Dartmouth

A high school in Bristol County, Mass. is putting a new policy in place for the start of the school year that will not allow students to use their cell phones during class, according to NBC affiliate WJAR-TV. Students at Dartmouth High School will place their phones into a “cell hotel,” which kind of looks like a shoe rack....

Dartmouth College has named its first female president in the private Ivy League university’s over 250-year history. Sian Leah Beilock, 46, the current president of Barnard College and a leading expert on the brain science behind “choking under pressure,” will become Dartmouth’s president July 1, 2023, succeeding Philip J. Hanlon. Beilock, who will be Dartmouth’s 19th president, said she’s...

Dartmouth is joining several of its Ivy League peers in adopting a no-loan policy.

A Dartmouth, Massachusetts man is under arrest following a reported fight that led to a police standoff at a home in the town early Sunday morning. Police responded to the home on Fenton Street shortly after 5a.m. after receiving reports of several males fighting. According to police, one of the men barricaded himself inside the home with a gun...

An investigation is underway after a gunfight reportedly broke out outside of a mall in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, on Friday night. Police responded to the Dartmouth Mall parking lot near Aldi around 10:30 p.m. and found numerous shell casings and bullet fragments lodged into a parked car. According to police, two groups of people exchanged gunfire before fleeing the area…

An 11-year-old child in Dartmouth, Massachusetts was taken to the hospital after suffering burns Saturday night from standing near a campfire when it exploded. Police say the incident occurred around 9:20p.m. According to police, the child was standing near a campfire at a home on Collins Corner Road around 9:20p.m. The 11-year-old was injured after a gasoline container that...

One person has died and two others were rushed to the hospital after a Jeep veered off the road and struck a tree on Route 195 westbound in Dartmouth Sunday night. Massachusetts State Police said they were called to the scene where the rented Jeep Cherokee crashed shortly after 10 p.m., along with Fire and EMS units. A passenger was…

A 20-year-old New Bedford woman died after being ejected from her car in a crash on Route 195 west in Dartmouth Friday morning. Massachusetts State Police found the woman, identified as Cali McMullen, shortly before 2 a.m. on the road near her 2009 Honda Civic, which had sustained significant damage. She was pronounced dead on scene. The westbound lanes were closed…

Police have identified the victim of a crash that occured on Thursday in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. According to police, at approximately 7:15 a.m. on Thursday morning they were called to investigate a single-vehicle crash on Prospect Street. They said they found a 2008 Toyota Tundra in the woods with heavy front-end damage. The driver, Antonio Vassal, 61, of Dartmouth was pronounced…

An elderly man died Friday after becoming trapped under a Mustang Skid-Steer loader in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, officials said. Leslie Dewards, 80, was making repairs to the machine and was jacking the item off the ground when the tragic incident unfolded, the Bristol County District Attorney said in a statement Saturday. Dartmouth police and fire departments responded to the couple’s Pardon…