Two Fall River men have been arrested and $28,000 in cash and more than five and a half kilos of cocaine seized in a large-scale drug bust by a state police narcotics unit.
A SouthCoast man suspected of murdering his half-sister with a conch shell and other objects inside her New Bedford home in 2001 has been sentenced for a separate attack on another New Bedford woman.
A New Bedford man with a long criminal record — including a 2002 conviction for manslaughter, heroin distribution, and illegally dumping a human body in Nantucket harbor — is going back to prison for a violent domestic assault.
A 31-year-old man who was living in the woods in Fairhaven has been sentenced to three to five years in prison for strangling and assaulting his girlfriend in August 2020.
A city man with a prior manslaughter conviction will serve up to 12 years in state prison, after police found hundreds of grams of fentanyl hidden in a kids' bedroom in his apartment.
An 18-year-old Fall River woman will spend life in prison with the possibility of parole after she pleaded guilty to stabbing an elderly woman to death with a pair of scissors in 2019.
A New Bedford man will serve up to 16 years in state prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the stabbing death of a Fall River man caused by a fight over a woman.
A 41-year-old New Bedford man has died in an apparent suicide by hanging at the Bristol County House of Corrections in Dartmouth on Thursday, Jan. 5 — just one day after new county Sheriff Paul Heroux was sworn in.
A 42-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of robbing and assaulting an elderly Attleboro woman who later died in a fire, according to the Bristol County District Attorney's Office.
An Easton man will spend two to three years in state prison and got his driver's license revoked after he was sentenced for reckless driving that killed a 37-year-old man in a crash in April 2020.