Worcester News

The South Worcester Industrial Park long has been a dream for many in the city, but the start of demolition of two derelict industrial buildings at Southgate Place this morning marked the first step forward in a plan to realize that vision.

While recently watching a baseball documentary of a famous Detroit ballplayer by the name of Hank Greenberg, it brought to mind a Worcester catcher of the same ethnic heritage, Sid Goldfader.

A judge is expected to rule Monday on whether lawyers for a Massachusetts man charged in the killing of Greenwich real estate mogul Andrew Kissel can present evidence implicating Kissel's ex-wife. Defense attorneys for 22-year-old Leonard Trujillo of Worcester filed papers last week in Stamford Superior Court asking permission to introduce the ...

There's a future in this industry. That's what excites me. -- U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern, D-Worcester, DURING TOUR OF MICRO-TECH IN WORCESTER WORCESTER - Its machines have been used by companies as big as Duracell to produce the batteries used in a variety of consumer electronic devices, and by others that craft highly specialized batteries for ...

A proposal by National Grid to increase the average residential customer's utility bill by 5.5 percent next year has come under scrutiny by the state Attorney General's office.

A freaked-out fox went on a 14-hour crime wave in Worcester, terrorizing cats, mugging pedestrians and biting an elderly gardener bloody before being euthanized after even police bullets failed to kill the berserk beast.

Leslie G. Schuler, center, appears in Worcester Central District Court with attorney Alan J. Black, left, in Worcester, Mass., Tuesday, June 30, 2009.

With rain in the forecast, officials have opted to move the Worcester Fourth of July fireworks display from tomorrow to Friday.

Connecticut state police are investigating the fatal shooting of an 81-year-old woman in her Killingly home.

Prosecutors are expected to bring murder charges against a Worcester man accused of fatally beating his 7-year-old son on Father's Day.

A 76-year-old woman tending her garden at her Mount Hope Terrace apartment near Worcester Polytechnic Institute this morning was attacked by what appeared to be a rabid fox.

A Worcester man accused in the fatal beating of his 7-year-old son on Father's Day was scheduled for arraignment Tuesday on a murder charge, the district attorney's office announced.

A 22-year-old delivery man was stabbed in the back last night as he attempted to drop off an order near 12 Granite St.

The family of Nathaniel Turner removed the 7-year-old boy from life support early yesterday morning, clearing the way for authorities to consider murder charges against the Worcester father accused of beating him, police said.

Crystal Doe says she waits tables because she likes it - and also enjoys working at the Sole Proprietor.

A 7-year-old boy who authorities say was severely beaten by his dad on Father's Day in Worcester has died after his family decided to have him removed from life support.

Two men were sentenced yesterday after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a 2007 baseball bat attack in Westboro.

CNB also announced Thursday that it has terminated a previously-announced merger agreement with the parent company of Pittsfield-based Berkshire Bank.

A Worcester man has pleaded not guilty to using a machete to kill a tenant in an apartment building owned by his mother.

Leslie Schuler once pleaded with a judge for visitation with the 7-year-old son he'd never known, so he could "become the child's father, not just a paycheck once a week." Now little Nate Turner lies brain dead after being savagely beaten on Father's Day, prosecutors say, by the very man who claimed he wanted to build a relationship.