A New Bedford City Councillor wants to begin proactively addressing the issue of discarded hypodermic needles in the city.
Councillor at Large Ian Abreu says discarded needles have become an epidemic in city streets, parks, and playgrounds...
The mother of a student at Hayden-McFadden School in New Bedford has hired a lawyer after she says her daughter was stabbed with a hypodermic needle on school grounds.
The claim stems from an incident on August 22, when Michelle Farland's six-year-old daughter came home from school and told her mother another child had poked her in the hand with a needle allegedly found on the playground earlier t