Worcester

It was in early March that Michelle Shabo began feeling the symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

On a JetBlue flight Thursday from Florida to Worcester, Massachusetts, Michele and Steven Burt’s French Bulldog, Darcy, had trouble breathing.

A 12-year-old student in Worcester, Massachusetts, has been suspended for hugging a gym teacher. The foster mother of the Forest Grove Middle School student is asking for change after the boy was suspended for 10 days and given a record of physical assault of a teacher.

A railroad engineer was in the middle of his overnight shift when he spotted twin 9-month-old babies alone near the tracks in Worcester, Massachusetts. Police responded around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday after the baby boys were found in the area of the railroad tracks near Cambridge Street and Kansas Street.

A fire at a Worcester, Massachusetts apartment left 13 people spending the Thanksgiving holiday at a hotel, but it could have been much worse if it wasn’t for a group of high schoolers on their way home. Four junior ROTC members were driving home from their high school when they saw smoke at a Hamilton Street apartment building. “When we...

Students demanding stricter gun control measures and an end to the school shootings that have rocked the U.S. are completing a four-day march to the Smith & Wesson headquarters. About 40 students and supporters set off from downtown Worcester in central Massachusetts Thursday, holding signs denouncing gun violence and chanting slogans criticizing gun makers and the National Rifle Association.

Hundreds of Hurricane Maria evacuees from Puerto Rico who are living in hotels around the nation have been given more weeks to use temporary housing vouchers.

Was your tomato grown in dirt or water? Organic shoppers might notice additional labels this summer that will give them the answer — and tell them whether their choices align with what a rebellious group of farmers and scientists deem the true spirit of the organic movement. About 15 farmers and scientists from around the country met in Vermont late...

A Maryland man suffered minor injuries when his friend mistook him for a turkey and shot him.

A search for a missing small plane is underway off Ocean City, Maryland, officials say. The pilot took off from Baltimore County Wednesday night, en route to Ocean City, and still had not been seen by Thursday morning, state police said Thursday afternoon.

Maryland State Police say the body of a plane crash victim has been recovered.

Federal agents announced Friday that they seized 50 kilograms of a chemical used to manufacture the powerful opioid fentanyl from a storage facility in Massachusetts last month.

Authorities in Massachusetts say a 7-year-old was choked and thrown from a bridge after being kidnapped from a family party at her grandparents’ home in Worcester.

Ocean City, Maryland, can tell topless women to cover up — but men can keep their shirts off, according to a letter from the Maryland attorney general’s office.

Workers in Ocean City are told they should document complaints of toplessness, but they shouldn’t approach topless women – even if beachgoers request it.

John Warren Geils Jr., a member of the rock group The J. Geils Band, was found dead in his Groton, Massachusetts, home on Tuesday, police confirmed.

The oldest American, a New Jersey resident, is yet another year older. Adele Dunlap received balloons Monday, and fellow residents at the Country Arch Care Center in Pittstown sang “Happy Birthday” to the 114-year-old. But The Record reports Dunlap didn’t appreciate the fuss. Asked what she was thankful for, Dunlap said, “Gee, how should I know?” As for a birthday...

Authorities in Maryland say a Virginia man has been killed in a fiery crash in West Ocean City.

A husband and wife were hospitalized after being attacked by a boar at a small farm in Townsend, Massachusetts, on Tuesday night.

Deer hunters in most of Maryland are getting a couple more days to hunt with modern firearms.