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The graveside Christmas tree that was stolen from the burial site of Noah Fernandes has been replaced. The Fernandes family was heartbroken Sunday as they visited their son's grave at Pine Grove Cemetery in New Bedford's North End to find that a Christmas tree, adorned with symbolic ornaments, had been stolen...

An odd disturbance in a city cemetery over the weekend. New Bedford police officers were called to the Rural Cemetery on Dartmouth Street around 4pm Saturday, and found a man digging behind a grave. Police recognized the 24-year-old man from previous encounters, and say he was up to his chest in a hole in the ground that he had dug using a small garden tool and a plastic bottle...

The idea of having vulgarity inscribed on gravestones knocks the wind out me! Can you just imagine the respect and veneration of a cemetery being invaded by profanity chiseled onto a gravestone next to one of your loved ones?