A 43-year-old career criminal from Taunton who has been convicted and served committed jail or prison time on 18 different occasions since 1990 was convicted at trial last week of illegal firearm charges and sentenced to serve at least a decade in state prison...
NEW BEDFORD - Many of us barely know how to use the latest technology, but State Troopers assigned to the Bristol County District Attorney's Office are now experts on dismantling and forensically analyzing such equipment after years of specialized training...
A Dartmouth Select Board member is urging action against the many motels and hotels in the town.
At Monday night's meeting, Select Board member Shawn McDonald said many of the inns along the Route 6 corridor harbor drug dealers, prostitutes, and other criminals, and he wants to see that practice end...
A Bourne man is under arrest after allegedly burglarizing a home in Acushnet.
Acushnet Police say a woman arrived at her Hathaway Road home Tuesday morning and saw that the window on her front door had been smashed. While the woman was on the phone with police, an unidentified man exited her home, got into his vehicle, and fled the scene with stolen property...
BOSTON (AP) _ The twin of gangster James ``Whitey'' Bulger's longtime girlfriend has asked a judge for leniency when he sentences her sister on a criminal contempt charge next week.
Catherine Greig is already serving an eight-year sentence for helping Bulger avoid capture during his 16 years as a fugitive...
The New Bedford City Council has once again tabled Mayor Jon Mitchell's "Problem Properties" ordinance.
The Council's Committee on Ordinances last night weighed the third version of the ordinance, which has been whittled down to bring action against landlords after eight valid complaints of a criminal nature, instead of ten complaints that would have included criminal, code, and zoning v
New Bedford Police have filed charges against a man believed to be the subject of a viral video.
The mayor's office confirms Kemar Omar Roselus, 18 years of age of New Bedford, has been charged with assault by means of dangerous weapon on a person over 60, and disturbing the school, and malicious destruction of personal property...