• Lowell child rewarded for kindness using charity gift card on present for his dog

  

• Chicago weekend shootings leave 6 hurt, police say

  

• Chicago airports, roads will be crowded this weekend as holiday travel begins

  

• Pittsburgh City Council set to work over weekend on budget ahead of deadline

  

• Record-setting high temperatures on the way to North Texas this weekend

  

• Golden businesses scramble as power outages stretch into the weekend

  

• Sonora celebrates high school's historic back-to-back state championships

  

• Timeline of gunman in Brown University and MIT professor shootings