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New Bedford Police will now begin charging people who overdose on heroin and other drugs behind the wheel of their vehicle. The announcement was made Wednesday and comes after a New Bedford man was found overdosing in his truck in the West End last week, with many people on social media and talk radio asking why he wasn't charged...

Two city men are dead of apparent drug overdoses. New Bedford Police Lt. Al Souza tells WBSM News police and paramedics were called to a residence on School Street downtown at 2:30am Wednesday morning. Upon arrival, the victim was still breathing...

Massachusetts State Police say they've identified a body found in New Bedford over the weekend. The young woman's body was found outside of the Presidential Heights housing development in the North End early Saturday morning. Until yesterday, authorities were unable to determine the woman's identity, and turned to the public for help, providing a description of the woman's build and tattoos... Rea

State and local police are investigating the death of a woman who's body was found over the weekend. Police say the unidentified woman's body was found near the Presidential Heights housing development at Mount Pleasant and Fillmore Streets in New Bedford early Saturday morning...

Another suspected heroin overdose claims the life of a New Bedford man. New Bedford Detective Captain Steven Vicente says the 52-year-old man was found unresponsive in his Beetle Street apartment around 8:30pm Wednesday night. The unidentified man's roommate found him lying on the floor next to his bed...

A New Bedford woman is dead of a suspected drug overdose. Detective Captain Steven Vicente says the woman's mother found the victim in her bed in a Reynolds Street apartment before 1am Friday. When police arrived, they found a spoon, a hypodermic needle, and a substance believed to be heroin in the apartment...

A New Bedford man is arrested after being revived from an overdose. Detective Captain Steven Vicente says Thursday morning around 1am, police and medics responded to 40 Thompson Street in the South End, finding a shoeless and shirtless man on the ground, suffering from an overdose. ...

New Bedford Police say there were two overdoses in the downtown area Tuesday, one of them fatal. Detective Captain Steven Vicente says a pedestrian walking into the city on Route 6 found the body of a 26-year-old Fairhaven man in the bushes on the north side of the Elm Street Garage...

Two men have been transported to St. Luke's Hospital after they were found nodding off in the booth of a local Taco Bell. Dartmouth Police Spokesman Detective Kyle Costa tells WBSM News an employee observed the two men starting to doze off while sitting in a booth of the Taco Bell near the North Dartmouth Mall Wednesday afternoon...

Police say there have been multiple overdoses in New Bedford in the past few days with one death. Detective Captain Steve Vicente tells WBSM News a 40-year-old woman was found dead in her home on Sycamore Street Saturday afternoon. She was pronounced dead at the scene, and evidence of heroin use was found near her body...