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CAMDEN, S.C. -- With the arrival of spring and the advance of summer, American life shifts toward the porch -- at least for those lucky enough to have a sheltered outdoor space, preferably attached to the front or back of one's home.

By Ed Rogers
Special to The Washington Post
I have said that if 2020 is a referendum on President Donald Trump, he could very well lose.

By Jon Winkler
jwinkler@nashobavalleyvoice.com
BOSTON -- Two Lowell residents were charged in federal court Thursday in connection with violent and illegal gang activity throughout the state.

LOWELL -- Portions of Mammoth Road, Varnum Avenue and Riverside Street in Lowell were closed by police Friday evening as emergency crews responded to a two-vehicle crash that sheared off a utility pole and sent two people to the hospital.

READING -- Reading police pursued a bank robbery suspect into Wilmington on Friday afternoon, and arrested the suspect on Marcia Road after he bailed out of a vehicle and attempted to flee on foot, according to a press release.

SALEM, N.H. -- Two men suffered what appear to be non life-threatening stab wounds during an early morning fight in a portion of the parking lot at the Rockingham Mall where a carnival is ongoing this week, according to police.

BURLINGTON -- Footage from a home surveillance camera helped an alert police officer arrest an armed Whitman man in connection with an attempted break-in at a Burlington home, according to police.

LOWELL -- When Athanasios Solomonides came from Greece in the very early years of the 20th century, he carried with him little in the way of worldly possessions.

LOWELL -- U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan is expected to announce new legislation aimed at cleaning up the Merrimack River in Lowell on Monday, according to a press advisory.

By Chris Lisinski
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
BOSTON -- Expanding road tolls across Massachusetts and to the state's borders could be a way to generate new revenue to address growing transportation woes, Senate President Karen Spilka said