Haverhill News

When we think about great artists and where they came from, Italy comes to mind.

State Rep. William Lantigua was elected mayor of Lawrence tonight, becoming the first elected Hispanic mayor in the history of the state.

The police narcotics squad raided an Orchard Street home last night about 8 p.m., seizing 8 bags of cocaine and charging one of the occupants with dealing drugs.

Supposedly, the rest of the country should look at Massachusetts to witness the nirvana of universal health care.

The Haverhill YMCA awarded its first Educator of the Year honor Wednesday night to Matt Castonguay, fifth-grade teacher at Bradford Elementary School.

During his first campaign stop of the day, School Committee candidate Paul Magliocchetti stood opposite Second Baptist Church on Amesbury Line Road and pointed to the cross mounted on the front of the church.

The polls had barely been closed 10 minutes, when John Michitson knew he was in trouble.

A Lawrence man faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer after he drove his car into a detective's undercover cruiser following a drug bust near the Merrimack Car Wash and Laundry on Burnham Road.

Police closed off a section of Kingsbury Avenue from Willow Avenue to the Boxford Line at around 9:45 a.m, after receiving a report of a large tree that was about to fall across the road.

Some called it the political "must attend" event of the year in the city yesterday as state Rep.

When Karyn Meunier saw the blue police lights in her rear-view mirror as she drove through Georgetown on her way to work last month, she was perplexed.

The Haverhill District Parent Council asked candidates questions and here are the answers of those who responded: SCHOOL COMMITTEE Joseph Bevilacqua 1. Other than MCAS performance, how would you measure and define the success of a school district?: Although the state requires MCAS, other than MCAS, I would suggest that other indicators of ...

Trick-or-treating in the city will be Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. City ordinance requires that legal trick-or-treating in Haverhill occur on the last Saturday of the month, which usually occurs before Halloween.

A Hunking School custodian told police sometime over the weekend an unknown party used a blue paint marker to write on the school's exterior wall, police said.

An 85-year-old local man sustained a head injury and was taken to the hospital after he was struck by a car as he crossed Railroad Square about 6:30 this morning.

When the sun shines, whether above the Citizens Center or on Hilldale Avenue, it will save electricity.

The Massachusetts husband of a gay Brazilian man says his spouse has been denied asylum that would allow them to be reunited in the U.S. Tim Coco said Monday the Obama administration did not act on a Friday deadline in the case of Genesio "Junior" Oliveira, effectively denying his request.

A local man will be arraigned this morning on his eighth drunken-driving charge, police said.

Voters will have one of their last chances to meet candidates two days before the election.

For the last three months, they have been catching people's attention all around the city.