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A 1998 Toyota Camry crashed through the front doors of the Wal-Mart on Route 114 at 9:59 a.m., injuring a mother and her baby, who was in a carriage inside the store.

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  • Polls say Tierney, Tisei both winning "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics," according to the late British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
    Fibbing aside, both camps in the 6th District congressional race appear to be telling their own version of the truth — internal polling from each campaign reveals opposing views on how the race is shaping up between Republican challenger Richard Tisei and incumbent Democrat John Tierney.

    May 16, 2012

  • 5886290SN.jpg Smoyer, McNiff to stay The extraordinary efforts of parents, staffers and kids at McCarthy School bore fruit yesterday as the school administration abandoned a plan to move Principal Ray Smoyer to Burke School.
    "We're elated," teacher Dorothea Kuchinsky said. When the verdict came, "The cheer went up from the school. I thought the roof was coming off."

    May 16, 2012 1 Photo

  • 5886717SN.jpg 160 apartments proposed BEVERLY — A developer wants to build 160 apartments on wooded land next to Kelleher's Pond under a state program that encourages "smart growth" close to public transportation.
    As an incentive, the state would pay the city $677,000, according to the developer, Omni Properties of Concord.

    May 16, 2012 1 Photo

  • 5885942SN.jpg Historic divide: St. Joseph fight splits HSI SALEM — The fingerprints of Historic Salem Inc. are all over this city.
    They are on the Witch House and the old Salem Jail, two of the many historic buildings that the private preservation group helped save since its founding more than 60 years ago. They are on the Salem Evening News block redevelopment and the new state courthouse on Federal Street, whose designs it helped shape.

    May 16, 2012 1 Photo

  • 'Doggie bag' thief gets suspended sentence SALEM — A Salem woman who used a "doggie bag" to take home the purses, wallets and cellphones of employees at an upscale Salem eatery last summer will spend the next year and a half on probation.

    May 16, 2012