Sterling

Someone set fire to political signs on a lawn in Sterling, Massachusetts, on Thursday. Sterling police confirmed officers and firefighters were called out just after 10 p.m. to investigate the fire. There were no suspects in the area when officers arrived, and investigators said there were no other reports of vandalism in town. A neighbor pulled up alongside the home...

There are questions Friday morning on what caused a collapse in Sterling, Mass., that left one worker dead. Crews are still working on recovering the body.

The body of a worker killed when a rock ledge collapsed on his excavator in Sterling, Massachusetts, Thursday has been recovered, officials said Friday, identifying him. The worker was Brian Curtis Derby, a 67-year-old from Townsend, according to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office. Derby’s body was recovered by a technical rescue team after work through the night. The...

There was an emergency response to an incident at a construction site in Sterling, Mass., Thursday morning. It’s unclear at this time what happened at the site.

A worker has died after a portion of rock ledge collapsed onto an excavator at a quarry in Sterling, Massachusetts, the Worcester District Attorney’s Office confirmed Thursday afternoon. The district attorney’s office said the incident occurred just before 8 a.m., when emergency crews were called to a quarry on Stone Crest Way. An area of rock had collapsed onto...