Local News - The Daily Item

LYNN - Police rounded up two alleged prostitutes in an undercover operation Thursday morning. Officers first arrested Kristin Fulcher, 31, of 252A Broadway, Lynn, after she waved them down on Fayette Street, police said.

PEABODY (AP) - A former Peabody police lieutenant denied his pension after he was convicted of illegally accessing the records of some colleagues has sued to recover $70,000 a year in income and benefits.

DANVERS - Working-class political satirist Jimmy Tingle will headline at the North Shore Labor Council's 12th annual dinner on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at Jimmy's Allenhurst restaurant, 101 Andover St. on Route 114.

LYNN - Girls Inc. will raise money to support its School-Age Child Care Program Nov. 13 with their Autumn Rhapsody auction at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem.

LYNN - Minors hoping to buy cigarettes at Shell gas stations and convenience stores are likely to find the task more difficult due to a new agreement between the international oil company and 46 states, including Massachusetts.

After more than a month of discussion on what format a debate should take, it has been decided there will be no debate.

SAUGUS - Cemetery Superintendent John Falasca is getting some help in figuring out how to replace the more than 500 aluminum flag holders stolen Tuesday from veterans' gravesites in Riverside Cemetery.

SWAMPSCOTT - Department of Public Works crews labored to take down an old shade tree in town on Thursday and the work is expected to continue on Friday.

LYNN - A long since forgotten granite marker bearing the words "City Hall Square" was installed across the street from City Hall last week after it had been misplaced nearly 15 years ago.

REVERE - Relations between the city and Wonderland Greyhound Park over the next three weeks could determine if an Oct. 30 Racing Commission hearing becomes a show down over the track's overdue taxes.

LAWRENCE - A Peabody man has been found innocent by a Lawrence Superior Court jury of attempted robbery. Carlos Vieira, 30, who last lived at 2 Esquire Circle, Apt.1, in Peabody, went on trial this week on a charge of armed assault with intent to rob.

SALEM - A Lynn businessman who authorities say terrorized employees at a CVS Pharmacy in Georgetown as he robbed the pharmacy of drugs and money in 2005 remains held on a high bail of $75,000 cash, after pleading innocent.

LYNN - Police have made a second arrest in connection with thousands of dollars in thefts from Breakheart Reservation in Saugus and two athletic complexes in Lynn.

LYNN - A devastated national economy has sent Maine lobster prices spiraling downward as cash-strapped consumers cut back on seafood delicacies and fishermen wrestle with rising costs for bait and fuel.

LYNN - More than 42,000 residents are registered to vote in the Nov. 4 election and city workers will register more this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Washington Street side of Stop & Shop.

LYNN - Woodman Street resident Theresa Dindinger started out with a green thumb, which has now garnered her two blue ribbons.

LYNN - The School Committee voted Thursday to forego appointing an interim superintendent to finish out the school year, choosing instead to post the position immediately in the hopes of finding a long-tem replacement for the retiring Nicholas Kostan by January.

SAUGUS - As Sarah Palin crisscrosses the country vying for the No. 2 job in the nation, a native Saugonian is vying for the No. 1 job in Wasilla, Alaska - her old position as mayor.

NEW YORK - Stocks plunged in the final minutes of trading Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down more than 600 points to their lowest level in five years after a major credit ratings agency said it was considering cutting its rating on General Motors Corp. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell more than 6 percent.