AYER, Mass. (AP) _ American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC) on Tuesday reported a loss of $5.9 million in its fiscal fourth quarter.

The Ayer, Massachusetts-based company said it had a loss of...

AYER, Mass. (AP) — Authorities on Thursday identified a man found dead in a pond in Ayer, Massachusetts in January.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said Thomas Cormier, 49, had been...

AYER, Mass. (AP) _ American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC) on Wednesday reported a fiscal third-quarter loss of $6.8 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.

LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman who fatally stabbed her cousin in the heart during a drug and alcohol-fueled argument has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.

Hooksett, N.H. (AP) — Climate activists tried to block carrying coal to Merrimack Power Plant in Bow, New Hampshire in three separate cities over the weekend.

AYER, Mass. (AP) _ American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC) on Tuesday reported a fiscal second-quarter loss of $825,000, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.

AYER, Mass. (AP) — A 62-year-old Massachusetts man charged with stabbing his wife 27 times has been held without bail after pleading not guilty to murder.

AYER, Mass. (AP) _ American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC) on Tuesday reported a loss of $3.5 million in its fiscal first quarter.

On a per-share basis, the Ayer, Massachusetts-based company...

AYER, Mass. (AP) _ American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC) on Wednesday reported a loss of $8.4 million in its fiscal fourth quarter.

On a per-share basis, the Ayer, Massachusetts-based company...

AYER, Mass. (AP) _ American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC) on Tuesday reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $17.3 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.

The Ayer, Massachusetts-based company said it had profit of 83 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 11 cents per share.

The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 33 cents per share.

AYER, Mass. (AP) _ American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC) on Tuesday reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $22.6 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.

The Ayer, Massachusetts-based company said it had profit of $1.10 per share. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 13 cents per share.

The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 25 cents per share.

AYER, Mass. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Massachusetts woman was drinking and taking drugs with her cousin before they got into an argument and she fatally stabbed him in the heart.

Laqwanda Villaronga was held without bail at her arraignment Monday after a not guilty plea was entered on her behalf to a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury.

AYER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman is facing charges in connection with the stabbing death of a male relative.

Ayer police Chief William Murray says officers went to an apartment in town just after 1 p.m. Saturday in response to a 911 call.

There they found a 24-year-old man with an apparent stab wound to the torso. He was transported to Nashoba Valley Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

HANCOCK, N.H. (AP) — A man listed as a registered sex offender in Massachusetts has been accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old child at a New Hampshire campground nearly a decade ago.

Police in Hancock say 65-year-old Dale Earl Cole, of Ayer, Massachusetts, faces three counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault.

AYER, Mass. (AP) _ American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC) on Tuesday reported a loss of $4.7 million in its fiscal first quarter.

The Ayer, Massachusetts-based company said it had a loss of 23 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for stock option expense and non-recurring costs, were 18 cents per share.

The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 29 cents per share.

WESTFORD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman has been arraigned in connection to a fatal highway crash.

Prosecutors say 45-year-old Julie Gagnon-Erickson was arraigned Wednesday in Ayer District Court and charged with felony motor vehicular homicide while operating under the influence of alcohol.

AYER, Mass. (AP) — The Latest on new charges filed against a convicted child rapist who was scheduled for release (all times local):

1:45 p.m.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has filed legislation to toughen penalties for child rape, citing the case of Wayne Chapman.

AYER, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say a man was hit and killed by a train while carrying a bicycle along a track near a station in Massachusetts.

Police with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority say the 33-year-old man was trespassing near the tracks a few hundred yards west of the Ayer station. He was struck by an inbound commuter train.

The man was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. His name has not been released.

AYER, Mass. (AP) — An explosion at a Massachusetts manufacturing facility has killed one worker and injured another.

Officials say the man was an employee at Advanced Vacuum Systems in Ayer, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Boston.

The Middlesex District Attorney's office says its investigation suggests the explosion was the result of a pressure vessel malfunction.

CHICOPEE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts police officer charged with raping a woman during National Guard training has been released on $5,000 bail.

Not-guilty pleas were entered on behalf of Chicopee Officer Corey Fournier on Tuesday to charges including rape, kidnapping and assault and battery.

Prosecutors say the 27-year-old and the alleged victim were training with the National Guard at Fort Devens in Ayer on Saturday.

AYER, Mass. (AP) — One man is facing charges after police say he threw a single punch that lead to the death of a 23-year-old Massachusetts man.

WFXT-TV reports the suspect has been charged with aggravated assault and battery and assault and battery with a deadly weapon following the altercation in August.

AYER, Mass. (AP) — Some court records in the case of a Maine man charged with fatally beating his mother, grandparents and their caretaker in a Massachusetts home can be made public, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Judge Margaret Guzman impounded the records after Orion Krause, of Rockport, Maine, was arraigned Sept. 11 in the slayings in Groton three days earlier.

AYER, Mass. (AP) — Police and farmers in Massachusetts continue to conduct a multi-town search for a bull that escaped from a livestock auction earlier this week.

The animal, which weighs more than 1,000 pounds, was sold in Littleton late Tuesday, but got loose as it was being loaded into a trailer. It was later seen in Groton and most recently in Ayer.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A former high-ranking Rhode Island lawmaker reported to federal prison on Monday to serve a sentence for charges including fraud, identity theft and filing false tax returns.

Former Democratic House Finance Committee Chair Ray Gallison reported to the Devens prison facility in Ayer, Massachusetts, shortly before noon, according to U.S. Marshal Jamie Hainsworth. Gallison was sentenced last month to serve four years and three months in prison.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man who admitted last year that he killed 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling in central Minnesota in 1989 is serving his sentence at a federal prison outside Boston.

Fifty-three-year-old Danny Heinrich is listed as an inmate at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts. His release date is listed as March 28, 2033.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An ailing Rhode Island mobster convicted of trying to hire a hit man to kill a rival has been released from a federal prison in Massachusetts.

WPRI-TV (http://bit.ly/2e0GTUL ) reports that the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Wednesday that 75-year-old Anthony "The Saint" St. Laurent Sr. was released from the Federal Medical Center Devens in Ayer.

Neither agency would give St. Laurent's current location.

AYER, Mass. (AP) — A former Billerica police officer charged with assaulting a man has accepted a plea deal that will allow him to clear his record if stays out of legal trouble.