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Firefighters in New Bedford are currently battling a two-alarm fire at an apartment building in the North End, with traffic backups likely in the area.

After a chase that led New Bedford police through several city neighborhoods, detectives have arrested a man they believe is connected to a shooting on County Street last week.

New Bedford police are investigating a stabbing that injured one man in the city's south end on Monday.

Fire crews in New Bedford have put out a structure fire in the North End that displaced nine residents, five of them kids.

Police confirmed that a shooting in New Bedford early Sunday morning injured two people, who were treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

Whoever designed the road markings at New Bedford's Acushnet Avenue and Ashley Boulevard should be designing video games instead.

Acushnet Avenue may soon be getting an economic transformation, after the commercial area was one of 13 in the state chosen to receive $23.7 million in total state funding for economic development initiatives.

An empty Acushnet Avenue lot may soon become a small pocket park, after plans for the site were presented to the New Bedford Planning Board on Wednesday.

A North End variety store owner has been arrested and charged with illegally selling alcohol and cigarettes without a license.

A New Bedford man who took part in a savage beating that nearly killed another man and left him with lifelong injuries to his eyes and face has been sentenced to up to 5.5 years in state prison.