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NEW BEDFORD — A New Bedford man has been arrested after police say they found drugs in his home that were kept just feet from where his children were sleeping.Massachusetts State Police, New Bedford Police, and a deputy from the Bristol County Sheriff's Department executed...

QUINCY, MA — A drug deal was thwarted Tuesday in the Stop & Shop parking lot, leading to the arrest of seven people and the seizure of cocaine, heroin or fentanyl, and Suboxone strips, according to police. Around 3:10 p.m., police were on patrol near...

New Bedford and State Police on Tuesday arrested an alleged repeat drug offender on fentanyl trafficking charges, and troopers seized a bag of the suspected opioid near a mattress where the man’s two young children were sleeping, authorities said.Troopers identified the suspect as Oscar Ramos-Torres,...

By Tiffany Tan, Bennington Banner BENNINGTON — A local woman has pleaded not guilty to being an accessory in a fatal Bennington drug overdose in January. Rikki Vallee, 35, is charged with being an accessory to a fellow Bennington woman accused of providing Dawn Bossong, 51, with...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) -- A 31-year-old Wausau woman is expected to be formally charged Thursday with providing drugs to a man resulting his overdose death. Ashley Szarkowitz is expected to be charged with first degree reckless homicide and delivering narcotics. According to court documents Wausau Police responded...