investigation

Saturday morning's death of an inmate of the Bristol County House of Corrections is now being investigated as a suicide, according to Gregg Miliote, spokesman for the Bristol County District Attorney's Office. The inmate, identified as 47-year-old Michael Fay, formerly of Fall River, was rushed to St...

NEW BEDFORD - Police responded to a report of shots fired in New Bedford's North End early Thursday morning. According to scanner reports, the city's ShotSpotter system was activated at the corner of North Front and Nye Streets shortly after 12 a...

NEW BEDFORD - One person is injured and one is in custody after a shooting in New Bedford's West End. New Bedford Police say the shooting took place around 10:30 a.m. At Kempton and Cook Streets. A 17-year-old New Bedford male was shot once in the right foot...

MARION, Mass. (AP) - Former FBI Director Robert Mueller III is slated to give the commencement address at a private school in Massachusetts, less than two weeks after his appointment as special counsel to oversee an investigation into possible connections between Russia and President Trump's 2016 election campaign...

TAUNTON, Mass. Police said on Saturday, May 20, two people canoeing discovered a dead body in the Taunton River. Unfortunately, the body seemed to be in the river for some time. When officials came to the scene from Power Street, they saw the body at bank and said the body was that of a man in his mid-40s...

NEW BEDFORD - Another robbery of a person walking at night in New Bedford. A 36-year-old New Bedford man told police that he was walking on Rivet Street near Crapo Street in the South End around 11 P.M. Wednesday night when he was jumped by two men...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to three years of probation for his role in trafficking nearly $2 million worth of baby eels. Michael Bryant was among a group of people who pleaded guilty to selling or transporting the eels, called elvers, last year...

NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Police are investigating a series of robberies that took place overnight. The first robbery was reported at 9:41 P.M. When a 68-year-old male had his wallet stolen by a dark-skinned female on Bullard Street...

NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Police find a loaded handgun and arrest two people at a Hathaway Road motel. As the result of an investigation, Members of the New Bedford Police Department Narcotics Unit executed a search warrant at the New Bedford Inn and Suites on Hathaway Road around 6:50 p...

Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia denies he is under investigation by the FBI and Department of Housing and Urban Development, and said he thinks he's just being targeted by one long-time official as a result of the mayor proposing budget cuts to his organization...