Plymouth

A pastor of a church in Woodbury is accused of having an illegal weapon as a convicted felon and has been arrested. Plymouth police received a complaint from a State of Connecticut Department of Parole on June 20. Investigators said a parole officer learned that a convicted felon, later identified as 67-year-old Peter P. Ventura Jr., of Terryville, may be…

A plane crashed at a campground in Plymouth on Monday morning and the pilot has been taken to the hospital. Police said they received a 911 call at 10:58 a.m. reporting that a plane had crashed at Gentile’s Campground, in the Terryville part of Plymouth. In a conversation with air traffic control captured on LiveATC.net, the woman in the...

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

A driver somehow lost control of his car and ended up in the Eel river on Friday afternoon.

A man has died after a single-vehicle crash Friday in Plymouth, Massachusetts, that also left two children hurt. Emergency crews responded around 5 p.m. to Route 3, where a vehicle went off the road and down an embankment. Massachusetts State Police said it landed upside-down in the Eel River. Three people were trapped in the vehicle, and first responders worked…

A man accused of firing a gun and hitting several homes this weekend in Plymouth, Massachusetts, faced a judge Monday. Joshua Fitzgerald, a 25-year-old Plymouth man, was arrested Saturday after authorities said a fight outside a bar led him to shoot at the buildings on North Spooner Street early that morning. Fitzgerald appeared in court Monday to face 19 charges,…

Authorities are investigating a body found in a park in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Saturday morning.

A firefighter in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is facing criminal charges after police say he set up hidden cameras in the home of his ex-girlfriend. Police say 31-year-old Richard Pimental of Plymouth recorded and shared footage of his ex and a fellow Plymouth firefighter engaged in a sex act. According to investigators, the woman lived with Pimental in his house until they…

The clinical decision unit will help the hospital to move people through the ER more efficiently.

A hospital on the Massachusetts South Shore is taking a new approach to treats its patients amid a growing caseload. Beth Israel Deaconess Plymouth just launched a new unit to relieve pressure on its emergency department. The 25-bed unit was assembled in Pennsylvania and installed at the hospital, and now it’s up and running as the new clinical decision...

A man and a woman were arrested after an alleged home invasion in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Wednesday morning. Plymouth Police say they responded to a residence on the 200 block of Summer Street at around 9 a.m. According to authorities, the victim said they had been “pistol whipped” along with another person and the suspects had escaped before the police…

A motorcycle driver was seriously hurt during a crash on Route 3A in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Saturday afternoon and police in the town have asked for the public’s help to track down a pickup truck they said was involved. Police responded to the crash — which happened on State Road, also called Route 3A — shortly after 12 p.m. Authorities…

Monteiro Macedo is due in Plymouth District Court for his arraignment on Monday.

John Geovanni Pires Monteiro Macedo was arrested Sunday in New Bedford for the shooting that happened last month.

The 20-year-old New Bedford, Massachusetts, man arrested on Sunday for last month’s fatal shooting in Myles Standish State Forest was ordered held without bail following his arraignment Monday. John Geovanni Pires Monteiro Macedo was arrested at a New Bedford apartment Sunday afternoon by the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office said. He...

The state’s only self-serve wine bar is located right in Plymouth. Uva Wine Bar features a selection of 48 different wines that are always changing. Hannah chats with the two founders, Katy Thayer and Michelle Manware, about how they started Uva and what they offer.

State regulators have denied a permit sought by the company in charge of decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to discharge 1.1 million gallons of industrial wastewater into Cape Cod Bay. After years of local opposition to the company’s discharge plan, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issued the draft determination Monday, stating that Cape Cod Bay…

A man is wanted in the deadly shooting of a person in Myles Standish State Forest on Wednesday, authorities said. An arrest warrant was issued for John Geovanni Pires Monteiromacedo, 20, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office said Friday. The shooting in Myles Standish State Forest in Plymouth left a 25-year-old from New Bedford, Robert Aponte-Flores, dead. It was not…

Authorities said that the shooting was not a random act of violence, and that there was not a threat to the public.