Worcester MA

SHREWSBURY – They were together from the beginning. When Kym Dufault was a six-month-old infant, her mother frequently convened with a very nice – and very pregnant – stay-at-home mom friend, Mary, who lived in an apartment across the hall. During an otherwise uneventful get-together, Mary’s water broke, and with...

WORCESTER, Mass. — Worcester Public Schools will add 75 full-time preschool seats at five schools and launch a new targeted special education support program for 108 preschool-age children in a cost-neutral expansion designed to better serve the district’s youngest learners. The added seats will bring full-day Pre-K...

The state’s highest court denied Worcester’s request to review an appellate court decision ordering the city to pay Holden more than $35 million for overcharging the town for sewer services. In August, the Appeals Court upheld a prior ruling from Superior Court Judge James Manitsas, who in 2023...

WORCESTER – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the highest court in the state, has declined to review a case between the Town of Holden and the City of Worcester related a 1999 contract for sewage disposal. The Supreme Judicial Court’s refusal to review the case leaves Worcester with a...

WORCESTER – Shortly after midnight Saturday, emergency crews responded to the area of 841 Grove St along RT 122 following a phone crash notification and reports from a passerby. Upon arrival, first responders located a female driver who had struck an electrical pole before her Toyota RAV4 traveled down...

A beloved New England mobster is dead. Gaetano Milano, described by some crime family analysts as a ‘soldier’ with the Patriarca crime family, has died at age 74. The amily itself ran operations in both Connecticut and Massachusetts. Milano began as a Connecticut-based Colombo mob associate, before linking...

BOSTON – Several state legislators have filed a bill to dedicate a stretch of Route 20 in the memory of a family who has suffered personal loss due to an impaired driver slamming head-on into the family’s minivan nearly 30 years earlier. On Nov. 1, 1997, a Charlton family was coming home from Christmas shopping at...

State Police say the incident occurred around 2:15 p.m., when a State Trooper had pulled his vehicle over on Interstate 95 South (prior to Interstate 495) in Salisbury to remove a ladder from the left travel lane.

Worcester police say a quiet house on Pilgrim Avenue was hiding a serious arsenal, complete with what looked like a homegrown gun-making operation. On Thursday, officers executed a search warrant at the address and uncovered a stockpile of weapons, parts and ammunition, along with equipment that investigators believe...

The Massachusetts State Senate unanimously passed legislation on February 12, 2026, aimed at addressing a shortage of Certified Public Accountants across the Commonwealth. The bill, known as An Act relative to modernizing the pathway to becoming a certified public accountant (S.2946), updates certification...