City Council sits on appointments to Board of Health
SALEM -- Six weeks after city councilors urged the mayor to keep up with reappointments to city boards and committees, the council has stalled four of Mayor Kim Driscoll's suggested reappointments in committee. Councilors voted on nearly 60 board rea
May 18, 2013
Paroled man back in custody
SALEM -- A man who just last month pleaded guilty to attacking his former girlfriend and her mother is back in custody, after showing up at the women's Arbella Street home twice. That, police say, was a violation of the criminal harassment order bar
May 18, 2013
Firefighters save nine ducklings
DANVERS -- Thursday turned into "Make Way for Ducklings" day for Danvers firefighters who scooped up a flock of ducklings which had plunged into a storm drain. At 7:27 a.m., Danvers firefighters responded to 180 Newbury St., the Endicott Green apartm
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Man injured in knifepoint robbery
PEABODY -- Police say a man was robbed at knifepoint on Thursday night after he left his girlfriend's residence on Essex Green Lane. Lt. Arthur Yeo said the victim had just left his girlfriend's apartment at about 11:30 p.m. when a man walked up behi
May 18, 2013
Essex Street blaze doused
SALEM -- The Fire Department says a blaze yesterday at the Walyo's Variety Store on Essex Street was likely caused by a passerby who improperly discarded a cigarette outside the business. Firefighters received multiple reports of smoke in the buildin