http://www.salemnews.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213758.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213758.html SALEM and mdash; When police found 22-year-old Taylor Jackson hiding near the scene of her wrecked car early yesterday morning, they say Jackson made one thing clear: "I'm not going to get arrested from a (expletive) Salem cop," Jackson allegedly told officers. "I'm from Marblehead." Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213720.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213720.html SALEM and mdash; On a morning when a new report showed unemployment had hit a 26-year high, Senate hopeful Martha Coakley toured a place on the North Shore that has witnessed that trend firsthand. "This is ground zero for joblessness," said Bill Tinti, chairman of the North Shore Workforce Investment Board. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213914.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213914.html MARBLEHEAD and mdash; It won't be easy to let it go. The Jewish Community Center must soon make a decision about Camp Simchah in Middleton, more than 80 acres of fields, pools and structures, a place where more than 200 kids per year have for decades enjoyed the summery outdoors. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213843.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213843.html SALEM and mdash; Eric Fraser, the father of an autistic boy who died last March after his mother allegedly failed to give him chemotherapy medications, has died. Fraser, 38, was taken off life support earlier this week and died Thursday afternoon at Massachusetts General Hospital, his lawyer, Bradford Keene, said yesterday. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213543.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213543.html MARBLEHEAD and mdash; Thursday's horror at Fort Hood, Texas, hit home for Selectman Harry Christensen, whose son Matthew is serving on the base. "It was like a battle for them," reported Christensen, who waited hours to reach his son by cell phone. "His mother and I had some extremely stressful moments." Around 6 p.m. EST on Thursday, the Christensens made contact with Matthew only to discover he and some colleagues had barricaded themselves in a supply area. Chaos was evident even on the phone. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:45:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213815.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213815.html IPSWICH and mdash; The two-alarm fire on Great Neck on Thursday night has been ruled accidental, although no cause has been determined. Fire Lt. Andy Theriault said yesterday that the blaze at 27 Bayview Road started on the first floor in what appeared to be a living area. No one was injured in the fire. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310223441.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310223441.html Danvers Thursday David Bowden, 29, of 48 Harris St., Revere, was arrested at Dick's Sporting Goods at the Liberty Tree Mall at 5:41 p.m. and charged with larceny over $250. Keith Kyle, 29, of 4 Rand St., Revere, was also arrested and charged with receiving stolen property over $250. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:40:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310214100.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310214100.html DANVERS and mdash; Unlike many people, who find work a daily grind, Amaury Mejia of Beverly says he likes going to work each day. Mejia, 33, who's developmentally disabled, trained at Northeast Arc's Heritage Industries, earning a small wage under supervision. Now he's working a real job cleaning Heritage's new 18,040-square-foot facility in the Danvers Industrial Park. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:40:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310214005.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310214005.html In the summer of 1969, Cheryl Dyment nearly drowned while swimming at Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester. The 19-year-old was splashing in the waves with a friend when a riptide pulled her out to sea. She watched grown men next to her scream for help as they were pulled away from shore. She heard the cries of her friend, trapped in water no deeper than her knees. She started to panic herself, as her arms and legs failed to move her anywhere but out. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:33:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213335.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310213335.html An item in yesterday's edition about planned Veterans Day services in Salem misrepresented speaker Thaddeus Buczko's military service. Buczko was a member of the Navy during World War II and the Army Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:25:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310001009.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310001009.html DANVERS and mdash; The Essex Regional Retirement Board, beset by local officials for months, finally did yesterday morning what those officials have asked it to do since last summer. In a 3-1 vote, the board agreed to transfer control of its investments to the state's Pension Reserves Investment Trust. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:24:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310000815.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_310000815.html IPSWICH and mdash; A woman and her dog are safe after a fire swept through their home on Great Neck last night and caused massive destruction. The two-alarm fire, which started at 6:30 p.m., is under investigation by the Ipswich Fire Department and the state fire marshal's office. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:24:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_309214424.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_309214424.html SALEM and mdash; North Shore Children's Hospital is beefing up emergency room staff and keeping more waiting-room space available to cope with an influx of hundreds of apparent swine flu cases and mdash; a trend pediatricians are seeing across the North Shore. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:08:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_302152952.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_302152952.html SALEM -- A Salem Superior Court jury found Jennifer Ward guilty of involuntary manslaughter today in the shaking death of her baby daughter, Jocelyn. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:24:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_309214517.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_309214517.html TOPSFIELD and mdash; First Lt. John "Jack" David Lawson's brothers and sister remember the day his body was returned home in 1970. The fighter pilot was shot down in the Vietnam War just weeks before his tour of duty was to end, and his wingman and best friend in the Marines accompanied his body back to Topsfield to explain Lawson's death to his family.