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A Westport woman has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs, after police say she crashed into an unmarked vehicle carrying three Fall River Police detectives.

NEW BEDFORD - Four city residents are arrested as New Bedford Narcotics Unit Detectives conducted surveillance in the North End.
New Bedford Police arrested and charged Lindsey Roderick, 29, after she was observed offering to engage in sex for a fee in the 100 block of Tallman Street...

NEW BEDFORD - The New Bedford Police Department's Detectives Division has a new leader.
Captain Adelino Sousa was promoted from his rank of Lieutenant, and now heads the division that was in the command of Captain Steven Vicente before his retirement last month...

A New Bedford man is found dead of an apparent suicide in Buttonwood Park. The man's body was found by a passerby hanging from a tree near the monument on Fuller Memorial Parkway between Brownell and Rockdale Avenues just before 6am this morning...

Fairhaven Police are investigating a hit and run incident that occurred early Saturday morning.

One woman is hospitalized while a man is in custody for a stabbing incident in Onset Center Friday Night.

Fairhaven Police are searching for a suspect in connection with a purse snatching at a local restaurant.
Police say the robbery took place Monday night around 8pm at Emma Jean's Brooklynne Deli on Huttleston Avenue.
The female victim told police a white male grabbed her purse as she was walking b…

New Bedford Police are investigating a weekend purse snatching.
Det. Capt. Steve Vicente tells WBSM News, the incident happened Sunday afternoon near the intersection of Nauset and Mt. Pleasant.
A 76 year old woman was walking nearby when a man came up behind her and grabbed her purse and ran off...

New Bedford Police are hunting for two men wanted for a stabbing early Thursday in an Ashley Street apartment.
Det. Capt. Steven Vicente tells WBSM News, two men forced their way into an apartment at 56 Ashley St. around 6am, and confronted a male occupant and demanded money...

Another case of school vandalism in New Bedford, this time at Keith Middle School.
According to an email sent to School Committee members by Jason Defalco, the Chief Academic Officer, at least ten teens broke into the school Saturday night, vandalizing school property, tossing food around in the comm…