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Hurricane's are nasty storms that drench and blow apart lives and property when they strike.  Haiti is bracing for a severe encounter with just such a storm. Hurricane Matthew was briefly a category five storm over the weekend but is still a strong category four monster that is threatening the people of Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti.  H...

  A recent report by Real Clear Politics about the upcoming presidential election went largely unnoticed but must have been on mark to draw the attention of the liberal leadership here in Massachusetts.  The Real Clear piece indicated that the race to nail the Electoral College is once again wide open and that Massachusetts had slipped from "solid Clinton" to "leaning Clinton."

A major car fire is being reported on Interstate 195 East in Dartmouth this morning. State Police tell WBSM News the fire was reported before 8:30 Wednesday morning. The mishap has prompted officials to shut down all eastbound travel lanes between exits 10 and 11 as emergency crews bring the scene under control...

Retail stores in Dartmouth can, and will, open at 1 a.m. on Black Friday for the foreseeable future. At last week's Dartmouth Select Board meeting, the board agreed to only allow stores to open at 6 a.m. at the earliest in 2017. However, the board announced at Monday's meeting they didn't have the power to do that...

While holiday shoppers will enjoy all the usual early morning Black Friday festivities this year, the Dartmouth Select Board are looking to end that tradition in 2017. At Monday's meeting, the board reviewed Black Friday applications for the Dartmouth Mall, Walmart, and Kohl's in Dartmouth...

Dartmouth residents who came out to speak against a proposed student housing by-law at Monday night's Planning Board meeting didn't have to say much. The 13-citizen petition to allow a student housing community within 2 miles of UMass Dartmouth was formally withdrawn prior to the public hearing...

The City of New Bedford remembered the 2,977 men and women killed during the September 11 terrorist attacks 15 years ago with a ceremony at the Downtown Fire Station on Sunday morning. The memorial exercise started with a moment of silence at 10 am...

While most of the world celebrated Mother Teresa's canonization in Rome, many locals honored her life at New Bedford's St. Lawrence Martyr Church on Sunday afternoon. Now being called St. Teresa of Calcutta, she visited St. Lawrence Church back in 1995...

Despite reports of a medical marijuana company also being in talks with another town, Dartmouth officials aren't worried about losing the potential business. On Monday night, the Dartmouth Select Board chose to support a future host agreement with the William Noyes Webster Foundation for a medical marijuana dispensary on Faunce Corner Rd...

The long process of building a new Dartmouth Police Station continues on. At Monday's Dartmouth Select Board meeting, officials gave an update on the project's status. Town Administrator David Cressman says they're still searching for potential sites to build a new station on, along with a new architect...