By Ethan Forman
The Salem News

MIDDLETON, Mass. — To the delight of motorists, the price for a gallon of regular gasoline has dipped below $2 in this suburban Boston community for the first time in nearly four years.

"I was just sitting here looking at (the price)," said Matt Caulfield of Boxford. "I'm looking at 40 bucks," he said of the cost for a fill-up. "Three months ago, it was $80."

Gas last averaged below $2 a gallon in March 2005, according to GasBuddy.com, a Web site devoted to tracking gas prices. Four local stations were selling regular below that price.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars were recovered from a safe that was found by the fire department in an empty lot in Lawrence, Mass. Photo credit Roger Darrigrand/Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass.

By CNHI News Service

LAWRENCE, Mass. -- Police shed new light Monday on the discovery of an abandoned safe that contained $178,496 in cash that dated back more than a quarter-century.

Mark Bennett

By Mark Bennett
The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.

In a legal sense, Cousin Eddie just showed up to spend the
holidays with Hauteans.
Surprised by Thursday’s Indiana Appeals Court ruling that — if it stands —

By Julianna Parker
The Transcript

NORMAN, Okla.

The U.S. needs to maintain a positive relationship with China in order for both countries to flourish economically, the special envoy for China said at the University of Oklahoma.
“Possibly the most important economic question in this century is whether or not we get the economic relationship with China right,” said Ambassador Alan F. Holmer, special envoy for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue.

By Benji Tunnell
The Joplin Globe

JOPLIN, Mo.

I’ll let you in on a little secret: On some level, guys are just immature. At least a part of us lives in a perpetual state of arrested development. No matter how dignified the man, deep down there is an 8-year-old boy who can’t help but giggle at fart jokes and wants to pull the pigtails of the girl who sits in front.