A duty status hearing was held this afternoon at Massachusetts State Police General Headquarters for the trooper involved in Wednesday’s apprehension of suspect RICHARD SIMONE. Following the hearing, that trooper was ordered suspended with pay for the duration of the investigation into the the arrest. Today’s hearing was not part …

Yesterday morning at approximately 1 a.m. south end New Bedford police officers and medics were sent to 40 Thompson St. for a man laid out on the ground. The man was shoeless and shirtless and experiencing an overdose. It took 4 doses of Narcan to revive him and he was …

Earlier this week, New Bedford detectives and Trooper David Reis of the Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section received information from authorities in Puerto Rico that they were looking for an individual wanted for murder and gun charges. It was believed that the fugitive was staying somewhere in New Bedford. Yesterday afternoon …

Meet Angel Diaz, 28-year-old Math teacher, co-program director and DJ. Angel moved to New Bedford in his early teenage years, after living in Florida and New York for his early childhood. His start in New Bedford wasn’t that great, getting kicked out of New Bedford High School for carrying a …

A stellar weekend in terms of temperatures is ahead for us. Friday there will be some rain in the afternoon, but in spite of some clouds or partly sunny forecasts that will be it for the precipitation. We will be in the 60s all weekend with a warm high of …

Courtney Hill, a teacher at the Global Learning Charter Public School in New Bedford, was randomly chosen as the winner of a $25,000 Home Makeover from local home improvement company, Care Free Homes. Courtney and her husband, Matthew Hill, reside in New Bedford with their two children, Camden (5) and …

Meet Tiffany Ferreira, a Research Assistant at the University of Massachusetts as part of a Doctoral fellowship and part-time Operations Manager at Southern Lights Solar. As long as Tiffany could remember she had been good at math and during her high school years had even considered going to college to …

Grammy Award-winner Melissa Etheridge returns to Zeiterion Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, June 29, at 8 p.m. with her M.E. Solo tour. A limited run in an intimate setting, Melissa will play acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica and piano will perform songs from her latest album, This is M.E. The …

Arts, cultural, and business leaders in New Bedford are voicing their support for a proposal by Mayor Jon Mitchell to attract more creativity and investment to New Bedford and draw tourists through improved cultural planning, marketing, arts programming and public art. The proposal, first announced publicly in Mayor Mitchell’s March …

The Greater New Bedford unemployment rate is much higher than the rest of Massachusetts, but believe it or not there really are a lot of available for qualified applicants. Sometimes the barrier to a new job can be the lack of information on available job openings. To solve this, each …