Peabody News

A gunman zeroed in on a car with three occupants yesterday morning on a downtown, residential street.

Munroe Street is a short side street downtown with a handful of multifamily homes and apartments.

A mother driving with her 18-year-old son and his friend was turning onto Munroe Street Wednesday morning when a car following them hit the bumper of her Honda Accord.

A Salem Superior Court judge yesterday ordered that an alleged five-time drunken driver - found with a pint of vodka in his lunchbox - will remain in custody until trial.

Jeff Grayson, who lost the race for Ward 4 city councilor by a single vote, confirmed yesterday that he will ask for a recount.

This year's race for mayor will go down in the history books as the most expensive on record: The candidates have spent more than $94,000. According to finance reports filed with the city clerk's office this week, challenger Richard J. Alcombright has raised $54,587.26 and spent $44,701.78. Mayor John Barrett III, who began the campaign season with ...

A Beverly man has been sentenced to up to 3 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a Peabody boy numerous times when he was between the ages of 6 and 8. Prosecutors called the actions of 31-year-old Shawn Finnegan "despicable, horrific and unimaginable" in Salem Superior Court on Monday.

A man who received just a suspended sentence for sending child pornography to someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy back in 2004 is now facing charges that he lured a mentally disabled 23-year-old to his apartment and sexually assaulted him Saturday afternoon.

A Beverly man will serve no more than 31A 2 years in state prison for repeated sexual assaults on a young Peabody boy, a Salem Superior Court judge decided yesterday.

Jim McDonnell of Peabody was aboard a 7 a.m. flight to Virginia yesterday. It was the least he could for his cousin, Bob.

In a city known for its heated political battles, it has been a quiet election cycle.

Vampires sporting sunglasses, whimsical wizards, and at least one Teletubby roamed the streets of Salem this afternoon, drinking in a magical brew of warm weather and a Halloween weekend.

A former Peabody man was cleared of attempted murder and other charges stemming from a shooting inside a West Peabody home nearly three years ago.

History is not on Russell Donovan's side. The retired General Electric technician is a candidate for mayor in a city that loves its incumbents.

This election season has been a rather lackluster one in Peabody. Among the major disappointments have been the lack of challengers to the biggest obstructionists on the City Council, Ward 2's Arthur Athas and Ward 3's Rico Mello, and the silly dispute over missing lawn signs in Ward 6. We commend all those willing to put their names forward, from ...

I was dismayed to read Bo Peabody's correspondence to the editor regarding Mayor John Barrett's involvement and support for Mass MoCA [letter to the editor, Oct.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes took the always adorable Suri to Brooksby Farm on Sunday afternoon in Peabody, Massachusetts.

One week before Christmas in 2007, Ron Trofenof was wading through deep snow late at night on his way to the Beverly police station.

The defense lawyer for a Peabody mother charged with shaking her 9-month-old daughter to death tried yesterday to cast the jury's suspicion on a friend of Jennifer Ward.

Share + Oct 22, 2009 2:22 pm US/Eastern DANVERS 1 of 3 Louis Vesprini, 93, of Danvers, was arraigned on a charge of negligent operation of a motor vehicle.