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57 min ago | Lowell Sun

Advocates to tour Mass. to promote English classes

Immigrant advocates are scheduled to tour the state to promote new grants aimed at helping immigrants learn English.

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

SouthCoastToday.com

New Bedford seasonal flu clinic receives record numbers

The seasonal flu probably won't hit SouthCoast until late December, but hundreds of city employees aren't taking any chances.

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Boston Globe

The New Bedford-Fairhaven hurricane barrier

New Bedford planner David Kennedy walked atop the New Bedford-Fairhaven hurricane barrier yesterday.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

SouthCoastToday.com

Providence man charged with kidnapping Middletown girl, assaulting her in New Bedford

A Providence man is charged with kidnapping a 14-year-old girl in Middletown, R.I., and driving her into New Bedford, where he allegedly assaulted her and left her overnight Thursday, police said.

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Boston Business Journal

New Bedford fishermen aghast

There's a bumper sticker popular in fishing cities, at least in New England. It refers to a certain federal agency and accuses it of "destroying fishermen and their communities since ." Why the vagueness? Because the Mass Roundup blog won't be giving the agency a chance to comment on ridiculously shory pre-dawn notice.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Osha.gov

US Labor Department's OSHA cites New Bedford, Mass., seafood processor following worker death in ice machine

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Northern Wind Inc., a New Bedford, Mass., seafood processor, for 23 alleged violations of workplace safety standards after a worker was killed on May 4 when he became caught in the moving parts of a large industrial ice-making machine that activated while he was ...

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Boston Herald

State Police under fire shoot, kill man in N. Bedford

State police said members of the Special Tactical Operations team were fired upon through a wall as they tried to enter a first-floor apartment on Shawmut Avenue at 6 a.m. A bullet fired from within the apartment struck a trooper in the torso and was absorbed by his body armor, state police said.

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SouthCoastToday.com

Gloucester skipper pleads guilty in death of Dartmouth sailor

The skipper of the power boat involved in a fatal 2008 collision in Buzzards Bay near Dartmouth pleaded guilty today of negligent operation of a vessel, death involved, and was given a one-year suspended sentence and 10 years probation.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

SouthCoastToday.com

New Bedford seafood plant where worker was crushed to death facing $67K in OSHA fines

A city seafood plant, where a worker was crushed to death by an ice machine this spring, is facing nearly $67,000 in proposed fines after federal safety inspectors cited the company for 23 alleged violations of workplace safety standards.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

SouthCoastToday.com

Scholarship is at the core of Miss New Bedford Pageant

The Miss America Pageant and its preliminaries, including Miss New Bedford, are billed as scholarship pageants.

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SouthCoastToday.com

Police log: New Bedford man charged with throwing loaded handgun during police chase

A city man was ordered held in lieu of bail Monday on charges he threw a loaded handgun onto a rooftop in Bay Village while evading police late Friday.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

SouthCoastToday.com

GNB Voc-Tech will unveil new logo at Nov. 22 open house

Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School will throw open its doors, showcase some of its students' acting abilities, and unveil a new school logo at its annual Open House on Sunday, Nov.

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Sun Nov 01, 2009

SouthCoastToday.com

Global Learning Charter Public School welcomes new principal

There's a new face at the Global Learning Charter Public School. It belongs to the new principal.

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Sat Oct 31, 2009

SouthCoastToday

Police in schools program draws support, criticism in crime-weary New Bedford

Police Chief Ronald E. Teachman wants to cultivate stronger ties between police and schools by having uniformed officers visit the city's elementary schools on a weekly basis to interact with students.

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WWLP

State police honor officers for bravery

The commanding officer of the Massachusetts State Police has honored some of state's bravest officers.

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The Standard-Times

Police log: Two New Bedford men arrested on gun, drug charges

Two city men are being held pending dangerousness hearings after being arrested in the South End on drug and firearm charges.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

WHDH

Police arrested RI man for alleged kidnapping

Police have accused a 35-year-old Providence man of abducting a 14-year-old girl in Rhode Island, then bringing her to New Bedford, Mass., and sexually assaulting her.

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SouthCoastToday.com

New Bedford teen acquitted of armed robbery, shooting charges

A jury acquitted a city teen Thursday of armed robbery and firearms charges stemming from a November 2008 car chase and shooting in the West End.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

The Standard-Times

New Bedford, State Police detectives honored for apprehending murder suspect

Seven New Bedford police officers, six state troopers assigned to the Bristol County District Attorney's Office and a Lord Phillips Apartments security guard will be honored today in Boston for their actions in apprehending double-murder suspect Gary A. Gomes in January.

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SouthCoastToday.com

Film crew for Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz movie comes to New Bedford tonight a " without its big stars

Both sides of Route 18 from Union Street south will be shut down for 12 hours, starting at 6 p.m. tonight, as Hollywood comes to the Whaling City.

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