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Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts enacted a week-long lockdown amid a spike in coronavirus cases, Friday, meaning students opting to stay on campus would have to remain there. School officials said the move was necessary amid an uptick of cases on campus, with eight students testing positive for COVID-19 just this week. More than 100 students are now in quarantine…

Students must shelter in place as Worcester and the rest of Massachusetts deal with rising COVID-19 cases.

As coronavirus cases increase in Worcester and across Massachusetts, students at Assumption University are being told to shelter in place.

As coronavirus cases continue to grow in Worcester and across Massachusetts, Assumption University is enacting a weeklong lockdown. Students on campus are being told to shelter in place beginning at 8 a.m. Friday. The lockdown is set to last until Nov. 6, when the school will reassess the situation alongside the Worcester Department of Public Health. The school says the…

As coronavirus cases increase in Worcester and across Massachusetts, students at Assumption University are being told to shelter in place.

A woman who was struck by a Jeep while crossing a roadway with another pedestrian Thursday morning in Worcester, Massachusetts, has died from her injuries, police say. Worcester police were called to the area of 560 Southwest Cutoff just before 7 a.m. for a report of two pedestrians struck. A 25-year-old woman and a 30-year old man, both of Worcester,…

Students at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts, say campus police tried to stop their chalk-written messages of support for the LGBTQ community. Student Adriana Mazza says she is feeling increasingly uncomfortable on campus. “As a person that is part of the LGBT+ community, I don’t feel safe at my school right now,” Mazza, a sophomore, said Tuesday. Mazza said...

Students at Assumption University say that police on campus tried to put a halt to their chalk-written messages of support for the LGBTQ community.

A 17-year-old boy was found shot in a Wendy’s parking lot in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Saturday night, police said. The teenager was pronounced dead at the scene, Worcester police said Sunday. Officers were called to the Wendy’s at Park Avenue and Maywood Street about 8:36 p.m. after gunfire was reported. Police didn’t offer more information about the shooting Sunday,...

Choir members are practicing from their cars, listening to each other on the radio.

A church in Worcester, Massachusetts, has found a way to enjoy a choir without spreading the coronavirus. Members of the choir at Trinity Lutheran Church practice inside their cars in the parking lot. Members sing into wireless microphones while they listen to one another and to the director playing his keyboard on their car radios. During indoor services, choir members…

A 51-year-old Massachusetts man was arraigned Monday after attempting to kidnap an 11-year-old girl in Worcester on Sunday night. Andrew Merriam, of Hudson, is charged with enticing an underage child, attempt to commit a crime and assault and battery. He denied the allegations at his arraignment on Monday and his bail was set at $1,000. Merriam was arraigned via Zoom…

The second man has not yet been arrested.

When Broadway Catering and Restaurant in Worcester has filled up with hungry diners, manager Betsy Isildakli says it’s been vital to have outdoor seating, so they don’t have to turn people away. “Whatever we don’t have inside … we use it for outside,” Isildakli said. Now, thanks to a pilot program funded by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and...

Restaurants have been turning to outdoor dining to survive the COVID pandemic, and in Worcester, that’s led to the “Streateries” phenomenon. But it’s not popular with everyone.

More than 550 employees of Worcester have been targeted in a nationwide unemployment insurance benefits scam, city officials say. The scam involves identity thieves using the victims’ personal information to file claims for unemployment benefits. The city received about 40 fraudulent claims from March to mid-August, Dori Vecchio, the city’s human resources director told The Telegram & Gazette. Since then,…

Armed with masks and hand sanitizer, bilingual ambassadors will be deployed throughout Worcester, Massachusetts, this weekend at city parks, commercial corridors and dining destinations. The move comes as the city continues to be stuck in the red zone, struggling to keep positive COVID-19 case numbers trending in the right direction. “They’ll go out and try to engage folks. If...

Massachusetts’ second-largest city is taking steps to address the surge in coronavirus cases.

Officials are postponing fall sports at Worcester Pubic Schools, citing the city’s recent uptick in coronavirus cases. The disrupted season, titled Fall 2, will be held between the winter and spring.

Four firefighters in Worcester, Massachusetts, have tested positive for the coronavirus and more than two dozen others are in quarantine, officials said. According to the city, three of the cases were “related to an initial positive case over the weekend” and are all in isolation. “That firefighter worked on Friday, a 24-hour shift, and then worked another 10-hour overtime shift…