Questions about whether investigators got to the bottom of the union’s corruption problems are still swirling around the department.
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Fall River police launch body-worn camera pilot program
In Fall River, seven police officers began wearing body cameras this week as part of a pilot program that the department’s brass is hoping to expand. Chief Paul Gauvin said he wants the rest of Fall River’s 200-plus police officers wearing body cameras soon. The cameras, slightly bulkier than an iPhone, can be mounted on […]
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The trouble under Bliss Corner
This week the EPA began removing soil polluted with lead and PCBs from five homes in Dartmouth. Regulators suspect the neighborhood’s wetlands and low-lying areas were filled with contaminated material during the midcentury suburban boom.
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New Bedford’s $1 billion harbor cleanup is nearly complete, EPA says
The bipartisan infrastructure bill recently passed by Congress will provide $73 million that is expected to carry the project to completion.
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America’s biggest scallopers want changes to regulations preventing consolidation
New England’s fishing regulators are weighing whether the owners of scallop vessels should be allowed to lease out their access to scallop grounds.
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New research suggests cod, New England’s founding fish, may be returning to local waters
Atlantic cod, once a mainstay of the region’s economy, is being fished at historically low levels, but a research scientist whose past findings opened up a tightly regulated scallop fishery says cod may be staging a comeback.
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Jasiel Correia, former Fall River mayor convicted of taking bribes, is now in prison
Correia will appeal his convictions while serving a six-year sentence at a federal prison in Berlin, New Hampshire.
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Jasiel Correia ordered to turn himself into prison on Friday
The former mayor of Fall River is out of legal options to secure another delay to his six-year prison sentence.
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Referendum shows overwhelming support in Dartmouth for Indian logo
81 percent of voters support keeping the Dartmouth Indian as the high school’s logo.
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An Indian logo at Dartmouth High, a Wampanoag illustrator, and a town divided over its removal
A non-binding referendum is on Tuesday’s ballot.
