Students at University of Massachusetts, Lowell developed a low cost robot arm specifically designed to open doors.

Joan Baruffaldi&#8217 two brothers, Tom and Robert, were in court in Woburn yesterday.

Q. I left a table pad on my dining room table for a bit too long, apparently, because when I took it off it left light, fluffy bits of lint.

Attention Shane Murphy: The Somali Community Association of Ohio wants to take you out to dinner and ask for your help in protecting the Indian Ocean from pirates.

WOBURN, Mass. - A lawyer for a Boston man charged with killing his grandmother in her Weston home says his client is not criminally responsible for the slaying.

Click to enlarge 1 of 3 Surveillance video shows, what prosecutors say, is John Buonomo taking money from cash and copy machines.

A former Wilmington Pop Warner football coach pleaded innocent on Tuesday to aggravated assault and battery with serious injury stemming from a fight with a player's parent during a practice last month.

Cambridge Police report charging Mark Lidsky, 20, of Woburn, with armed assault with intent to rob for the Friday-morning incident.

Two armed robberies that occurred in two local towns on Saturday may be connected.

He lost to Mike Capuano, who is now on TV every night, running for the U.S. Senate.

A -- Life Technologies Corp., life sciences and medical research tools company, said Tuesday it is buying BioTrove Inc.

Selectmen voted unanimously last night to offer the town manager's position to John Curran, who holds the same position in Maynard and is a former mayor in Woburn.

A former Middlesex County probate register who has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from cash and copy machines at the Registry of Deeds in Cambridge and from his campaign funds is set to be sentenced.

A research study to assess the practicality of using haptic devices to train physicians to perform sub-arachnoid blocks is currently underway in Europe.

Selectmen voted Tuesday night to offer the town manager's job to John Curran, the town manager of Maynard and former mayor of Woburn.

These are the results of the Woburn Municipal Election of November 3, 2009 Election Results News Flash - All View Archived 6 Week Nutrition workshop begins Thursday, November 5th at 10am and meets every Thursday The official government handbook "Medicare & You 2010" is now available The "Medicare & You 2010" handbook covers: 1. What's new 2. 2010 ...

Melanie Melanson's 35th birthday came and went yesterday. She was not there to celebrate, so family and friends gathered to remember the young woman who disappeared 20 years ago, just days before she would have turned 15.

Sometimes the hardest part of making a big change is getting motivated. Which is why we've found 10 seriously inspiring women who have lost anywhere from 84 to 206 pounds.

On Wednesday, October 28, 2009, a federal Grand Jury in Los Angeles indicted Brian Thomas Mettenbrink, a member of the cyber hate group Anonymous, for his part in the January 2008 attempted destruction of Scientology websites owned by the Church of Scientology.

To cut costs when the economy tumbled, Peerless Precision Inc. invested in computerized equipment, partly to eliminate the use of costly subcontractors.