Fitchburg News

All Massachusetts authorities could say for sure is that they found the lifeless body of a small boy, apparently cast off the side of a highway.

Sandrino Oliver was so overcome with emotion after learning his 5-year-old nephew Jeremiah Oliver's body may have been found Friday that he collapsed and went into convulsions at a makeshift memorial across from the boy's home.

Rehoboth police are asking for the public's assistance in looking for a woman who disappeared Tuesday night.

Authorities say a child's body has been found off a Massachusetts highway and it matches the height and weight of a 5-year-old boy who has been missing for seven months.

Authorities say a child's body has been found off a Massachusetts highway and it matches the height and weight of a 5-year-old boy who has been missing for seven months.

Sources told WBZ-TV Friday that the body of a small child has been found off Interstate 190 in Sterling and those sources believe it is the body of missing Fitchburg boy Jeremiah Oliver .

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With April vacation coming up next week for local schoolchildren, Rollstone Studios is working with a number of community partners to offer kids of all ages a combination of art and environmental learning activities.

The North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce board of directors has launched a nationwide search for the successor to President and CEO David McKeehan, who has announced he is retiring at the end of the year.

Christopher Maloney, a 1989 graduate of Fitchburg State University and the chief U.S. probation officer for the District of Massachusetts, will deliver Fitchburg State University's spring commencement address.

A Fitchburg man was arraigned in Worcester Superior Court Thursday for his alleged involvement in a fire a Leominster breakfast diner that is being blamed on arson.

An identification on human remains found by a hiker earlier this month has yet to be determined, according to Worcester District Attorney Spokesman Timothy Connolly.

Fitchburg State University students will give a free photographic presentation and history talk, "Footprints of Legend: Rediscovering Medieval Sites in Today's England," at 6 p.m. at the Fitchburg Historical Society, 781 Main St., on Wednesday.

Learn about the educational opportunities available at Fitchburg State University when the Office of Graduate and Continuing Education hosts an information session at 5 p.m. today.

Looking for some spring fun? Get out into the warm weather and enjoy the Spring Egg Hunt in Gateway Park.

From creating jobs to lowering health-care costs, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joe Avellone emphasized on Wednesday he's the only candidate with the complete package to address the critical issues in Massachusetts.

It's that moment of enlightenment for students who take a financial-reality program put on by area credit unions when they realize their career choices won't support the lifestyles they envision for themselves.

Police arrested a 25-year-old Summer Street resident on charges he robbed and assaulted a deaf man in Monument Square on Monday afternoon.

A Fitchburg man with no fixed address pleaded guilty in Leominster District Court to a single count of assault and battery after inappropriately touching the mother of his two children.

A state representative has lobbed the latest volley in the effort to get information about just who will be coming into town by way of Eliot Community Health Services' Winsor Academy.