Lowell News

Lowell and state police are seeking suspects after a shooting in the city's Highlands neighborhood early yesterday morning sent two men to the hospital.

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A Lowell man was indicted Thursday on charged he shot and killed a Lawrence teen, whose friends later dumped the body on a street in the city's Acre section.

A Lowell woman alleged to have stolen the identities of at least 34 people, including doctors, is being held on $20,000 cash bail following her arraignment on Wednesday morning.

A man in his mid-30s was shot in the side Saturday evening as he stood in the driveway of a West Sixth Street home, about a half a block down from Bridge Street.

The Coast Guard rescued two Lowell men from the water Saturday night after their vessel capsized at the mouth of the Merrimack River.

It started as an argument. Then one of the men allegedly pulled out a gun and shot a 40-year-old mechanic, prosecutors said.

For the first time since his mother was killed in a fatal hit and run last October in Lowell, a tearful Keith Texeira told the man who killed her that he is haunted by the fact that he left her to die on the side of the road.

An Acton man pleaded guilty on Friday to striking and killing a Lowell woman with his car, then fleeing the scene.

A 47-year-old Lowell man was behind bars Tuesday night after police say he assaulted three officers who tried to arrest him on domestic charges he faced in Chelmsford, and then barricaded himself in a Centralville apartment with his 15-year-old son.

Police say three Lowell men robbed a 20-year-old man and a convenience store early yesterday morning, only to find their little crime spree come to a disastrous end when police found them fleeing a heist with a car full of stolen goods.

Police have two suspects in custody who allegedly shot a man inside a South Street auto repair shop at about 12:15 p.m Wednesday.

A 28-year-old Lynn man was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty on Tuesday in connection to his role in the 2006 fatal shooting of a Lowell man outside McGinty's Pub.

In 2007 only one of the nine candidates elected to the City Council -- Rita Mercier -- received more than 50 percent of the vote.

The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office has annulled one of the town's newest bylaws, ruling that a measure seeking to regulate power plants is "inconsistent" with state law.

A 23-year-old Lowell man was in critical condition in a Boston hospital Saturday night after his Honda sedan slammed into a utility pole along Hildreth Street early Saturday morning.

Butler Bank's offices on George Street in Lowell. Lending practices that worked well for years, helping the bank prosper, backfired in a big way as the economy sank last year.

The sales of all Massachusetts State Lottery tickets at the Visitors Center on I-495 in Chelmsford have been temporarily stopped and its manager fired after an audit uncovered a "discrepancy" with the sales.

Will it nail time-tested boxing-movie themes on the noggin, gaining traction within a genre crowded with classics? Filming is set to begin July 6 on The Fighter, a biopic starring Mark Wahlberg as Micky Ward, the former rock-jawed junior welterweight champion from the Highlands of Lowell.

BILLERICA, Mass. - The town manager of Billerica who resigned after coming under intense fire for making comments critical of the community may be back on the job.