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Once again, a fake social media post has been circulating on the SouthCoast, this time trying to trick Westport residents into thinking they’re in danger.

Fall River Police are warning the public that a post circulating on Facebook about an abused child is actually a hoax.

Taunton Police are investigating after a hoax 911 call drew a large police and law enforcement presence and had neighbors evacuated from their homes.

A bomb threat at T.F. Green Airport forced police to sweep the building on Saturday evening.

Two things occurred to me when I read this explosive op-ed piece in the New York Times written by an anonymous person claiming to be in Trump's administration.

A Fairhaven man has been sentenced for making fake distress calls to the Coast Guard in 2015. 47-year-old Roger Martin of Fairhaven was sentenced to one year of probation, and was also ordered to pay over $7,000 in restitution to the Coast Guard...

Old Rochester Regional High School and Junior High School were cleared of a threat that was made Thursday morning. Douglas White, Superintendent of the Old Rochester Regional School District, says a threat was reported to Mattapoisett Police just before noon Thursday, with officers from Marion, Rochester, and Mattapoisett responding to the campus...

A 14-year-old has been arrested on allegations that he called police on May 12 and falsely reported an active shooting at Wesport High School.

New Haven, Connecticut Police Chief Dean Esserman says they believe the phone call reporting a gunman on the Yale University campus Monday was a hoax.  An angry Esserman says the investigation now shifts to finding the person who made the call. ...

Fans of Notre Dame, and sports fans in general were shocked to learn on Wednesday that the allegedly dead girlfriend of Manti Te'o was in fact a total lie. So why did American sports fans latch onto this story like a baby to a mother's breast?