By Darrell Halen The driver of a FedEx truck that collided with a school bus carrying 27 middle school students has been charged with failing to keep on the right side of the road.    None of the Windham Middle School students was injured when the collision occurred on Cristy Road around 2:40 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 2. But the ...

By Darrell Halen  A Massachusetts man is accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old Salem girl and threatening to kill her if she told anyone about it. Charles Shadle, 20, of 48 Jones Road, Revere, Mass., has been charged with aggravated felonious sexual assault. Salem police were notified of the alleged assault by employees at a school, ...

BY DARRELL HALEN A Florida man faces at least 10 years behind bars after being convicted of luring a 15-year-old girl from her Windham home. Following a three-day trial, Daniel M. Lenz, 26, of Jacksonville, Fla., was convicted in U.S. District Court in Concord. He had been charged with causing the transportation of a minor in interstate ...

BY MATT HERSH Salem police charged a Haverhill, Mass., woman with child endangerment after her two young children were found alone in a parked car. Mary-Anne Beaudoin, 27, left her two children, ages 2 and 6, in the car with the windows up while she shopped at Wal-Mart on North Broadway, police officials said. Another shopper who was walking ...