Millbury News

Long gone are the days when vocational education in Massachusetts was viewed as a fallback position for students who couldn't make the grade academically.

Jen Melifonwu, a certified nursing assistant, tends to resident Fredric Mall in his room at West Side House, a nursing home in Worcester that primarily serves veterans.

House and Senate leaders under pressure to expand the bottle bill to include water and juice bottles, or see it decided by voters in the fall, said Thursday they will try to develop a compromise to address concerns of bottlers and supermarkets opposed to the measure.

Sharon Rechter was excited the day she took her 5-year-old daughter to the movies.

A Central District Court judge today denied a motion from a Millbury patrolman to get his service weapon back.

A man who took cellphone photos up the skirts of women riding the Boston subway did not violate state law because the women were not nude or partially nude, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Wednesday.

Selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday night to ratify Matthew Stencel as the town's new highway superintendent.

Although it may be hard to believe, soon the weather will improve and tempt many artists to work outdoors.

Anna Maria senior Eric Boll may commute to school, but that doesn't stop him from getting involved on campus.

When Bob Oborne said he felt tingly at Nick's Sunday night, he wasn't talking about the effect of his cocktail.

An Auburn police officer has been granted a one-year restraining order against a Millbury patrolman she dated after the woman said he terrorized her after she broke up with him.

Although it may be hard to believe, soon the weather will improve and tempt many artists to work outdoors.

Selectmen voted Tuesday that Puffin's Restaurant, 95 N. Main St., has to be open four nights a week to keep its liquor license.

Imbody said he decided to run because "I wanted to make a positive impact on my community, in service to it.

The following is from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The Mass. Ave. Corridor Project is 80 percent federally funded, 20 percent state.

Although it may be hard to believe, soon the weather will improve and tempt many artists to work outdoors.

A major natural gas leak Monday in the Webster Square area forced the evacuation of nearby businesses and turned the typically rough rush hour in the neighborhood into a traffic nightmare.

To celebrate Quinsigamond Community College's 50th anniversary, the college is naming "50 Guardians": QCC alumni and friends who have made a difference within the QCC and broader Worcester communities.

A 36-year-old man wanted in connection with a violent home invasion and the theft of a Purple Heart last month is in custody.

A lawyer and former Boy Scout leader sentenced in September to 18 years and four months in prison for attempting to entice children for sex and possession of child pornography has been disbarred.