NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Police are clearing out a homeless encampment near the Hayden McFadden Elementary School.
Police were made aware of the encampment through a Facebook posting that claimed homeless people living under the I-195 overpass were harassing students for money as the children were walking to and from school...
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
The Baker administration has awarded three Extended Learning Time grants to Massachusetts public schools, two of them to New Bedford Schools.
Superintendent Dr. Pia Durkin says the grants, totalling $712,000 will extend the school days at Hayden-McFadden Elementary and Normandin Middle schools by half an hour...
One man is in police custody after leading members of the New Bedford Police Gang Unit on a foot chase Friday afternoon.
New Bedford Police say around 3pm Friday, the lone male suspect was chased down near the Hayden-McFadden school by several members of the Gang Unit...