Worcester Police seek slasher who injured 5 people WORCESTER - Five people were slashed during an altercation yesterday at the Boulevard Diner on Shrewsbury Street and police are searching for a man who wielded a box-cutter type weapon in the incident.

Police yesterday arrested a 26-year-old JC Penney sales associate they say raped a child in a changing room inside the department store on Route 131.

To our readers: The Southbridge Evening News will not publish on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov.

Dudley District Court Judge Neil Snider agreed with both defense and prosecution requests, defining Hiram Burgos Ortiz a danger to others and sending him to Bridgewater State for 30 days of psychiatric evaluation.

Charlton Fire Captain Kerry J. Mason, who had been facing a charge of assault and battery, has been placed on pre-trial probation and is currently working.

Can artists save downtown Worcester? That was one of the questions tackled Wednesday night at a panel discussion hosted at Worcester State College .

A Charlton man who allegedly stabbed a teenager and later assaulted an officer was ordered held Wednesday pending a dangerousness hearing next Monday.

A 52-year-old Charlton man was charged today with allegedly stabbing a 17-year-old Charlton man, who was in serious condition tonight.

More than three weeks since a handful of offices were broken into at the temporary Town Hall complex no official suspects have been identified, though police say the investigation is still open and very active.

The state House of Representatives may soon send a warning to parents: Keep your kids in school or risk going to jail.

The Sturbridge chapter of the REAS Foundation has just made it even easier for residents to help their neighbors.

Southbridge's Scott Benoit, vice president of the Grand Trunk Trailblazers, talks to Craig Della Penna before the latter's talk in Brimfield last week.

Southbridge town officials Catherine Nikolla, Wilfrid Cournoyer and Mark Morin listen to Greater New Bedford Industrial Foundation Executive Director Thomas Davis talk about the turn-around his city's industrial park has seen in the last decade.

When Chris Briere and Trisha O'Brien wanted to get to know their new neighbors on Hartwell Street, they opted for an idea that long predates Southbridge itself - a house blessing.

New management has only been able to keep a neighborhood convenience store on track for a few months.

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.

Schools to track 'student growth' Conducted by teacher Becky Bussiere and accompanied by Linda Cross, the Southbridge High School chorus serenaded the School Committee Tuesday night with Beatles tunes, Christmas carols and other songs.

Food need expected to 'smash the record' by Gus Steeves write the author November 08, 2009 For too many people, the coming two months are likely to be somewhat less joyful than if they had food.

The Festival of Trees will once again offer up a joyful noise this holiday season.

Late last month, Superintendent Dale Hanley and School Committee members expressed their ire at some elements of this spring's state review of district programs.