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A high number of fights have broken out at New Bedford High School in the first few weeks back at school — and while parents are concerned, officials say safety is paramount.

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.

Emergency responders pulled a body from the waters off State Pier in New Bedford Harbor last night, but the victim has not yet been identified.

Officer Tyler Vieira of the New Bedford Police was patrolling a shift at the New Bedford Market Basket when he was captured doing a kind deed for a little boy.

A former New Bedford Police officer and Union Treasurer with a checkered past has agreed to plead guilty to stealing nearly $50,000 in union funds.

New Bedford Police say the dog abandoned on Allen Street on Monday is now in their possession and will be put up for adoption, and its owners charged.

As New Bedford Schools Superintendent Thomas Anderson has opted to keep the School Resource Officer program, one New Bedford SRO proves why it's a success.

The victim in a July 8 New Bedford stabbing was taken to Rhode Island hospital with multiple stab wounds, according to police.

Police have captured a person of interest in Dartmouth near the intersection of Slocum and State Roads.

New Bedford police confirmed the bomb scare on Mosher Street earlier today was, in fact, an improvised exploding device that was detonated safely without incident.