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Authorities have identified the body of a man who was found underwater at a Fairhaven marina earlier this week.

Multiple law enforcement agencies are on the scene in Dartmouth where protesters have apparently chained themselves to a fence at the Bristol County House of Correction.

One man is dead following a shooting early Friday morning in New Bedford.

A New Bedford man is dead after an apparent drug overdose.

Swansea Police have arrested a New Bedford man who allegedly broke into vehicles in multiple communities.

A man who allegedly stole a car in New Bedford and used it as a getaway vehicle after allegedly robbing a bank in Tiverton, R.I., has turned himself in to police.

BOSTON - A practice that has been dormant in the Bristol County House of Correction for over a decade could return under a bill under review by the legislature's Joint Committee on the Judiciary. The bill, an Act Authorizing Sheriffs to Impose Fees, would allow correctional facilities in the state to charge inmates a daily fee for as long as they're imprisoned to offset incarceration costs... Read

DARTMOUTH - Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is defending his staff after a recent report showed that suicides among inmates in his department were more than double that of houses of correction in other Massachusetts counties. The report from WGBH says that since 2006, Bristol County has had 50% more suicides in their jails than Suffolk County, and more than twice as many as Essex and Worcest

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is in Washington, D.C., this morning. Hodgson will testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, highlighting his written report on the dangers of illegal immigration and sanctuary cities...

NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford State Representative Antonio Cabral is trying to fast-track a bill that could potentially block an initiative by Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson. Representative Cabral tells WBSM News he wants the legislature to quickly pass his bill that would prohibit the use of state funds for partnerships with federal immigration agencies...