Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker visited the field hospital being set up at Worcester’s DCU Center on Wednesday and discussed how the facility and others like it across the state will help the fight against the new coronavirus. Another field hospital is being built at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Baker said, and that Massachusetts’ coronavirus command center is...

Several positive cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, have been confirmed at a nursing home in Worcester as the facility was moving its residents out to make way for Massachusetts’ first coronavirus care center. The Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center, owned by Salmon Health, was in the process of moving out all 147 of its…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker visited the field hospital being built to house non-critical coronavirus patients at Worcester’s DCU Arena and discussed the investigation into the coronavirus deaths at a soldiers’ home in Holyoke.

The famed DCU Center, known for its wide-ranging sports and entertainment events in Worcester, Massachusetts, is now being converted into a makeshift hospital with 250 beds to treat coronavirus patients. “We are now the first place in Massachusetts that will have this field medical unit which will allow expanded capacity to support our hospitals,” said City Manager Edward Augustus Jr….

The DCU Center in Worcester will become a medical field station for COVID-19 patients, handling the overflow from hospitals in central Massachusetts.

A Worcester nursing home is preparing to become the first in Massachusetts dedicated for coronavirus patients. That means the residents who have been living at the Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center suddenly need to find another place to live. “Her name is Frances Trotto. She is 92 years old and she is suffering from late-stage Alzheimer’s disease,” said Ralph…

With concerts and hockey games on hold for the immediate future, city officials in Worcester are turning to the DCU Center as a potential home for overflow patients.

The city of Worcester, Massachusetts, is planning for a surge in coronavirus cases and plans to use the DCU Center for patients if necessary, should area hospitals become full.

More than twenty residents were displaced and one firefighter was sent to the hospital after a two-alarm fire ripped through a Worcester home early Thursday morning. The fire at 51 Harlem Street has been extinguished, according to officials. “Fortunately all the smoke detectors were working, and the occupants were able to all get out because of the smoke detectors,” district…

Firefighters battled a three-alarm fire in Worcester Tuesday morning.

The trial of a Massachusetts man charged with kidnapping his friend’s 7-year-old daughter and throwing her off a bridge and into a lake has been postponed until October. Joshua Hubert, 37, of Worcester has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, kidnapping a child under 16 and strangulation or suffocation. Hubert attended a cookout with the girl’s family on Aug. 26…

Amidst the smattering of school closings across the country, Worcester Public Schools is looking to get ahead of the possible threat of the novel coronavirus.

For Andres Cedillo, it’s hard to imagine how disruptive it would be if his son’s school in Worcester was shuttered by a viral outbreak. Like thousands of parents across Massachusetts, Cedillo is weighing how the spread of a new coronavirus that originated in China and has since moved to the United States and 75 other countries might affect his...

Flames tore through a home Monday evening in Worcester, Massachusetts, but several occupants and the family dog made it out safely. “It just feels like a dream,” said Jenna Prokopowich, who lives at the home, but wasn’t there at the time. “I don’t really feel like I’m here right now.” Jayce Bonet, who also lives at the home, had...

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

At least seven residents have been displaced after a fire burned through a multi-family home in Worcester, Massachusetts. Firefighters responded to the home on Beacon Street overnight Sunday where they found heavy fire on the third floor that extended into the attic. Firefighters were able to knock out the fire around 4 a.m. on Sunday. One firefighter was taken to…

A 38-year-old Massachusetts woman is facing serious felony charges after she allegedly took photos or video of three partially nude boys inside a K-6 elementary school in Worcester last week. Erin Scally of Holden was confirmed by students to be a behavioral therapist who works in the Special Education department at the Norrback Avenue School. Prosecutors allege that last Tuesday,…

Four men were charged with trafficking drugs this month after they were arrested with five types of drugs, over $10,000 and a loaded gun, prosecutors said Wednesday.

With Massachusetts’ new hands-free driving law going into effect Sunday, leaders in Worcester are launching a new campaign to educated people about distracted driving’s dangers.

Police in Worcester have identified a person of interest in connection with reported attempts by a man to kidnap two children. The person was in custody on an unrelated offense, officials announced Friday. No other information was released. The Telegram & Gazette reported the students were accosted on their way to or from school in two separate incidents on Wednesday….