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NEW BEDFORD - A 53-year-old New Bedford man is found dead in a Purchase Street home Sunday night. Local police and the State Medical Examiner's Office are investigating the cause of death, which is believed to be a drug overdose. Police say no immediate evidence of drug use was found at the scene...

MARION - A recent graduate of Tabor Academy in Marion has passed away in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tucker Francis had been serving aboard the school's schooner "Tabor Boy" to assist with the REEF program in the Caribbean when he died while snorkeling in St...

NEW BEDFORD - Staggering totals as New Bedford Police release the number of opioid overdose calls they responded to in 2016. Last year, police reported a total of 679 overdoses, with 42 deaths resulting. That's nearly twice the amount of overdoses in 2015, when police responded to 389 overdoses with 25 deaths...

FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) _ Police say one person has died and another was injured in a two-vehicle crash on Route 151 in Falmouth. Police say a pickup truck and a Volvo station wagon collided at the intersection of Currier Road at about 9:30 p...

Legendary actress Debbie Reynolds, who was best known for her classic roles in "Singin’ in the Rain" and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" has passed away at the age of 84.

Former astronaut John Glenn is dead at age 95.

Crisis counselors will be on hand Thursday morning at Acushnet schools after after nine-year-old Collin Lopes, a student at Acushnet Elementary School, and his father, 41-year-old Joseph Lopes, were found dead in their Buttonwood Ln. home Wednesday morning.

The State Medical Examiner's Office has taken custody of three bodies after New Bedford emergency personnel reported three separate fatalities in the city Thursday.

PLAINVILLE, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts judge has ruled that statements made by a woman who sent her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to kill himself can be used by prosecutors at her manslaughter trial. The Sun Chronicle reports a Taunton Juvenile Court judge on Tuesday denied a motion by 20-year-old Michelle Carter's lawyers to suppress statements she made to police...

Southcoast Health spokesperson Peter Cohenno has issued the following statement on the passing of Janine Arsenault,