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Jeremiah Oliver's cousin, Sandro Oliver, center, with his girlfriend Gloria Delgado and Jason Oliver, Jeremiah's uncle, take a moment together at a vigil for Jeremiah on Saturday night.

The Devens Enterprise Commission recently approved the company's application to construct a 28,600-square-foot building on a 3.2-acre lot at 58 Barnum Road.

The body found Friday of a small boy apparently cast off the side of a highway has been confirmed as missing 5-year-old Jeremiah Oliver, authorities said Saturday.

BROKEN HEARTS: Bonnie White of Shirley lights candles at a makeshift memorial as her daughter Alyssa, 5, looks on before a candlelight vigil for Jeremiah Oliver in Fitchburg last night.

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The jarring roadside discovery of a body believed to be Jeremiah Oliver - the Fitchburg boy who went missing under the state's watch - could be the tipping point in calls for the ouster of embattled DCF chief Olga Roche, a child advocate warned yesterday.

The Fitchburg Civic Days Committee and the United States Air Force will host a free concert by the United States Air Force Heritage of America Concert Band at 4 p.m. April 27 at Fitchburg State University's Weston Auditorium, 353 North St. The Concert Band features 38 professional musicians whose commitment to excellence has earned worldwide ... (more)

Kristy Collins poked her head out a window to watch Kelli Lundgren swing her legs over scaffolding on the side of the house and climb down from the roof Friday.

All Massachusetts authorities could say for sure is that they found the lifeless body of a small boy, apparently cast off the side of a highway.

Sandrino Oliver was so overcome with emotion after learning his 5-year-old nephew Jeremiah Oliver's body may have been found Friday that he collapsed and went into convulsions at a makeshift memorial across from the boy's home.

Rehoboth police are asking for the public's assistance in looking for a woman who disappeared Tuesday night.

Authorities say a child's body has been found off a Massachusetts highway and it matches the height and weight of a 5-year-old boy who has been missing for seven months.

Authorities say a child's body has been found off a Massachusetts highway and it matches the height and weight of a 5-year-old boy who has been missing for seven months.

Sources told WBZ-TV Friday that the body of a small child has been found off Interstate 190 in Sterling and those sources believe it is the body of missing Fitchburg boy Jeremiah Oliver .

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With April vacation coming up next week for local schoolchildren, Rollstone Studios is working with a number of community partners to offer kids of all ages a combination of art and environmental learning activities.

The North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce board of directors has launched a nationwide search for the successor to President and CEO David McKeehan, who has announced he is retiring at the end of the year.

Christopher Maloney, a 1989 graduate of Fitchburg State University and the chief U.S. probation officer for the District of Massachusetts, will deliver Fitchburg State University's spring commencement address.

A Fitchburg man was arraigned in Worcester Superior Court Thursday for his alleged involvement in a fire a Leominster breakfast diner that is being blamed on arson.