A consignment store to serve college campuses, offering inexpensive clothes and low-priced household items, was an idea hatched by students in a University of Massachusetts classroom.

Behind individual victories by Leah Condriet (132 pounds) and Adriana DeGroat (120), Framingham edged last year's champion Lowell by a single point.

UMass Lowell, together with colleges and universities across the state, is developing free, online textbooks that are more ...