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NEW BEDFORD - The victim of today's shooting on South First Street in the City of New Bedford died at Rhode Island Hospital late this evening. The victim has been identified as 18-year-old Brad Lourenco, of New Bedford. Lourenco, an aspiring rapper, had previously been arrested twice in 24 hours just two weeks ago...

NORTH DARTMOUTH - The longest-running cold case involving a police officer in American history brings FBI agents to North Dartmouth. In 1980, Saxonburg, Pennsylvania Police Chief Gregory Adams was conducting a traffic stop when he was shot twice and pistol-whipped to death with his own service weapon...

NEW BEDFORD - David Taber, the man accused of assaulting his 88-year-old father in Acushnet and later ramming a cruiser in an attempt to evade police, has been found dangerous. A New Bedford District Court Judge ordered Taber, 66, to be held without bail for up to 120 days...

FALL RIVER - A Fall River man is being arraigned on a murder charge Tuesday. 26-year-old Scott Rego is accused of killing his girlfriend, Kristina Reis, who was found on the porch of their Linden Street home in Fall River on May 22, bleeding from apparent stab wounds...

FALL RIVER - A Fall River man is charged with the stabbing death of his girlfriend Monday night. The Bristol County District Attorney's Office says Scott Rego, 26, of 17 Linden Street, Apartment #3, was charged with murder and arrested at Rhode Island Hospital late Tuesday morning...

(Fall River, MA) -- A Massachusetts judge is vacating a murder conviction against former NFL player Aaron Hernandez. Superior Court Judge E. Susan Garsh today granted a defense request to vacate the conviction and return his status to a person only accused of a crime because he died before his appeals process was completed...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - A judge is set to hear arguments in a push by lawyers for former NFL star Aaron Hernandez to erase his conviction in a 2013 murder. The former New England Patriots tight end hanged himself in his prison cell April 19 while serving a life sentence in the killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd...

SHIRLEY, MA - The Massachusetts Department of Corrections says former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez has committed suicide in prison. In a statement, the department says Hernandez, "hanged himself utilizing a bedsheet that he attached to his cell window...

Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez has been found not guilty of double murder today in Boston. He was accused of shooting Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado to death at a traffic light in Boston's South End on July 16, 2012, after Hernandez was found not guilty on two counts of murder for the shooting deaths of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado at a traffic light in Boston’s South End on

Update (1:02 p.m.): ABC6 is reporting that Lombardi was ordered held without bail and is due back in court in two weeks. CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) - A 32-year-old man is due in court on charges he killed a Massachusetts woman and buried her body behind a vacant home in Rhode Island...