Worcester News

Police were busy over the weekend tracking down guns. Police went about 1 a.m. Saturday to Plumley Village, where a security guard told them he was informed a man was threatening a woman with a gun in an apartment.

Gentlemen, start your enginesa because it's time to speed on over to The Vintage Grille.

The City Council is seeking legal guidance from the city administration as to whether and how it can limit areas in the city where Level 2 and Level 3 sex offenders can live.

From left, Mike M. Madelle of Worcester, Blerim Preniqi of Agawam, Nicholas J. Rinaldo of Millbury and Don L. Messier of Chicopee install granite stones that spell out "Worcester Common" at Church and Front streets in Worcester.

A former city firefighter was sentenced to jail Monday after pleading guilty to charges of unlawfully possessing several firearms, including a sawed-off shotgun.

A large donation of warm hats is heading to cancer patients, thanks to knitters and crocheters based at the United Church of Clinton.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is inviting pool owners to participate in its third annual Asian long-horned beetle survey now through August 29. The beetles have killed hundreds of thousands of trees across the country.

She won't be leaving the White House until the fall of 2016 but recent Obama comments suggest that day is on his mind now.

For many years, when it came to public hiring in Massachusetts, you didn't get a job based on what you knew - it was who you knew.

A young man walks through flood waters on Austin Street at Bellevue in Worcester this afternoon.

Republican Charlie Baker is not only leading every other candidate in the fundraising race for governor, but his financial support is also deeper across a wider swath of Massachusetts than any of his rivals.

The story of this school, like so many in the industrial towns outside Worcester, is directly tied to the industrial history of the towns.

Motorists should expect delays this week on the following city streets because of resurfacing or sewer-related construction: Canterbury Street - Hammond St. to Gardner St. Commercial Street - Front St. to Foster St. Cutler Street - Grafton St. to Aetna St. Davis Street - Piedmont St. to Queen St. Derby Street - 63 to Everton Ave. Elm Street - ... (more)

There would be no official parade, but the mood of the group of Liberians gathered in front of City Hall Saturday morning remained upbeat.

New Hampshire residents with swimming pools are being asked to check their filters for an invasive insect that poses a serious threat to the state's forests and trees.

A city man has been indicted on a charge of murder in the slaying of a Worcester woman whose body was discovered in the Auburn Mall parking garage in February.

The Worcester Animal Rescue League had its annual Bow Wow Luau on Saturday, where dog owners and friends of the organization donated dog food, toys, treats and other items.

Made famous as the training ground for 1899 world champion Major Taylor, George Street surely tests a cyclist's climbing strength.

Edward Dinyeah of Worcester stands among a group of more than 125 Liberians who gathered this morning under the Liberian flag at City Hall before going to the soccer fields at Worcester Academy on Providence Street for a daylong celebration on the anniversary of the west African nation's independence 167 years ago.

Even as violent crime has receded across New York City, arrests are near historic highs, driven by an increasingly controversial imperative that no offense is too minor for police officers to pursue.