Worcester County News

Friday, November 6, 2009 Outdoors: Hunt is on for 'timberdoodles' Mark Blazis Outdoors Flights of woodcock descended among our aspens, alders and red maples this week.

A Millbury woman accused of stealing about $225,000 from the Mohegan Council of the Boy Scouts of America is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Worcester Superior Court.

The Worcester County Commissioners have decided not to add any commercial zoning to Route 589 as part of its comprehensive rezoning, leaving zoning for growth on the road to be determined at a later date.

A local woman is accused of beating her 9-year-old child with a belt and then abandoning her at the state Department of Children and Families office in Leominster, according to court documents.

Emilio Cruz and Timothy Dupree were on the prowl Halloween night as part of a nationwide effort to keep trick-or-treaters safe from sexual predators.

A Charlton man faces charges of attempted murder and assault and battery after allegedly attacking his girlfriend.

A series of workshops is planned to help people cope with the economy. Gesher, a business networking group within Congregation B'nai Shalom, has joined with Connections of Central Massachusetts and Jewish Family Service of Worcester to host non-denominational sessions for job seekers.

PHASING OUT THE PIP The exterior of the PIP Shelter at the corner of Main and Charlton streets in Worcester is seen in this file photo taken in June.

SNOW HILL , Md.- The Worcester County Health Department says few school children have turned in permission forms allowing them to be vaccinated against H1N1.

Officers in the North Worcester County Drug Task Force seized 25 grams of cocaine and thousands of dollars in cash from a Mechanic Street apartment Thursday, according to police reports.

Marlboro's Elaine Stefanik is the kind of wife deer hunters dream of having. Saturday morning, while it was still dark and raining, her husband Mike looked at conditions and decided to go back to bed.

Editor's Note: The Southbridge Evening News last week published a story noting the steps taken to ensure enough space at local cemeteries.

Members of the Worcester County Beekeepers Association had an exclusive audience last night with federal officials running the city's Asian longhorned beetle eradication efforts.

Grafton High School will close for two days next week and cancel all sports and extracurricular activities because of a suspected swine flu outbreak.

A 14-year-old Worcester girl who didn't come home from school today prompted a massive search that ended when a family friend found her near Hartwell and Shrewsbury streets in West Boylston, Worcester police said.

NEWARK -- Parents might have to leave work a little early this winter to cheer on their high school athletes, as winter sports games in Worcester County will be starting before dark.

A Leominster man is scheduled to be arraigned in Worcester Superior Court Friday on motor vehicle homicide charges in connection with an August 2004 wreck that left his best friend with injuries that ultimately killed him last April, District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.

An arsonist with a long criminal record who set fire to an abandoned paper factory in Erving in 2007 was convicted this week of setting the local fire as well as several others throughout the state, including the burning of the house in which the poem ''Mary Had a Little Lamb'' was written.

Massachusetts State Police Trooper Edward Bruso has been released from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, where he was treated after his cruiser rolled over this morning on Route 290 westbound, near exit 22 in Worcester.

THIS ADVISORY IS FOR THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MASSACHUSETTS...MAINLY ABOVE 1000 FEET.