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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.