Gloucester News

The English High School baseball squad, fresh off their victory in the City League championship , has drawn Gloucester High School as their first opponent in the state playoffs.

The gravestone of Charles F. Bucko gives only a few hints of the remarkable life he lived in his 29 years.

Allison Hammond sat in her apartment in Gloucester with daughter Lizzie during the long wait for the word of her missing daughter Caleigh Harrison, who disappeared on Longbeach in Rockport on April 19.

You know Bomont, the fictional town in "Footloose" where dancing is banned because it leads to sex, drugs and - worst of all - more dancing? Menino has been working hard to keep young people in Boston after graduation.

GLOUCESTER, Mass. - A decision by the city of Gloucester to reroute its annual Memorial Day parade has angered and hurt veterans and city councilors because it bypasses the Vietnam Memorial Vietnam veteran Mark Nestor says the snub is particularly disappointing because Vietnam veterans "for many years labored in obscurity, largely forgotten and ... (more)

Take a trip with Lidia to Gloucester, Massachusetts, a fishing village with a large Italian population, and then visit Providence, Rhode Island, where Lidia goes to the Scialo Brothers' Bakery.

GLOUCESTER - Caleigh Harrison's mother says she has done nothing wrong. Allison Hammond is under investigation by the state for possible neglect of her four-year-old daughter Lizzie.

A drastic cut in the allowable catch of yellowtail flounder has left the groundfish industry in New Bedford bracing for economic disaster.

Today is Friday, May 18. Here are five things to know today in Peabody. Today's weather: Sunny with a high near 67 degrees.

The wreck of a schooner that sank off the coast of Gloucester 120 years ago while shipping granite blocks from New England to New York has joined Civil War battlefields and Mount Rushmore on a federal list of the nation's historic icons.

Rockport and State Police dig near the outflow of a tidal estuary at low tide on Long Beach in connection to the disappearance of Caleigh Harrison, Friday, May 4, 2012 in Rockport, Mass.

The following activity for theA Hamilton Police A andA Fire Department A comes from the Hamilton-Wenham Emergency Center log for Monday, May 14 through Tuesday, May 15.

Owner Mathew Perry sniffs a sample of the rum made at Turkey Shore Distilleries in Ipswich.

The Massachusetts Senate opened debate Tuesday on a sweeping bill to control the cost of health care in the state.

Today is Wednesday, May 16. Here are five things to know today in Peabody. Today's weather: Chance of showers with a high near 69 degrees.

While watching what seems to be a harmless show by the name of Jersey Shore, my mom seems to be enraged and walks in, screaming and shouting about how negatively influential TV is nowadays.

A woman and her dog made a great escape just seconds before a tree crashed down on her car on Tuesday.

GLOUCESTER, Mass. - There are labors of love, and then there's this story. In the late 1980s, woodworker Gregory Bover decided to build a pretty incredible gift for his wife, Frances Fitch, an internationally known harpsichordist.

Name: Andrew, Liza and Colton Sharp Street: Cedar Street, Wenham Family: Just the three of us, but Liza's mom moved to Wenham with her husband and is now just a few blocks away, and we sometimes have foster children with us.

The pain was palpable. Caleigh Harrison's cousins huddled together in tears, hundreds in her hometown of Gloucester found small comfort in hope.