Prime Minister Shinzo Abe angrily demanded Sunday that the extremist Islamic State group release a Japanese journalist it is holding hostage after a new online video purported to show that another hostage had been killed

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Bristol County District Attorney Tom Quinn announced this morning that an arrest has been made in connection to the Thursday afternoon homicide of 36-year-old Javon Brown in the City of New Bedford.

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Authorities say a woman whose car was struck by a fully-loaded logging truck in Maine has suffered serious injuries.

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Funding for charter schools has always been a topic of discussion.

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With the first winter storm of 2015 bearing down on the SouthCoast today (although thankfully, it's more rain than snow), that means the first snow memes of 2015 are hitting social media.

Here is a collection of some of our favorites this morning:

Red Sox Senior Vice President of Marketing and Brand Development joined WBSM's Tim Weisberg on Saturday morning to talk about the Red Sox' 2015 Winter Weekend at Foxwoods and some of the things fans can expect from the team this season

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A key religious leader will be preaching at New Bedford's Union Baptist Church this Sunday, January 25, at 11 a.m.
Rev. Laura E. Everett, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, will speak as part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

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A Friday night forum organized by Black Lives Matter - New Bedford attracted more than 200 people to the Unitarian Church Downtown.

They heard testimony from several people who claimed they were unjustly harassed and arrested by police

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Chicago Cubs Hall of Fame shortstop Ernie Banks has passed away, according to several media reports.

WGN in Chicago reports Banks died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Friday. He was 83.

Dubbed "Mr

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Mayor Jon Mitchell and previous Mayors have often called for a "new" New Bedford-Fairhaven bridge.

At the urging of Mayor Mitchell, the Mass. Department of Transportation began a study last year, and next month the D-O-T will be unveiling a list of both short and long-term alternatives to the nearly 100 year old span

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Federal and state authorities are investigating whether three bald eagles found ill at an eastern Massachusetts pond fed off a farm animal that had been euthanized with a drug.

The Standard-Times of New Bedford reports that the eagles were found Wednesday on the shores of Assawompset Pond in Lakeville and taken away for care

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NSTAR and its four sister subsidiaries, all owned by New England's largest energy delivery company, Northeast Utilities, are slated to get a new name and logo on Monday, Feb. 2. 

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Former Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Richard Davey has been named to head the organization leading the drive to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Boston.

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The National Football League has released its first official statement regarding their investigation into the use of under-inflated footballs by the New England Patriots in last Sunday's AFC Championship Game

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After nearly a week of constant "Deflate Gate" talk in the media, it seems sources have learned that there may be no repercussions at the end of this saga.

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