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  • New Sox manager to speak at Salem State

    New Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine will appear at Salem State University this year as part of the 2012 Speaker Series.

    February 8, 2012

  • Keeping track of road races City councilors on the committee on public health, safety and the environment came to a consensus about road races last night like a group of runners headed toward a finish line.
    The topic has fueled discussion — and some angry letters to councilors — this month after the council questioned the volume, scheduling and management of the many races that Salem hosts each year.

    February 8, 2012

  • 5496873SN.jpg Ruckus over street crossing SALEM — A new pedestrian light on Bridge Street has a city councilor fuming and police concerned.
    The light at Skerry Street — right by the Carlton School — has a yellow box called a "crosswalk warning device." Push it, and the traffic light flashes yellow and a recorded message repeats: "Cross street with caution. Vehicles may not stop."

    February 8, 2012 1 Photo

  • Vigil tonight remembers slain Peabody social worker PEABODY — Social services workers will gather in three locations across Massachusetts tonight to remember the life of Stephanie Moulton of Peabody.
    Moulton, a 25-year-old caseworker at the North Suffolk Mental Health home in Revere, was working alone, when Deshawn Chappell, a resident at the facility with a long history of both violence and mental illness, stabbed her, fled with her in her own car and left her body behind a church in Lynn, police say.

    February 8, 2012

  • 5496304SN.jpg DeFranco unabashedly liberal in Senate run SALEM — Marisa DeFranco is a proud liberal Democrat who believes in a single-payer health care system, deficit spending, diplomacy, gay rights and equal pay for equal work — and she's not afraid to say it.

    February 8, 2012 1 Photo