animal cruelty

A 39-year-old New Bedford was arrested Thursday on one charge of child abuse and 17 counts of animal cruelty after police found 19 dead animals and 17 living animals at her home.

WAREHAM — A Wareham man faces animal cruelty charges after he allowed an unleashed dog to wander in and out of traffic on busy Cranberry Highway, and left another in his house as it filled with natural gas. According to a release on the Department's Facebook page, on October 21, the Wareham Department of Natural Resources was notified of an individual who was having a medical emergency that also h

The second person in the Westport animal "house of horrors" case was in court today, and the judge's decision means that no jail time will be served for either person charged after several dead and abandoned animals were found in their home in 2015.

33-year-old Gary Rose of Fall River, who sexually and physically assaulted his girlfriend's young children, killed the family cat and assaulted two family dogs, was sentenced to serve 10 years in state prison this week.

A Massachusetts man who nearly killed a dog by stabbing it five times has been convicted of animal cruelty. William Whitson, of Fall River, was convicted Thursday and faces sentencing next Friday. The Herald News reports that Whitson said he stabbed the pit bull in self-defense because it bit him and wouldn't let go as he tried to stop it from attacking a smaller dog outside his barbershop in 2015

The owner of a Westport Farm and 26 tenants that rent out space on the property have been indicted on multiple charges of animal cruelty, making it the largest investigation of its kind in New England, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today...

New Bedford Police are seeking charges against two teenage boys who are accused of harming an animal Wednesday afternoon.

Legal action is being taken against the owner of a farm in Westport where more than a thousand animals were found living in squalor earlier this year.

Police say preliminary autopsy results show that some of the dozens of animals found buried on a Massachusetts farm last month were starved to death.

New Bedford Police were called to the scene of an animal cruelty case.