Worcester

A year ago, someone found Cleo on the side of a road in Oklahoma after a driver hit her and took off. She was badly injured, needed surgery and ultimately lost one of her legs. But everything changed for her earlier this year when Jordan Rosenfeld, a biomedical engineering student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, adopted the abandoned dog after spotting…

Jordan Rosenfeld said he expects to have Cleo’s prosthetic leg ready sometime early next year.

A man allegedly attacked an officer with scissors, lit his apartment on fire and refused to leave the building, prompting a standoff with police overnight in Worcester, Massachusetts.

A triple-decker building was charred and damaged after it caught fire in Worcester, Massachusetts.

A man allegedly attacked an officer with scissors, lit his apartment on fire and refused to leave the building, prompting a standoff with police overnight in Worcester, Massachusetts. The triple-decker apartment building, located at 6 Moen Street, was charred and damaged after the fire broke out around 12:30 a.m. Monday. Luis Ramirez, 25, was charged with assault and battery with…

Hospitals across Massachusetts are critically close to or even above capacity – due to staffing shortages, an uptick in COVID-19 cases and a significant increase in the number of people needing in-patient care. “It can get bad enough at times that even the ambulance has to wait to drop a patient off,” said UMass Memorial Health President and CEO Dr….

As hospitals deal with a shortage of beds, elective procedures are being canceled.

Police say a woman unintentionally fired a handgun that was in her purse while shopping at Walmart.

A Massachusetts woman is facing a criminal charge after the gun she had stored in her purse accidentally went off while she was inside a Walmart store in Northborough on Monday. The 31-year-old Worcester woman, identified as Crystaly Perez, is charged with discharging a firearm within 500 feet of an occupied building, Northborough police said. Shortly after 8:30 p.m. Monday,…

An attempted carjacking was caught on camera in Worcester.

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…

Fire Lt. Jason Menard was killed attempting to rescue a baby from a fire in Worcester two years ago.

Worcester paid tribute Saturday to a city firefighter who died in the line of duty while saving the life of a colleague two years ago. The tribute to Lt. Jason Menard was held at the McKeon Road Fire Station. Menard, a 39-year-old married father of three, died on Nov. 13, 2019, while battling a house fire. Menard and colleagues had…

Gold star families and their loved ones killed in military action are being honored this Veterans Day in Worcester, Massachusetts. “I was wounded in action,” Vietnam veteran William Adams said, remembering his brother. “I survived, then he went over and six weeks later, come back in a coffin.” Lance Corporal George Adams of Worcester was killed in action in Vietnam…

Fallen soldiers will be honored at a day of remembrance.

Gov. Charlie Baker announced Wednesday that he would be refiling legislation to set the ground rules for enforcing laws that ban driving while under the influence of marijuana in Massachusetts. It’s reengagement on a issue that stalled last session despite his administration’s public push for stronger impaired driving laws. Baker made the announcement with Secretary of Public Safety and...

Nine-year-old Reagan Landers and dozens of others 5- to 11-year-old students at Worcester Public Schools were pulled out of class on Monday so they could get their first dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. It’s all part of Worcester’s plan to hold 50 in-school vaccine clinics over the next two weeks. “It means that now, if we go into our...

Four Worcester elementary schools held vaccine clinics Monday, and we visited them to see how the kids were doing as they got vaccinated.

Friends and family came together to help raise money for Rod Woodward, who survived a tough battle with COVID-19

Police in Worcester, Massachusetts, are looking for a missing teenager. Police say 14-year-old Sahvana Carpenter left her home on Warner Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Friday. Carpenter, described as being about 5’1 and 100 pounds, was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, penguin pajama pants and a nose ring. Police noted that she may be with her cousin, Ciara. The Worcester…