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New Bedford bids farewell Tuesday morning to a long lost child. The 173-year-old Charles W. Morgan departs from port at 7:30am Tuesday morning, with the Massachusetts Maritime Academy as it's next course heading. The whaling ship had an extended stay in New Bedford, after Hurricane Arthur brought heavy rain to the area and stirred up strong ocean currents causing the ship to remain berthed at Stat

Weather permitting, the last wooden whaleship in the world is expected to sail into New Bedford Harbor Wednesday afternoon. The 173-year-old Charles W. Morgan, originally constructed and operated out of New Bedford from 1841 to 1921, will be spending several weekends in it's original homeport as it tours New England after a multi-year, multi-million dollar restoration...

A Massachusetts sheriff says former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was brought from a jail to a hospital this weekend for an undisclosed problem. Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson said Sunday that Hernandez was brought to St...

Police in Connecticut have canceled a multistate Amber Alert after three missing boys were found safe in Maine with their mother, who was taken into custody. Authorities say the boys and their mother, 32-year-old Jackie Morris, were found Tuesday morning at a motel in Bangor, Maine...

Police in Connecticut have now issued an AMBER Alert for a three young brothers who may have been abducted by their "non-custodial" parent. Police are looking for the mother, 32-year-old Jackie Morris, who could be driving a red 2004 Volkswagen Jetta...

A 16-year-old girl has been stabbed to death inside a Connecticut high school. A teenage boy is in custody, and police are investigating whether she was stabbed because she declined to be his date at the junior prom. Emergency responders were called to Jonathan Law High School in Milford early Friday...

A task force examining the state's gun laws says Massachusetts should require background checks for most private firearms sales, increase penalties for failing to report lost or stolen guns and tighten regulations on rifle ownership.       The panel created by House Speaker Robert DeLeo in the aftermath of the school massacre in Newtown, Conn...

A tanker truck transporting 11,000 gallons of gasoline that rolled over and burst into flames on Route 24 in Fall River sent think black smoke into air, shook nearby houses, and brought traffic to a standstill. Authorities say the driver of the truck that rolled over at about 7:15 a...

Police in Boston are working to link former NFL player Aaron Hernandez to a pair of unsolved murders in 2012.  The "Boston Globe" says new court documents released today request permission to search an SUV that police believe was used in the drive-by shooting of two men.  ...

Police in Connecticut have released thousands of pages of documents from the investigation into last year's school massacre in Newtown.       The Friday afternoon release could shed additional light on the world of the 20-year-old gunman, Adam Lanza.  ...