Courtside with Curt

Curt Brown and Brendan Kurie discuss the 3-4 year sentence of Benjamin Carpenter, a 43-year-old Hyannis man arrested four times for OUI in Bristol County, the most recent time in 2016 when he was clocked going 120 mph on I-195 with a blood alcohol level of .20.

28-year-old Oscar Ramos-Torres was drag racing on Route 18 North in New Bedford in front of an unmarked police car. When he was pulled over, they allegedly found more than 42 grams of fentanyl in his car. Curt Brown and Brendan Kurie discuss the case.

41-year-old Wallace M. Gilmore was taken into custody on Tuesday morning at a New Bedford drug rehab center on charges he murdered a man in New Orleans in 2014. Curt Brown and Brendan Kurie discuss the case.

Curt Brown and Brendan Kurie break down the case prosecutors presented against New Bedford murder suspects Robert Viveiros and Kenneth Roark in the murder of Chantel Bruno, who was stabbed 49 times on Jan. 22 in what police say was a dispute among neighbors over loud music and a barking dog at 387 Ashley Boulevard.

Police say he is involved in nine arsons in the North End of New Bedford, and he's been charged in two fires so far. Curt Brown and Brendan Kurie discuss the evidence and when those seven extra charges might be filed.

Curt Brown and Brendan Kurie discuss the effort to keep the 14 historic St. Lawrence Martyr Church bells in New Bedford. The latest includes a week-long extension that was granted on a looming deadline to raise another $35,000.

Standard-Times cops and courts reporter Curt Brown sits down with digital editor Brendan Kurie to discuss the arrest of Carmelo Kercado Jr., who has been charged with an October double-murder in New Bedford and has been named as a "person of interest" in another murder in August.

Brendan Kurie and Curt Brown are back to discuss the 14 church bells and a negotiated solution that may keep a piece of history in New Bedford.

Brendan Kurie, Curt Brown and Mike Bonner discuss the lawsuit that has been filed to keep the 14 bells from St. Lawrence Martyr Church from being moved to Cincinnati.

Curt Brown and Brendan Kurie discuss the arrest of William D. Raus, known as "Billy the Banker" at a Citizens Bank in Dartmouth, who has been charged with three counts of "upskirting" customers and employees.