Watch New Bedford Police representatives earn their wings and help area children as they participate in the 2018 Wing Eating Contest at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 29 at White's of Westport, 66 State Road in Westport.
A man charged with intentionally setting a fire this week in New Bedford's North End, is now back on the street wearing a GPS unit. The fire Wednesday at 330 North Front Street left 13 people homeless.
Twenty-five year old Xavier Betancourt-Echev was arraigned Thursday on a charge of arson with prosecutors asking Judge Robert Ovoian to hold the suspect without bail for 90 days, saying he was a da