Worcester News

While there's debate over whether advanced practice nurses need to have docs peeking over their shoulders, there's little doubt that Massachusetts would see a health care traffic jam if patients had to depend solely on primary care doctors for their needs.

T here are various kinds of no-fault insurance policies, but one of the more exclusive is the one public officials use to cover their inadequacies.

More than 100 members of Worcester's Liberian-American community marked the 167th anniversary of their homeland with a celebration Saturday that was almost all they had hoped for.

With the main focus of customer service in mind, the company has acquired the steel stamp division of Stamp-Rite Supersine, and announced the highly experienced Laurie Barcaskey as the account manager for this section of customers.

Hoping to provide new small businesses with financial relief while also offering an incentive to hire local residents, the City Council has broached the idea of discounts on sewer connection charges in return for job growth.

Police seized cellphones containing text messages, drug paraphernalia, brass knuckles and other items as they investigated the July 14 shooting of a man on Greenwood Street that has landed the daughter of a former state representative in trouble.

Worcester firefighters investigate an overturned Nissan Rogue after a crash with a Honda Civic at Salisbury and Grove streets on Tuesday.

A Worcester man whose 2010 murder conviction was overturned last year is facing additional charges of threatening, during a courtroom outburst, to kill the jurors who ultimately found him guilty.

Elizabeth Tavares, a former first deputy commissioner in the Massachusetts probation department, leaves Federal Court in Worcester in March with her attorney R. Bradford Bailey.

She leaves her three sons, Wayne W. Lawson of Coco Beach, Fla., Kenneth P. Lawson of Ormond Beach, Fla., and David S. Lawson of Boylston; three grandchildren, Shawn Lawson, April Lawson and Cassandra Pulsifer Lawson; three great-grandchildren; her brother, Allen Earley of Sterling; nieces and nephews.

Detente may be too strong a word to describe the process of communication that opened last week between the Worcester Redevelopment Authority and the City Council.

The rollover of a propane tanker after a crash at Routes 68 and 62 has led to the evacuation of about 10 homes in the area, Police Chief Dennis G. Perron said.

The struggling Department of Veterans Affairs could soon be getting the financial help it needs.

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.