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LOWELL — The downtown high school project, at long last, has the funding. Now who will build it?

PELHAM — A report of driver swerving all over Bridge Street while his car emitted the smell of marijuana last month led to a four-week investigation and the issuance of a federal arrest warrant, authorities say.

LOWELL — An empty UMass Lowell picture frame sits in Edina Hirt's living room.
The frame has served as a source of motivation for Hirt, who is the first in her family to attend college.

A fugitive from Philadelphia, wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service for the distribution of fentanyl and heroin, may have fled to Lowell, authorities say.

PEPPERELL -- — Residents have officially approved a $1.4 million Proposition 2½ override of the town's 2020 budget.

LOWELL — The downtown high school project, at long last, has the funding. Now who will build it?

LOWELL — A man facing eight criminal charges for allegedly forcing his way into a Chelmsford apartment with a gun while dressed in "UPS-style" clothing on May 9 has been ordered held without bail.

PELHAM -- — A report of driver swerving all over Bridge Street while his car emitted the smell of marijuana last month led to a four-week investigation and the issuance of a federal arrest warrant, authorities say.

ICE agents using fingerprints from drunken driving arrests have swept up 141 illegal immigrants in New England the past few weeks, including a Kenyan national living in Lowell with pending rape, robbery and strangulation charges.

CHELMSFORD — —When the first wave of Cambodian refugees settled in Lowell during the early 1980s, they used a small apartment located in the Acre neighborhood as a makeshift Buddhist temple.