Meet the man who put Jasiel Correia in prison
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When former Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia was charged with fraud and corruption, he was guilty in the eyes of many people in the public – but in a court of law, finding him guilty was a more difficult matter. In a wide-ranging interview with The Herald News, lead prosecutor and former assistant U.S. attorney Zachary Hafer spoke about the challenges in bringing Correia to justice — how he persuaded a jury to believe the word of criminals, why Correia's chief of staff Gen Andrade never testified, why key players in the case couldn’t be trusted, whose testimony sealed Correia’s fate, and why the verdict still leaves him unsatisfied. This is an interview you won’t want to miss.
Nothing says summer like a towering cone of ice cream. With warm weather adventures fast approaching, the irresistible scent of freshly made waffle cones fills the air on Seabury Street luring locals to a sweet new Fall River shop. Nonno's Ice Cream Shoppe opened its doors this past weekend across from Ruggles Park, and we stopped in to check it out.
It was a well-kept secret, but Tuesday night the Massachusetts Department of Transportation unveiled one of its latest projects when it flipped the switch to illuminate the Braga Bridge. The Braga Bridge, spanning from Fall River to Somerset on I-195 over the Taunton River, is now the fifth bridge in the Commonwealth outfitted with a state-of-the-art programmable LED lighting installation. Get a look at what $8 million in lighting can do, right here.
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