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Worcester Hoping To Lure ACC Baseball Championship To Polar Park
The Worcester City Council has asked the city manager to try to get the Atlantic Coast Conference to use Polar Park in…
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Baby, Proposal, Promotion To Big Leagues – All In A Day For Worcester Red Sox
One Worcester Red Sox player's wife had a baby, followed by another player's proposal to his girlfriend, followed…
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Abortion Truth Campaign Pushes Worcester To Pass Crisis Pregnancy Center Ordinance
Abortion Truth Campaign, a pro-abortion advocacy group, is pushing Worcester and other Massachusetts municipalities to pass local legislation restricting pro-life…
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Two Worcester Officials Say Two Proposed Pregnancy Center Ordinances Likely Unconstitutional
Worcester city manager Eric Batista sent two draft ordinances targeting pro-life crisis pregnancy to the city council yesterday while calling both…
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UMass Medical School Wants Name of Plantation Street In Worcester Changed
The state's public medical school is asking the Worcester City Council to change the name of three public streets near…
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Huge Green Highway Sign Falls Onto Interstate 190 In Worcester
Rush-hour right-lane traffic on Interstate I-190 southbound in Worcester ended temporarily Tuesday morning when a large green highway sign…
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Worcester City Manager Stepping Down
Edward M. Augustus Jr. will no longer be Worcester's city manager come June. Augustus, 56, who has held the post…
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Former Teen Mom Among Eight Candidates Making Ballot For School Committee In Worcester
Who got enough signatures to run for school committee in Worcester this year? The city clerk's office provided NewBostonPost with…
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Planned Parenthood Has Donated To Worcester Mayor’s Campaigns
Planned Parenthood's Massachusetts political action committee has donated to Worcester Mayor Joseph Petty's campaigns. Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund…
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Police Critics After Worcester Board of Health Chairman for Reluctance To Discuss Allegations of Police Racism
Critics of purported racism in the Worcester Police Department want the chairman of the Worcester Board of Health to resign because she…
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Worcester Pastor Releases Statement of Thanksgiving and Praise After Interim Court Agreement
The Worcester pastor who is planning to hold a sixth church service this weekend over the limit of 10 set by the…
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Public Buildings May Get Permanent Barriers To Protect City Workers From Contagion in Worcester
People visiting offices at city hall in Worcester might be greeted by permanent physical barriers between them and employees sometime in the…
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Glorious Worcester Church Being Demolished
Notre Dame des Canadiens, a breathtaking church built in 1929 that was once home to many of Worcester's French-Canadians,…
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‘Lois Lane’ Goes Missing in Worcester; Where’s Superman When You Need Him?
A street sign for Lois Lane in Worcester is missing and presumed stolen after it was taken down during sidewalk construction. The…
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At 87, William Shatner Is Coming To Worcester for a Star Trek Showing and Chat
William Shatner was "professional-sounding, polite, and informative" during a telephone interview advancing an appearance in Worcester next week, according…
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Senate Prez Chandler Calls Massachusetts State Police OT Scandal Criminal; Duo Of MSP Retirees Accused Of Fraud ID’d
UPDATE (Friday 2:45 p.m.) Governor Charlie Baker's administration has cited the investigation launched by Attorney General Maura Healey…
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Retired State Police Brass Demand Federal Judge Toss Troopers’ Lawsuit
BOSTON — Attorneys representing retired State Police Superintendent Colonel Richard McKeon — and a major who filed her own retirement papers a little less…
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TrooperGate Lawsuit May Go the Distance, As Cast of Characters Thickens
UPDATED 10:45 P.M. Governor Charlie Baker's recent appointee to head the Massachusetts State Police, Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin,…
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TRIALS OF TURTLEBOY: Worcester Blog Takes On Boston Newspapers Over Coverage Of Massachusetts State Police Scandals
The provocative Worcester-based blog Turtleboy Sports, the first to break the story about how a Massachusetts state trooper apparently faced discipline…
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Long-Lost Audio Recording of Martin Luther King Jr. Speech in Worcester Appears on Internet
The 1961 speech about civil rights for blacks was broadcast on a radio station in Worcester, but the audio recording was long…
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100-Foot-Long Joint Trumpeted in Worcester
Pro-marijuana activists showed off the 100-foot-long marijuana cigarette during the Harvest Cup, a cannabis trade show.…
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Moose on the Loose in Worcester
The 400-pound moose was tracked down, tranquilized, and moved. Happens every couple of years, authorities say.…
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Worcester Clerk-Magistrate Retiring … At Age 88
Thomas J. Noonan has been working for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for 59 years, including as clerk-magistrate in Worcester Central District…
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Worcester Columnist Still Going Strong At Age 96
Al Southwick has been working for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette since shortly after World War II.…
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Protesters in Worcester Block Traffic, Refuse To Say What They’re Protesting About
Seven were arrested during the disruptive protest near Worcester City Hall. Internet posts suggests links with anarchists and Maoists, and all were…
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Worcester Was Once Valentine Capital
Sending valentines became fashionable in America around the 1840s. A business in Worcester once pumped out thousands of them.…
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Worcester Mayor Apologizes for Calling Disruptive Protesters ‘Freakin’ Morons’
The protesters repeatedly interrupted a Worcester City Council meeting that was considering a measure proposed by a city councilor that would have…
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High School Vice Principal Goes To Hospital After Trying To Break Up Fight in Worcester
The vice principal was trying to separate two boys when others joined in the melee.…
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Worcester City Councilor Wants City on Record As Supporting Federal Immigration Law
City Councilor-At-Large Michael Gaffney says Worcester officially isn't a Sanctuary City but that the mayor is acting like…
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Biotech Firm Can Now Buy State Land in Worcester
Governor Charlie Baker signed bill allowing a biomanufacturing company to buy former state hospital land. http://www.telegram.com/news/20170106/gov-…
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Biotech Firm Can Now Buy State Land in Worcester
Governor Charlie Baker signed bill Friday, January 6 allowing a biomanufacturing company to buy former state hospital land in Worcester. http://www.…
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WATCH: Americans fail at trying to pronounce different Mass. cities
Imagine being a tourist visiting Massachusetts for the first time. You're driving around in your rental car grasping at your…
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Worcester region sinks to lowest rank in ‘well-being’
BOSTON – The Hub of New England trails both the Manchester-Nashua area of New Hampshire and even Springfield in western Massachusetts in…
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Worcester health board raises minimum age for tobacco to 21
It's going to get harder for teens to buy a pack of smokes in the second largest city in Massachusetts,…
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Massachusetts lands 3 cities on ‘most dangerous’ for U.S. drivers list
It appears Bay Staters pay a hefty price and run a greater risk than most whenever they step into their vehicles. According…
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Pols laud new Worcester-Boston express train
Congressman James McGovern was able to catch his plane out of Logan Airport, and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito had a chance to…
