Worcester

A hit and run investigation is underway after a 27-year-old man was fatally struck on a Massachusetts highway on Saturday night. Massachusetts State Police responded to a report of a pedestrian struck on Route 290 westbound in Worcester shortly after 11:30p.m. According to police, the man may have been first struck by a tractor-trailer that kept driving. The man was…

Brian Green, 35, is accused in the death of 38-year-old Jarmahl Sutson, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.

A police investigation was underway overnight in Worcester. Worcester Police Department officers and K-9 units were seen by an NBC10 Boston crew along Catharine Street. There were multiple evidence markers outside a home on the 50 block of the street, and evidence tape was up around the area as well. NBC10 Boston has reached out to authorities to learn more…

A large highway sign fell right onto two travel lanes on Interstate 190 in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Tuesday morning. Twitter user @miss_shush shared a photo showing the large green overhead road sign for Exit 1 resting in the two far right travel lanes on I-190 south. Orange traffic cones had been set up around the sign, with cars able to…

It’s never too early to start environmental education, and in Paxton, the youngest learners are getting help and support from students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

A Worcester police officer was arrested Monday on suspicion of claiming off-duty assignments he didn’t work, the department said. Colby Turner, a five-year veteran of the Worcester Police Department, faces five felony charges of stealing more than $1,200 and a misdemeanor charge of filing a false claim, Worcester police said.

A 52-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man from Connecticut were killed when their vehicle hit another on a highway in Worcester and rolled over, police say.

Two people died when their pickup truck rolled over in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 290 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Saturday morning, police said. The truck’s occupants, a man and woman from New Britain, Connecticut, were found by troopers at the scene with serious injuries, and paramedics who arrived declared them dead, according to the Massachusetts State Police. The victims who…

Dozens gathered for a vigil Saturday to honor the teenage girl who died last week when a stolen SUV she was in with four other teenagers crashed in Worcester.

Residents of an apartment building in Worcester, Massachusetts, are left waiting for support and watching a housing court case play out two weeks after a partial roof collapse at their building left them unhoused. On July 15, construction materials placed on the roof at the Pond View Apartments on Mill Street and fell through all three floors of the building…

Police say five teens were in a stolen SUV that crashed Saturday night in Worcester, Massachusetts, leaving a 13-year-old girl dead, but they deny rumors of a chase

A man was arrested Wednesday after he barricaded himself inside a home in Worcester, Massachusetts, police said. Worcester Police said it started around 10:39 a.m. when officers tried to execute an arrest warrant for Edward Kloucek, 50, at an address on East Kendall Street. The suspect’s girlfriend reportedly told police that he barricaded himself inside, and that he had a…

A lengthy investigation led to officers seizing hundreds of what they believe to be fentanyl pills, according to the city’s police department. Worcester police entered three locations and a car after they saw the target of the warrant, Ramon Mateo, leave his home around 2 p.m. Tuesday, the department said in a news release. Police found about 1300 grams of…

The incident occurred at the intersection of Main Street and Chandler Street in Worcester, police said.

A teenager is dead and four others are seriously injured after crashing a white SUV that was apparently stolen in Worcester, Massachusetts, Friday evening, according to police. Police say that at the intersection between Main Street and Chandler Street in Worcester, the white SUV had run a red light while having its headlights off. The SUV smashed into two cars…

Police in Worcester, Massachusetts, are looking for a total of five missing 16-year-olds. Authorities said Thursday they were looking for Janisally Muller, who left her home on Adams Street at some point that day. On Friday, police said they were also looking for 16-year-old Lyriq Gonzalez, who had lest been seen leaving her own home on Adams Street. Police said…

Police in Worcester, Massachusetts, are looking for three teenagers who have been reported missing. Authorities say Sabrina Dirgham, Thomas Noponen and Caleb Coburn, all 16, left a home on Queen Street at some point Wednesday night and did not return. Police did not give physical descriptions of the teens or say what they were wearing when they were last seen,…

The Lowell Police Department is asking for the public’s help in finding a missing person. Officers say Madeline Santana could possibly be in the Lowell or Worcester areas.

City officials announced Wednesday morning that Coes Reservoir has been closed, which includes Binienda Beach, also known as Coes Pond Beach, until further notice. People should stay out of the water, avoid boat use and fishing and keep pets out of the water.

The apartment building at 267 Mill Street was condemned in the days after the roof partially collapsed on Friday. Displaced residents had a chance Tuesday to go to the DCU Center where the City of Worcester and other partners offered them assistance as they try to figure out what’s next for them in terms of housing. A group of displaced...