New Bedford News

A Danish pension company has promised to invest $200 million in Cape Wind providing the project's financing is closed by the end of the year.

The Friends of Buttonwood Park, Fay's Restaurant and musician Peter Grace will collaborate in a fundraiser for the park from 11:30 a.m. to closing Monday.

Vieira Levitt, museum curator, gallery director for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and photographer of Brutalist architecture, discusses her photographs.

The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education approved a policy change Tuesday to allow proposals to build residence halls at any of the state's 15 community colleges, according to a press release.

Officials want to establish a "cultural district" downtown aimed at bringing the city's growing arts community under a single umbrella and possibly drawing in state money.

Claire L. Picard, age 102 years, died on June 15, 2013 at The Oaks Nursing Center, after having given to and taken from life all that is humanely possible.

Richard G. Holtkamp, 80, of New Bedford died June 15, 2013 at The Oaks Nursing Home.

Dorothy V. Teixeira, 91, of So. Dartmouth, died Sunday, June 16, 2013 following a lengthy period of declining health at the home of her cousin, Mary-Norma Magan and her husband Carl.

A Massachusetts woman says she and her 5-year-old developmentally disabled daughter were thrown out of a Providence, R.I., theater during a "Beauty and the Beast" performance because the girl was making giggling and humming noises she makes when she's happy.

Benjamin Mallory Brewer passed away quietly on May 16, 2013. He was the devoted husband of Beverly Ann Brewer for 55 years.

Stephen Barker, Head of School at Friends Academy in Dartmouth, offered that assessment at the Sally Borden Program's annual ceremony to mark the end of the 2012-13 academic year.

A city man is charged with stabbing a 47-year-old man Saturday night on Delano Street after an argument, police said.

A city man is accused of fraudulently collecting more than $14,000 in unemployment benefits while also earning about $41,000 working as an electrical contractor, Attorney General Martha Coakley said Monday.

Eric Fernandes Memorial Scholarship Trust fundraiser, held Saturday, June 15, 2013, at Dublin's Sports Bar n' Grille, New Bedford.

Noel Silvares-Carrion, 18, and George Boye, 21, of New Bedford were arrested along with Dartmouth man Corey Costa, 21, and an unnamed 16-year-old after police responded to reports of suspicious men near Durfee and Highland streets looking inside parked cars, a police news release said.

The minimum wage in Massachusetts, now at $8 per hour, should be raised by a dollar.

JOHN SLADEWSKI/the Standard-Times Stanley Barboza, who will be 100 in July, is the area's oldest living lightship veteran.

Carole C. Bacchieri, 82, of Englewood, FL and East Wareham, passed away on June 4, 2013.

Joao Tavares do Couto, 89, of Dartmouth, died Friday, June 14, 2013, at his home surrounded by his family following a period of declining health.

Editor's note: The following information has been provided by local police departments, courts and state agencies serving Patch towns.