On February 11th, at about 2:00 p.m., Members of the State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section (VFAS), Woburn Police, and Boston Police arrested the man wanted by Woburn Police for assaulting a police officer and striking an elderly pedestrian with his vehicle as he fled the scene Wednesday afternoon. As …
Read More »Ramblin’ Pup Rescued From Busy Interstate
Early this afternoon, the State Police Barracks in Andover received reports of a large German Shepherd walking in the travel lanes on the southbound side of Route 495 in Methuen. The pup was walking in and out of traffic in all three lanes. Troopers Malachy Higgins and Dana Atkinson responded …
Read More »The South Coast Hot Jobs List – 11 February 2016
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 …
Read More »Police Dismantle Heroin Trafficking Organization in Boston and Revere
State Police, local police, and members of a federal drug task force culminated a four-month-long investigation into a heroin trafficking organization operating in Boston and Revere with arrests of two targets and the seizure of a significant amount of opioid narcotics. The investigation involved undercover purchases of significant amounts of …
Read More »Three Injured From Falling Debris On Pike In Millbury
Wednesday morning at about 6:40 a.m., three people were injured when a large metal object fell off of a tractor-trailer on Route 90 East in Millbury. Preliminary investigation by Trooper Mark Augusta indicates that ANTHONY DONALDSON, 48, of Roslindale, was traveling eastbound in a 2011 Freightliner tractor-trailer when the object …
Read More »State Police Investigating Double-Fatal Crash in Quincy
Massachusetts State Police are investigating a motor vehicle crash on Route 28 in Quincy that has resulted in fatalities of two occupants. A third occupant of the vehicle has been transported to a Boston hospital. Troopers responded to the crash at 1:27 am and found the vehicle engulfed in flames. …
Read More »State Police Investigating Fatal Crash in Saugus
At approximately 4:30 am Massachusetts State Police responded to reports of a single-car crash, a rollover, on Route 1 north in Saugus. An occupant of the vehicle suffered fatal injuries. The facts and circumstances of the crash remain under investigation by Troop A of the Massachusetts State Police along with …
Read More »NBHS Whaler Jazz Band Performs At Local Jazz Festival
New Bedford High School’s Whaler Jazz Band performed at Berklee College of Music’s High School Jazz Festival on Saturday, February 6, with NBHS students bringing two awards back to New Bedford. The full jazz band received an award for participating in 10 Berklee High School Jazz Festivals. The band scored …
Read More »South Coast Chamber Music invites you to celebrate Valentine’s Day with Sweethearts
The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra’s South Coast Chamber Music Series opens the second half of its 2015-16 season on February 13 & 14. South Coast Chamber Music invites you to celebrate Valentine’s Day with Sweethearts, featuring a bonbon (Milhaud’s Suite), a banquet (St. Saens’ second Piano Trio), and “Intimate Letters,” …
Read More »City Council Announces Special City Council Celebration Meeting Schedule
Council President Linda M. Morad has announced a change to the 2016 New Bedford City Council meeting schedule. Beginning March 3, 2016, the City Council will hold an additional Council meeting on the first Thursday of each Month, for the celebration and awarding of official City Council Citations and Resolutions. …
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