New Bedford Police were alerted to a ShotSpotter activation in the area of Acushnet Avenue and Russell Street, and officers found evidence of shots fired.
Mass DPH has notified the New Bedford Health Department of a skunk that has tested positive for rabies in the area of the “Poor Farm" in the city's South End.
Prosecutors say Bruno Lopes and Kevin Rocha entered the building together, and that Rocha pointed a gun at the occupant "with the intent to rob." Rocha ended up dead, and two men are charged.
Crews this morning (June 12) are battling a two-alarm structure fire at 29 Ashley Street near the corner of Ruth Street in the South End of New Bedford.
Around 9:30 a.m. scanner traffic indicated that New Bedford Fire Department ladder trucks were on the scene of a three-story vacant wood-frame apartment building fire, that residents in the area were being evacuated, and that mutual aid was on the