Like two gunslingers staring each other down from opposite ends of the main street in an Old West town, Kmart and Wal-Mart will soon be competing face to face in the New Harbour Mall. It's not often that a school district in Southeastern Massachusetts outshines its Boston-area brethren. Fall River men nabbed on drug charges Two Fall River men were arrested on marijuana distribution charges after a state trooper noticed their car drifting in and out of traffic on Route 195 in Swansea. The redistricting of a few hundred people for the town's next election boils down to a borderline situation, so to speak. The MBTA will expand commuter-rail service to Providence beginning Tuesday.
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