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A UMass Dartmouth student is under arrest for groping his former high school teacher.

UMass Dartmouth Campus Police say a woman has reported being a victim of a sexual assault on the campus. University Police issued a warning this week, saying the woman claimed she was sleeping in a friend's room in the on-campus housing at Cedar Dell West when she was sexually assaulted by an unknown male at about 5 A...

Police and Bryant University officials are investigating reports of an intruder breaking into campus housing and groping students. NBC 10 News says the university received five reports of students waking up to a stranger touching them, before leaving the residence...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) _ A Massachusetts jury has awarded $300,000 to a man who said his sixth-grade Catholic school teacher in Massachusetts sexually assaulted him in the mid-1980s when he was 10. The unidentified man's attorneys say the New Bedford jury made the award last month...

Six Massachusetts schools are on a list released by the federal Education Department of 55 colleges from across the nation facing investigations over their handling of sexual abuse complaints The list released Thursday includes Amherst College, Boston University, Emerson College, Harvard College, Harvard University Law School, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst...

Though the month of April is more renowned for it's showers, New Bedford is asking folks to keep an eye out for signs of abuse amongst their loved ones. Mayor Jon Mitchell declared April sexual assault awareness and child abuse prevention month...

Parents, staff members, and students expressed their feelings over the most recent Hastings Middle School 8th grade summer reading list to the Fairhaven School Committee Wednesday night. Many parents are up in arms over several of the titles from the 24-book collection, saying students are being subjected to innappropriate material such as foul language and extremely detailed sex acts including be