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Lowell police have released a photo of a suspect in a shooting earlier this week.

Chloe Arthur, 17, was last seen in the Pawtucketville area of the city on January 5

A man was shot and rushed to the hospital in Lowell, Massachusetts, early Tuesday morning, police said. The shooting was reported about 1:30 a.m. on Spring Avenue, Lowell police said. The officers who arrived at the scene gave the man aid and he was taken first to a local hospital, then a Boston hospital. Police didn’t share the man’s...

Police in Vermont are asking for the public’s help to find a missing teenager. Authorities say 16-year-old Lillian Wright of Newport left a home on Route 100 in Lowell, Vermont, at some point between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesday. When she was last seen, Wright was wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt, black leggings and white sneakers, and she was…

He came to the U.S. as a young refugee, having survived Khmer Rouge’s brutal rule. Now, Sokhary Chau is the nation’s first Cambodian American mayor.

Lowell has become the latest Massachusetts community to enact an indoor mask mandate amid rising COVID-19 numbers. On Wednesday, the city reported 108 new cases of COVID-19 for a total of more than 23,000 since the pandemic began. The city’s vaccination rate is below the state average, as only 61 percent of eligible residents are fully vaccinated. The new indoor…

Masks are now required in most buildings in Lowell.

A man accused of killing the young mother of his child on Thanksgiving in Lowell, Massachusetts, appeared in court Tuesday. Dejah Jenkins-Minus, a 22-year-old Boston woman, was found dead at a home on Llewelyn Street Friday morning, authorities said. Her infant daughter wasn’t there. Her boyfriend, 22-year-old Leonard Robinson, was arrested and charged with her murder. “This was a...

A man was arrested on a murder charge in the killing of a 22-year-old Boston woman on Thanksgiving in Lowell, Massachusetts, authorities said. Dejah Jenkins-Minus was found dead at a home on Llewelyn Street Friday morning, authorities said. Her infant daughter wasn’t there, either. But after an investigation uncovered a knife believed to be used to kill Jenkins-Minus — and…

A woman who was found dead Friday inside a home in Lowell, Massachusetts, has been identified, and her death has officially been ruled a homicide following an autopsy, authorities announced. The victim has been identified as 22-year-old Dejah Jenkins-Minus, according to a joint statement Saturday from Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Lowell Police Superintendent Kelly Richardson. After an autopsy…

A woman in her 20s was found dead at a home in Lowell, Massachusetts, on Friday, and authorities say her death is being investigated as an apparent homicide. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Lowell Police Superintendent Kelly Richardson released a joint statement Friday night confirming the homicide investigation. Lowell police responded to a Llewelyn Street residence around 10:45 a.m….

A man was arrested Friday and charged with murder in the killing of another man last month in Lowell, Massachusetts, prosecutors said. A judge ordered Wesley Lindor, 22, held without bail during a hearing at Lowell District Court hours after Lindor’s arrest in Boston, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office. Stedman Tucker, 30, died in the shooting on Oct….

An SUV allegedly ran a red light and crashed into an ambulance Wednesday night in Lowell, Massachusetts, overturning the emergency vehicle with a patient inside. Trinity EMS says one of its ambulances was taking a patient to Lowell General Hospital around 8:30 p.m. when the ambulance was struck by an SUV at the intersection of Lakeview and Aiken avenues. The…

Another ambulance came to the scene to pickup the patient.

Law enforcement officials are investigating a homicide in Lowell Friday night, the Middlesex County DA’s office confirmed. Police in Lowell responded to the area of Barker Avenue in Lowell around 6:15 p.m. Friday, officials said, where they discovered a 30-year-old male victim suffering from gunshot wounds. The man was transported to an area hospital, officials said, where he died...

Police are investigating after a 20-year-old man was shot and killed in Lowell overnight.

A 20-year-old man was shot and killed around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday in Lowell, Massachusetts. Police said they found the man with gunshot wounds in the area of Loring and Westford streets after receiving a 911 call. He was taken to a nearby hospital and later pronounced dead. The man’s identity was withheld pending notification of family. The Middlesex District...

A man was hit by a car that fled the scene in Lowell, Massachusetts, Sunday evening, police said. They’re asking for the public’s help tracking down the driver. A white or light-colored Nissan SUV may have been the vehicle that hit the man, who was on foot at the intersection of Dutton and Fletcher streets, Lowell police said Sunday...

Police in Lowell, Massachusetts, say a young child spotted wandering alone has been found. The girl, about 6 years old, was reported to have been walking alone near Stackpole Street, the Hunts Fall rotary and the VFW Highway about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said. Police said around 9:30 p.m. that the child had been found, thanking the public for its…

School is in session in Massachusetts, but getting there and home is a challenge being met by the National Guard. Troops are in training at Camp Curtis in Reading. It’s a one-day, nine-hour course to teach about 150 troops how to drive 7D buses, which are vans that carry up to eight passengers. “It starts off with fingerprinting in the…