New Bedford gang member Ivan Fontanez was convicted of second-degree murder last Friday in the 2017 killing of aspiring New Bedford rapper Brad Lourenco.
Last year, the SouthCoast Community Foundation provided grants to over 150 non-profits. New President and CEO Melanie Edwards-Tavares hopes to continue that.
The New Bedford Fire Department responded to an apartment on Reynolds Street for reports of a fire that caused severe damage due to a material combustion.
In 2007, immigration agents raided Michael Bianco, Inc., Fine Leather Products in New Bedford, taking 361 workers in the country illegally into custody.
The New Bedford Dry Goods Company opened Star Store at 715 Purchase Street at the corner of Union Street in 1844. As New Bedford grew, so grew the Star Store.