The MBTA announced today that New Bedford, Fall River and other South Coast points will get commuter-rail service starting on the morning of March 24 - for the first time in 65 years. Read more.
By adamg - 11/16/24 - 9:59 am
A federal appeals court yesterday took several whacks - possibly as many as 41 - at the company that runs a B&B in Lizzie Borden's old home in Fall River, denying its request for a temporary restraining order to get the upstart Miss Lizzie's Coffee next door from glomming onto the gruesome story as its trademark case against the coffee place continues to percolate through the courts. Read more.
By adamg - 10/11/24 - 9:38 pm
A federal judge in Washington, DC this week convicted the owner of a Fall River market on four counts - one a felony - for throwing a flagpole topper at police and using a bullhorn to encourage other insurrectionists inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, after first videoing himself exclaiming that he'd like to "grab Nancy Pelosi by the hair and fucking twirl her around." Read more.
By adamg - 9/18/23 - 11:11 pm
The operator of the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River has an axe to grind with the way the owner of a new coffeehouse next door named the place Miss Lizzie's Coffee and put up signs with blood-drenched hatchets. Read more.
By adamg - 4/16/23 - 12:36 pm
Video showing a four-car MBTA commuter-rail train being put through its paces in the Fall River area, using one T locomotive and two engines leased from Larry's Truck and Electric, a McDonald, OH company that specializes in used rail engines and equipment. Read more.
By Ron Newman - 7/12/06 - 10:36 am
This week's Big Dig accident is not the first time the roof of a highway tunnel has collapsed in Massachusetts. The same thing happened in Fall River seven years ago. Read more here:
By adamg - 7/7/05 - 11:47 pm
With the T now at Orange Alert, Sco says we need to remember all the other vulnerable targets in New England, both present and planned - such as the proposed LNG terminal
