Lowell News

I would like to know how the Westlawn Cemetery in Lowell justifies not mowing the lawn or putting out veterans' flags for the Memorial Day weekend.

The head of the state's Small Business Administration, who was in Lowell Thursday, said small businesses are a driving force in the state's economic recovery and the support for small businesses in the state is thriving.

When EMT Michael Koza arrived at a Shaw Street apartment in Lowell during the early-morning hours of May 30, 2010, he found Philip Meltzer's body sticking out of the bathroom.

When the UK Travel Channel runs the Lowell segment of its new "American Times" series that was filmed here Thursday, people in 118 countries will hear the show's three-man crew wax about breakfast at the Owl Diner.

Angel Martinez, 39, of 90 East Central St., Worcester, was found not guilty on three counts of possession of a firearm without a firearm identification card, three counts of firearm violation with one prior violent or drug crime, and two counts of receiving stolen property over $250 after a jury trial.

Shuttling Lowell students around the city to achieve racial balance made some sense 25 years ago; it doesn't today.

We know Salem residents don't just stay in our city when they want a night out and a break from cooking.

A 25-year-old Lowell man was shot in the thigh early Saturday morning while meeting on Branch Street with a man police described as an acquaintance of the victim.

But Lowell, which won the first two games, watched as St. John's Prep rallied for a 3-2 win.

Four people are in custody after Lowell police with a SWAT team conducted a drug raid on a home in a the Back Central neighborhood early Thursday morning.

Child and Family Services' first installment of Concerts for the Cause 2012, The Blues Summit, takes place Friday, June 1, 7 p.m., at the Palace Theatre.

A 57-year-old Lowell man will spend three years in prison after pleading guilty to running a prostitution ring out of his house in the Back Central neighborhood and beating some of the women who worked for him if they tried to quit.

A group of nurses from Saints Medical Center in Lowell traveled to the indigent nation last summer to provide supplies and medical assistance at the Obras Sociales orphanage, where they found children in dire need of help.

Micky Ward said Wednesday he wants to see the man who he has accused of sexually abusing him during his childhood punished.

This is a portion of theA Chelmsford Police A log. This information is open to the public.

A In the forty years before his death in 2007, William Millett spent each and every day at the J.V. Fletcher Library, walking there from his home on Graniteville Road.

CALLING FOR A CHANGE: Kris and Jen Lewis of Lowell with their twin daughters, Mya, left, and Saleena, who turn 5 in June.

These are just a few words to describe the volunteers who registered and came to help out at this year's Lowell General Hospital's TeamWalk for Cancer Care on May 20.

Describing the removal of drugs by Lowell police from a suspect's buttocks in a public place as "embarrassing and humiliating" for the suspect, the state's highest court has upheld a lower court's ruling to suppress the drug evidence during what the judge described as an improper strip search.

The following is an excerpt from theA Wilmington Police A log from Friday, May 25 to Sunday, May 27.