Bristol

A Rhode Island man apparently drowned after jumping into the water to save three teenagers caught in a rip current, police said. Hoen Chin, 56, of Providence, was visiting Bristol with family and friends on Wednesday, Bristol police Capt. Brian Burke said in a statement. Chin entered the water at about 2:30 p.m. when two 13-year-old youths and one 14-year-old…

Vermont State Police say a Bristol man shot and killed his wife and then turned the weapon on himself. Police say the bodies of 70-year-old Candice Guilmette and her 71-year-old husband, Gary Guilmette, were found in the couple’s home on Monday after relatives asked a neighbor to check on them. Investigators say they believe Gary Guilmette shot his wife...

Footage shows towering flames in San Francisco as crews battle a fire caused by a gas explosion.

A Massachusetts sheriff who joined a federal immigration enforcement program and offered to send inmates to help build Republican President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is being sued by a civil rights group.

A week after trading barbs at each other over their stances on undocumented immigration, Somerville’s mayor and Bristol County’s sheriff will face off during a panel on Thursday.

A former sex crimes investigator and police officer in Burlington, Vermont is accused of inappropriately touching a child.

Heavy rain and strong winds brought headaches to many people across Vermont Wednesday night and Thursday. In Lincoln, the mountainous town’s road foreman spent Thursday working to reopen Grimes Road after a washout in a key section. Dave Cavoretto told necn he measured four inches of water in his rain gauge, and some road infrastructure just couldn’t withstand a...

Heavy rain caused problems on roads in Vermont.

The New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says 28 German shepherds that were seized in an animal cruelty case will soon have a chance to find homes. The dogs have been held at the shelter for 22 months. The society said Wednesday the dogs’ former owner surrendered them.

Twenty-eight German Shepards in New Hampshire can now find their forever homes after a year of being held in protective custody at the SPCA over an animal cruelty case.

A fourth person this year has died from EEE in Massachusetts, health officials announced Wednesday. A man in his 70s from Worcester County died from the mosquito-borne illness, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The victim was the 11th human case that has been diagnosed in the state during this year’s outbreak of the mosquito-borne illness.

A third person this year has died from EEE in Massachusetts, health officials confirmed Monday. An unidentified hospital reported the death to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The victim was one of 10 human cases that has been diagnosed in the state during this year’s outbreak of the mosquito-borne illness.

A second person in Massachusetts has died after contracting the EEE virus, state health officials said Friday. The person, a man in his 70s, lived in Bristol county and was the state’s 10th case in this year’s outbreak, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He was from the town of

An aggressive bull took authorities on a 14-hour, 18-mile chase through three New Hampshire communities Monday before police had to shoot and kill it in Bristol. The 3,000-pound animal had become aggressive and police said they had no choice but to euthanize the animal before it hurt someone. From the neighborhood diner to the local florist, the bull caused quite...

A New Hampshire bull had to be euthanized Monday after leading police on a chase through three communities and acting “aggressively”.

Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, filed for divorce from the former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor citing “incompatibility of temperament between the parties such that they find it impossible to live together as husband and wife.” Todd Palin, 55, asked to dissolve the couple’s 31-year marriage in a filing submitted Friday in the Anchorage Superior Court. The filing, first reported...

A horse in Douglas, Massachusetts, has tested positive for eastern equine encephalitis, prompting the risk level for infection to rise to critical, health officials said Tuesday. The risk level in neighboring Oxford and Webster has also been raised to high.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is grateful to be back at Darlington Raceway preparing to drive two weeks after he and his family escaped a plane in flames following a crash in Tennessee. Earnhardt, set to drive the Xfinity Series event here Saturday, said he and his wife Amy are still processing the frightening events Aug. 15 at the airstrip in Elizabethton,...

Authorities say a Massachusetts woman has died after falling from a third-floor window at a condominium complex. A spokesman for the Bristol district attorney says investigators are trying to determine if the death at the Waterview Heights complex in Fall River on Tuesday morning was accidental or intentional.

The southern Bristol County resident is over the age of 50, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said in a statement.