Jill Harmacinski

LAWRENCE — Elected city leaders are requesting a criminal investigation into clandestine video- and audio- taping practices at Lawrence City Hall. An order requesting the probe will be presented and discussed at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting and po... See more

LAWRENCE — The outgoing president of a Lawrence police union said the city needs to do more to attract and retain police officers. Paul MacMillan, president of the patrolman’s union, retired last week after nearly 22 years of service on LPD and another 10... See more

LAWRENCE — Police officer Michael Simard in 2003 was appointed as the lead detective on the city’s auto insurance fraud task force. A decade later, 2,000 people had been charged, nearly 500 in Lawrence alone, and 13 cities reported a cumulative savings of... See more

BOSTON — Three north of Boston residents are among nine charged in a coordinated federal crackdown on benefit fraud schemes that exploited stolen identities to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer-funded programs, authorities said. Nearly $9... See more

LAWRENCE — The sentencing of convicted murderer John Carey has been postponed until next month after initially planned for this week. Carey, 67, was convicted March 3 of the 1986 strangling murder of Claire Gravel, a 20-year-old Salem State College studen... See more