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Yesterday, members of the Massachusetts State Police Cyber Crime Unit (CCU) arrested a Shirley man on child pornography charges following an investigation into a purchase the man made through an online, e-commerce corporation. The investigation began when the e-commerce corporation alerted the CCU that a man had purchased a “love …

As always, click on the title for more or detailed information on the event. Most of the events were pulled from our event calendar where you can find hundreds of local area events each month. The event calendar is FREE, so if you are a local business, and not taking …

Senate Assistant Majority Leader and Rules Committee Chairman Mark Montigny (D-New Bedford) voted today to pass legislation which will implement significant state dollars toward local public schools. Under this legislation, New Bedford stands to receive millions of dollars in additional state aid and will rank among the top five communities …

You just finished unloading your catch, it is 2:30 am in the middle of the winter and you have been up for over twenty-four hours straight. Tired, exhausted, beat up…yet somehow, deep down, you feel invincible. You know that what you just went through and how hard you pushed not …

New Bedford’s Mayor Jon Mitchell discusses the construction and long-term improvement on Union Street, and potholes that frustrate New Bedford drivers. 

Why have panhandlers increased in numbers in New Bedford over the last three years? Mayor Mitchell provides two reasons; court rulings and opioids.  

Meisum Bakery Inc. and its owner, Xi Xian Lei, were sentenced on April 24 in federal court in Boston in connection with a more than $740,000 food stamp fraud scheme that Lei and his employees operated out of a Chinatown bakery. Meisum Bakery Inc. was sentenced by U.S. District Court …

Mayor Jon Mitchell represented the City of New Bedford at the Mayors’ Institute on Opioids hosted by the National League of Cities (NLC) on Wednesday, leading a delegation representing organizations in New Bedford. New Bedford has taken a leadership role in working to prevent opioid abuse. The Greater New Bedford …

An MS-13 member pleaded guilty on Wednesday, May 9 in federal court in Boston to racketeering conspiracy involving the murder of a 16-year-old boy in East Boston. Edwin Diaz, a/k/a “Demente,” 20, a Salvadoran national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, more …