Methuen News

Retailers are reporting sales gains for May that suggest Americans cautiously loosened their purse strings to take advantage of new styles and Mother's Day promotions.

HEROES' RESTING PLACE: Any dog that has served the country during times of war can now be cremated or buried for free at the MSPCA at Nevins Farm in Methuen.

LAWRENCE - A man accused of trying to burglarize a Lawrence market wound up in intensive care after the owner attacked him with a baseball bat.

Police are looking for the person or people responsible for destroying several mailboxes and street signs in a Tewksbury neighborhood over the weekend.

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.

Three workers at a trucking company located off Route 113 near the Methuen town line were hospitalized on Tuesday after they noticed a strange smell inside a trucking container that was loaded with a hazardous material.

20, 2012, file photo, customers walk into and out of a Wal-Mart store in Methuen, Mass.

Two suspects already charged in connection with an investigation into drug distribution in Tyngsboro are now facing additional drug charges, and police say a firearm found in their home was stolen during a burglary in Methuen in 2009.

A Feb. 20, 2012, file photo, shows flat screen televisions at a Target store in Methuen, Mass.

Following are excerpts from the Burlington Police Department log.i»¿ Note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account.

The town has been declared eligible to receive $11.1 million in minimal-interest loans to fund a sewer-system expansion plan this year and next, announced Sen.

Pregnant women are steering clear of a stretch of road near Medford, Massachusetts, where four babies have been delivered en route to hospital in the past month.

Haverhill business owner Tim Coco, 50, took out papers Thursday for the Democratic nomination for the vacant First Essex District senate seat.

Two New Hampshire rescue workers -- one a Manchester firefighter, the other a New Hampshire State Police trooper -- appeared before their fellow first responders Monday and received their applause and well wishes.

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Christopher Piantedosi, 39, of Methuen, Mass., is accused of stabbing his former girlfriend, 38-year-old Kristen Pulisciano, 34 times Thursday in front of their 15-year-old daughter at her Burlington, Mass., home, the New Hampshire Union Leader A reports .

The teenage daughter of a woman stabbed to death last week and a friend she was video chatting with witness the woman's killing, prosecutors said Monday.

Police in the New Hampshire town of Middleton say a 55-year-old man is dead following a motorcycle crash on Kings Highway.

Describing the slaying of a 38-year-old Burlington woman as a "horrible" act of domestic violence, Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone said murder suspect Christopher Piantedosi turned himself in Friday afternoon at the state police barracks in Weston.

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