Worcester MA

Worcester Public Schools welcomed students back to class on Monday with a new superintendent at the helm. Brian Allen tells Boston 25’s Nicole Gabe he is eager to implement his vision for the district.

In mid August a Massachusetts appeals court upheld a trial court decision which found Worcester overcharged the town of Holden for sewer services and upheld a monetary award which after interest in now around $30 million. Court documents show Holden residents paid more than $21 million between 2007 and 2022...

State insurance regulators announced Tuesday that the rebates will total $75.6 million.

BOSTON – A Massachusetts man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for his role in a cocaine distribution conspiracy. According to the Massachusetts Department of Justice, 33-year-old Hector Torres was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Margaret R. Guzman to seven years in prison to be followed by...

WORCESTER — Yesterday, a Worcester County Superior Court judge sentenced Colton Paszkowski, 27, of Millbury, to 8-10 years in prison for raping a 15-year-old girl, according to Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early, Jr. On August 15, 2025, following a two-day trial, a Worcester County Superior Court...

WORCESTER ― For 38 years, a Vietnamese restaurant has quietly held a steady course of work on Green Street, running a simple yet effective business model even as the world around it has been razed down and built up over the decades. A hole in the wall, Pho Hien Vuong has enjoyed the nods of online reviewers who rate...

Decades after her sister was beaten, gagged and left at the bottom of a quarry with cinder blocks weighing down her body, a woman stood before the Massachusetts Parole Board with a painful reminder: This could’ve been your loved one. “Do not let this monster, Robert Larkin, out to...

MORRISTOWN, NJ — New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin has joined a bipartisan coalition of 47 attorneys general in demanding that major technology companies take aggressive action against the growing proliferation of deepfake nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) and sexually exploitative AI chatbots...

An indictment alleges that the sheriff extorted a cannabis company to give him a sweetheart stock deal.

Two people previously arraigned for eluding police this week were again arrested and arraigned, this time on drug charges and more.