Fall River police

A man is recovering after he was shot Friday night in Fall River, Massachusetts, authorities say. Police responded to a shooting at 227 Lawrence St. shortly after 10 p.m. Arriving officers found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound in the groin area, police said. Approximately 10 rounds were allegedly fired from a vehicle that fled the scene, according to…

A search continues for the operator of a motorcycle believed to have been ejected into the Taunton River after a crash on the Veterans Memorial Bridge in Massachusetts. Massachusetts State Police said it was continuing to look for the victim, who they said was a 35-year-old Fall River man. On Sunday, the U.S. Coast Guard said it had suspended...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments challenging a law that makes it illegal for people to ask for money on public roads Monday. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against Fall River in March of last year, arguing the city was aggressively enforcing the state law. They also argue the law itself is unconstitutional….

Dramatic police footage shows a man, hiding out in the woods of southeast Massachusetts, successfully tracked down and arrested this week. Massachusetts State Police released the video of Monday’s arrest in the Fall River woods on Wednesday. The suspect had last been seen running across Route 24 near Wilson Road and into the nearby woods, police said in a statement….

The Wampanoag Tribe says it found racist graffiti at the Watuppa Pond Reservation in Fall River, Massachusetts, Thursday. The letters “KKK,” swastikas and other markings were spray-painted to trees, the ground and several buildings on the premise, according to the Herald News.

Police officers in Fall River, Massachusetts, are under investigation after using force to subdue a 17-year-old student. Fall River Police said the department is reviewing cellphone video showing officers trying to subdue a student Thursday at the Resiliency Preparatory Academy. The video appears to show one of the officers repeatedly punching the student’s head.

Massachusetts police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing teenager from Fall River. Authorities say 14-year-old Tori Lenae Dellima did not go home after school. A handwritten note was found that indicated she planned to go to Sri Lanka and the Middle East with someone she can trust.

Police now say 59 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, about twice as many as initially thought. Fall River police said Thursday in a Facebook post that they came up with the higher number after a row-by-row inspection of Hebrew Cemetery. Of those 59, two had been knocked over. The stones were defaced with...

Police are looking for the culprits that vandalized a Jewish cemetery with hate speech in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Police are investigating anti-Semitic messages and Nazi imagery scrawled on dozens of gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts. Fall River police say they responded to a report of vandalism at the Hebrew Cemetery at around 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The graffiti and damage was first discovered by a cemetery maintenance worker. Authorities said about 30 gravestones were tagged with swastikas,...

Police are asking for help finding a missing Massachusetts man.

Police in Massachusetts have charged teenage girls ages 14 and 15 with robbing a bank. Fall River police say the 14-year-old girl walked into BayCoast Bank on Troy Street on Wednesday afternoon and told a teller she would “blow everything up and kill everybody” if the teller did not hand over cash.

Police in Massachusetts are looking for a woman they say intended to rob a bank but got cold feet and left without a penny.

Two children were hit by a car on their way to school Monday morning in Fall River, Massachusetts according to Fall River Police.

Authorities say a Massachusetts man has turned himself in to police custody after he was announced as a suspect in a fatal stabbing over the weekend. Twenty-nine-year-old Fall River resident Adam Conners will be arraigned on Monday on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in connection with 39-year-old Joseph Reading’s stabbing death on Saturday, according to...

Police have identified a suspect in the case.

Authorities in Massachusetts say they’re searching a suspect in a stabbing that critically injured a man. Fall River police say they’re looking for 22-year-old Patrick Theriault in connection with the Saturday night stabbing.

A Massachusetts school bus driver is facing numerous charges after 11 students were injured following a wild ride on Thursday afternoon.

Police are searching for the owners of a dog that bit a man and his dog in Fall River, Massachusetts on Wednesday afternoon.

Police are investigating threatening text messages sent to three members of a Massachusetts city council.