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NEW BEDFORD—The medical examiner is investigating the death of a 36-year-old New Bedford man Wednesday from an apparent drug overdose Wednesday at a home on Whitman Street. Medics pronounced the man dead at the scene. Evidence of apparent drug use was found at the scene...

The District Attorney's office has announced that a gunshot that killed a Norton man over the weekend was self-inflicted. Police responded to a home Saturday night on a report of a domestic incident. As police approached the Azalea Road home, someone inside fired several shots through the front door...

The prosecution has rested its case in the murder trial of former New England Patriots star tight end Aaron Hernandez. A medical examiner was the prosecution's final witness.  Dr. Willam Zane detailed the gunshot wounds suffered by victim Odin Lloyd...

The death of a 12-year-old shot by Cleveland police last month is being ruled a homicide. The Cuyahoga County medical examiner's office released its findings in the Tamir Rice case today. Rice was playing with a toy gun, prompting a 911 call from a man who told the dispatcher it may be fake but it was scaring people...

The death of former White House Press Secretary James Brady is being ruled a homicide. The Washington, DC medical examiner's office has ruled that Brady died as a result of wounds suffered in the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981...

UPDATE 7PM - The Bristol County District Attorney's Office says the death of a man found in a burned home in New Bedford's West End has been ruled suspicious. The State Medical Examiner has taken custody of the body, and an autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death...