A Methuen, Mass. man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to sending a package containing drugs to a federal ...

Defendant has prior federal conviction for heroin trafficking BOSTON – A Dominican national residing in Lawrence, Mass. has been indicted by a federal grand jury for unlawfully reentering the ...

Methuen School Committee Woman Kristen Maxwell has filed a restraining order against one of her school committee colleagues Lori Keagan, (a transgender activist). Keagan threatened Maxwell ...

Defendant responded to online advertisement soliciting sex with a minor BOSTON – A Lawrence man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to using an interstate facility to transmit ...

A member of the Asian Boyz gang was convicted in federal court in Boston following a week-long jury trial of conspiracy to distribute counterfeit pills made with methamphetamine and ...

PDF of The January, 2026 Valley Patriot Print Edition ...

Lawrence’s James George Hajjar, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the Plains neighborhood in Lawrence, a community of Lebanese, Sicilian, and Irish, a few blocks northwest of Campagnone ...

EDITORS NOTE: The new campaign finance laws dictate that cities like Lawrence with a population of more than 65,000 people must file their campaign finance reports monthly on the year of an election.

Letizia Zwicker of Dracut is the winner of a $1 million prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “$1,000,000 Winter Winnings” instant ticket game. Zwicker chose the cash option on her prize and ...

Each planting season, Riverside Farm, part of Mann Orchards in Methuen, uses tractors and specialized equipment to maintain its apple orchards and fields. When an essential machine malfunctions, rapid ...

When Methuen Public School parent Annie Kivlehan complained about the obscene sexual and racist material being read aloud in her daughter’s class, she was verbally attacked by left wing activists and ...

We are all familiar with the phrase “those who fail to plan have a plan for failure.” This applies not only within the financial market, but to every aspect of life and society. This includes ...