FREETOWN

One person was taken to the hospital Sunday after a car crashed into a church building in Freetown, Massachusetts. Freetown police said they were alerted to a motor vehicle accident at St. John Neumann Church around 4 p.m. Eyewitnesses told police a vehicle had collided with the building, and pictures shared by police on social media show a truck halfway…

A woman was found murdered in her Freetown, Massachusetts, home early Wednesday morning, and prosecutors in Bristol County said that police found the suspect hiding in a shed. Forty-four-year-old Heidi Chace was found dead by first responders in her home on Chace Road in East Freetown at around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said. Investigators...

People traveling through Freetown, Massachusetts, have been driving over construction screws, resulting in damaged tires and a “great deal of time” being spent by town crews cleaning them up, according to police. Officers in the Bristol County community believe the screws have been intentionally placed on a well-traveled section of South Main Street over the past couple of weeks in…

Two people were killed in a crash on Route 140 in Freetown, Massachusetts, according to state police. State police said they received 911 reports around 8:15 a.m. of a black Kia Sedona that was operating erratically on Route 140 north. As troopers were responding to the scene, a caller reported that the minivan had crashed into three other vehicles, gone…

There was an intense search late Friday night for a missing 2-year-old in Freetown, Massachusetts, whose mother had allegedly stabbed someone and then fled with the toddler.

For a third time this year, vandals struck a cemetery in Freetown, Massachusetts. Headstones at White Cemetery were hit with graffiti twice earlier this year. This time the Assonet Burying Ground was targeted. The vandals hit stones again with messages like “Try handwriting analysis” and more concerning ones, like “U stop me before I kill.” Rick Fetters lives in the…

Gravestones were vandalized at a cemetery in Assonet a village in Freetown, Massachusetts. This is the third time a cemetery in town has been vandalized this year.