Highlighting work recently completed by the City of New Bedford as part of its ongoing effort to stabilize neighborhoods in the wake of the national foreclosure crisis, today Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell toured a previously abandoned—now newly renovated—house. The single-family home at 36 …
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New Bedford Police, State Police Detectives assigned to this office and Homicide Unit Prosecutors are actively investigating a homicide, which occurred early this morning in The City of New Bedford. The city’s Shot Spotter gun shot detection system notified police of shots fired near the intersection of Acushnet Avenue and …
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Colonel Richard D. McKeon, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, announced that a “Sobriety Checkpoint” will be implemented by the Massachusetts State Police on a Public Way in the Suffolk County. The purpose is to further educate the motoring public and strengthen the public’s awareness to the need of detecting …
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Last night at about 11:20 p.m., following a motor vehicle stop on Route 2 West in Westminster, State Police arrested three men for trafficking in heroin. Trooper Christopher Call observed the operator of a 2006 Chevrolet Malibu, which was traveling westbound, commit motor vehicle violations. Trooper Call stopped the vehicle …
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Early this morning at approximately 12:04 a.m., troopers from the State Police Charlton Barracks responded to reports of a toll collector struck at interchange 10 of the Massachusetts Turnpike in Auburn. The toll collector, BILL PAPPAS, 61, from Holden, was reported to have serious injuries. Upon arrival, troopers discovered that …
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A male party shoplifted 6 boxes of Rogaine worth over $300.00 from the Fairhaven CVS store just after 3:30 Monday afternoon. The suspect appears to be in his late twenties to early thirties with brown hair and a chinstrap brown beard. A picture from the store’s video surveillance system is …
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Meet Gildas Robert, a young creative from New Bedford. Growing up in the city he has always been inspired by the remnants of the architecture from New Bedford past. He enjoys to be by the ocean and loves the sailing and fishing culture. After a small stay at UMass Dartmouth …
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Ruth and Abby, the national park’s 1850s ladies, invite you to come and “spin” a tale with them on Saturday, August 1, from 1:00-4:00 PM. Watch demonstrations of carding and spinning. Try your hand at these old time crafts. Free event. This free event, held in cooperation with the Rhode …
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On July 23, 2015 at about 2:00 a.m., a marked state police cruiser was on patrol in the vicinity of Forbes Blvd and Route 140 in the town of Mansfield. The trooper heard a loud noise that came from behind his cruiser as he was approaching a traffic signal. He …
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Berlioz, Sibelius & Dvořák September 19, 2015, at 7:30pm Martin Chalifour, principal concertmaster of the LA Philharmonic, will perform Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto Mendelssohn’s Elijah October 18, 2015, at 3pm Noune Karapetian, Margaret Lias, Matthew Anderson, and Philip Lima plus Rhode Island College Concert Choir and singers from Sippican Choral …
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