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NEW BEDFORD - Nearly a dozen gunshots rang out Sunday night in New Bedford's South End. Police say just before 9pm Sunday, reports of gunfire at Roosevelt and Ruth Streets were reported. Police recovered five 9mm and six .40 caliber shell casings...

NEW BEDFORD - A pedestrian has been struck and killed as he was trying to make his way across Cove Street in New Bedford's South End Thursday afternoon. New Bedford Police say the 57-year-old man from Acushnet was crossing Cove Street near Mee Hong Restaurant around 5:30 P...

An explosion inside a South End dumpster remains under investigation. The explosion outside 84 Gifford Street happened around 4am. There is no report of injuries, but police and fire crews responded to the scene, and the State Fire Marshall's office was contacted...

New Bedford Police and firefighters responded to the scene of a car fire in the South End Thursday night. The fire was reported just after 11pm Thursday at Winsor and Crapo Streets. The car, a 1999 Nissan Sentra, exploded before the fire was extinguished...

Nearly $100,000 in cash and drugs were seized along with a firearm and ammunition as part of a drug bust in the South End of New Bedford. New Bedford Police executed search warrants at three locations Tuesday as part of an investigation into a cocaine and heroin delivery service...

A New Bedford man was stabbed in the arm by two men Thursday night, one of them reportedly wearing a "scary" Halloween mask. Police say the 23-year-old victim reported the stabbing took place in the area of Katherine and Bonney Streets...

A New Bedford woman says she was robbed by a group of young men she believes were armed with a stun gun early Friday morning. The 32-year-old woman told police she was walking home from the 7-Eleven on Cove Road around 12:15 A.M. Friday when a group of five to seven young black men began following her from the store...

As students head back to school, city and state officials gathered in the South End of New Bedford on Wednesday for the ground breaking of a building that will replace for the John Hannigan Elementary School which was torn down after the school's roof collapsed in 2006.

Five people are arrested after a fight and shots fired in New Bedford's South End. New Bedford Police say a fight at Potomska and South Second Streets was reported shortly before midnight Sunday. Soon after that report, the city's ShotSpotter gunshot detection system pinpointed five shots fired at Rivet and South Second Streets...

A New Bedford woman is under arrest after police raid her South End home. New Bedford Police Spokesman Lt. Amos Melo says officers executed a search warrant last night at 877 Brock Avenue, seizing nearly 60 grams of cocaine over 100 oxycodone tablets, and $752 in cash...