Bristol County District Attorney's Office

A serial burglar from New Bedford has pleaded guilty to two more break-ins at city homes, and will spend up to five years in prison for the crimes.

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.

The man killed in a fatal crash in Fairhaven on Sunday evening has been identified as 59-year-old George Thatcher.

A 59-year-old Fairhaven man has died after a fatal crash on Main Street Sunday evening.

The 42-year-old Attleboro man accused of robbing and assaulting an elderly city woman before she died in a house fire in November is now being charged with murder and arson in her death.

The cyclist killed in a crash with a large truck in Acushnet last week has been identified as 27-year-old James Leandre of Dartmouth.

The victim killed in a crash in Raynham last week in which four other people were also injured has been identified as 28-year-old Matthew Higgins of Middleboro.

A former New Bedford resident is now being tried for murder in the shooting death of 37-year-old Fall River man Joseph Tavares in Dartmouth in 2018.

A Fall River police officer has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly assaulting a man in police custody with a baton, and for allegedly filing false reports on the incident.

A New Bedford man convicted of first degree murder in the brutal stabbing death of Chantel Bruno in 2018 will spend life in prison.