Thursday

New Bedford Police are urging residents to take precautions following a series of car breaks in the Far North End.

New Bedford Police are investigating after a fatal shooting Thursday night.

New Bedford firefighters were called to a Coggeshall Street home following a Thursday morning fire.

The judge overseeing the murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has chastised his lawyer for making a joke about Deflategate while questioning a witness in court. James Sultan was questioning a state police trooper about tire pressure Thursday when he jokingly asked whether the trooper had ever received ``training in football deflation devices...

A judge has excused 124 potential jurors in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. They were excused Monday from a group of about 400 who were the first of 1,350 people who last week filled out 28-page questionnaires to weed out people with obvious conflicts...

Mayor Jon Mitchell says he's proud of the Feast of The Blessed Sacrament. The 100th Feast opens Thursday at 6pm in the North End, and continues throughout the weekend. Speaking on his weekly radio program on WBSM, the Mayor says he's pleased the Feast has stuck to its traditional roots...