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Police arrested a city man in connection with an early morning shooting Tuesday outside the 7-Eleven convenience store at 489 Rockdale Ave.

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Massachusetts State Police on a case in New Bedford today were met with a barrage of bullets after knocking on a city apartment's door.

There is a growing legend out there, egged on by Hollywood and extremist Web sites, that the ancient Maya predicted the world would end on Dec.

City narcotics police raided a North End residence Tuesday evening, arresting two brothers and seizing drugs and cash.

New Bedford Mayor Scott W. Lang said the ranking was "extremely gratifying." "The work that has been done over the last four years has been very comprehensive," Lang said, describing how law enforcement, community leaders and prosecutors have collaborated to fight crime, especially gun violence.

The New Bedford voters have spoken - at least the 20 percent who turned out to the polls have - and their message is that they are very, very happy with what they already have.

New Bedford was recently named the sixth-safest city in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine.

Police have arrested a city man in connection with a stabbing Saturday during a house party on South Second Street.

In response to the article "Sacked by Virginia Tech, Voc-Tech to pick new logo," Oct.

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.