New Bedford News

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.