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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Lawyers for a man suspected of killing his millionaire grandfather in 2013 have met with a judge in a lawsuit over the sinking of his boat with his mother onboard. Nathan Carman's boat sank last year. His mother is now presumed dead...

CHATHAM — Authorities have found a decomposed body inside a closed compartment on board a retired Coast Guard boat in Massachusetts. The Cape and Islands district attorney's office says Coast Guard personnel called Chatham police just before 9 p...

WAREHAM, Mass. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy who had been rescued earlier in the week after the boat he was in capsized has died. The Boston Globe reports that Sudbury Schools Superintendent Anne Wilson expressed condolences for the death of the third-grader in a district-wide email Sunday afternoon...

The U.S. Coast Guard, Buzzard's Bay Task Force, Onset and Wareham Fire Departments, other government agencies, and good Samaritans have rescued 12 people from the water after a sail boat overturned near Hog Island Channel off the coast of Wareham...

NEW BEDFORD _ Two men were arrested Wednesday on drug charges while aboard a fishing vessel in Buzzards Bay as a result of a port security operation with New Bedford Police Maritime Special Response Team, Massachusetts Environmental Police, the Department of Homeland Security and the New Bedford Police Port Security Unit ...

MARTHA'S VINEYARD - The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued five people off the coast of Martha's Vineyard after their recreational boat began taking on water Thursday. In a press release, the Coast Guard says the master of the 30-foot boat Cila, based in New Bedford, radioed watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England about 3:30 p...

NEW BEDFORD - One person has been injured following a collision involving two boats outside of New Bedford Harbor. The collision took place just before 10 a.m. Wednesday near the Butler Flats Lighthouse off the coast of the city's South End...

BOSTON — The Coast Guard and local responders rescued six people Sunday from a 72-foot scallop boat sinking five miles off New Bedford. A person aboard the scallop boat, "Captain Jeff," used a VHF radio at 9:30 a.m. to hail watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England, in Woods Hole, and report their boat was taking on water...

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — Police have executed a search warrant at the home of a Connecticut woman who went missing at sea while on a fishing trip with her son. Officers from South Kingstown, Rhode Island, accompanied by local police were seen Thursday night removing bags, envelopes and boxes from 54-year-old Linda Carman's Middletown home...

BOSTON (AP) - A Vermont man who spent a week at sea in a life raft before being rescued by a passing freighter will be reunited with his family in Boston, while his mother is still unaccounted for and presumed dead. Nathan Carman, of Vernon, Vermont, is expected to arrive in Boston on Tuesday morning aboard the freighter that rescued him off the coast of Massachusetts on Sunday...