Malden

Back then, batteries often leaked, got caked with corrosion, and needed to be opened and filled with extra water about once a year. Modern batteries are for the most part sealed tight and maintenance-free.

Singers as citizens

Over the last few years in Revere, thieves have targeted everything from sewer grates and manhole covers to guardrails and even tidal gates. In the spring, thieves pried a 60-pound bronze statue of a girl reading a book from a marble base in front of the Revere Public Library.

Swimming victory

The town has named two representatives to a biosafety committee being created by Dyax Corp., a pharmaceutical company that plans to move into Burlington, according to Susan Lumenello, environmental engineer for the Board of Health. She said the board's regulations require that any company planning to use recombinant DNA/RNA create a biosafety committee to ensure that it complies with National Institutes of Heath guidelines intended to protect the health and safety of workers, and the protection of the environment when such work is undertaken. Cambridge-based Dyax plans to relocate to 55 Network Drive early next year, according to Lumenello. The Board of Health designated Lumenello to serve as its representative on the biosafety committee, and selectmen appointed James Harrison to serve as the community representative. Harrison, a Burlington resident, is an environmental health and safety manager for a private company in Lexington with more 20 years of experience in the field, Lumenello

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When the doors opened at 1 a.m., she rushed in with the crowd. But the TVs were gone. She would head to a Target in Revere and then to Walmart in Lynn before finding a model she could afford.

On Thanksgiving Day, the quiet streets of Boston provided sporadic sightings of people marking the all-American holiday in less-than-predictable fashion.

200 Andover Rd. Thomas and Michelle Pierce to Gregory E. Marullo and Tracy A. Siciliano, $220,000

Back then, batteries often leaked, got caked with corrosion, and needed to be opened and filled with extra water about once a year. Modern batteries are for the most part sealed tight and maintenance-free.

Amesbury (4-6) at Newburyport (8-2), 10

High 5

Bush instituted two major tax cuts and initiated two wars and a major Medicare drug benefit. Rather than be responsible and pay for what he purchased, Bush chose to put these on the nation's credit card, while cutting back on national income. Now that the chickens are coming home to roost, Republicans and their apologists can only think of one thing: more tax cuts for the wealthy, disguised as ``reform.

The game, which was played on Boston Common the day after Thanksgiving, has been played every year since. Tomorrow morning at Harvard Stadium the Wolfpack and Bulldogs meet for the 125th time. There's also a special game in Maine, where Deering faces Portland in the 100th holiday game.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A man accused of secretly filmed tanning salon patrons through a hole in the wall was charged with invasion of privacy and possession of child pornography, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.

Mass. men accused of stealing astronaut Armstrong's customs form, trying to sell it online. Two Massachusetts men stole and tried to sell a customs form with the birth date, address and signature of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Crash kills Mass. father of autistic boy who died after mother allegedly withheld cancer meds. The father of an autistic Massachusetts boy who died after his mother allegedly withheld cancer medication has died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.

Mass. Rep. Markey decides against run to fill Senate vacancy created by Ted Kennedy's death. Massachusetts Rep. Edward Markey says he won't jump into the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Nation's drug policy director kicks off ad campaign targeting methamphetamine abuse. Josh Palmer's story has played out countless times here in the heart of meth country. Introduced to methamphetamine as a teenager, he soon became addicted, couldn't keep a job, lost his house, lost his family.

Kennedy lived life on a big stage, but constituents say he never forgot the little guy. The world remembers Sen. Edward Kennedy for his passionate liberalism, legislative skill and stewardship of a political dynasty.