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Students act in "Charlotte's Web"WESTFORD — The students of Blanchard Theatre Arts present the last production of the school year, "Charlotte's Web," Friday and Saturday.

WORCESTER —The owner of Lifestream Healthcare Alliance — which had offices in Dracut and Worcester — was sentenced Friday to 18 months in jail for stealing $2.

CHELMSFORD — When high school juniors and seniors get ready to head to school dances and summer vacation activities, they'll be thinking of the consequences of getting behind the steering wheel drunk.

HOLLY BLUFF, Miss. — Larry Walls should have been out working in his fields last week. Instead, his John Deere tractor is parked on high ground, just beyond the reach of the ever-encroaching floodwaters in the southern Mississippi Delta.

BILLERICA —For Jasmine Grace, the journey into domestic sex trafficking began when she met a man who seemed too good to be true at a nightclub north of Boston.

BOSTON —Deanna Putnam has to share four cubicles with 500 other adjunct professors to manage meetings with 14,000 students.

The Pioneer Institute is calling for the "impartial and independent" state comptroller's office to audit the University of Massachusetts system in the wake of the think-tank's blistering report that blasted UMass President Marty Meehan and the board of trustees for cash woes at the Boston campus.

DEVENS —The occupational futures of local residents were a top priority of U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan Wednesday.

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called WikiLeaks a "nonstate hostile intelligence service.

This week marks the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. By Thursday night, when the event concludes, many of us will have held our breath as we watch children compete to spell words most of us had never heard before that moment.