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From Jan. 6 to 8, the Moby Dick Marathon will return for its 21st year at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

A Florida man is arrested in a Dartmouth motel. Dartmouth Police Spokesman Detective Kyle Costa says 44-year-old George Bryan Smelcer of Panama City, Florida, was arrested at the Moby Dick Motel on Route 6 Thursday morning for outstanding warants associated with sex and drug crimes out of Alabama...

A Dartmouth Select Board member is urging action against the many motels and hotels in the town. At Monday night's meeting, Select Board member Shawn McDonald said many of the inns along the Route 6 corridor harbor drug dealers, prostitutes, and other criminals, and he wants to see that practice end...

Hundreds of people shipped off in search of a great white whale this weekend, but from the comfort of inside the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum is proud to locally premiere what promises to be a great motion picture, In The Heart Of The Sea. In 1820, crewmen (Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy) aboard the Nantucket Whaleship Essex face a harrowing battle for survival when a whale of mammoth size and strength attacks with force, crippling their ship and leaving them adrift in the ocean... Read M

LAKEVILLE, Mass. (AP) _ The imprint of a license plate in a snowbank proved to be the undoing of a couple suspected of a series of burglaries in southeastern Massachusetts. A Lakeville police officer investigating a home break noticed the legible imprint, and traced it to a pickup truck that matched the description of a vehicle seen at other burglaries in the region...

An historic claim to fame for New Bedford was relived over the weekend through the Moby Dick Marathon. The epic novel by Herman Melville endured it's 19th annual readthrough at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, with readers like City Councilor Joseph Lopes trudging through nearly 25 hours of text...

The annual tradition continues, it's the annual  Moby-Dick Marathon at New Bedford Whaling Museum.  Every year readers and fans gather to take part in the annual tradition of reading this epic.