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A Captain with the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office was arrested and charged Wednesday in connection with helping Carlos Rafael smuggle the profits of his illegal overfishing scheme to Portugal.

U.S. Congressman Bill Keating reached out to the President of the Regional Government in charge of the Portuguese island just a day following the tragedy that killed 12 people.

BOSTON – A Bristol County Sheriff’s Deputy was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston of smuggling the profits of an over-fishing scheme to Portugal. Antonio Freitas, 47, of Taunton, a Sheriff’s Deputy with the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office and a long-time Task Force Officer with U...

Representative Antonio F. D. Cabral (D-New Bedford) presented Heritage Day of Portugal Awards to two honorees from the South Coast, Joseph Lopes, New Bedford City Council President & Councilor of Ward 6 and Michael Tavares, President of the Prince Henry Society - New Bedford Chapter, at the 33rd Heritage Day of Portugal ceremony at the State House on Tuesday.  ...

If you have a grandparent that was born in Portugal, but you were born in the United States, you can now apply to officially become a Portuguese citizen. O Jornal is reporting that the Council of Ministers in Portugal voted in favor of the Portuguese Nationality Act, amending the Nationality Law to grant citizenship to those born outside of Portugal but have at least one grandparent that was a Por

BOSTON - The two surviving crewmembers injured in an explosion on a bulk-carrier 1,300 miles off of Cape Cod have been medevaced to Portugal. The U.S. Coast Guard in Boston says the crewmembers were airlifted from the bulk-carrier Tamar at 4:30 a...

BOSTON - An explosion on board an international bulk freighter headed for the Azores has killed two crew members. The explosion was reported at 7 .a.m. Monday on the carrier Tamar, about 1,300 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. The explosion initially killed one crewmember and severely burned three others...

The self-proclaimed "Codfather" is scheduled to plead guilty next week to evading federal fishing quotas and smuggling profits to Portugal. The U.S. Attorney's Office announced today that 64-year-old Carlos Rafael of Dartmouth, owner of Carlos Seafood, Inc...

Portuguese officials are reporting progress in the fight against the wildfires that swept through Madeira.

Three people have been killed and many more homes and buildings were destroyed after wildfires struck Madeira.