Dartmouth

Dartmouth will not enter into collective bargaining with the union its men’s basketball players voted to join earlier this month, the school said Monday in a move that could send the case to federal court. In a statement announcing its refusal to bargain a labor deal with the athletes, the school was adamant that it believes “athletes in the...

The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday certified a union to represent Dartmouth basketball players after the deadline passed for the school to object to the election. Big Green players voted 13-2 on March 5 to join the Service Employees International Union Local 560 – the first ever labor union for college athletes. The March 12 deadline was for objections…

The Dartmouth men’s basketball team voted to unionize Tuesday in an unprecedented step toward forming the first labor union for college athletes and another attack on the NCAA’s deteriorating amateur business model.

Dartmouth College will honor the memory of its winningest football coach by adding his name to its athletic complex next fall. Buddy Teevens, known nationally for his efforts to make football safer, died in September of injuries he had sustained in a bicycle accident six months earlier. The Ivy League school announced Wednesday that it will host a community celebration…

The two Dartmouth players working to unionize their basketball team say other athletes — both on campus and from other Ivy League schools — have been reaching out to see if they can join the effort. Romeo Myrthil and Cade Haskins said Saturday they have been bombarded with messages on social media since a National Labor Relations Board official ruled…

The Dartmouth men’s basketball team has scheduled a March 5 election to determine whether the players will unionize – a step that would be unprecedented in American college sports. The National Labor Relations Board said the in-person election will take place on the school’s Hanover, New Hampshire, campus. Although the NCAA has long maintained that the players are “student-athletes” —…

A teenager was killed and a woman was critically injured in a crash Friday night in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Police say officers were called to a report of a single car crash with ejections around 10:35 p.m. in the area of Gulf Road and Smith Neck Road. Responding officers found two people unresponsive in the roadway and a heavily damaged Honda…

A student driver who hit and killed another student at UMass Dartmouth’s campus in April has been charged with motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation, prosecutors said Friday. Danasia Sampson, a 22-year-old from Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood, is due to face the charge in New Bedford District Court on Nov. 7. It wasn’t immediately clear if she had a lawyer...

Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens, a nationally known advocate for implementing measures to decrease head injuries in football, died Tuesday following injuries from a bicycle accident in March. He was 66 years old.

A little piece of history is up for auction. The former Shawmut Diner sat at the corner of Hathaway Road and Shawmut Avenue in New Bedford, Massachusetts, for decades. In 2014 it closed, and its owners donated the diner to the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office. Longtime owners Phil and Celeste Paleologos had hoped it would be used to help inmates…

One man is dead and two other people are severely injured after a head-on collision Sunday in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Dartmouth police said they responded to Chase Road around 3:50 p.m. for a crash and found a Cadillac Seville and a GMC Acadia had collided. The Cadillac driver was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford where he was...

Public health officials in the South Coast community of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, have issued a notice about a woodchuck at a well-known ice cream joint in town. Anyone who had direct contact with a woodchuck at John George Ice Cream at around 5 p.m. on Sunday is being urged to contact their healthcare provider, or the Massachusetts Department of Public Health,…

Firefighters battled a large blaze at the former Hawthorne Country Club in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, on Sunday afternoon. “As a result of this active structure fire at the former Hawthorne Country Club, southbound traffic on Tucker Road is being detoured up Allen Street,” Dartmouth police said in a Facebook post. Officials told WJAR that the building, located on Tucker Road, was…

Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens, a nationally known advocate for implementing measures to decrease head injuries in football, had his right leg amputated following a bicycle accident last month in Florida.

Police in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, are asking for the public’s help finding whoever is responsible for hateful vandalism that was discovered this weekend. Dartmouth police say officers responded to the Burgo Basketball Association facility, located at 101 Slocum Road, around 5 p.m. for a reported hate crime and found a derogatory term had been spray-painted on a dumpster. There are no…

A student at UMass Dartmouth was struck and killed by a vehicle on campus on Thursday, according to a letter sent to the college community by the chancellor. First-year bioengineering student Frank Petillo Jr. died at the hospital, according to the university. “This has been a very difficult week for the Corsair community,” Dr. Mark Fuller wrote in the letter….