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BOSTON — State health officials say deaths related to opioid overdoses in Massachusetts are on the decline, but that may not necessarily hold true on the SouthCoast. The state Department of Public Health issued its quarterly report Tuesday...

In its latest quarterly report on opioid overdoses, the Dept. of Public Health said deaths declined by an estimated five percent over the first quarter of 2017.

The number of opioid-related overdose deaths in Massachusetts fell an estimated 8.3 percent from 2016 to 2017.

Opioid overdose deaths in Massachusetts declined by 10 percent in the first nine months of 2017 when compared to the same time period last year, the Department of Public Health reported Monday.

Massachusetts State Police have released the names of three people killed in a crash on I-195 in Westport on Wednesday.

A Turkish official says two attackers have blown themselves up at Istanbul's Ataturk airport after police fire at them.

Opioid deaths are clearly on the rise in Massachusetts and several Southcoast towns are among the those with the highest numbers of them.

New Bedford Police say three people suffered from overdoses, two of them fatally, in the past few days.

Police say a 97-year-old man and an 84-year-old woman were found dead outside their homes in different towns after this week's blizzard.

A new report by state health officials is showing a drop in violent crime but continued problems with heroin deaths, rising childhood asthma and obesity. The Massachusetts Health Council report, citing FBI crime reports, said that the state's murder rate fell by 34% and all violent crime fell by 4...