Blight

Ken Pittman examines the perception of New Bedford and how that plays into the controversy surrounding the residency requirement for city workers.

Councillor Hugh Dunn and the Neighborhood Task Force executed a property code sweep Wednesday in the North End area from Logan Street to Beetle Street, and Belleville Avenue up to North Front Street.

1) December 29, 1992, three weeks before the inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton, al Qa'eda targeted and attempted to murder US troops in a Yemen hotel bombing. Osama bin Laden happily took credit for it. Thankfully the troops had left for Somalia to aid the starving masses there shortly before the bombs went off...

Bond is set at one-million dollars for one of the charges against the man accused of killing nine people at a church in South Carolina this week. It was set at Dylann Roof's first court appearance in connection with the shooting. The judge said he could only set bail for a weapons charge in the case and didn't have the authority to set bail on the nine counts of murder Roof faces...