North Reading News

A driver yesterday led state troopers, then North Reading police, on a chase from Interstate 93 in Wilmington through North Reading, striking a police cruiser along the way before crashing on Boston Street around 2 p.m. No one was reported injured in the crash in South Middleton near Elm and River Streets, near the West Peabody line.

Residents in one North Reading neighborhood were without water this Christmas morning.

A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted the Massachusetts man shot during a scuffle with an undercover state trooper at Lincoln Woods State Park on charges of possessing a firearm while a felon and possessing a firearm with its serial number removed.

A man who lost his license for drunken driving got it back on Thursday and the very next day went on a drunken jaunt through Peabody and Salem, where he was arrested, police said.

Local political and business leaders chatted it up at the 91st annual North Shore Chamber of Commerce dinner on Wednesday.

Culinary Director Denise Baron of regional chain Burtons Grill shares her take on menu trends for 2010.

A turkey looks around its enclosure at the Seven Acres Farm in North Reading, Massachusetts November 25, 2009, one day before the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.

House leaders are ordering their staff members to take five furlough days as a way to mitigate further budget cuts, and many North Shore lawmakers, though not all, are voluntarily giving up a week's pay as a show of support.

The late-morning blaze seriously damaged a two-story colonial on Park Street in North Reading.

Strong winds may've contributed to a house fire in North Reading. The blaze broke out around 11:30 a.m. at a home on Park Street in North Reading.

Two unoccupied homes were destroyed by a Thanksgiving morning fire in North Reading.

A fire in North Reading destroyed two unoccupied homes on Swan Pond Road this morning, North Reading fire officials said.

A home under construction and an adjacent cabin were destroyed by a fire in North Reading Thursday morning.

The body of Joan Baruffaldi lies in the basement of a funeral home in Somerville, Mass.

As part of a decision that will significantly shape next year's gubernatorial race, Republican Charles D. Baker is reviewing a final list of four potential running mates, including a district attorney, the GOP's two top legislative leaders, and a lawmaker known for her political candor, a campaign adviser said yesterday.

The body of a Lynnfield mother of two lies in limbo while her family - troubled by her husband's claim she hanged herself in their U.S. Virgin Islands hotel room one month after confronting him about an alleged affair - implores a judge to bar her burial pending an independent autopsy.

She was known to thousands of readers as "PJ," the beautiful, copper-haired girl who was the subject of many humorous and poignant columns written by her mother, former Eagle-Tribune reporter Penny Morang Richards.

The family of a local woman found dead in the Virgin Islands earlier this month says the death looks suspicious, and they want a second autopsy done.

Jessica Flynn is only 11 years old, but she's already literally dancing her way to success.

A Massachusetts man shot in the face during a scuffle with a Rhode Island state trooper in a Lincoln park has been ordered held on $200,000 bail.