Fall River News

Fall River and New Bedford residents have spent much of the past year wondering just how 800-plus bio-tech jobs at Meditech somehow slipped through their grasp.

There are big doings upcoming at the Global Learning Charter Public School . Global Learning and Atlantis Charter School of Fall River are facing off for their third annual spelling bee, starting at 9:30 a.m. Feb.

Do the two men in the photos above look alike? Several Custom House Coffee employees and customers thought so.

Tiverton police charged a Fall River man with first degree robbery after he allegedly robbed a man last month on Main Road.

It looks like Old Man Winter could be waking up.A An ocean storm isA expected to bring accumulating snow A beginning tonight at midnight and continuing throughout Saturday, according to the National Weather Service .A A winter weather advisory is in effect from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.

MAKING MOUNTAINS: When nature wouldn't deliver snow, Katrina Ferreira took matters into her own hands.

Steve Pemberton, shown here during his childhood, has written a memoir of his youth spent as a foster child in the New Bedford area.

Alan and Janis Semine of Weston, Mass., announce the engagement of their daughter Laura Alexandra Semine to Eric Jerry Misbach, son of Gregory and Judy Misbach of Redlands and Anchorage, Alaska.

READY FOR ACTION: Melissa Teixeira feels around in a murky Oklahoma river for a catfish on a new Animal Planet show.

Town Meeting voters tonight will consider a home rule petition that asks the Legislature to exempt the proposed Meditech site from Massachusetts Historical Commission review.

More than $20,000 in scholarships will be awarded by the Fall River Scholarship Foundation at its awards ceremony in June.

After the smoke cleared and the spectators dispersed, Thomas Thro went back to the mangled Hood Street lot where his house once stood and sifted through the rubble.

A New Bedford lawyer is among three attorneys nominated this week by Gov. Deval Patrick to be associate justices of the Probate and Family Court.

Falmouth police last week made two significant drug arrests within 24 hours of each other, resulting in felony drug charges against four suspects.

Two Massachusetts state recreation managers are due in court to face charges that they knowingly exposed children to risk by opening a murky state-run pool where the body of a drowned woman went unnoticed for two days last June.

Tiverton police charged a Fall River man with cocaine possession last week after it was allegedly discovered in his car right before it was to be towed.

The women in our lung cancer support group at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, Mass., encouraged me to write this piece, because whether we are facing the despair of life with terminal lung cancer, in the midst of treatment or forever grateful for having survived, we share a common bond - the desire to put an end to lung cancer's dismal ... (more)

PanARMENIAN.Net - Zam Salim's Up There, about a young man stuck into a dead-end job welcoming the newly deceased into the afterlife, received the Paranavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival , which concluded Sunday, Feb 5. Ken Scott's dramatic feature, Starbuck, about a class action suit against ... (more)

Episcopal City Mission, which partners with congregations, community-based organizations and people within the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, presented its Burgess Urban Fund grants to 20 grassroots community organizers, according to a press release.

The 27th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced the winners of the 2012 festival competition at a Press Conference and Brunch, Sunday morning at the famed Fess Parker's Resort Santa Barbara.