City will use community groups to reach vulnerable clients and provide a limited number of tests at schools and libraries.
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Judge dismisses Keith Hovan’s domestic assault and battery case
Hovan’s wife was present with her own attorney and invoked her spousal privilege in declining to testify as a witness against Hovan. As a result, the commonwealth could not prosecute the case, the judge said.
Posted inJack Spillane column
Afghan refugee fights for her family’s new life in New Bedford
“I’m so grateful to the American people,” Farkhanda Ehssan said, explaining that she will no longer have to worry about Taliban attacks or bombings or someone dragging children away to fight.
Posted inImmigration
Essential but excluded
Immigrants put seafood on America’s tables. But many have been shut out of pandemic aid — and so have their U.S. citizen children.
Posted inPolice and Courts
New Bedford Police Union leadership resigns en masse
The resignations follow continued arbitration on a collective bargaining contract, recent agreement on COVID-19 vaccines for officers, and the union’s former treasurer, Joshua Fernandes, pleading guilty in October to wire fraud.
Posted inCOVID-19
COVID-19 cases spike across New Bedford and Bristol County
There were 132 new cases among students and staff in the New Bedford Public School District last week, the highest number in a single week since the beginning of the pandemic.
Posted inCOVID-19
Police union agrees to New Bedford’s employee vaccine mandate
The officers will join 882 other city workers who have been subject to the policy since Nov. 15, including the New Bedford FireFighters Union and members of AFSCME Local 851, who work across 24 city departments.
Posted inJack Spillane column
New Bedford group presses for immigrant driver’s licenses
Proponents say it will allow police to positively identify those they stop on roadways. They’ve also cited the value when undocumented immigrants drive uninsured because they don’t have licenses.
Posted inOffshore Wind
A waiting game for offshore wind jobs
“In a perfect world it would start next month and it would go for the next 20 years of my life … Hopefully it will be a secure job but I’m not banking on that. I’m doing other work as well.” — Joey Welch
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New Bedford mothers unite to help sons ID’d as possible gang members
NBPD Chief Paul Oliveira told The Light that the department had “a lot of inaccurate data” on gang membership because there “wasn’t a lot of direction and oversight.”