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A large fire at a North End tire recycling facility in New Bedford has blocked traffic on Brook Street from Sawyer to Deane streets since around noon on Thursday.

Fire crews in New Bedford have put out a structure fire in the North End that displaced nine residents, five of them kids.

A North End variety store owner has been arrested and charged with illegally selling alcohol and cigarettes without a license.

New Bedford Police have arrested a suspected North End vehicle breaker on Monday after he allegedly stole a credit card from a car and then used it at two local businesses.

The two people hospitalized in a fire in New Bedford's North End on Sunday afternoon are still in the hospital in serious condition.

A New Bedford man who took part in a savage beating that nearly killed another man and left him with lifelong injuries to his eyes and face has been sentenced to up to 5.5 years in state prison.

Although staffing changes are taking place this week at the New Bedford Police Department's Station 3, the North End station is not closing permanently.

Police found evidence of a shooting in the 140-block of Myrtle Street.

Police say a car hit a tree and part of the restaurant then rolled.

The motorcycle operator was taken by ambulance to the hospital.