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Librarian Joel Burdette asks the 10 children in the lunchtime reading group how many read beyond the assigned 60 pages in the adventure story "Swindle." Eight hands shot up.

Faced with the recession, cities and towns are pressing for more liquor licenses to stimulate their economies by attracting new restaurants.

City councilors meet as a committee of the whole at 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall to discuss ways to increase revenue.

Spread out around Jessica Bessette's kindergarten classroom were small groups of students sitting on the floor around containers of craft supplies.

There are degrees of being wrong. The Creationists are at the bottom of the scale.

"I'm not going to try to explain what I don't understand," John Carciero told family and friends at his younger brother Jay's funeral at St.

Peterson, formerly a partner at DLA Piper, has over two decades of experience planning and managing complex real estate transactions, environmental, permitting and land use projects and legislative engagements for a broad variety of businesses.

"I'm just happy she's OK," the 33-year-old special officer said today of the doctor he saved.

The family of a Reading man who tried to stab his psychiatrist to death Tuesday said they are struggling to understand what happened.

The security guard who shot and killed aA psychiatric patientA inside a biopolar clinic earlier this weekA acted lawfully,A said Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley during an afternoon press conference.

Share + Oct 28, 2009 1:18 pm US/Eastern READING, Mass. The father of a man who fatally shot a psychiatric patient after the patient stabbed a doctor says his son is a Boston special police officer who works for a private company.

A man stabbed a doctor while being treated at a psychiatric office at a Boston medical building on Tuesday and was then fatally shot by an off-duty security guard who saw the attack, the police said.

The Obama administration's declaration of emergency may finally release the real virus that is infecting the American body politic: paranoia.

Rosa Martinez survived the bloody civil war in El Salvador and came to the United States 20 years ago.

Jennifer Murphy, 27, of Reading, was arrested by Lawrence police this morning as she tried to buy drugs at Lowell and Elizabeth streets, about 10 a.m. Murphy was arrested minutes after police said she beat and robbed a 59-year-old woman of her purse in front of a grocery store at 186 Haverhill St., in Methuen.

Help..........! I am trying to plan my sister's bridal shower around the Reading, MA area.

As part of "Operation Yellow Blitz,'' Watertown police issued tickets to seven drivers they said did not yield to school buses.

Big Brother 9 winner, Adam Jasinski has reportedly gotten busted for some alleged drug deals.

Arthur S. "Jake" Jacobsen, 71, of Hampton, died Friday, Oct. 16, 2009, at his home.

Although Lou Gramm - and every other original member save Mick Jones - may no longer tour with the band, the transcontinental '70s rockers are still hard at work.