Lowell News

A city man acquitted of murder last year is back behind bars held on high bail after being charged by Chelmsford police with kidnapping and armed robbery.

The murder arraignment of a Lawrence man accused of fatally stabbing his 60-year-old stepmother in her Lowell apartment in March has been postponed until later this month.

First of the 2013 season of weekly Tuesday night Motorcycle Night at Sampas Pavilion and Heritage Farm Ice Cream.

A proposed methadone clinic off Stedman Street in Lowell has been attracting opposition from nearby residents and businesses, mainly across the town line in Chelmsford, whose border runs only a street's width from where the facility would go.

When Edson Novinyo was growing up in Ghana, he wore sandals made out of recycled car tires, studied from the same books his father had used and developed an interest in aviation from watching birds fly.

It began with an investigation into a $5,000 ransom demand for a dognapped pitbull puppy stolen from a lottery winner.

Tacking on special commissions and bumping up spending in areas across the nearly $33.9 billion budget proposal, the Senate on Wednesday charged through more than half the 725 amendments before it during its first day of annual budget deliberations.

A convicted Level 3 sex offender with an 18-page record who is facing new rape charges appeared before a judge Tuesday to ask that he be released on a GPS bracelet.

NMTW Community Credit Union will become Align Credit Union in September, the second Lowell-area banking institution in a week to announce a name change.

A 37-year-old Lowell man accused of downloading dozens of images and videos of child pornography is prohibited from using the Internet by computer or phone.

An undercover Lowell detective was shot at five times while conducting surveillance on three men in a Honda Accord on Moore and Lawrence streets Wednesday afternoon.

Naomi Prendergast, left, CEO of D'Youville Life & Wellness Community in Lowell, and Rachel Chaddock, executive director of the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Lowell, relax inside a hospice unit at D'Youville recently.

Textile artists Ann Lee and Elaine Perra Renault team up to show their work in Rhythm & Rhyme Pattern and Texture at the Loading Dock Gallery at Western Avenue Studios.

Two Lowell men were released without bail on cocaine-trafficking charges after a minor traffic stop last Friday led to a search of the car and an open backpack with a lockbox inside that allegedly had a bag of cocaine in it.

A city man arrested on probation violations that date to 2010 now has bigger problems after a search of his bedroom on Monday allegedly yielded bags of cocaine, thousands in cash, guns and ammunition.

A major piece of Lowell history lost some weight Tuesday afternoon when a gigantic limb of the legendary Pow-Wow Oak tree broke off and fell onto Clark Road.

A reconstruction project on a key downtown bridge has been delayed for at least two months while a utility company designs a support system for an important electrical line that passes beneath the span.

BOUNCED CHECKS: When are the Markey backers and the mayors of New Hampshire going to get it through their heads that criminals do not buy guns from dealers.

An empty lot marked the spot this week at 147-151 East Merrimack St. on the corner of Fayette Street in Lowell where a building once stood containing the law office of Colleen Garry on its second floor.

This summer, Memorial Hall Library is creating a Makerspace, which in a nut shell is a "collaborative learning environments where people come together to share materials and learn new skills." Called the Beehive for Community Creativity and Gathering, this "Makerspace" will feature several events at the library each month for adults to learn, ... (more)