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Riley Frost went the distance on the mound and singled and scored what proved to be the winning run in the fifth inning while leading Tewksbury to a 2-1 victory over Chelmsford in a Merrimack Valley Conference Division 2 baseball game.

BILLERICA — "Blue," a Billerica police K-9 whose career was cut short when he lost a leg to cancer, was given a second chance at life.

Whether you agree or disagree with the steward's ruling in the Kentucky Derby that disqualified winner Maximum Security and jockey Luis Saez which resulted in the first disqualification for interference in the 145-year history of the race, we can

CHICAGO -- A mother plotted for months to acquire a newborn before she and her daughter strangled a pregnant Chicago woman and cut her baby from her womb using a butcher's knife, prosecutors said Friday as they

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Florida prosecutors are appealing a judge's decision to block them from using video that allegedly shows Patriots owner Robert Kraft engaging in paid sex at a massage parlor.

BOSTON -- Two major casino operators said Friday they were in preliminary talks about the possible sale of one of the largest casinos in the Northeast.

FOXBOROUGH (AP) -- Robert Pritchard, a prominent economist and popular professor of economics at Northeastern University in Boston, has died.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A now-dead Ohio State team doctor sexually abused at least 177 male students from the 1970s through the 1990s, and numerous university officials got wind of what was going on over the years but did little or nothing to stop him,

WASHINGTON -- Bogged down in a sprawling trade dispute with U.S. rival China, President Donald Trump took steps Friday to ease tensions with America's allies -- lifting import taxes on Canadian and Mexican steel and aluminum and delaying auto

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's Republican-led House on Friday passed sweeping legislation designed to survive court challenges, which would ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy.