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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 61-year-old Boston man was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for kidnapping and robbing a Seekonk Wendy’s employee, after a jury convicted him following a week-long trial in Fall River Superior Court.

While out on bail for fentanyl trafficking, a New Bedford man sold fentanyl to an undercover state police trooper.

A Fall River man will be spending over a decade in prison after he pleaded guilty to stabbing his cousin to death three years ago, the Bristol County District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.

Prosecutors say the defendant got into an argument with the victim at a Taunton gas station, then followed him home and stabbed him in the chest.

A Fall River man faces manslaughter charges after a 2017 bar fight where he allegedly punched a man in the head. Twenty-seven year old Pholla Mao was indicted last week by a Bristol County Grand Jury. He'll be arraigned in Fall River Superior Court at a later date...

A 49 year old New Bedford man has been sentenced to seven to nine years in state prison after being found guilty of breaking into a New Bedford home. Robert Simmons entered a guilty plea on Tuesday in Fall River Superior Court, admitting to carrying out a house break on Church Street on March 31st of this year and taking watches and jewelry...

A Taunton man was sentenced to four to six years in prison on gun and drug charges.

Two witnesses took the stand during the first day of the Aaron Hernandez murder trial at Fall River Superior Court.

Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez took the stand in Fall River Superior Court today. The pre-trial hearing was initially scheduled to talk about whether or not a formal gag order should be placed on the lawyers in the case talking to the media...