Worcester

NFL star Antonio Brown is shifting his focus to music and will perform a rap show in Worcester, Mass. Thursday night.

Two people died when their pickup truck rolled over in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 290 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Saturday morning, police said. The truck’s occupants, a man and woman from New Britain, Connecticut, were found by troopers at the scene with serious injuries, and paramedics who arrived declared them dead, according to the Massachusetts State Police. The victims who…

A teenager is dead and four others are seriously injured after crashing a white SUV that was apparently stolen in Worcester, Massachusetts, Friday evening, according to police. Police say that at the intersection between Main Street and Chandler Street in Worcester, the white SUV had run a red light while having its headlights off. The SUV smashed into two cars…

A Connecticut man has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle people from Brazil into the United States. Officials said 41-year-old Fagner Chaves De Lima, of East Hartford, was observed trying to smuggle a person from Brazil to the U.S. The District of Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office said De Lima tried to orchestrate an “elaborate” and “manipulative” human smuggling...

The Diocese of Worcester has stripped a school in the Massachusetts city of its affiliation with the Catholic Church because of the flags it has flown in support of Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ rights. A decree issued Thursday by Bishop Robert McManus forbids the Nativity School of Worcester from identifying itself as a Catholic school from now on. Bishop…

One of the four people who died in a fire at a Worcester, Massachusetts, apartment building last weekend had filed a defamation lawsuit against right-wing radio host Alex Jones and his InfoWars website in 2018, alleging they falsely identified him as the gunman in a massacre at a Florida high school. Authorities on Wednesday released the names of the victims…

The parents of actor Alicia Witt who were found dead in their Massachusetts home in December died of exposure to the cold, according to the state medical examiner’s office. The cause of death for Robert Witt, 87, and Diane Witt, 75, was “probable cardiac dysrhythmia” due to the cold, according to death certificates issued Wednesday, The Telegram & Gazette reported....

A Massachusetts man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly attempted to break into the tiger enclosure at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo on Monday morning.

A 17-year-old girl was fatally shot in the parking lot of a Big Y supermarket in Worcester, Massachusetts, early Saturday morning, police said. They didn’t share what’s believed to have led to the shooting or if anyone has been taken into custody, but said it didn’t appear to be random. The shooting was reported about 2:47 a.m. at the...

The parents of actor Alicia Witt were found dead inside their Massachusetts home by police after she hadn’t heard from them in several days and asked a relative to check on them.

Two men were killed Wednesday morning after a shooting outside of a bar in Worcester, Massachusetts. Police found the men with multiple gunshot wounds lying on the sidewalk of Grafton Street outside the Diamond Inn just before 2 a.m. Wednesday. They were taken to an area hospital where they were pronounced dead. The shooting occurred around closing time. Cruisers blocked…

A 40-year-old Connecticut man is accused of assaulting a woman and trying to steal her car over the weekend in Worcester, Massachusetts. The woman had pulled over to help the man, later identified as William Vasbinder, after he crashed into the concrete foundation of a business sign. The woman flagged down police in the area 575 Park Avenue after the…

Just a week after he died trying to rescue a drowning teenager, a fallen police officer has been memorialized in a mural in Worcester, Massachusetts. From the iconic yellow smiley face of Worcester’s own Harvey Ball to a social justice mural painted by kids with the Boys and Girls Club, local artists have turned tired and worn-down buildings into...

A Massachusetts police officer drowned Friday during an attempted rescue of a teenage swimmer at a pond

A teenager and a police officer who tried to save him died after going into the water Friday in Worcester, Massachusetts, authorities confirmed. Police and fire crews responded to the pond at Green Hill Park, where several people were in the water and one was struggling. Five officers went into the pond. One officer, identified by police as 38-year-old Manny…

A Massachusetts boy spent six hours locked on a school bus Thursday after he fell asleep and no one noticed, according to the boy’s aunt. Jessica Reyes says she thought it was a joke when her 13-year-old nephew Jamie, who has autism, told her what happened. “He said he never made it to school. He fell asleep on the...

The fire that broke out at a triple-decker in Worcester, Massachusetts, and spread to a second building Friday night, killing two people, has now claimed the life of a third person. And family members tell us all of the victims were related. Worcester firefighters responded around 7:30 p.m. Friday to 11 and 13 Jaques Avenue for two triple-deckers on fire…

For many people in Massachusetts and across the country, the pandemic has meant a lot of family time, with nights out on the town being replaced by family game nights in. “We were playing card games like Uno and Go Fish and whatnot,” said Worcester native Dominique Price. Price says while those games were fun, there was something missing. “It…

After an exhausting late night shoveling during Monday’s nor’easter, Bradford Gauthier of Worcester, Massachusetts, learned a lesson he won’t soon forget. “We have a 6-month-old baby, so we don’t watch TV at night in the room, so I always end up wearing my AirPods and just watching Netflix or whatever,” said Gauthier. But when he woke up Tuesday to...

Kassandra Jean-Marie has always wanted to be a doctor, but she says the reason has changed. “I’m smiling because my answer to that question has changed so many times throughout my years,” she said. Jean-Marie’s mom is a nurse, and that inspired her. “She always came home and I could definitely see she was tired some nights, but she...