Methuen News

Housing Authority chiefs would be banned from holding two director jobs under legislation recently filed by Methuen state Rep.

Ten dollars is a very low price to get a male cat fixed and vaccinated. This program is only available to low-income families throughout the month of February.

METHUEN, Mass.-- He might not know it but Justin Bieber has a wife in Massachusetts and now there is a push to arrange a meeting because they've never met.

A Crisafulli School fifth grader Jessica Leong has been named as one of six "distinguished finalists" by the Prudential Spirit of Community Award program.

Teajin Sung, of Lawrence, tries on a wedding dress at Chantilly Place in downtown Lowell as business owner Colleen Ferry assists.

An early morning police chase in connection with a robbery of a Sunoco gas station in Atkinson, N.H., ended up in North Andover.

Ken Martin is the highest-paid local housing director in the state, earning a combined $184,000 for managing 1,107 units in Methuen full time and 97 units in Ayer part time, according to state salary records.

DIALER: Michael McLaughlin, former executive director of the Chelsea Housing Authority, at a Chelsea housing development last October.

Police arrest 25 people on Friday, Jan. 20, and charged them with various alcohol related charges after getting a call about a loud party.

Jamie Ayers, a former inmate in the Massachusetts Department of Corrections system, got a round of applause after speaking at the three-strikes press conference at the State House.

Bob was born in Chelsea, Mass., raised in Revere, Mass., and graduated from Revere High School, Class of 1945.

Then nature stepped in, and they were his 94 beloved furry pets. A beleaguered Lawrence hamster enthusiast placed a desperate call last week to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

A Lawrence man has turned over 94 hamsters to a local animal shelter, telling officials he was running out of room in his apartment.

A Lawrence man says farewell to more than 90 of his little friends. A The MSPCAA in Methuen has taken custody of dozens of hamstersA that were living with the man in his apartmentA on Boehm Street.A A Officials sayA they were well cared for, but the man had run out of room.A A He began collecting hamsters five years ago.