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A 69-year-old Middleboro man has been rescued after being found pinned underneath a vehicle at a Wareham car wash.

A 32-year-old Fall River man is accused of stealing iPads and credit cards from an elderly couple after they refused to give him a ride to New Bedford.

A Fall River man charged with neglecting his elderly mother so severely that she died has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

FALL RIVER - A 57-year-old New Bedford man who stole about $100,000 from the elderly man he was hired to care was convicted this week in Fall River Superior Court, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III said. Robert Paige pleaded guilty in Fall River Superior Court on Wednesday to a two-count indictment, charging him with larceny over $250 of a person over 60 years old and larceny ov

An elderly driver drove the wrong way down Route 195 Sunday afternoon, causing another vehicle to crash before finally being stopped. Massachusetts State Police say they received a report at about 3:20 p.m. Sunday afternoon of a wrong-way operator on Route 195, traveling in the eastbound travel lanes in Mattapoisett...

FALL RIVER - An elderly woman has died following an early morning fire in her Fall River home. According to the Herald News, the 74-year-old woman was found in her bed as firefighters battled the two-alarm fire at 47 Orswell Street a little after 3 a...

ACUSHNET  - A tip from the Dartmouth Police Department leads to the arrest of an Acushnet man. Acushent Police say fellow officers in Dartmouth alerted them to an 88-year-old Acushnet person that appeared to have been abused and was hospitalized at St ...

Police say two elderly women who were hit by a minivan in Sandwich Monday have died. Sandwich Police Lt. Joshua Bound says officers responded to a report of two people hit in the street around 1:35 p.m. Monday. State Police said the two pedestrians had sustained injuries considered life-threatening...

The time to have "the talk" about giving up the driver's license is not when your parents are a danger. And, when the time does come there needs to be an agreed to plan. An 84 year old woman recently crashed her car through the front window of a local 7-11 sending staff and customers scrambling for safety...

Four SouthCoast communities are getting over a total of $34,000 in assistance with educating both children and the elderly about fire awareness. The funds are coming through Student Awareness of Fire Education (S.A.F.E.) and Senior SAFE grants...