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The most high-profile law enforcement official in southeastern Massachusetts will need to appear before a federal judge in September after showing up late to court on Wednesday. Judge William Young ordered Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson to appear for a civil contempt hearing because he showed up two hours late to testify in a criminal trial, according to the U...

NEW BEDFORD - David Taber, the man accused of assaulting his 88-year-old father in Acushnet and later ramming a cruiser in an attempt to evade police, has been found dangerous. A New Bedford District Court Judge ordered Taber, 66, to be held without bail for up to 120 days...

NEW BEDFORD - A New Bedford man has been ordered held without bail after allegedly shooting a teenager Tuesday morning. 21-year-old Tevin Cardoza-Dias was arraigned on multiple charges Tuesday afternoon in New Bedford District Court after being arrested for shooting a 17-year-old male juvenile in the foot late Tuesday morning at Kempton and Cook streets...

New Bedford Police continue to actively investigate the shooting of a 21-year-old New Bedford man at about 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon at the 200 block of Acushnet Avenue. The victim was in stable condition Thursday at Rhode Island Hospital...

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for the mother of a man killed by Aaron Hernandez will not be allowed access to his brain, blood and urine samples in support of her wrongful death suit against the former NFL star's estate. Attorneys for Ursula Ward—the mother of Odin Lloyd—had asked a judge to order the preservation of the tissue and fluid samples gathered by the autopsy after Hernandez's suicide for their

NEW BEDFORD - The State Medical Examiner's Office has officially ruled Aaron Hernandez's death as a suicide, and now his family is filing suit. Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez will file a civil suit on behalf of her and Aaron's daughter, Avielle, asking for an injunction to preserve all evidence in the investigation into the death of the former New England Patriots player...

NEW BEDFORD - Over 1,500 drug cases pending in district and superior courts are being dropped by the Bristol County District Attorney's Office as a direct result of a former state drug lab chemist's tampering with evidence. District attorneys across Massachusetts are submitting to the Supreme Judicial Court today the cases they would not or could not prosecute if new trials were ordered due to Ann

Update (1:02 p.m.): ABC6 is reporting that Lombardi was ordered held without bail and is due back in court in two weeks. CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) - A 32-year-old man is due in court on charges he killed a Massachusetts woman and buried her body behind a vacant home in Rhode Island...

NEW BEDFORD - Two New Bedford men have pleaded guilty in federal court in connection to a drug ring that covered much of Bristol County and Providence, Rhode Island. The U.S. Attorney's Office says 26-year-old Eric DeSousa pleaded guilty in U...

BOSTON - New Bedford fishing magnate Carlos Rafael's plea hearing has been postponed. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts says "The Codfather's" next scheduled court appearance is March 30 at U.S. District Court in Boston. Rafael was originally scheduled to appear on March 20...