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She was known to thousands of readers as "PJ," the beautiful, copper-haired girl who was the subject of many humorous and poignant columns written by her mother, former Eagle-Tribune reporter Penny Morang Richards.

Northeast Hospital Corp. laid off 22 people on Tuesday in what hospital officials called a "management restructuring." Chief Operating Officer Pauline Pike said the layoffs included directors, managers and supervisors at Beverly Hospital, Addison-Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester, BayRidge Hospital in Lynn and Beverly Hospital's medical center in ...

Eds: APNewsNow. Moving on general news and financial services. DANVERS, Mass. Two Massachusetts residents are suing a company that supplied chemicals they say were involved in huge explosion that damaged more than 270 homes and businesses in 2006.

Like a proud parent following her child in a parade, Marie Oliver walked nearly two miles Tuesday morning behind a flatbed truck ferrying the town Christmas tree from her yard on Ralph Road to Danvers Square.

When children ask where they come from, parents might be tempted to say the stork delivered them.

School-girls #1 by Ed Yourdon, on Flickr CC BY-SA Danvers High School baned students from saying the word "meep", Theodora Michaels sent an email to the school principal: An open letter to Principal Murray of Danvers High School : Meep.

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

A near-unanimous Town Meeting voted to approve the nearly $80 million renovation of Danvers High last night, a project that officials said should provide for students for the next half-century. Last night's vote in the multipurpose room of Holten Richmond Middle School was the final step in an approval process that has been years in the making.

A man who held off an entire shift of Danvers police officers with a running chain saw after trying to saw his way into his wife's home will serve no more than six months in jail, a Salem District Court judge decided yesterday.

Officials at a Massachusetts high school that banned the word "meep" have been receiving e-mailed complaints about the move, police said.

Share + Nov 16, 2009 5:15 pm US/Eastern DANVERS, Mass. A woman whose home was destroyed and a man who lost his boat when an explosion shook a Danvers factory nearly three years ago have are suing a company that supplied chemicals they say were involved in the blast.

Town officials want to head off the possibility that dozens of homeless families living in motels could spend Thanksgiving without turkey and all the fixings.

In the first week of December, the town will begin using a new chemical to disinfect water in the pipes in both Danvers and Middleton, Department of Public Works Director David Lane said.

School budgets seem to be shrinking down to nothing, squeezing out any and all enrichment programs such as art, music, shop, home economics, even computers.

If you're a Muppet lab assistant or a cartoon bird pursued by a hapless coyote, you are no longer welcome at Danvers High School in Massachusetts.

Share + Nov 12, 2009 6:57 am US/Eastern Reporting Christina Hager DANVERS Click to enlarge 1 of 2 Muppet Beaker accepts a Webby award during the 13th Annual Webby Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on June 8, 2009 in New York.

The seemingly innocuous word of "meep" a ' you might recall it as the only sound made by Beaker, Dr.

A convicted felon who had been deported, then re-entered the country illegally, was arrested by Gloucester and Peabody police as part of a month-long drug sweep in Essex County.

Driving is nothing new to Silen, who at 82 years old helms his Toyota Highlander with finesse.

If Orlando Pacheco is selected Rockport's next town administrator, he would strive to improve the community's information technology systems, aggressively pursue grants - and aim to keep politics out of the chief executive's daily decision-making processes.