New Bedford

DNA recovered from the interior of a conch shell thought to have been used as a weapon in the 2001 killing of a Massachusetts woman has led to the indictment on a murder charge of the victim’s half-brother, prosecutors said.

More than two dozen people were left homeless on Thanksgiving after flames tore through three multi-family homes in New Bedford, Massachusetts. “I just saw smoke and flames coming out of the building,” witness Michael Meagher of New Bedford said. The fire happened at a residence on Washburn Street just before 10 a.m. and quickly spread to two other structures, authorities…

A small plane crashed in a cemetery in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Monday, leaving its pilot dead and debris scattered across several graves. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the crash, now under federal investigation, at Rural Cemetery in the city.

The federal government is trying to keep the disgraced fishing magnate known as the Codfather out of the seafood business.

East Coast fishermen are turning a wary eye toward an emerging upstart: the offshore wind industry.

President Barack Obama will establish on Thursday the first national marine monument in the Atlantic, a move that’s designed to permanently protect nearly 5,000 square miles of underwater canyons and mountains off the coast of New England.