According to a new study conducted by an SMAST professor, an estimated 300 jobs have been lost due to NOAA's decision to shut down groundfishing in Sector IX.
Four hikers are safe after getting lost in Blue Hills Reservation last night.
Massachusetts State Police say they dispatched numerous patrols including a K-9 unit and a helicopter before finding the hikers around 10:30.
The hikers say they were looking for UFOs they were following after spotting them in the sky...
ACUSHNET - A wallet, lost over 50 years ago in Acushnet, has been returned to it's rightful owners.
37-year-old Delvin Gonsalves, Jr., of Acushnet was installing a phone line in the basement of the Compulsive Salon on Main Street in the town when he found the wallet perched on one of the beams...
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — Police have executed a search warrant at the home of a Connecticut woman who went missing at sea while on a fishing trip with her son.
Officers from South Kingstown, Rhode Island, accompanied by local police were seen Thursday night removing bags, envelopes and boxes from 54-year-old Linda Carman's Middletown home...
Usually held on the city's Pier 3, the annual Fishermen's Memorial Service was moved to the Whaling Museum Monday due to weather but still drew a crowd of a few hundred that paid respect to the local fishermen lost at sea.
An elderly man from Pennsylvania was rescued after getting lost in the Freetown State Forest Friday morning, according to a press release from the Fall River Police Department.
Tensions must have been high in Texas last night after the Cowboys lost to the Patriots, because an all out brawl took place in the parking lot and left one man critically injured.
Animal control officials are asking for the public's help in finding the owner of an abandoned and malnourished dog.
The French mastiff was found in Acushnet last Thursday, rooting through a resident's garbage. Mattapoisett Animal Control officer Kathy Massey was called to the scene to assess the animal and possibly identify the owner who may be criminally charged if found...