Fitchburg News

GLENN BECK TAKES ON COMMON CORE: Urging parents to boycott standardized tests and fight the "weasels" promoting Common Core, conservative commentator Glenn Beck sought to rally grassroots activism with a nationwide town hall event called "We Will Not Conform."

Police charged Joshuah C. Vautour of Leominster, and Samantha C. Carbonello of Fitchburg, with shoplifting from Petco and Barnes & Noble Booksellers.

After 35 years of deficit spending that resulted in a cumulative debt of $22 million, the Montachusett Regional Transit Authority as soon as next year will not be able to spend what it doesn't have -- and that could mean cuts in services.

Sorry, but is that what you want the kids to do? You're glorifiying it! Walking to schools is dangerous enough today, let alone a kid thumbing to the beach or lake because their parents would not take them, or even to the mall.

Children at the Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster were inspired after hearing the story of a little known African-American inventor who blazed a trail for others with his many patents.

Nick Christian 23 of Fitchburg, center, and other Market Basket workers protest outside the Leominster Market Basket today.

Parents tired of parking at Town Hall for their kids' baseball games can be hopeful: The state has approved Westminster's open-space and recreation plan.

Fidelity Bank is considering turning a property it owns at the corner of Main and Day streets into a new branch location, among other options.

The clerk told Officers Antwain Tobin and James McCall that a skinny white woman, about 5 feet 4 inches, and wearing a mask, walked in demanding cash from the cashier Sunday about 2:50 a.m., Sgt.

Looking toward the bustling produce section of the Water Street Market Basket, Adiel Silva knew the commotion wouldn't last too much longer.

The city's building commissioner has issued an opinion that a special permit approved to a developer looking to build homes on a historic apple orchard was legally extended, despite opposition from orchard neighbors.

A crime scene K9 searches near the corner of Adam Street and Pleasant Street in Leominster on March 11 as the police investigate a shooting that happened there.

Fitchburg Police Sgt. Mark Jackson is looking to bring a love of reading to school-age children this summer via the city's trolley system.

Seventeen elected Massachusetts officials on Saturday called for an immediate boycott of Market Basket supermarkets and announced support for employees and members of the public who have protested the ousting of Arthur T. Demoulas as chief executive.

Juan J. Torres of Fitchburg and others work to build a cafe at the former Dante's Restaurant in Worcester.

Many educators feel that music should as important a part of the general curriculum as reading, writing and arithmetic.

Fire heavily damaged a home at 301 Pratt Road Friday night. Fire Capt. Gregg Normandin said when firefighters arrived about 5:45 p.m. flames were showing from three separate windows in the front of the old two-and-a-half-story house.

Police in the Twin Cities arrested a Fitchburg man on home-invasion charges, but not before he led them on a car and foot chase late Thursday into Friday.

Fire investigators were at the scene of a two-alarm fire Friday afternoon that left a Pratt Road home severely damaged.

Troy Thiboutot , 45, of 92 Oak Hill Road, Fitchburg, was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 4 years to 4 years and a day in Walpole state prison after pleading guilty to armed assault with intent to murder and aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.