On Saturday, January 12, at about 8:15 p.m., Wareham police officer Nate Aronson was approached on Main Street by three individuals who had observed a male exposing himself and committing a lewd act. The man was working as an attendant at Joe’s Gas and Officer Aronson also observed the same …

On Jan. 10 at 8:07pm, New Bedford police officers responded to a report that a 38-year old male and 39-year old female had overdosed the same North Front Street apartment. Both received medical attention at the scene and were transported to St. Luke’s for further evaluation. Thirty minutes later, New …

Mayor Jon Mitchell is pleased to join with the Greater New Bedford Area Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee in welcoming the public to attend the “Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Remembrance Celebration.” The celebration will be held on Sunday, January 20 , 2019 from 4:00-5:30 p.m. …

On Jan. 9 at 11:41pm, New Bedford police received a report that a female was walking in the area of County and Adams Street when she was struck from what appeared to be a pellet from BB gun or pellet gun from the window of a passing vehicle. She did …

On Wednesday, Jan. 9, New Bedford Police narcotics unit detectives were investigating street-level narcotics sales in the north end when they observed a suspected drug transaction among individuals in a vehicle in the area of 3 Bullard Street. Police officers arrested three individuals around 1 pm: – Jose G. Santiago, …

The following is a press release from U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein office on Jan 09, 2019: Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) led a group of senators in introducing the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, an updated bill to ban the sale, transfer, manufacture and …

According to New Bedford police records, there were three drug overdoses at the same South First Street address in New Bedford in a 16 hour period. One man overdosed twice – within 12 hours. On Jan. 8, at 9:19am, 34-year old women overdosed at the South First Street address and …

New Bedford judges have been on a “no bail” roll in the past week. On Friday, Jan. 4, 37-year-old Elizabeth Pina was arrested for seven outstanding warrants. Clearly, she is someone who doesn’t care much about authority or court decisions. She was released by the judge anyway. A few days …

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has announced that DW White is the apparent low bidder for its upcoming project to build a shared-use path in Mattapoisett. The path will accommodate bicyclists and pedestrians and will extend from Mattapoisett Neck Road to Depot Street. This new path will be the …

It was a dark 20 hours in New Bedford from Tuesday into Wednesday – there were four drug overdoses, a completed suicide and on attempted suicide in the city. At 6:09am on Tuesday, New Bedford police report an attempted suicide on Union Street. New Bedford police report overdoses at 8:45am, …