NEW BEDFORD — Just an hour after police announced they had arrested a teenager in the hit-and-run killing of a mother of three on New Year’s Day, dozens of community members gathered outside her ...

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A GoFundMe has been established to pay for the memorial and burial of a New Bedford woman who was killed in a hit-and-run on Thursday. Nicolassa Ventura Colaj, 33, was struck and killed by an SUV ...

NEW BEDFORD – A Dartmouth 16-year-old faces a charge of negligent motor vehicle homicide relating to the early New Year's Day crash that took the life of 33-year-old Nicolasa Ventura Colaj as she was ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — An investigation is underway into a deadly hit-and-run that occurred early New Year’s Day in New Bedford. Officials said 33-year-old Nicolasa Ventura Colaj, of New Bedford, ...

INJURIES. SO FAR, NO ARRESTS. NEW ON FIVE. A PASTOR REMEMBERING A WOMAN WHO WAS KILLED JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT AS SHE WAS LEAVING THIS CHURCH. THE DRIVER WHO HIT HER, NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. THE WOMAN WAS A ...

NEW BEDFORD, MASS. (WHDH) - A woman was killed in a hit-and-run in New Bedford Thursday, according to Bristol Country District Attorney Thomas Quinn. The victim was identified as Nicolassa Ventura ...

Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced that the victim was identified as Nicolassa Ventura Colaj, 33, of New Bedford. An initial investigation has revealed that Colaj and her ...

A New Bedford woman was killed in a hit-and-run after leaving a church gathering early Thursday morning, according to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office. Nicolassa Ventura Colaj, 33, was ...

A 16-year-old is in custody, charged following a deadly New Year's Eve hit-and-run that killed a woman who was leaving a gathering at a church in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Bristol County District ...