Worcester News

Not yet 4 years old, Choose Worcester, the organization funded by investments from local corporations and charged with attracting business to the city, is in danger of running out of money and an effort to merge with the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce may be in jeopardy.

QUESTION POSED: 'What issue should the new council focus its efforts on over the next two years?' * DISTRICT: 1 NAME: Arthur Bors ADDRESS: Saxon Road OCCUPATION: Certified Public Accountant AGE: 55 COMMENT: 'The national economic crisis is also affecting cities and towns.

A pharmacy college graduate was indicted Thursday on new charges in an alleged terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and shoot people at American shopping malls.

Two people have pled not guilty to rape charges in Worcester Superior Court for an alleged attack in Clinton.

Everybody ought to know Amy Allison. Besides having Mose Allison as a father and Elvis Costello as one of her biggest fans, this unique and captivating talent has become a semiannual fixture at Nick's . She is far from miserable and mawkish, even though she put out albums called 'Sad Girl' and 'The Maudlin Years' . Drawing endless comparisons to a ...

A 22-year-old Worcester man is being summoned to court because he allegedly wouldn't get out the way of an officer headed to a domestic incident.

Leading up to Tuesday's municipal election, the buzzword making the rounds out and about the city was "change." There was incessant talk was about the need to make changes on the City Council, a change in the mayor's office, and even some chatter about changing the city's form of government.

New Hampshire officials hope homeowners will check to see if the destructive Asian longhorned beetle has crossed state lines from Massachusetts and set up residence in their trees.

Worcester State College faculty members have voted no confidence in President Janelle C. Ashley.

A realty company doing business in the city has settled a lawsuit filed earlier this year in U.S. District Court that alleged the company discriminated against prospective renters because they have children.

A 51-year-old Charlton woman is scheduled to be in court next month on charges connected to a fatal motorcycle crash two months ago.

The state's second-largest city will have a new mayor in January as Joseph O'Brien defeats incumbent Konstantina Lukes and two other candidates in Worcester.

Two police officers were sworn in during a brief ceremony at last night's selectmen's meeting.

It's now illegal in one Massachusetts town to own more than three cats without getting a special license.

And now, it's your turn. For the past couple of months, candidates running for City Council, School Committee and mayor have had their say, crisscrossing the city and talking to just about anyone willing to listen.

The U.S. National Mediation Board has proposed a sweeping rule change that would base the outcome of union elections at airlines and rail companies on the majority approval of people who vote, a move that could increase the odds of unions winning such contests.

The Worcester man accused of fatally shooting his roommate in the back over a week ago is no longer fighting extradition to come here and face a murder charge, authorities said today.

A Spencer man serving a jail sentence for soliciting the murder of his estranged wife and the burning of a lawyer's West Side home four years ago has been ordered to pay $3.6 million to the lawyer's widow.

A local woman was killed when the 1998 Toyota Corolla she was riding in on Interstate 395 flipped over on the ramp to Sutton Avenue just after midnight.

Thursday, October 29, 2009 Fire & Ice Time to get all fired up for ARTSWorcester's 31st season and the very festive opening of its fall members exhibition from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at the group's Aurora Gallery, 660 Main St., Worcester.