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Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced today that a New Bedford heroin and cocaine trafficker was convicted and sentenced to serve seven to 11 years in state prison. Omar Colon, 46, pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon in Fall River Superior Court to two indictments charging with with trafficking …

The Dock-U-Mentaries Film Series continues on Friday, October 16th at 7:00 PM with Gloucester’s Adventure: An American Story. Dock-U-Mentaries is a co-production of New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, and the Working Waterfront Festival. Films about the working waterfront are screened on the third …

The 2015 Working Waterfront Festival (September 26 & 27) featured a variety of competitions throughout the weekend. Participants competed in whaleboat races; a tug boat muster; net mending, splicing, link squeezing, and scallop shucking contests; a Nautical Tattoo Contest, and a Seafood Throwdown. Each event showcased a variety of industry …

Yesterday morning at about 4:49 a.m., troopers from the Concord Barracks responded to a report of a rollover crash involving a tandem tractor trailer unit on Route 95 northbound, south of exit 31 in Lexington. Preliminary investigation by Trooper Patrick Scanlon indicates that the operator, a 52 year-old male from …

The event will take place on Friday October 2nd, 2015 from 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Taunton, 700 Myles Standish Blvd., Taunton, MA 02780. District Attorney Quinn and Taunton Mayor Thomas Hoye will offer opening remarks beginning at 9 a.m. Taunton Mayor Thomas Hoye will also …

The Seafood Throwdown, which took place on Sunday, September 27th, is an “iron chef” style cooking competition in which two chefs compete to create a winning dish using a surprise local seafood ingredient which is revealed to them at the event. This year the secret seafood was DOGFISH! In a …

As the just-upgraded Hurricane Joaquin churns over the central Atlantic, Mayor Jon Mitchell reminds New Bedford residents and business owners that taking basic preparedness steps well before a storm approaches is the key to protecting lives and property. There is still much uncertainty in Hurricane Joaquin’s path and no advisories …

I’ll just be up front and state that Flour Girls Baking Co. in Fairhaven is one of my favorite spots on planet earth. No need for subterfuge or clever, creative writing that takes a convoluted path to tell you whether a place is worthy of garnering our attention or not. …

Last week, members of the Southeastern Massachusetts Gang Task Force, which is comprised of state police, local police, and members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with state police assigned to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office, executed a search warrant for firearms and narcotics on Belmont Ave. in …

Salty the Seahorse and the Mattapoisett Land Trust once again wish to invite children of all ages to join us for what has become a fall tradition of fun in the firelight on Saturday, October 24, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Dunseith Gardens (Route 6 at North Street). The …