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A 34-year-old Massachusetts woman is facing multiple charges after authorities allege she robbed at least two convenience stores with a needle, and then led state and local police departments on a highway chase before she crashed into a police cruiser in Marion. Ashley Demers is accused of robbing stores in Raynham and New Bedford, and shoplifting from a business in…

A body found in Florida was positively identified as a missing 18-year-old Massachusetts woman, and authorities say she was shot to death. Last week, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said a woman found dead in a field off Interstate 95 in Fellsmere, Florida, was believed to be Jalajhia Finklea. The Saint Lucie Medical Examiner’s Office has confirmed this,...

Authorities say a body believed to be missing 18-year-old Jalajhia Finklea of Massachusetts was found Wednesday in Florida. The body was found around noon in a field off Interstate 95 in Fellsmere, Florida, the Bristol District Attorney’s Office announced. A positive identification has yet to be made, the district attorney’s office said. An autopsy will be conducted in Florida...

An 18-year-old gunman who allegedly shot and killed a man in New Bedford on Friday has been charged with murder, as well as several other felonies, according to authorities. The victim, identified as 40-year-old Angel Cruz, was initially rushed to St. Luke’s Hospital and later pronounced dead. A second victim of the shooting, who was listed in critical condition...

A relief fund has been established for more than two dozen people who were displaced after an attempt to fry a turkey on Thanksgiving Day sparked a blaze that damaged three multi-family homes in New Bedford, Massachusetts. New Bedford Mayor Jonathan Mitchell announced Saturday that the Washburn Fire Victims Fund has been established to help the 27 people whose Washburn…

A relief fund has been established for families displaced by the Thanksgiving Day fire on Washburn Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

An 18-year-old who allegedly shot two people, killing one, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on Friday morning has been arrested, police say. The alleged shooter – identified as Jon Zell of Mattapoisett – unloaded a handgun at police as they approached him less than an hour after the double shooting but no officers were hit, according to a press release from…

More than two dozen people were left homeless on Thanksgiving after flames tore through three multi-family homes in New Bedford, Massachusetts. “I just saw smoke and flames coming out of the building,” witness Michael Meagher of New Bedford said. The fire happened at a residence on Washburn Street just before 10 a.m. and quickly spread to two other structures, authorities…

A cooking mess involving a deep fryer led to a massive New Bedford fire on Thursday.

The body of a missing 18-year-old pregnant woman from Massachusetts has been found in Florida, authorities believe.

A Massachusetts teenager who went missing in New Bedford last month was pregnant at the time of her disappearance, according to police records obtained by the NBC10 Boston Investigators. Jalajhia Finklea was last seen getting into a rental car driven by a Florida man near her mother’s home in New Bedford on the afternoon of Oct. 20, according to...

A man sought in connection with a Massachusetts teenager’s disappearance was fatally shot while federal agents were trying to take him into custody arrest Thursday in Florida, authorities said. But 18-year-old Jalajhia Finklea remains missing after going missing from New Bedford on Oct. 20, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said Monday. Luis Zaragoza, who was wanted in Finklea’s...

Family, friends, police and other authorities are searching for 18-year-old Jalajhia Finklea, who went missing from New Bedford on Oct. 20 with a man who was killed in a confrontation with Florida police.

Local seismologist, Dr. Alan Kaftka, says earthquakes happen on a regular basis in New England— but Sunday’s 3.6 magnitude quake was the strongest to hit southern New England in decades. It was centered in the Bliss Corner section of Dartmouth with its epicenter in Buzzards Bay off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

One neighborhood in New Bedford, Massachusetts, was hit particularly hard by Sunday’s earthquake. Multiple families were temporarily displaced after chimneys collapsed in two separate apartment buildings.

Authorities in Massachusetts are searching for an 18-year-old member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe who has been missing for a week. The Mashpee Wampanoag Police Department said last Thursday that Jalajhia Finklea had last been seen 48 hours earlier and asked for the public’s help in locating her. According to the Cape Cod Times, Finklea was last seen in New…

A Republican congressional candidate in Massachusetts who confronted two women at a Columbus Day rally in support of President Donald Trump said she was kicked in the head and fractured a leg bone during an ensuing scuffle. Rayla Campbell, who’s mounting a write-in campaign against Democratic U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, told the Boston Herald that Monday’s rally in New...

A man has surrounded the Trump 2020 sign in his lawn in New Bedford, Massachusetts, with electrified wire in a bid to stop the thief or thieves who’ve taken other signs supporting the president. John Oliveira, a New Bedford School Committee member, told NBC affiliate WJAR-TV that he had six signs taken — though another sign encouraging people to vote…

The 10-year-old girl who died after a three-car crash in Westport, Massachusetts, early Sunday morning has been identified by authorities as Anilda Ribeiro. Ribeiro and her 9-year-old sister were both rushed to the hospital after the second of two serious crashes within hours near the Rhode Island border. Ribeiro was pronounced dead at St. Anne’s Hospital in Fall River early Monday...

A 10-year-old girl has died after a three-car crash in Westport, Massachusetts, early Sunday morning that sent a total of seven people to nearby hospitals, authorities said. It was the second of two serious crashes in the town on the Rhode Island border within hours. Around 2:15 a.m., Westport police received “several frantic 911 calls” about a crash at the…