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NEW BEDFORD - A New Bedford woman is being charged after she crashed into several parked cars in the city. Police responded to the accident before 11 P.M. Wednesday night, and found 42-year-old Dawn Lynn Costa leaning against her vehicle which had hit two parked cars in front of 40 Linden Street...

NEW BEDFORD - A Revere man faces a charge of operating under the influence of drugs after he was found passed out in the driver’s seat of his car Saturday morning in New Bedford. Police say 51-year-old William Gurnett was found slumped over the wheel of his black Nissan at the exit of the Fairfield Inn on MacArthur Drive around 9:30 A ...

FAIRHAVEN - Fairhaven Police are investigating a suspected fatal overdose. Police were called to a single-family home in the town just before 5 P.M. Monday for an unresponsive male. The 29-year-old male was declared dead at the scene...

NEW BEDFORD - A 53-year-old New Bedford man is found dead in a Purchase Street home Sunday night. Local police and the State Medical Examiner's Office are investigating the cause of death, which is believed to be a drug overdose. Police say no immediate evidence of drug use was found at the scene...

NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Police say a 57-year-old city man has died of an apparent overdose after being found in the City's main library. Police and medics were called to the New Bedford Free Public Library on Pleasant Street before 7 P...

NEW BEDFORD - A 22-year-old woman is dead of an apparent overdose. New Bedford Police responded to the woman's Holly Street home after 4 P.M. Monday and performed CPR on the woman. She was transported to St. Luke's Hospital where she was pronounced dead...

NEW BEDFORD - A New Bedford man is dead after suffering an apparent fatal overdose. Police were called before 12:30 A.M. Monday morning to an apartment in the 200-block of Ashley Boulevard for a 54-year-old man not breathing. One of the man's neighbors in the building had given him several doses of Narcan while another neighbor performed CPR...

It is time to reconsider our approach to the opioid crisis in New Bedford as the current plan simply is not working. A WBSM news exclusive shows a near doubling of overdoses in the city last year alone. What we are doing to fight opioid addiction in New Bedford is not working, period...

A New Bedford man is charged after apparently overdosing behind the wheel and rear-ending another car. Police say they responded to an accident at Route 18 and Potomska street just before midnight Sunday, and found 31-year-old John Leighton behind the wheel showing signs of a drug overdose...

The State Medical Examiner's Office has taken custody of three bodies after New Bedford emergency personnel reported three separate fatalities in the city Thursday.