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GROTON —On June 4 and 5, the third-graders from Florence Roche and Swallow Union schools visited the Williams Barn for a program developed by the Groton Woman's Club several year ago, depicting how children lived in the 1800s.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The assassin's point-blank gunshot pierced the right side of David Ortiz's back, tore through his liver and intestines and exited just to the right of his navel, still traveling fast enough to lodge in a

CHELMSFORD — - A man was arrested last week for alleged lewd behavior in a public restroom at the Chelmsford rest stop off Interstate 495 south, police say.

LOWELL — Firefighters spent nearly two hours extinguishing a three-alarm fire at a three-story mill building on Tanner Street Friday night.

Voting rights activists argue that newly discovered 2015 correspondence between a GOP redistricting expert and a current Census Bureau official bolster arguments that discrimination motivated efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020

LOWELL — "War is not easy," WWII veteran Henry Naruszewicz observed as he sat in his kitchen.
Photos from the war and the veterans' reunions he attended years later were spread across the table; some framed, some loose and others collected

DOVER, N.H. — Bill Weld jokes about not kissing the back of a child's head because he doesn't want to be accused, like Joe Biden, of making people uncomfortable.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Crew members from a Norwegian-owned oil tanker apparently attacked in the Gulf of Oman landed Saturday in Dubai after two days in Iran as the other tanker targeted in the assault limped into anchorage off the

In the surveillance age, you never know when you're being scanned or videotaped.
Cameras are just about everywhere.