Bristol County

The April 21 uprising of inmates at Massachusetts’ Bristol County House of Correction brought to light issues that will the county’s sheriff says will take big money to change. Inmates caused extensive damage in the incident that shut down the jail in Dartmouth for hours, smashing windows, flipping beds, fashioning weapons, strewing trash around and more in protest over plans…

Photos have been released of the extensive damage done in a protest that disrupted operations at Massachusetts’ Bristol County House of Correction on Friday. The images released by the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office showed equipment smashed, beds flipped over, weapons fashioned, trash strewn about the facility and more in the incident that shut down the jail in Dartmouth for...

No one was hurt but there was significant destruction when a group of inmates decided to protest plans to move housing units at the Bristol County House of Correction in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, forcing correctional officers out of the unit and to call in backup. Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux said it all began when staff was trying to move inmates…

For nearly a decade, a murder in New Bedford could have been solved, prosecutors say. Hiding in plain sight was a rape kit that hadn’t been tested 14 years prior. Through a coincidental and meandering turn of events, the woman’s murder would help uncover an accumulation of rape kits that prosecutors say has led to criminals remaining free for...

The Cold Case Unit on the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office has announced a new missing person project to dig deeper into investigating cases of people who vanished in the county over the past five decades. The new initiative, which was announced Wednesday, is being run in conjunction with the Cold Case Unit’s ongoing push to identify previously unidentified...

A Massachusetts father was critically injured in a rollover crash Saturday afternoon in Swansea, while his son suffered potential minor injuries, state police said. Troopers responded shortly before 2:30 p.m. to Route 195 eastbound, near mile marker 7.4, where they found a Mercedes-Benz GLS down an embankment, on the wrong side of the guardrail. According to state police, the sport…

The father is in critical condition, police said