A SouthCoast man suspected of murdering his half-sister with a conch shell and other objects inside her New Bedford home in 2001 has been sentenced for a separate attack on another New Bedford woman.
A Rehoboth man who was arrested for indecent assault while out on bail on rape charges will spend seven to 10 years in state prison after pleading guilty to two counts of child rape.
The 42-year-old Attleboro man accused of robbing and assaulting an elderly city woman before she died in a house fire in November is now being charged with murder and arson in her death.
The 48-year-old suspect in a violent 1994 rape of a woman in Attleboro has been ordered held without bail after he was caught last month in New York City.
The victim killed in a crash in Raynham last week in which four other people were also injured has been identified as 28-year-old Matthew Higgins of Middleboro.