A 40-year-old Acushnet man is charged with vehicular homicide in connection with the death of a pedestrian, who was struck and killed as he walked across Brock Avenue on Feb.

The first Founders Day in town history was March 14, 1960, when the community along the river celebrated its centennial in style.

An unidentified man robbed the Acushnet Federal Credit Union on Saturday after handing a note to a teller, police reported.

Two weeks ago in Carson City, Nev., 911 dispatcher Cindy Merrell calmly urged a wailing mother to keep trying CPR on her infant son, shouting to be heard above the chaos of barking dogs and a crying toddler in the background.

Witnesses will testify that Robert J. Roy not only admitted to them that he killed his wife in 1986, but that they were unknowingly used in his plan to dump her body in a watery grave, according to opening statements Thursday at New Bedford Superior Court.

Police charged a town man with snatching a woman's purse outside Cumberland Farms on South Main Street.

Share + Feb 1, 2010 8:24 am US/Eastern NEW BEDFORD, Mass. An Acushnet man accused of killing his estranged wife almost a quarter of a century ago is finally being brought to trial.

Finance Committee member Kevin Gaspar and former Park Commissioner Thomas J. DeCosta have secured nomination papers, seeking to fill the unexpired term of former Selectman Michael A. Cioper, who resigned this winter.

Nearly a quarter century after his estranged wife's death, jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the murder trial of Robert J. Roy, charged with killing Marni Larkin Roy in 1986 and dumping her body in a submerged gravel pit.

Blood Pressure Clinic: 9-11 a.m. first Tuesdays. Buttonwood Senior Center, 1 Oneida St., New Bedford.

Last week's announcement that work on two Route 128 interchanges in Danvers will begin this spring, while certainly welcome, was overdue and represents the bare minimum of improvements required to make the highway both safer and more efficient.

State Rep. Ted Speliotis, D-Danvers, told business leaders yesterday that their commute on Route 128 to the Cummings Center should become easier in the next three years.

She is accused of fleecing people one at a time in communities across SouthCoast.

Planning efforts to move library operations from Main Street to Middle Road have taken two big steps forward.

DESCRIPTION: This quality-built home offers spacious rooms great for entertaining.

Selectman David E. Wojnar said he will seek a fifth term to help the town face its fiscal challenges, implement master plan provisions, protect historical resources and advance solar energy.

Submitted photo Brody Roderick of Acushnet completed his first solo flight late last year.

The following are Tuesday's U.S. Senate election returns from SouthCoast municipalities.

The Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts recently awarded $108,000 in work force development and early literacy grants with funding from the Polaroid and Acushnet Foundation Funds.

One of the survivors to have already made it out of Haiti is a woman from here in the Bay State.