Swine Flu Epidemic in Lowell, Massachusetts

Lowell, MA – According to several reports, on Friday, June 6th there were hundreds of children sent home from the Lowell Community Charter School located at 206 Jackson Street, Lowell, MA. The Community...

Mich. medical pot law now in effect amid questions

"- Medical marijuana became legal in Michigan on Thursday, but smoking a joint could still get a patient arrested because the regulations needed to protect them won't be ready for months. The law approved by...

50 Cent, Universal Sued for Pushing "Gangsta" Life

Is this a case of blaming the music or blaming the actual hip-hop gangsters that beat you up?"Hip hop mogul 50 Cent, Universal Music Group and several of its record labels were sued on Wednesday for promoting a...

Time for Halos to make a big move

Sue me, I like the Angels and I like baseball. This is pretty good analysis of what is in store for this homer's team and I thought others just might be interested."The Angels cruised to 94 wins and their third AL...

Court Rules Man's Right to Fish

"Missouri Court Opines “Hillbilly” Label a Compliment Lowell and Minnie want a divorce. Well, Lowell does (rather "did" ... this is a 1960 case). The grounds for divorce? "Indignities." The Circuit Court in Stone County, Missouri, gave it to him. Minnie appealed to...

Hurtling Toward Mars

"By the time you finish reading this sentence, you'll be 25 miles closer to the planet Mars.  Earth and Mars are converging, and right now the distance between the two planets is shrinking at a rate of 22,000...

Fists Fly in Alabama Senate

Discussion turned personal yesterday in the Alabama Senate, and then things got ugly, resulting in curses and punches."Simmering tensions in the Alabama Senate boiled over Thursday when a Republican lawmaker...

pluto: A Celestial Second Opinion

After Pluto got dissed into nonplanethood, lawmakers from Pluto's discoverer's home county are fighting back!"Seven months after a conclave of scientists downgraded the distant heavenly body to a "dwarf planet," a state representative in New Mexico aims to give the snubbed...

Killers' 2007 Spring U.S. tour

''Some of the best bands are appearing on tour in the United States at this moment. I hope we see this Great band, who write melodic music, touring the UK soon. Best of luck on your States tour'' liamssoft On Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 10:00 AM (local venue time) members...

Uncensored 'On the Road' to be published (AP)

" LOWELL, Mass. - Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" will be published in its unedited original scroll version by Viking Press, which published the Beat Generation classic in September 1957. John Sampas, executor of the writer's literary estate and brother of Stella Sampas,...

History seen through clothes

"The clanking sounds of a loom at the American Textile History Museum take visitors back to a time when clothes were hand-woven, and textiles drove the New England economy in this historic mill town and others."

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