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A man is alive after jumping from a Fall River Bridge on Sunday.

WAREHAM, Mass. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy who had been rescued earlier in the week after the boat he was in capsized has died. The Boston Globe reports that Sudbury Schools Superintendent Anne Wilson expressed condolences for the death of the third-grader in a district-wide email Sunday afternoon...

BOSTON-  Two teenage boys were rescued by the Coast Guard in Harbor of Refuge, Rhode Island on Saturday. According to a news release from the United States Coast Guard (USCG), the two 15-year old boys became stranded when their 21-foot recreational boat malfunctioned...

The U.S. Coast Guard, Buzzard's Bay Task Force, Onset and Wareham Fire Departments, other government agencies, and good Samaritans have rescued 12 people from the water after a sail boat overturned near Hog Island Channel off the coast of Wareham...

FALL RIVER- A fire broke out inside a multi-story building early this morning, injuring a firefighter and an elderly woman. The fire was called in at around 3:00 AM at 47 Orswell Street, according to a report from NBC 10 News, where fire crews eventually reached the woman in her seventies on the third floor...

BOSTON- An injured fisherman was rescued off the coast of Martha's Vineyard yesterday by the Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod crew. The fisherman was reported to have sustained injuries that required medical attention after falling on the the 75-foot fishing vessel, Perception, at around 1:30 PM...

MARTHA'S VINEYARD - The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued five people off the coast of Martha's Vineyard after their recreational boat began taking on water Thursday. In a press release, the Coast Guard says the master of the 30-foot boat Cila, based in New Bedford, radioed watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England about 3:30 p...

BOSTON - The two surviving crewmembers injured in an explosion on a bulk-carrier 1,300 miles off of Cape Cod have been medevaced to Portugal. The U.S. Coast Guard in Boston says the crewmembers were airlifted from the bulk-carrier Tamar at 4:30 a...

NEW BEDFORD—The Buttonwood Park Zoo has donated $5,000 as part of a $1 million rescue plan to save the vaquita porpoise, the world's most endangered marine mammal. The vaquita is found off the coast of Mexico and has a very limited range...

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) - A fisherman was rescued after he fell overboard near a pier in Provincetown during Saturday's snowstorm. The Coast Guard received a mayday call from a fishing vessel at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday stating that a crew member had fallen overboard near the MacMillan Pier...