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State and local police are investigating after a New Bedford man was found dead over the weekend, floating in a pool. New Bedford Police spokesman Lt. Amos Melo tells WBSM News 60-year-old Kevin Lewin was spotted in the pool at his home at 1364 Sassaquin Avenue late Sunday morning by a neighbor...

A Fall River woman is found dead in a drug rehabilitation center in New Bedford. Police Spokesman Lt. Amos Melo tells WBSM News staff members found the 36-year-old woman unresponsive in a bathroom at the facility on Gifford Street Thursday...

Massachusetts State Police say they've identified a body found in New Bedford over the weekend. The young woman's body was found outside of the Presidential Heights housing development in the North End early Saturday morning. Until yesterday, authorities were unable to determine the woman's identity, and turned to the public for help, providing a description of the woman's build and tattoos... Rea

The parents of an 11-year-old Somerset girl who died after choking on a marshmallow at a friend's birthday party have filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

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BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' highest court has ruled that a teenage girl must stand trial on a manslaughter charge for encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself by sending him dozens of text messages and telling him to "get back in" a truck filled with carbon monoxide fumes...

Another suspected heroin overdose claims the life of a New Bedford man. New Bedford Detective Captain Steven Vicente says the 52-year-old man was found unresponsive in his Beetle Street apartment around 8:30pm Wednesday night. The unidentified man's roommate found him lying on the floor next to his bed...

More information has been released regarding a man who was crushed by a car Monday afternoon.

The Bristol County District Attorney's Office says Fall River Police were arresting a Dartmouth woman on outstanding warrants when Scott Macomber interfered. DA Spokesman Gregg Miliote says on Monday afternoon, police had followed 37-year-old Lisa McNally into a home on Mount Hope Avenue to arrest her on outstanding warrants out of New Bedford and Fall River District Courts...

Fall River Police say a man has died following his arrest Monday afternoon.