Second Degree Murder

Two men have been convicted of second-degree murder in the 2013 killing of a New Bedford man. The Bristol District Attorney's office says 27-year-old Hailton DaCosta and 30-year-old Antonio Rodrigues Jr. were convicted on Wednesday in Fall River Superior Court in the November 2013 shooting death of Sharone Stafford...

A 102-year-old woman who prosecutors say killed her 100-year-old roommate in a Southcoast nursing home nearly five years ago faces a second-degree murder charge. Laura Lundquist is the oldest murder defendant in state history. Lundquist was 98 when she was charged in 2009 on allegations she strangled Elizabeth Barrow, who was found with a plastic bag tied around her head at the Brandon Woods nursi

A New Bedford man has been sentenced to life in prison for the fatal stabbing of a man during a melee outside the Fairhaven V-F-W in April, 2008. A Superior Court Jury convicted 24 year old Brandon Callender of second degree murder earlier this month after 25 hours of deliberation...