Fall River News

Citing the ongoing need for comprehensive services for children who have been victims of sexual abuse in Bristol County, St.

Dylan Ferreira, a member of the Fall River Redevelopment Authority, is a candidate for state representative in the 8th Bristol District.

Former Fall River Mayor John R. Mitchell has joined the race to replace state Sen.

A former Fall River dentist has been indicted on charges that he made $130,000 in false Medicaid claims, illegally prescribed drugs he used for himself and placed paper clips in patients' mouths instead of stainless steel posts during root canals to save money.

A Bristol County grand jury has indicted a Fall River man who is charged with running away from police officers after a traffic stop and throwing a bag of cocaine off a highway overpass in New Bedford.

Where is the stimulus money going? Over the coming months, we will meet some of the people who have received some of the $9 billion promised to Massachusetts.

The robber allegedly rushed into the Option II Variety that is located on 1454 Pleasant St., flaunting a pair of scissors.

A group of Wampanoag tribes who say they've been cast aside on issues from the Nantucket Sound wind farm to the future of gaming are breaking away to create a new council to deal with state government.

The right to bear arms as defined in the Second Amendment does not apply to the states, so Massachusetts can regulate who can have firearms and how those weapons are to be stored, the state's high court ruled Wednesday.

A New London jury deliberated less than two hours this afternoon before finding two career criminals from Fall River, Mass., guilty of breaking into a Stonington home in January 2009 and stealing about $8,000 worth of valuables.

Justin Charron, of Somerset, Ma., a student at Diman Regional Vocational Technical School in Fall River, Ma., was traveling east on Hinsdale Avenue when he drove into the Bark Street intersection and collided with a southbound vehicle operated by Grace Santos of Swansea, according to the police.

Albert Kalil in a Connecticut Department of Correction handout. of Two Massachusetts men alleged to be members of a Fall River, Mass.-based burglary ring that has operated in several eastern states are on trial in New London Superior Court.

A woman suffered severe burns over much of her body as she was burning brush Sunday in an outside fireplace in the South End.

Last year, Richard Egan got a letter from his insurance company informing him that the price of the health coverage he provides to his 10 employees would be increasing by at least 14 percent.

A Wampanoag Indian tribe from Massachusetts is supporting a Nantucket Sound wind farm opposed by two larger tribes closer to the project.

A Boston jail inmate told his attorney he feared for his life, and the next day he was found dead.

Thirty-five Massachusetts schools have been tapped to undergo major restructuring because they are deemed underperforming.

On March 4, 2010 the Westport Police arrested Dinarte a oeDeana Macedo, age 34 of 16 Hutton Street in Fall River.

Do you know anything about Dr. Seuss? Dr. Seuss was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904.

Share + Mar 2, 2010 9:08 am US/Eastern FALL RIVER, Mass. Officials at a 120-year-old food manufacturing company in Fall River say business has been so good that they plan to double the size of their plant and hire as many as 100 new employees.