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A 20-year-old New Bedford man will be spending several years behind bars for his role in two robberies in 2015. Bristol County District Attorney Tom Quinn's office says Joseph Coito was sentenced to four to five years in state prison in Fall River Superior Court Wednesday...

A Fall River man will spend the next three to five years in state prison after pleading guilty to two convenience store robberies that took place last summer.

A college friend of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to six years in prison for impeding the investigation into the 2013 attacks.

A New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for traveling to Rhode Island to meet a 13-year-old girl, then taking her back and sexually molesting her.

Convicted hit-and-run driver Arthur Larrivee of New Bedford has learned his fate, the Bristol County District Attorney's Office announced. Larrivee was charged in the 2012 hit-and-run death of 76-year-old Rafael Velasquez while he was crossing Rockdale Avenue...

A Wayland man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend a month after they graduated from high school. Nathaniel Fujita was found guilty Thursday of first-degree murder in the July 2011 death of Lauren Astley...

The girlfriend of former Boston mobster James 'Whitey' Bulger has filed a legal appeal aimed at shaving time off her prison sentence.

68 year old former Penn State assistant football coach, Jerry Sandusky, was sentenced to 30 - 60 years in prison, virtually a life sentence!

A Westport man has been found guilty of rape of a child by force, and statuatory rape. The District Attorney's Office says a Fall River Superior Court jury returned the guilty verdict against 41 year old Edward Pacheco on Thursday. The jury began its deliberations Tuesday afternoon...