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One Year After Cape Cop Shot To Death, Little Has Changed

Matthew McDonald

A year after a Yarmouth police officer was shot and killed by a multiple-repeat-offender he was trying to arrest, several bills designed to make it easier to hold dangerous criminals haven't even gotten a hearing in the state Legislature.

Sergeant Sean Gannon was shot April 12, 2018 in Marstons Mills on Cape Cod by a man wanted on a warrant who had previously been charged with crimes 75 times.

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Good Samaritans Prevent Suicide in Fall River

Matthew McDonald

Passersby intervened when an unidentified person tried to commit suicide by jumping off the Braga Bridge in southeastern Massachusetts on Friday evening, according to police radio reports cited by a local newspaper.

The person was spotted a little before 7 p.m. Friday, April 12 in the westbound lane about halfway across the bridge.

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