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BOSTON - A New Bedford gym owner and football coach has been sentenced for his role in a heroin distribution ring. The U.S. Attorney's Office says 39-year-old Sharik Mendes has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after he pleaded guilty in October to a heroin distribution charge...

The owner of a New Bedford gym and former Pop Warner Football coach pleading guilty to supplying heroin to area drug dealers has formally entered a plea agreement. According to The Standard Times, Sharik Mendes entered the agreement in U...

A New Bedford gym owner accused of supplying mass quantities of heroin to a drug dealer has had his plea hearing postponed. 39-year-old Sharik Mendes appeared in federal court in Boston Tuesday, ready to plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and heroin distribution...

The co-founder of the New Bedford Bears Pop Warner football team says she's being raked over the coals because of a Standard Times article where she gave comments on Sharik Mendes. Mendes, a New Bedford resident and owner of H.E.A.R.T...

Jury selection is complete in the trial of two New Bedford men, both charged in the shooting death of a 31-year-old man in 2013. The Bristol County District Attorney's Office says jury selection was completed Thursday afternoon as 27-year-old Hailton DaCosta and 30-year-old Antonio Rodrigues, Jr...

A man carrying a loaded gun was arrested in New Bedford Thursday. According to the Standard Times, police were called to the corner of Cottage and Willis Streets before 10pm Thursday night where reports of a fight involving as many as fifteen people were called in...

Another arrest is made in connection with a November 2013 homicide in New Bedford. Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter's Office says 29-year-old Antonio Rodrigues, Jr. of Summer Street has been arrested and charged with firearm-armed assault with intent to murder and accessory to murder after the fact in connection with the murder of 31-year-old Sharone Stafford on November 23, 2013... Rea