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LOWELL —Hundreds of high school students and aspiring doctors from across the country will descend on the city this weekend for the Congress of Future Medical Leaders.

LOWELL — A man arrested Tuesday night was charged with allegedly trafficking over 100 grams of cocaine, Lowell police said.

LOWELL - Motorists who use the VFW Highway will have to find alternate means of travel tonight while the Massachusetts Department of Transportation does road work.

LOWELL — A Lowell man who stole approximately $15,000 during an armed robbery of a bank in Bristol County last year was sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison on Wednesday, authorities say.

BOSTON Declaring that "voting rights are civil rights," Attorney General Maura Healey told lawmakers Thursday that allowing people to register to vote and then cast ballots on Election Day would help populations often left out of the political

LOWELL — When sewage enters the Merrimack River, the public must be notified, according to a new permit issued to the Lowell Regional Wastewater Utility.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins will address the media today at 11:00 a.

LOWELL —Hundreds of high school students and aspiring doctors from across the country will descend on the city this weekend for the Congress of Future Medical Leaders.

TEWKSBURY — An investigation into a drug-trafficking operation in the area of the Extended Stay America Hotel on Andover Street led to the arrest of a Lowell man on Tuesday, authorities say.

WAKEFIELD —The remains found in Wakefield late Monday morning have been positively identified through dental records as those of a Dracut man who had been missing since last year.