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John Mellencamp once sang about a man who worked his whole life in the steel mills near Gary, Indiana. While he wasn’t the ...

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The NTSB shared its preliminary report about the Oct. 13 plane crash that killed pilot Thomas Perkins and his wife Agatha ...

Constance “Connie” Anderson, 78, passed away unexpectedly on November 8, 2025, at Rhode Island Hospital, with her loving ...

Antone “Chubby” Tavares, a member of the Grammy Award-winning group Tavares, has died. He was 81. Tavares died at his home on the night of Nov. 29, according to a Facebook post from his son, Antone ...

Christine Baransk i was in the playground outside St. Matthew’s Church in Bedford, New York, about three years ago when she came across Matthew Guard, artistic ...

A Haverhill, Massachusetts, man was one of two "distressed" hikers exposed to frigid temperatures and waist-deep snow rescued from a Mt. Lafayette trail early Saturday morning.

A new Chipotle Mexican Grill is under construction in New Bedford's Fieldstone Marketplace. The restaurant is scheduled to open in the spring of 2026, replacing a former Newport Creamery. It will ...

NEW BEDFORD — The City Council set the tax rate during the board’s annual tax classification hearing on Nov. 18. The city uses a split rate rather than a single rate to determine residential and ...

Counselors will be available to students at schools in Bedford, Massachusetts Monday to help them cope with the death of 13-year-old Parker Robles. Robles was riding an electric dirt bike on Oak ...

A 23-year-old Mattapoisett man was found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2020 shooting of 40-year-old Angel Cruz of New Bedford.