Peabody News

A city-based engineering firm has agreed to pay more than $107,000 to settle alleged violations of the state's prevailing-wage laws, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley's office announced yesterday.

A man walking near downtown Peabody yesterday was robbed and shot in the head with a pellet gun, according to police.

After four years of serving up Peruvian and Argentinean fare at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Cafe Latino will close its doors for good in September.

Scott W. Delp, a Peabody man with a lengthy criminal record who was arrested while toting a handgun as he fled through a North Street yard in September, pleaded guilty Thursday in Salem Superior Court to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, Essex County District Attorney spokesman Stephen O'Connell said.

A proposal to transfer the package store liquor license from Top Shelf Liquors on Route 1 to a space in the new Dunkin' Donuts building on Water Street was pulled without explanation from the selectmen's agenda last week.

Those overseeing the expansion of the North Shore Community College campus in Danvers found out this week there's a lot of truth in Kermit the Frog's claim that "it ain't easy bein' green." NSCC President Wayne Burton spent part of his birthday Monday being assailed by residents of Preston Street for the demolition of trees and other shrubbery that ...

A new program at the Peabody Institute Library will provide a free lunch for kids in Peabody this summer.

Residents can now call the city's 4.6-mile bikeway the Peabody Independence Greenway.

Microsoft will limit the number of downloads for the beta of Windows Security Essentials, its new free antivirus software, when it posts the program later today.

Crisscrossed by highways and home to numerous subdivisions as well as the region's largest shopping center, Peabody has nevertheless taken the lead in the effort to get people out of their cars to travel about via bicycle or on foot.

Danversbank , the principal subsidiary of Danvers Bancorp, is set to open a new branch at 485 Mass Ave.

Some might say there's no need for new signage to inform motorists where Interstate 95 ends and Route 128 begins in Peabody.

The only time telephone poles make the news is when a car leaves the road and crashes into one.

Three firefighters were injured yesterday afternoon while battling a house fire on Ravenwood Road.

The sun pierced through the clouds yesterday evening in time to give the Class of 2009 and their guests a dry commencement, albeit a bit squishy on the field.

On Wednesday, June 10 at 1 a.m. a Corporal Jonathon Kelly, caught a vandal in the act of destroying the grounds at Raymond High School.

An affiliate of Men's Wearhouse won a bankruptcy auction to buy the Filene's Basement chain for $67 million and plans to keep operating most existing stores.

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Over the weekend, when news about the swine flu broke, the superintendent of Amityville schools felt a wave of panic about his students who recently fell ill.

A Bank of America teller was charged today with a fraud scheme that stole nearly $300,000 from customers of the bank's Peabody branch, federal prosecutors said.