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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) _ A former University of Massachusetts graduate student convicted of involuntary manslaughter for providing the heroin that led to the overdose death of an undergraduate working as an informant for campus police has been sentenced to serve a year in jail...

BOSTON (AP) - Black students at Harvard University are organizing a graduation ceremony of their own this year. Harvard's first Black Commencement will recognize the achievements of black students and faculty members some say have been overlooked...

NEW BEDFORD - The Boston University Superfund Research Program has released the results of a years-long study concerning contamination in the New Bedford Harbor. A press conference held Thursday at Riverside Park in New Bedford released those results, which Dr...

One of the young women struck by a car Thursday night in Dartmouth has been released from the hospital. The unidentified 19-year-old UMass Dartmouth student was released from St. Luke's Hospital after she and a 21-year-old fellow student were hit by a car after 6pm at the intersection of Old Westport and Cross Roads...

Campus police are investigating after gunshots were fired at UMass Dartmouth early Sunday morning. Campus police say initial reports of the gunshots were made around 3am Sunday in the campus' Cedar Dell area. Campus police responded, finding no evidence of gunshots...

Hundreds of students braved the early afternoon showers Saturday to take part in UMass Dartmouth's annual Relay for Life fundraising event.

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A production crew for the upcoming film Patriots Day has submitted a preliminary request to film portions of the movie at UMass Dartmouth. Campus spokesman John Hoey confirms to WBSM News he has received the request from CBS Films. The movie will feature Mark Wahlberg as a Boston Police Detective during the events of the Boston Marathon Bombing in April of 2013...

The Bristol County District Attorney's Office has released the identity of the 20-year-old University of Massachusetts Dartmouth student that was found dead in his dorm room over the weekend. The DA's Office says Colin Gear of Stoneham, MA, died of an apparent heroin overdose in his dorm room at Birch Hall on the UMass Dartmouth campus...

Imagine getting accepted into all eight Ivy League Universities, plus five others including MIT and Johns Hopkins University. Well, according to CNNMoney, high school senior Harold Ekeh did just that.