident took place just before 9:30 a...

LAKEVILLE - Massachusetts State Police are investigating a fatal accident in Lakeville Saturday. Around 6 p.m., police responded to a single-vehicle crash on Route 140 northbound in Lakeville. The investigation indicates a male driver was traveling on 140 north in a 2015 Ford Transit van when he lost control of the vehicle, causing it to roll over and crash...

A Fairhaven man was arrested for OUI drugs following a motor vehicle accident Monday near 30 Swift St. When police arrived, they determined that Anthony Nunes, 56, of 9 Brown St., Fairhaven, had been driving one of the vehicles. Through their investigation, it was determined that he was under the influence of drugs...

NEW BEDFORD - Three students were transported to St. Luke's Hospital this morning after an accident involving a car and a school bus. Massachusetts State Police say the accident occurred near the Coggeshall Street exit on I-195 westbound just before 8 a...