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NEW BEDFORD - A New Bedford woman is being charged after she crashed into several parked cars in the city. Police responded to the accident before 11 P.M. Wednesday night, and found 42-year-old Dawn Lynn Costa leaning against her vehicle which had hit two parked cars in front of 40 Linden Street...

NEW BEDFORD - An impromptu lesson in driving went horribly wrong in New Bedford's North End Monday night. New Bedford Police say a 19-year-old man had allowed a 16-year-old male juvenile to drive his car in the parking lot of Normandin Middle School around 9 P...

DARTMOUTH - A Dartmouth woman is hospitalized after being struck by a car this morning. Dartmouth Police say 46-year-old Melissa Parker was walking near 212 Old Westport Road, clost to the intersection of Old Westport and Cross Roads just before 7:30 Monday morning when she was struck by a 2005 Mercedes driven by 18-year-old Valentino Aiello of Dartmouth...

DAYTONA, FL - An Acushnet man is dead and his wife injured after a motorcycle accident in Florida. Media outlets in Daytona, Florida report that 71-year-old Glen Sturgeon, Jr., of Acushnet was stopping for traffic on his 2005 Harley-Davidson on I-4 Saturday morning, when he was hit from behind by another motorcycle driven by 75-year-old Bruce Jussila of Kissimmee, Florida...

A bicyclist was struck by an 18-wheeler on Coggeshall Street this morning. The victim was attempting to cross Coggeshall Street at the 7-11 store when he was struck by the truck. The victim suffered minor injuries and refused medical attention...

LAKEVILLE - A Wareham man is dead after a single-car crash in Lakeville Sunday morning. Massachusetts State Police responded to the crash just before 6 A.M. on Route 140 North between Exits 8 and 9 in Lakeville. Preliminary investigation reveals the 2007 Toyota Camry was traveling north on Route 140 past Exit 8 in Lakeville when the vehicle went off the right side of the road and struck a tree ..

UPDATE 2/17 - The victim has been identified as 55-year-old Rosemarie Machado of New Bedford. The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Original Story 2/16 - A 55-year-old New Bedford woman was killed Thursday in a single-vehicle crash on Route 25 in Bourne...

DARTMOUTH--A two-car accident Wednesday morning resulted in a rollover and shut down traffic on State Road for approximately an hour. The crash occurred at approximately 8 a.m. Dartmouth Police and other emergency personnel responded to the area of 611 State Road...

MARION - A recent graduate of Tabor Academy in Marion has passed away in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tucker Francis had been serving aboard the school's schooner "Tabor Boy" to assist with the REEF program in the Caribbean when he died while snorkeling in St...

FREETOWN - A Stoughton man is dead after a workplace accident at the Stop & Shop distribution center in Freetown. Police Chief Carlton Abbott says shortly after 12:30 A.M. Tuesday 51-year-old Alphonse Ferent fell between a tractor-trailer and a loading dock as the truck pulled away from the facility. A ...