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Townsend is facing multiple lawsuits from its own town clerk amid a row over the town’s handling of public records requests.

The bombs started raining down from cartel drones at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, just as the sun crested over the mountains of ...

Residents gathered at Vietnam Veterans Park for the Billerica 250th Jubilee’s “Great American Boom,” an evening of family ...

None of the seven local golfers in the field for the 118th Massachusetts Amateur were able to advance to the match play stage ...

LOWELL — In the runup to the 2027 fiscal year layoffs, the city added personnel to its payroll. There were initially 40 hires ...

Nearly 1,000 people in Michigan have been diagnosed with a parasitic infection that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea, ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withhold some federal funding from states that don’t make changes ...

E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found three years ago that President Donald Trump ...

SWAT officers were called to assist in arresting a couple wanted on a combined 11 warrants after an hourslong standoff in ...

A Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston had no criminal convictions ...

A three-judge panel on Wednesday denied a request from the Kennedy Center’s board to keep President Donald Trump’s name on ...