crime

Whether it's an intersection, a bad habit or a social issue, there are a wide variety of things SouthCoast residents would delete from the region.

It's a basic truth, that a lawful society is not possible without law enforcement. That's especially true in New Bedford.

Michael Viruet lifted a pipe from a bathroom and attacked correctional officers from his hospital room, prosecutors say.

Police returned for a second time to 5 Edgewater St. and seized a large amount of fentanyl at the home of Joshua Clark.

Police and the DEA executed a search warrant on Edgewater Street on Jan. 5.

Sources say three people were transported to area hospitals.

Donald Venerable was arrested for drug trafficking just two weeks after his release from jail on an unrelated assault charge, the Bristol DA's Office said.

Police say they chased a man on foot near Cranberry Plaza and brought him to the ground.

Dartmouth Police say they caught a Wareham man in the act during a pre-dawn housebreak episode in a residential neighborhood.

A rape kit from 1994 was retested, a DNA profile was uploaded to a national database, and a suspect was identified by the Bristol County DA.