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Police have identified a man and woman they say have been stealing thousands of dollars' worth of big-ticket items from Home Depot stores across southeastern Massachusetts.

Taunton police say the Lakeville couple will be summoned to court to face charges of larceny and criminal conspiracy

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Lakeville Police spent a better part of Monday night engaged in a standoff with a 34-year-old resident.

According to the Standard Times, police were called to an Old Bridge Street residence early Monday night for a family disturbance involving an unidentified man and his father

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t's election day Monday for a handful of local communities

In Acushnet, retiree Garry Rawcliffe, a former member of the Board of Public Works, and Paul Levasseaur, a construction worker, are looking to fill a vacancy on the Board of Selectmen

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Massachusetts State Police say two local men have been arrested after a traffic stop in Taunton.

Police pulled the Hyundai over at around 7pm Thursday night on Oak Street for motor vehicle violations

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New Bedford is on a path right now to develop more solar-power capacity than any city east of the Mississippi Rver. 

That statement from Mayor Jon Mitchell on his weekly radio program Wednesday on WBSM. 

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Police in Lakeville arrest two people after raiding a possible meth lab Friday morning.

According to a news release, 33-year-old John Costa of Lakeville and 29-year-old Rachel Eldridge of Florida both face drug-related charges and were arraigned in Wareham District Court

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A man convicted in the rape and murder of an 83-year-old woman is asking Massachusetts' highest court to order prosecutors to give him access to biological evidence found at the crime scene so he can do DNA testing.
 

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Signs of West Nile Virus are popping up all over the Southcoast. The Bristol County Mosquito Control Project says mosquitos carrying the virus have been trapped in Lakeville, Freetown, Swansea, Fall River, Mattapoisett, and now New Bedford

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Police say a Middleborough woman was drunk and on heroin when her pickup truck struck another vehicle over the weekend, killing the 18-year-old college freshman driving.

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The Freetown-Lakeville Regional School Committee has appointed a new interim superintendent of schools.

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