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A 43-year-old career criminal from Taunton who has been convicted and served committed jail or prison time on 18 different occasions since 1990 was convicted at trial last week of illegal firearm charges and sentenced to serve at least a decade in state prison...

NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Police say Wednesday's robberies of two discount stores may be connected to other robberies in the city. Just after 12 p.m. Wednesday, the Family Dollar on Hathaway Road was robbed by a man armed with a handgun...

NEW BEDFORD - A County Street liquor store was the target of an armed robbery Monday. New Bedford Police say just after 4 p.m. Monday, a man walked into Washington Square Package Store at 281 County Street, displayed what looked like a handgun, and demanded money from the register...

NEW BEDFORD—New Bedford Police took another gun off the streets early Sunday morning. At approximately 1 a.m. Sunday, officers assigned to the downtown police station were dispatched to Slainte Irish Pub, 34 Union Street, on a report of a male in possession of a handgun...

NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Police are investigating a shooting early this morning. Police say the city's ShotSpotter detection system picked up two gunshots fired just before 6 A.M. at Merrimac and Pleasant Streets, north of downtown. Police responded to the scene and found two shell casings...

FALL RIVER - Two men are under arrest after Fall River Police say they stabbed a taxi driver and tried to shoot him. The taxi driver told police he was dropping the men off near Slade Street around 10:20 Thursday night when one of the men put a gun to the driver's head and demanded money...

FALL RIVER - Fall River Police are probing two shootings last night. According to The Herald News, an unidentified victim was hospitalized after apparently being struck by gunfire before 8:30 P.M. Thursday. The victim may have been shot in the head...

NEW BEDFORD - Global Learning Charter Public School officials are contemplating what to do after a student brought an airsoft pistol to the New Bedford school. The incident took place Tuesday when a sixth grader brought the replica gun into the school, with the gun accidentally being fired at another student...

NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Police are investigating an armed robbery in the South End. The 27-year-old male employee at Rent-A-Center on Dartmouth Street told police two men came into the store just after 6 P.M. Wednesday demanding money...

NEW BEDFORD - A 16-year-old New Bedford boy has been arrested after police found him in possession of a gun. Police say the juvenile was pulled over near Cedar and Smith Streets in the West End Wednesday afternoon. During the investigation, police found a loaded ...