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Leighton passed away Wednesday at a veterans hospital in Brockton after a week-long battle with pneumonia.

The new documentary 'Aaron Hernandez Uncovered' airing on the Oxygen network features some familiar faces in Bristol County.

The Massachusetts attorney general has sued a car dealership that allegedly sold lemons to hundreds of customers under predatory loan terms.

Judge Lawrence Moniz has reached a decision in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michelle Carter, and is expected to announce that verdict in a Taunton juvenile courtroom Friday morning. Carter is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2014 suicide of her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III...

NEW BEDFORD - The two men charged in connection to the shooting death of 18-year-old Brad Lourenco in New Bedford last week have officially been charged with his murder. The updated charge was brought up against Ivan Fontanez, Jr., 20, and Keeland Rose, 23, both of New Bedford, at their Dangerousness Hearing Monday morning in New Bedford District Court, according to the Bristol County District Att

BOSTON - A New Bedford woman is sentenced for stashing drugs in her home for a drug trafficking ring in Bristol County and in Providence. U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz's office says 45-year-old Shirley Vargas was sentenced to 18 months in prison and one year of supervised release...

NEW BEDFORD - Many of us barely know how to use the latest technology, but State Troopers assigned to the Bristol County District Attorney's Office are now experts on dismantling and forensically analyzing such equipment after years of specialized training...

NEW BEDFORD - A New Bedford man has been arrested in connection with a December murder. The Bristol County District Attorney's Office says 21-year-old Joshua Lobo was ordered held without bail after being charged with intimidation of a witness and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute...

A three-year-old girl is dead and a family left in mourning after a tragic accident in Acushnet Tuesday. Acushnet Police Chief Michael Alves said in a press release the accident occurred shortly before noon Tuesday on Jean Street as the girl's father was making repairs to a vehicle...

A Fairhaven man could face up to six years in prison for making fake distress calls to the Coast Guard. The U.S. Attorney's Office says on three occassions in the Spring of 2015, 47-year-old Roger Martin made distress calls to the U.S...