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WASHINGTON (AP) - A city official in Washington says the turnout estimate for the Women's March on the National Mall now stands at 500,000 people. That's more than double the initial predictions. Kevin Donahue is Washington's deputy mayor for safety and justice...

NEW BEDFORD - There are no shortage of protests this week as President-Elect Donald Trump is set to take the oath of office and be sworn in as the nation's 45th President. Martha Worley of New Bedford, a business owner, is planning on travelling to Washington, D...

It is becoming increasingly evident that there are those among us who are just looking for reasons to be offended and they want us to be offended too. Let's take for example the case of The Washington Redskins football team. A new Washington Post poll of 504 Native Americans, on and off the reservation shows most, 78% find it a non-issue or not much of an issue at all...

Mayor Jon Mitchell spent the day in Washington seeking Federal funding to help support the New Bedford Fire Department. Mitchell tells WBSM News, he met with the administrator of the so-called "Safer" Grant program, making a case for two more years of funding to support 21 firefighter positions...

President Obama is citing significant, meaningful progress in securing nuclear materials around the world. At the end of a global nuclear security summit, Obama also cited progress in efforts to keep nuclear devices out of the hands of terror groups...

Black Lives Matter protestors are giving America's mayors an earful. Demonstrators protesting the killing of a Chicago teenager by police and the contaminated water crisis in Flint, Michigan disrupted the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, DC today...

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell has been named Chairman of the U-S Conference of Mayors Committee on Energy. The appointment was announced by the President of the Mayor's group, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake of Baltimore. Mitchell will chair the committee next week during the 84th winter meeting of the U-S Conference of Mayors in Washington...

Gov. Charlie Baker says he's been reaching out to federal officials as Massachusetts prepares to make a formal request for disaster relief following the spate of recent snowstorms. Baker said Massachusetts has struggled with snow removal costs, coastal damage, a business slowdown, and nearly 150 structures with collapsed roofs due to the storms that dumped more than seven feet of snow across the s

The U.S. Conference of Mayors is meeting this week in Washington, and New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell is looking forward to sharing with other Mayors the successes of his city. Mitchell says Mayors across the country are making major decisions about a host of issues, including education, and economic development...