Worcester

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

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...

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.