Oxford News

With about 6 inches of snow on local roads early Sunday, a 46-year-old man with three drunken driving convictions allegedly led local police on a three-town chase.

Worcester Central District Court Jury Session Jury-Waived Case Judge David P. Despotopulos Juan C. Benitez, 38, of 69 West St., Worcester, charged with three counts of violation of an abuse prevention order, two counts of aggravated assault and battery, and intimidation of a witness, placed on probation for 1 year, ordered to remain alcohol free, ...

Webster Dudley man charged with 3 counts of rape DUDLEY - A 25-year-old man pleaded not guilty yesterday to three counts of rape in Webster.

Oxford graduate Dr Alison Peden has been chosen as one of three candidates for the vacant episcopal see of Glasgow and Galloway in Scotland.

Each year, the Telegram & Gazette Santa Fund receives a donation from "Chet the Jet," also known as World War II veteran Chester Bundeff, 83, of 154 Charlton St.

Three men were arrested and charged Thursday after they allegedly went on a three-town mailbox vandalism spree.

HUDSON * The First United Methodist Church, 34 Felton St., has begun a trans-denominational care-giving ministry to people who are facing divorce, terminal illness, unemployment, loneliness and other personal issues.

Another dangerous section of Route 20 may be reconstructed. The state is in the early stages of designing improvements to the road from Richardson's Corner Road in Charlton east to Route 12 in Oxford.

HE WAS a page boy at the Queen's coronation, boxed against Antarctic explorer Ranulph Fiennes at Eton and later became an earl for four days.

Arlene Flynn received a pleasant surprise earlier this year, when the Internal Revenue Service sent her a letter informing her that a tax refund check was waiting for her.

Martha Hainer, 98, is the oldest member of the Ladies Benevolent Society of the First Congregational Church in Dudley.

The alleged leader of the Great Brook Valley Outlaws is scheduled to plead guilty to drug charges Monday in U.S. District Court.

Heavy Thanksgiving holiday traffic on the road and on the rails meant a long day for many travelers yesterday, including those waiting for buses to depart from Portland, Maine.

Yesterday I mentioned Elliott Gerson's op-ed in the Washington Post, which said that a shift in career choices for Rhodes scholars -- before, mainly politics/academics/writing; now, increasingly Wall Street -- was one more illustration of how outlandish pay in the financial world was distorting American incentives.

Arnold Villatico's restaurant straddles the Auburn-Oxford town line on Route 20, but he's thankful he pays his local taxes to Oxford, not Auburn.

An Oxford man was sentenced late yesterday in federal court for engaging in a scheme which resulted in the victim, an Irish businessman, being defrauded of at least $2 million.

A Leicester man pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge he exposed himself to a woman in Oxford Richard C. Hawes, 45, of 18 Carleton Road, Leicester, was arraigned in Dudley District Court on a criminal complaint of indecent exposure.

GOING THROUGH A PHASE The Route 12 reconstruction project in Auburn has been completed substantially easing traffic flow between Church Street and Route 20.

More than 20 residents awoke yesterday to find their cars had been broken into. According to police, the break-ins occurred on Charlton Road, Pierpont Road, Dudley-Oxford Road, Central Avenue, Cross Street, Laprise Court, and possibly other areas.

A disbarred lawyer whose Web site once touted him as "a lawyer you can trust" has been sentenced to 30-months imprisonment for two counts of wire fraud to misappropriate $1,990,000 from a client's account.