A jury has convicted a Dartmouth man of driving drunk and killing a young, single mother of three in an early morning car crash on Popes Island in 2008.
A grand jury has indicted a New Bedford man who police said jumped into another man's pickup truck following a fistfight last summer and then sped down several city streets before losing control and flipping the truck over.
The School Committee voted unanimously Monday night to award a "New Bedford High School" diploma to all graduating seniors, reversing a decision the committee made last month to change the diploma's wording.
The state Fire Marshal's Office has ruled that a backyard fire in the South End that seriously injured a New Bedford woman on Sunday was unintentional.
March 13, 2010 12:00 AM Teen Challenge is one of the most successful alcohol and drug treatment programs this nation has to offer, and a chapter is desperately needed here in New Bedford.
A disparaging remark about a girlfriend led to a fight between two men that ended when a city man bit off a piece of his friend's lip and punched his teeth out, police said.
In the second of two gun-related rulings today, the Supreme Judicial Court rejected a New Bedford man's effort to have gun-possession charges thrown out on the theory that state laws that require gun permits are now unconstitutional.
A $3.5 million Nonquit summer home was destroyed in a fire Tuesday night. John Oliveira, the public information officer for Dartmouth Fire District 1, said the home at 2 Annawan St.
The Plymouth County District Attorney's Office has determined that a state police SWAT team lawfully shot and killed a New Bedford man who fired at the troopers last November when they entered his residence to search for drugs.
Some fishermen and advocates for the industry voiced concern at a regional summit Monday about upcoming federal regulations they warn could put them out of business, while others suggested the changes were a necessary way to curb overfishing.
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