Chelsea News

A class-action suit filed by exotic dancers over what they say are unfair labor practices at the Mardi Gras and four other area strip clubs parallels a similar suit filed by dancers earlier this year against a club in the city of Chelsea, the lawyer for the Springfield area dancers said Friday.

Governor Deval Patrick's visit to Chelsea Monday was a tour de force. He enjoyed himself here.

Cameras mounted on police cruisers scan vehicles and transmit recorded license plates to officers' laptops.

Progressive Democrat Michael Albano, a small business owner from Chelsea, announced today that he is officially a candidate for State Senate in the special election to fill the open seat vacated by Anthony Galluccio.

Waiting and wondering at the bus stop on five of the MBTA's busiest routes could soon be less aggravating.

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This year's Chelsea tribute to the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Chelsea Senior Center on Riley Way had a political twist.

Attorney General Martha Coakley showed great strength in Chelsea on Tuesday's United State Senatorial election.

With Tobin Bridge traffic shutdown and a heavy escort on land and sea, an LNG tanker enters the Mystic River.

A series of raids conducted throughout the city last Friday by state, local and federal law enforcement officers, has led to the arrest of 16 career criminals.

If you hadn't heard, there's a special election in Massachusetts tomorrow to fill the remainder of the late Ted Kennedy's term in the U. S. Senate.

The Committee to Elect Tim Flaherty today announced that former Chelsea City Council President Paul Nowicki, who ran against Flaherty in the 2007 special election for the Middlesex, Suffolk & Essex state senate seat, has endorsed Flaherty's candidacy.

A man who fled Newburyport District Court before his arraignment Wednesday and was subsequently arrested in Saugus was ordered held without bail yesterday and faces new charges stemming from his unauthorized exit.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino does not want to allow tankers from Yemen carrying enormous amounts of LNG to pass through Boston Harbor on its way to a dockage in Everett.

One week has passed since former Senator Anthony Galluccio was sent to prison and resigned his senate seat after failing to comply with the stipulations of his probation.

A special election will be held May 11 in the Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex district to elect a successor to Sen.

Governor Deval Patrick says two outpatient veterans clinics in Massachusetts that had been closed because of the state's budget crisis will reopen.

Chelsea woman claiming to be homeless was taken into police custody early Sunday morning after allegedly trying to break into an old flame's home by lighting magazine pages on fire and slipping them under his door, police report.

Burgess Properties has brokered the sale of 201 Crescent Ave. in Chelsea for $2.65 million.

Candidates in state Senator Anthony D. Galluccio's politically active Cambridge district rushed to vie for his vacated seat a day after the disgraced lawmaker resigned after the start of a yearlong jail sentence for violating terms of his probation.