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LOWELL, Mass. -- A local dog owner is devastated after her dog was shot and killed. Michelle Verville was walking her dog, Smokey, in the Lowell-Dracut State Forest last week when she heard a gun shot. Smokey, a 4-year-old Labrador retriever, yelped and Verville noticed that her dog had been shot in the stomach. "I just stayed there with him and told him that it was ok, and that we loved him and that he was a good dog, and then he passed," Verville said. it is legal to hunt for deer in State parks from Nov. 26 to Dec....

MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 9, 2007 -- Senator Charles Bishop (R- Jasper) had some things he wanted to say Saturday morning about the way the Senate functions and what happened in the Senate on Thursday. Following is the senator's statement to wsfa.com: ........... "NO, you can't have senators going around striking things, but see Senator Barron is used to cussing people. He called our senator, lady senator, Republican senator, he called her a bitch, a damn bitch." ................. But this guy's got a long history of cussing people and expecting them to bow down to him." .........

Sept. 13 issue - John Kerry wanted to hit back. It had been a miserable August as he took incoming fire about his military service from a gang of hostile Vietnam vets. But no, campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill and other staffers argued, the Swift Boat ads would blow over. Finally, Kerry had had enough. For three or four days, as he campaigned across the country, Kerry ripped into Cahill, furious that the mostly baseless attacks on his valor were driving his numbers down. "He was very angry," one old friend says. "The calculation had been made that this wasn't...

A carpenter who walked in on a man allegedly touching himself beside a little boy in a Tyngsboro ice rink lavatory Saturday swept the child to safety, then wrestled the weirdo to the ground during a brutal bathroom brawl. “Once I saw that little kid’s face, I just saw black,” Jimi Montbleau of Lowell said yesterday.

LOWELL -- Radio personality Christopher Lydon's lucrative and controversial contract with UMass Lowell to broadcast an hourlong radio show will not be renewed when it expires in December, the school's interim chancellor confirmed last night. Interim Chancellor David MacKenzie said the move will not be effective until December, when Lydon's contract expires, but confirmed Lydon was notified that the deal will not be renewed. "It's basically an expensive program that, given our financial situation, doesn't make sense for the university," MacKenzie said. "I just felt we had other things that were higher on the priority list." Lydon, a renowned former...

LOWELL -- Santana Baez and Luis Carmona didn't want to keep any illegal drugs in their apartment in case it got raided, police said. So they put their stash inside their mailbox at 11 Allen St., Unit 302, in the city's Belvidere neighborhood, apparently forgetting the postal carrier comes on Monday, said Police Sgt. James Trudel. According to police, the carrier thought the boxes were outgoing mail but then found heroin in one and cocaine in the other.

Melanie Morgan (KSFO) has organized a rally outside of Lowell High School in San Francisco for tomorrow (4/7) at 9:45am. It's to protest Cindy Sheehan's appearance and school officials' refusal to provide an alternate point of view. A Gold Star father will be there and patriotic locals are needed to come show their support! Stay tuned to KSFO's morning show tomorrow for more details. A friend's directions: Lowell High School is at 1101 Eucalyptus in the Sunset District. It is very close to Stonestown and is located between 19th Ave and Lake Merced on Eucalyptus. If you drive, I suggest...

Meehan leads US House with campaign funds Representative Martin T. Meehan has gained national exposure in recent years as a champion of efforts to reduce the influence of money in politics. Now, the Lowell Democrat is poised to achieve a new distinction: He is days away from becoming the only House member in the nation with a campaign war chest that tops $5 million, with an eye on a possible run for the Senate. some $2 million more than any of the other 434 House members, and $2.7 million more than any of the nine other representatives from Massachusetts.... With...

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff are in discussions with the Justice Department about his possible cooperation in a congressional corruption probe, a person involved in the investigation said Tuesday night. The probe involves a number of members of Congress as well as staff. A former aide to ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, has already pleaded guilty. Abramoff would plead guilty under an arrangement that would settle a criminal case against him in Florida as well as potential corruption charges in Washington, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the...

A 31-year-old pregnant woman was killed yesterday when a man apparently drag racing on the Lowell Connector lost control of his car, which veered into the median strip at more than 90 miles per hour, became airborne, and landed on the woman's station wagon, police said. The driver of the Mercury, Carlos Rodriguez, 18, of Lowell, was ejected from his car and was taken to Lowell General Hospital with numerous injuries, State Police said. He was transferred to Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he was listed last night in critical condition, police said.

There was a lot of talk about the Crawford newspaper endorsing Bush. Gets you going till you find out its nothing more than a newsletter with 500 circulation. But the LOWELL SUN is a different ballgame. And guess who they are endorsing for President!

NYC police on watch for Port courthouse bomber By Andy Smith and Stephanie Akin Staff writers New York City police are targeting a man who bombed Newburyport Superior Court 28 years ago, saying he poses a threat to next week's Republican National Convention. But an anti-war activist group has accused police of trying to "smear" their reputation by linking the group with the convicted radical who terrorized New England with a series of bombings in the 1970s. New York City police say Richard J. Picariello, 55, is among 50 activists whose criminal histories will earn them extra attention next week....

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<p>LOWELL, Mass. (AP) City officials say they shut down they believe was an illegal cosmetic surgery clinic operated by a couple who are not licensed physicians.</p> <p>Sipha Ouk, 43, and his wife Dary Hour, 32, both of 121 Andrews St., were arraigned Monday on a charge of illegal possession of hypodermic needles and syringes, and more charges could be filed, according to police Lt. Mark Buckley. The couple was released after the arraignment.</p>