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FALL RIVER - An early morning fire sends a Fall River woman to the hospital.

NEW BEDFORD - Southcoast Health is now accepting applications for it's grant program. Southcoast spokesman Peter Cohenno says last year the hospital group awarded $135,000 to 22 non-profit organizations through it's Community Benefits Impact Opportunity program...

A Dartmouth man is dead after apparently overdosing in a New Bedford apartment. Police say 32-year-old Patrick Barrett of Kingston Street in Dartmouth was found unresponsive in the 400 block of Cedar Street Sunday. He was transported to St...

A New Bedford woman and a technician at St. Luke's Hospital is dead following a motorcycle accident in Plymouth. Massachusetts State Police tell WBSM News the accident took place at Bear Hill and West Line Roads in the Myles Standish State Forest in Plymouth around 1:30pm Sunday...

A New Bedford Police Officer was seriously injured Monday night after being run over by a dirt bike in the North End. New Bedford Police say 35-year-old Sgt. Candido Trinidad was transported to Rhode Island Hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries after being hit by the dirt bike that was part of a group of off-road vehicles stopped by police...

Three people were treated at St. Luke's Hospital for stab wounds following a fight at a Halloween house party in New Bedford's west end. Police say a 20-year-old man and two juvenile males, all from New Bedford, were treated for non-life-threatening wounds late Saturday night...

A man is being treated for life-threatening injuries after being struck by a car in Wareham. Wareham Police say emergency responders were called to 3029 Cranberry Highway Monday night for a pedestrian that was hit by a car. Officers found the 56-year-old man in the roadway with serious injuries...

A woman has been medflighted to a Boston-area hospital after reportedly being attacked by a dog in Acushnet this morning. Acushnet Police tell WBSM News the attack took place before 8am this morning at Chloe's Countryside Kennels on Leonard Street when a 44-year-old female employee tried to break up a fight between a larger dog and a smaller dog...

A New Bedford firefighter has reportedly been run over by a firetruck. Scanner reports indicate the incident took place around 10:45 this morning in front of the Fire Department Headquarters on Pleasant street. New Bedford Police tell WBSM News early rerports indicate the firefighter sustained injuries to his foot and/or ankle after one of the wheels of the truck rolled over him...

The mother of a student at Hayden-McFadden School in New Bedford has hired a lawyer after she says her daughter was stabbed with a hypodermic needle on school grounds. The claim stems from an incident on August 22, when Michelle Farland's six-year-old daughter came home from school and told her mother another child had poked her in the hand with a needle allegedly found on the playground earlier t