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METHUEN — Police arrested a 29-year-old Dracut resident who allegedly shot a man in the parking lot of a McDonalds on Haverhill Street in Methuen on Friday night.

LOWELL —Former state senate candidate John Drinkwater officially joined the Lowell City Council race last month.

LOWELL —An Air Force satellite carrying an instrument created by UMass Lowell researchers launched from Cape Canaveral last week.

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LOWELL —Cynthia Slaga, a nurse practitioner at Lowell High School, had a student come to her seeking birth control.

TYNGSBORO —K-9 Jagr's days in town are numbered. He will now be transferred to a sheriff's office in Tennessee, ending what has been monthslong tension between Police Chief Richard Howe and some members of the Board of Selectmen over the

LOWELL —Each breeding season, peregrine falcons Yvonne and Persi raise their newly hatched chicks in a nesting box atop Fox Hall, an 18-story dormitory facility on UMass Lowell's east campus.

CONCORD — Two motor vehicle break-ins that occurred last week are the subject of a police investigation, and police are seeking help as they try to identify three suspects.

BOSTON —Hundreds more drivers have had their Massachusetts licenses suspended as a result of a review of the state's mishandling of out-of-state violation notices as Gov.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a 5-year-old boy watching fireworks in Indiana was rescued after falling roughly 30 feet (9 meters) into a water-filled pipe.