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An elderly woman has been hospitalized after driving her car into a brick building. The accident took place near the corner of Dartmouth Street and Rockdale Avenue just before 3pm Tuesday. Dartmouth Police tell WBSM News the woman was in the parking lot of the Dartmouth Street McDonald's when she stepped on the gas pedal, driving her car through some bushes and into a vacant brick building... Read

A New Bedford woman is dead of a suspected drug overdose. Detective Captain Steven Vicente says the woman's mother found the victim in her bed in a Reynolds Street apartment before 1am Friday. When police arrived, they found a spoon, a hypodermic needle, and a substance believed to be heroin in the apartment...

A Westport woman was charged with operating under the influence on Wednesday after hitting several things with her vehicle.

A woman from Fall River is facing drug dealing charges after police raided her residence on Lindsey Street this week.

A former certified nursing assistant from New Bedford will serve one year behind bars after she pleaded guilty Friday to stealing jewelry from elderly people in a Lakeville nursing home.

On Sunday morning, a Taunton woman was arrested on drug charges in Seekonk.

DIGHTON, Mass. (AP) _ The Bristol District Attorney's Office says a Massachusetts woman found dead beside her car earlier this month was not pregnant. The Taunton Daily Gazette reports officials confirmed Tuesday that a medical examination of the partially burned remains of 47-year-old Tracey Hunter-Montinat revealed she was in fact not pregnant, though she had claimed to be prior to her death...

Fairhaven Police are warning residents about someone knocking on their door, and asking whether they have medications in the home, and whether they live alone. On their Facebook page, Fairhaven Police say a woman with red hair and a chin-piercing is going door-to-door...

William Wordsworth once said, "Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future."

New Bedford Police are asking the public for their help in locating a missing person. Detective Captain Steve Vicente says 67-year-old Joanne Poirier was last seen at her home off of Durfee Street by a visiting nurse on January 2. The following day, Poirier tried to make contact with a limousine service, but it was closed for business...