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Protesters are vowing to demonstrate outside the Massachusetts prison where a notorious figure in the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal is being released after completing a 12-year sentence for raping a boy in the 1980s. Paul Shanley is expected to be released from the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater on Friday...

BOSTON – A Bristol County Sheriff’s Deputy was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston of smuggling the profits of an over-fishing scheme to Portugal. Antonio Freitas, 47, of Taunton, a Sheriff’s Deputy with the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office and a long-time Task Force Officer with U...

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell has penned a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to argue that the fishing permits of convicted fishing magnate Carlos Rafael should remain in New Bedford when the so-called "Codfather" is sentenced in federal court June 27...

FALL RIVER — A Massachusetts man who nearly killed a dog by stabbing it five times will be released from jail after being sentenced to time served. The Herald News reports that William Whitson, of Fall River, has been in custody since September 2015, when he stabbed a pit bull outside his city barbershop...

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

Retired New Bedford Police K-9 officer Jean Gomes was convicted Monday afternoon in Fall River Superior Court of indecently touching a child. The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office tells WBSM News that Gomes, 60, was convicted on one count of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 by a mandated reporter...

A 39-year-old Fall River man who violently assaulted his girlfriend just after midnight on New Year’s Day was sentenced to serve three to five years in state prison this week in Fall River Superior Court. Jason Brum pleaded guilty to a two-count indictment charging him with aggravated assault and battery, and assault and battery...

A Fall River man was convicted for a New Year's Day murder Tuesday, according to Bristol County District Attorney's Office spokesman Gregg Miliote.

A New Bedford man has been convicted of first degree murder in connection with a 2014 fatal stabbing and robbery.

A New Bedford man was found guilty in the murder of a former Fairhaven School teacher.