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District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III today announced that a 23-year-old Taunton man has been charged with the previously unsolved November, 2013 murder 24-year-old Edwin Rivera Jr. in Taunton. A formal complaint charging Flavio Daveiga, formerly of 15 Newcombe Place, with murder, was filed in Taunton District Court Wednesday afternoon. …

Yesterday at 6:46 p.m., a motorist stopped and advised a trooper working a construction detail that a female had jumped out of a vehicle on Route 95 southbound in Newburyport. Patrols from the State Police Barracks in Newbury were notified and within minutes the female was located on Route 113 …

Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III and UMass Dartmouth are partnering up this year to bring area residents a special one of a kind family fun event to bid farewell to the summer and say hello to autumn. The first annual Free Family Field Day, which is an …

District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III today announced that a Fall River man has been sentenced to serve 18 to 25 years in state prison after being convicted of raping, assaulting, intimidating and threatening a young family member on many occasions during a seven year time span. Diocelito Dimas, 45, …

The City of New Bedford will mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a remembrance ceremony on the steps of City Hall. At 9:30 a.m. on Friday, September 11, 2015, Mayor Mitchell, elected officials, members of New Bedford’s public safety departments, veterans, and community members will gather on the …

Fairhaven Police received a report of a shoplifting incident that occurred at the Rite Aid Pharmacy just after 1:30 Wednesday afternoon. Witnesses told police they observed a male party, later identified as 44 year old Devlin Amaral, walk out of the store carrying a basket containing several cans of Red …

Walk around the Early Learning Child Care building and you will see something quietly remarkable. If you see seventy children, which you very well could, you will see seventy happy children. That’s worth a visit by itself. These children are happy, trusting, engaging and engaged. All of them. Okay – …

At 6:06 a.m. today Massachusetts State Troopers responded to a two-vehicle crash on Route 495 northbound in Hopkinton. The crash resulted in the death of a New Hampshire man. Preliminary investigation by troopers assigned to the Millbury Barracks indicate that a 2012 Volkswagen Jetta operated by Marcel E. Masse, 53, …

The Bristol County Mosquito Control Project will conduct targeted ground spraying early on the morning of Thursday, September 10, 2015. This round of spraying will target areas including Buttonwood Park, Brooklawn Park, Fort Taber, Hazelwood Park, Riverside Park, Clasky Park, Ashley Park and the Poor Farm area. Spraying will take …

The public will have ample opportunity to tour a variety of work boats at the 2015 Working Waterfront Festival (September 26-27). The Schooner Adventure, launched in 1926, Adventure measured 122 feet from bow to stern and carried a 120 horsepower diesel engine, fourteen dories, and a crew of twenty-seven. She …