Worcester News

A 3-year-old New Hampshire boy suffered second- and third-degree burns last night after a fireworks accident on Lake Samoset.

FITCHBURG, Mass.- Days after six police officers were laid off because of budget cuts, a double shooting left one man dead and a second serious hurt in Fitchburg.

At first, Robyn L. Christensen couldn't imagine that Davey's handbags would make much of an exhibition.

Reactivated British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS have scheduled more U.S. dates in September.

LEOMINSTER, Mass.- Authorities say a New Hampshire toddler was seriously burned by fireworks in Leominster after an illegal display by his father went awry.

The 2006 Ford GT, gleaming red with a white racing stripe down the center of the menacingly low-slung, ultra-high-performance sports car, lurked on the gently sloping lawn of Green Hill Park.

A Boston man was killed and another critically injured in a double shooting last night on Congress Street.

A city police officer was charged with rape Thursday and has been placed on unpaid leave.

Earlier this year, Kenda gave her caretakers reason to worry. The aging polar bear, whose home is the EcoTarium science and nature museum in Worcester, was sleeping more than usual.

Police Chief Robert A. DeMoura is looking for the public's help in finding a resolution to an unsolved local slaying earlier this year.

A Worcester man has been charged with carjacking his girlfriend's car and assaulting her twice in the same day.

The Election Commission last night unanimously adopted 23 new polling locations to be used in future elections, starting with the September state primary.

A 24-year-old city man was held on $10,000 cash bail yesterday after allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl at his apartment.

The public may not be quite as freaked out by West Nile Virus as it once was , but the disease is definitely still around.

We're thrilled they finally have somebody in custody, but it doesn't give me my life or my job back.

A man accused of robbing two banks on Grafton Street in a span of 72 hours was ordered held on $40,000 cash bail at his arraignment today in Central District Court.

TEMPLETON, Mass.- An estranged husband and wife have been found dead in an apparent murder-suicide at the woman's home.

A city man who claimed a couple years ago to be a leader in the Minor Kilby Posse gang pleaded guilty to cocaine distribution and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition Wednesday in federal ...

A former city man linked to a crime by his own DNA pleaded guilty yesterday to raping and killing a 64-year-old Worcester woman more than 20 years ago in her West Side home.

NORTHBOROUGH, Mass.- A teenager from Shrewsbury has been charged with setting a fire that destroyed six businesses in a Northborough strip mall.