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UPDATE (12:50 p.m.): The victim has been identified as 22-year-old Brian Charles, Jr. of Brockton.  This morning at about 5:20 a.m., troopers from the Dartmouth Barracks responded to a single-vehicle rollover on Route 24 southbound prior to Exit 17 in Brockton which resulted in a fatality. ...

BOSTON - A former state representative and Dartmouth Select Board member has been indicted on an obstruction of justice charge. John George, Jr., was indicted in connection with concealing approximately $2.5 million in cash from the U...

NEW BEDFORD - Three students were transported to St. Luke's Hospital this morning after an accident involving a car and a school bus. Massachusetts State Police say the accident occurred near the Coggeshall Street exit on I-195 westbound just before 8 a...

NEW BEDFORD - Driving a noisy car didn't pay off for two New Bedford residents. Massachusetts State Police say troopers pulled over a white Mercedes C320 on Country Street in New Bedford Tuesday night for an extremely loud and defective exhaust...

NEW BEDFORD - Many of us barely know how to use the latest technology, but State Troopers assigned to the Bristol County District Attorney's Office are now experts on dismantling and forensically analyzing such equipment after years of specialized training...

Senator Mark Montigny is coming under fire from critics of the state legislature's recent pay raise, after it was revealed the New Bedford Democrat could get a raise of up to $50,000 under the new legislative pay bill. The $18 million pay raise package was passed in both chambers of the state legislature before being vetoed by Governor Charlie Baker...

BOSTON (AP) _ State police are reporting numerous multi-vehicles accidents on Boston-area highways that were turned into skating rinks by early morning freezing rain. Police tweeted that Route 128 northbound north of Interstate 93 in the Wakefield area was completely shut down Wednesday for multiple crashes involving dozens of vehicles...

NEW BEDFORD - A New Bedford man is arrested Monday night after an investigation into a cocaine distribution service being run out of his apartment. Police say 25-year-old Niles John Mello of State Street was charged with trafficking in cocaine and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute (subsquent offense) after police searched his apartment, seizing 30 grams of cocaine along with packagin

NEW BEDFORD - Ward Three City Councillor Henry Bousquet has announced his resignation. Bousquet, also a culinary instructor at Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech High School, had been serving as a councillor for nearly three years without pay due to a conflict of interest law, which he cited as one of the reasons for his resignation...

RAYNHAM - Massachusetts State Police have identified the sole occupant of a fatal crash on I-495 in Raynham Wednesday. Police say 37-year-old Kevin Lopes of New Bedford suffered fatal injuries in the single-car crash, and was declared dead at Morton Hospital in Taunton...