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A Fall River woman has been seriously hurt in a July 4 shooting in the city, according to a police spokesperson.

A Fall River woman has been seriously hurt in a July 4 shooting in the city, according to a police spokesperson.

After a quarter century of owning and operating the St. James Irish Pub, the owner of the popular Fall River business says it's time to retire.

I wish I had a chance to meet Jacob Raposa of Somerset. There isn’t a person in town that doesn’t know the upstanding citizen that Jacob was. I got a chance to speak with Somerset Constable David Balcius about Jacob’s legacy and Balcius’s touching plan to create a top-notch memorial for "Bike 1." “If you saw Jacob flying down County Street, you know he was responding to a call,” Balcius said. He shared with me how Raposa was the unofficial guardian of the area with a scanner in one hand and his bike handle in the other. “He reported to every accident,” Balcius said. "He rode ...

FALL RIVER — Not every Phase 2 vaccination site in Fall River will be rolling into action on Monday. Both CVS on President Avenue and Walgreens on Plymouth Avenue will begin administering COVID-19  vaccines on that first day of Phase 2, as part of the commonwealth’s long-term vaccination program. But that’s not the case for the new regional inoculation site on the campus of Bristol Community College. That site won’t swing into action until Wednesday, according to Elaina Pevide, spokeswoman for Mayor Paul Coogan. And Pevide said the regional site on Elsbree Street “for the foreseea...