Woburn News

A former Middlesex County probate register who has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from cash and copy machines at the Registry of Deeds in Cambridge and from his campaign funds is set to be sentenced.

A research study to assess the practicality of using haptic devices to train physicians to perform sub-arachnoid blocks is currently underway in Europe.

Selectmen voted Tuesday night to offer the town manager's job to John Curran, the town manager of Maynard and former mayor of Woburn.

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Melanie Melanson's 35th birthday came and went yesterday. She was not there to celebrate, so family and friends gathered to remember the young woman who disappeared 20 years ago, just days before she would have turned 15.

Sometimes the hardest part of making a big change is getting motivated. Which is why we've found 10 seriously inspiring women who have lost anywhere from 84 to 206 pounds.

On Wednesday, October 28, 2009, a federal Grand Jury in Los Angeles indicted Brian Thomas Mettenbrink, a member of the cyber hate group Anonymous, for his part in the January 2008 attempted destruction of Scientology websites owned by the Church of Scientology.

To cut costs when the economy tumbled, Peerless Precision Inc. invested in computerized equipment, partly to eliminate the use of costly subcontractors.

WOBURN, Mass. - The trial of a Massachusetts teenager charged with fatally stabbing a classmate in the bathroom of a suburban Boston high school has been scheduled for the spring.

When the Rev. Deryk P. Richenburg preached at the First Church of Christ's services Oct.

Joe Mantini of Woburn donated an artificial leg to New England Hospital's new donation program, which sends limbs to other countries.

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

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Wilmington Pop Warner football coach has been charged with viciously beating the parent of one of his players allegedly over a lap the young player was forced to run when he showed up late for practice.

Two more major U.S. banks say they are making money and lots of it. A Citibank sign outside of the business, in Woburn, Massachusetts Banking giant Goldman Sachs Thursday reported $3.2 billion in earnings for the three-month period that ended in September - better than many analysts had anticipated.

The former Middlesex County Register of Probate has pleaded guilty to two separate schemes in which he stole thousands in taxpayer money and more than $100,000 in campaign funds, according to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone.

The Arlington Catholic Girls Cross Country team soundly defeated Bishop Fenwick by a score of 17 to 46 to stay undefeated in the Catholic Central League.

Middlesex County District Attorney Gerard Leone has subpoenaed city records related to dozens of properties and businesses either owned or developed by City Councilor Alan Kazanjian, and a grand jury has been convened on the matter, The Sun has learned.

In addition to the preliminary filming on Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown and chatter that the film is landing a chopper between 3-5 p.m. on the Zakim Bridge this Sunday, Oct.

Around this time every year, Northeastern University political economist Barry Bluestone offers-up a widely-read assessment of the housing market and the economy as a whole in Greater Boston.