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LOWELL — A six member committee appointed by City Manager Eileen Donoghue selected Boston-based Suffolk Construction as the construction management firm for the $343.4 million Lowell High School project.

CONCORD — Two firefighters and a Concord resident were hospitalized after a teen attempted to make a "colorful smoke bomb" on his home's stove on Tuesday night, authorities say.

BOSTON - From the science of climate change to trauma response to mental illness, lawmakers and advocates on Tuesday made their case for updating the Massachusetts public school curriculum to equip young people for modern realities.

BOSTON - Just more than a year after the Legislature created a medical parole program under which terminally-ill or permanently-incapacitated inmates could be released from prison, a cadre of senators are speaking out against the Baker

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BOSTON - State budget negotiators are "pretty close" to an overdue agreement, according to a House negotiator, and the lead Senate conferee told the News Service on Tuesday, "I want it done.

Self-defense coursePELHAM — Women will have the chance to learn self-defense mechanisms against rapists later this summer.

LOWELL — People say they dream of writing a book, but having a novel that emerges from a dream is something different and, perhaps, surprising.

BOSTON — Five states so far this year have passed new laws aimed at protecting student loan borrowers, with three more "steps away" from doing so, and similar bills filed in a handful of others, including Massachusetts, according to a new

LOWELL — When John "Jack" Perry went out in public, people would shake his hand.
They would thank him for their home loan — one among the many he oversaw during his decadeslong career at Lowell Co-operative Bank, his daughter Donna