Oxford News

The alleged leader of the Great Brook Valley Outlaws is scheduled to plead guilty to drug charges Monday in U.S. District Court.

Heavy Thanksgiving holiday traffic on the road and on the rails meant a long day for many travelers yesterday, including those waiting for buses to depart from Portland, Maine.

Yesterday I mentioned Elliott Gerson's op-ed in the Washington Post, which said that a shift in career choices for Rhodes scholars -- before, mainly politics/academics/writing; now, increasingly Wall Street -- was one more illustration of how outlandish pay in the financial world was distorting American incentives.

Arnold Villatico's restaurant straddles the Auburn-Oxford town line on Route 20, but he's thankful he pays his local taxes to Oxford, not Auburn.

An Oxford man was sentenced late yesterday in federal court for engaging in a scheme which resulted in the victim, an Irish businessman, being defrauded of at least $2 million.

A Leicester man pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge he exposed himself to a woman in Oxford Richard C. Hawes, 45, of 18 Carleton Road, Leicester, was arraigned in Dudley District Court on a criminal complaint of indecent exposure.

GOING THROUGH A PHASE The Route 12 reconstruction project in Auburn has been completed substantially easing traffic flow between Church Street and Route 20.

More than 20 residents awoke yesterday to find their cars had been broken into. According to police, the break-ins occurred on Charlton Road, Pierpont Road, Dudley-Oxford Road, Central Avenue, Cross Street, Laprise Court, and possibly other areas.

A disbarred lawyer whose Web site once touted him as "a lawyer you can trust" has been sentenced to 30-months imprisonment for two counts of wire fraud to misappropriate $1,990,000 from a client's account.

Firefighters head into the garage at Lamountain's Service Center on Route 169 in Charlton, where a fire in one of the bays caused heavy smoke to billow out the doors yesterday morning, not long after emergency crews had battled a brush fire on Davidson Road.

Police have identified the woman killed Friday morning in a two-car accident on Oxford Avenue as Ethel Tornberg, 68, of 23 Wheelock St., Oxford.

They're all dressed up with no place to fight. The gradual disappearance of open land in Eastern Massachusetts is turning into a crisis for a 500-member group of Union Civil War reenactors known as the New England Brigade.

Auburn * Bethel Lutheran Church, 90 Bryn Mawr Ave., will hold its country fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today.

Douglas Police officer faces domestic assault charge DOUGLAS - A veteran police officer is scheduled for a Dec.

Disbarred lawyer Raymond A. Desautels III of Oxford, awaiting sentencing on wire fraud charges in U.S. District Court, pleaded guilty today in Worcester Superior Court to charges related to his role in what prosecutors said was an elaborate mortgage fraud scheme.

Police have closed both ends of Rochdale and Leicester streets because a tractor-trailer truck loaded with beer got stuck beneath the bridge where the roads intersect.

Worcester Central District Court Jury Session Judge David P. Despotopulos Antwan R. G. Robinson , 20, of 187 Glenway St., No.

I am writing regarding your article, "Beaver fever" found in spring . The headline of the article is sensationalistic and is a disservice to your readers.

If the name Charles Darwin gives you any visual at all, it's probably not a guy in a tropical shirt sipping a banana smoothie.

A North Oxford man was sentenced yesterday in federal court for possession of child pornography.