Beverly News

Off the village green sits a tall white church that has been there since the early 1800s.

Beverly Hospital at Danvers and the facility in Beverly will share the elimination of 22 jobs.

The head of the Salem Mission said he supports a proposal to ban the most dangerous sex offenders from homeless shelters.

A pair of weekend car crashes just hours apart sent three people to area hospitals - and have led to charges against two drivers.

A class-action lawsuit filed in Salem Superior Court yesterday says Ashland Inc.

A Salem man will be arraigned today on charges he threatened a bouncer with a knife at a Rantoul Street bar on Saturday.

Last October, Laurie Bouchard asked her sister-in-law, Nancy Bouchard, to help drive her daughters around after school in exchange for dinner a couple of times a week.

One of the drivers involved in a two-car crash on Lafayette Street on Thursday night that sent both drivers to a Boston hospital will be charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, Salem police said.

After a tour of the new Manchester Essex Regional High and Middle School, 91-year-old Mary Helming proclaimed she wishes she could be a student all over again.

When Sandford Berman died of cancer in 1991 at 68, his dream of educating the region's youth about jazz and blues through the medium of television did not die with him - it just took an 18-year hiatus.

Addison Gilbert and other hospitals with the Northeast Health System company have revised their visitation policies, and Manchester Essex school officials are planning for vaccination clinics as area institutions continue stepping up their response to growing concern over the spread of the H1N1 - or swine flu - virus.

It's unlucky 13 for Beverly police, but that number is likely to go up, the way this month has been.

Since September, a Beverly resident has tapped into the region's fertile music scene to cultivate a band to play an end-of-year concert at a local restaurant.

Sorellanza, the 13-member women's a cappella group, will perform Saturday, Sunday and Nov.

A Gloucester man was sentenced to serve more than a month in jail by Judge Joseph Jennings in Gloucester District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to charges of violating a restraining order.

The last time the city held an election, 89 percent of eligible registered voters marked the occasion by staying home.

Eight years ago, Bill Scanlon was the loser in one of the biggest upsets in the city's political history when he was knocked out of the mayor's office by Tom Crean.

The contentious race for mayor took to the streets on the final day of campaigning yesterday as Mayor Bill Scanlon and challenger John Burke made their last-ditch appeals to voters.

A Beverly man will serve no more than 31A 2 years in state prison for repeated sexual assaults on a young Peabody boy, a Salem Superior Court judge decided yesterday.

Demons are lurking inside a tidy white house with purple shutters on a quiet street in Beverly.