Amesbury News

Amesbury, Chelsea, and Newburyport have adopted union-backed changes to their employee health insurance plans that they say will bring much-needed savings.

I died too quickly in the zombie apocalypse. It was the last, fatal bite I remember most clearly: I had just zigzagged to safety through a grove of lurching undead.

The Provident Bank grew its assets 7 percent and its profits 4 percent in 2011, the bank announced in its annual report, with total assets rising to $530 million, and earning totaling $4.7 million.

The zombie virus infected Amesbury, Mass., this past weekend, when a 5K obstacle race called "Run For Your Lives" invaded.

Amesbury, Massachusetts held its "Run for Your Lives" 5K obstacle course race on May 5. Runners faced man-made and natural obstacles on the course, while being chased by zombies, who try to take "health" flags off the runners belts.

Alice Mainville received a bill from the state of New Jersey, saying she owes $73 from unemployment she collected in 1976.

Lane Glenn of Amesbury has been sworn in as the fourth president in the 50-year history of Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, according to the Daily News of Newburyport.

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The Obama administration's top environmental official in the oil-rich South and Southwest region has resigned after Republicans targeted him over remarks made two years ago when he used the word "crucify" to describe how... One of three Florida siblings wanted in a multi-state crime spree has been sentenced to 32 years in Colorado.

A Massachusetts woman who got a bill for $73 from the state of New Jersey for a decades-old debt says she has no intention of paying.

A Massachusetts woman who got a bill for $73 from the state of New Jersey for a decades-old debt says she has no intention of paying.