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Police early Friday morning arrested two Lowell men who allegedly pointed a handgun at two women in Pawtucketville hours earlier and robbed them of their purses.

A Lowell convenience store is among more than 30 establishments across the state suspected of stealing Lottery winnings from unsuspecting patrons.

Rose and Walter Bronk keep the food coming in "Saint Paul's Kitchen" at Eliot Presbyterian Church in Lowell Thursday night.

In the spring of 2008, amid public outrage over the School Committee's vote to give the district's four assistant superintendents substantial pay raises and boosted benefits, the public perception was that the 2009 election would be a doozy, with challengers emerging from every neighborhood.

After a revitalization year that saw the completion of extensive restoration efforts, the historic Lowell's Boat Shop in Amesbury is ready to celebrate.

They want your vote, but do they vote? A Sun review of the voting histories of the city's 21 City Council and seven School Committee candidates, going back to 1995, shows that while some are faithful voters, others do not practice what they preach when it comes to getting out the vote.

The Lowell School Committee is facing tremendous challenges in the months ahead, challenges that will require the focus of leaders with financial acumen, strong leadership skills and a professional demeanor.

City police were searching for a heavyset man with a long-barrelled gun who held up a Branch Street convenience store Wednesday night.

The famed cobblestone streets of downtown Lowell, which harken back to the days of 19th-century gaslights, are undergoing a face-lift. But while their aesthetic beauty cannot be denied, the project, which calls for cobblestone repairs, new crosswalks and handicapped ramps and more, is taking its toll on some of the businesses along Middle and ...

The few grave markers have been smashed into pieces. City officials say one vandal even dug up a grave in the 1990s.

A Lowell woman has been cleared of motor-vehicle homicide in a 2007 crash on the Lowell Connector that killed a 23-year-old Dunstable man.

On Saturday, Shawn Ashe of Dracut wrote a letter opposing Question 1 for choice voting in Lowell.

Police are asking the public for help in identifying suspects in two bank robberies that occurred just a few hours apart in Lowell and Tewksbury yesterday.

Police officers were facing layoffs as Superintendent Kenneth Lavallee put together the department's budget last summer, so the city dive team's small budget was eliminated to help save jobs.

The seven candidates battling for six seats on the School Committee met last night to tackle issues ranging from union negotiations and forthcoming budget cuts, to the need for a special-education director during a forum sponsored by the Citywide Parent Council at Lowell High School.

In the mid-1800s, with the Industrial Revolution in full swing, mill towns flourished across America - particularly along the rivers in New England, where water power was being harnessed to run the giant factories.

Police arrested a 17-yea-old Lowell man who fueled up at the Dracut Shell Station on Lakeview Avenue who brandished a gun and took off without paying, Eric M. Silva of 27 Foch St., was arrested near his house in Lowell and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and armed robbery.

Luis "Tony" Delgado, 34, has a son who is 10 or 11 years old. His brother, Hector Delgado, 37, has a son who is about 2. Both men were shot to death inside their apartment at 7 Marshall Terrace early Friday morning.

Food superstars and ballroom dancers. Cosby, Kenny, Keith and the Pops. The Beatles, a Beach Boy, and a girls' night out.

For the newest recipients of the Lowell High School Distinguished Alumni Award, last night's ceremony was more about current students than their own accomplishments.

A Lowell man died and two others were seriously hurt when they were ejected from a car in a crash on a Connecticut highway Friday night.

Residents on Marshall Terrace are terrified that the triggermen who gunned down two brothers in their apartment in an early-morning double homicide will return to the quiet, dead-end street.

An 18-year-old Centralville teen will face charges in Lowell District Court that he desecrated as many as 150 gravesites at the Hildreth Cemetery earlier this month.

For the third time in two months, incumbent Lowell School Committee candidate Regina Faticanti's criminal threat case has been delayed, this time with less than two weeks before the citywide election.

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Two people were hospitalized early Friday morning after a shooting at 7 Marshall Terrace in the city's Pawtucketville neighborhood.

These individuals are part of a new effort to promote the arts at UMass Lowell called UMass Lowell Center for Arts & Ideas.

Just before buying a two-bedroom colonial near the Lowell Connector in the fall of 2007, Lynne Lupien called a gas company to find a big surprise -- the seller was paying $900 a month every winter to heat the house.

A shortage in seasonal-flu vaccine has forced the city to postpone its major annual flu clinic at Tsongas Arena as well as a flu clinic at the high school and middle schools.

Armand Mercier is a true city boy. Growing up in Lowell's Acre, he says he has witnessed the good, the bad and the ugly of the city.

The opposition billed it as "anti-American," "anti-democratic," "anti-New England tradition." They said it would lead to the election of communists and "fellow travelers." Proponents said it led to a spirit of cooperation "in such a way that our city is held up as a model for good government," and inclusion, leading to the election of mayors of ...

Seconds before Shawn Lessieur allegedly pumped two bullets into Mark Jones' head, the 21-year-old Lowell man begged his killer not to shoot him, prosecutor Thomas O'Reilly said.

A 30-year-old Pepperell man and his wheelchair-bound father are facing charges that they got two women drunk and sexually assaulted them after they passed out.

WASHINGTON - Female soldiers and others serving in dangerous roles behind the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan have long complained it was hard to prove their combat experience when applying for disability for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Middlesex Superior Court Judge Christopher Muse called the poem "disturbing." The judge was referring to a poem that Maurice Harris, a U.S. Air Force veteran of the Iraq war, e-mailed to his ex-fiance after she got a restraining order against him in the wake of allegations two years ago that he molested her 6-year-old daughter.

The state's highest court will hear arguments next month from a former Lowell teacher who was fired for failing an English fluency test, after a lower-court judge upheld the firing, saying he wouldn't "sacrifice" schoolchildren to be politically correct.

Just several of the more than 89 headstones Lowell police say were discovered either knocked over or broken yesterday at the Hildreth Cemetery in Lowell.

Frederick Doyle has run unsuccessfully for a seat on the Lowell City Council on eight previous occasions, the last time coming in 1989.

A 19th century bell is getting a new home and a prominent location outside the Eastern Bank office in downtown Lowell, the bank announced today.

The latest addition to the city's fleet of vehicles is a gem. The GEM e2 to be exact, the Global Electric Motorcar, which runs on six 12-volt electrolyte batteries.

A former Lowell man, who worked for the government as a Drug Enforcement Agency analyst, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court yesterday to charges of illegally accessing drivers' license records, wire fraud, and lying and altering records in a federal investigation.

His name is Edward Caulfield, but in all corners of the city, he is known simply as "Bud." For the last 22 years, Bud Caulfield has held a seat on the City Council, the last two serving his second stint as the city's mayor.

In Newbury and Newburyport, with vast state parks and federal refuge land, policing isolated and sometimes rural areas can be hard to do.