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FITCHBURG — A mural on Zeda's Pizza building depicting an environmental activist who led cleanup efforts for the Nashua River was vandalized with spray paint.

Violent sex offender Wayne Chapman may soon be walking free in your neighborhood because the Supreme Judicial Court upheld the decisions of two "qualified examiners" to release him.

LOWELL -- Only 10 days passed before the first and second hearing for the Lowell Public Schools budget, but circumstances changed, dramatically.

BOSTON —Urban parents turned out in the rain Tuesday to demand improvements in the quality of public education, not just an increase in state aid to schools.

BOSTON — Authorities have charged a prominent Massachusetts doctor with driving drunk, striking three pedestrians in a crosswalk and then leaving the scene.

DRACUT — The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday voted unanimously to set a fee at zero as a way to address new federal stormwater regulations Dracut must comply with.

TYNGSBORO — Voters on Tuesday narrowly passed a Proposition 2 1/2 debt exclusion ballot question centered on the Tyngsboro Country Club.

Antiques Week in TewksburyTEWKSBURY — Antiques Week is coming to town. Auctioneer and appraiser Ron Wackowski will kick off the week with a conversation about the antique trade where he will discuss how to start a antique collection, as well

BILLERICA — A plastic bag ban is coming to town.
On Tuesday night, Town Meeting members gathered in the auditorium for the third and final night of Town Meeting.

BOSTON — State representatives invoked the memories of people killed in distracted driving crashes on Wednesday before voting 155-2 to pass a bill banning motorists from using handheld cellphones and electronic devices behind the wheel.