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David Webb says John Piccolo, the owner of Piccolo’s on Shrewsbury Street, attacked him at a city council meeting.

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A man was spray-painted in the face Tuesday during a city council meeting in Worcester, Massachusetts. City Manager Eric Batista said Wednesday that the incident occurred around the start of a meeting at Worcester City Hall. Police responded to a report of a fight around 6:30 p.m., arriving to find a resident with paint on his face. He told officers...

The Worcester Public Library recently had an unusual surprise — the return of a book more than half a century overdue. Checked out in 1973, the book finally returned to the library late this year. Library officials believe it was discovered by a Boston resident cleaning out a relative’s belongings. The returned book, titled “The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley,”...

A man from Worcester, Massachusetts, has been reunited with a cherished necklace that vanished 18 years ago in Maine, thanks to a stranger’s commitment to finding its rightful owner. Han Tu received the gold Buddha necklace as a high school graduation gift and wore it every day until it disappeared. The necklace held deep meaning — it included a heart...

Two people are dead after what police described as a domestic incident in Worcester, Massachusetts early Thursday morning. Officers were called to a home on Gingerbread Trail around 2 a.m. and found the female victim with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene. A male was taken to the hospital, also suffering a gunshot wound. He died...

Police are investigating racist graffiti found at a Worcester, Massachusetts, school, school officials confirmed in a letter to families. School officials said graffiti containing a racial slur was discovered painted on the back of the Worcester Dual Language Magnet School on Chandler Street Sunday. The Worcester Police Department is investigating. “We understand that this incident is disturbing and unsettling for...

A Worcester, Massachusetts, man accused of assault after the death of his 4-year-old daughter was held without bail following a dangerousness hearing on Wednesday, when prosecutors revealed disturbing new details in their case against him.

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A Worcester, Massachusetts, man accused of assault after the death of his 4-year-old daughter was held without bail following a dangerousness hearing on Wednesday after prosecutors revealed disturbing new details in their case against him.

A man has been charged in the death of his 4-year-old daughter at an apartment complex in Worcester. The man said the girl had fallen from a table, but doctors who treated her said otherwise, according to court documents.

A 4-year-old girl died after being rushed to a hospital from a home in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, and her father is now facing charges, according to court documents. Prosecutors had said that Francisco Ortiz, a 34-year-old from Worcester, was arraigned in court Wednesday and held without bail on assault and battery charges in connection with a child’s serious injuries....

An armed man believed to have fatally shot someone else in Worcester, Massachusetts, Wednesday tried to carjack vehicles on a highway and then killed himself as police tried to stop him, authorities said. Neither the suspected shooter or the person he’s believed to have killed on Heroult Road Wednesday afternoon have been identified. Worcester police said they were continuing...

Two teenagers are facing charges after a fight following a high school soccer game in Worcester, Massachusetts. NBC10 Boston and Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra have obtained video of the incident, which occurred Sept. 16 at South High School. There was a fight between several players in the game against Doherty Memorial High School. Worcester police said two unnamed 18-year-olds have been…

Police in Worcester, Massachusetts, are looking for a teenager who has been missing since last month. Jaden Rivera was last seen Aug. 27, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The Worcester Police Department shared the teen’s missing person poster on Saturday. Neither police nor NCMEC gave a physical description of Rivera or said where he was…

A vehicle hit two people crossing a street in Worcester, Massachusetts, Tuesday night, killing one of them, police said. The woman who died was a 35-year-old from Auburn, according to a Worcester police representative. The incident took place on Ludlow Street just before 10 a.m., according to police. The vehicle hit the pedestrians, then another vehicle. The second person who…

People in a neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts, are on edge after four separate robberies in the last month. In each incident, pizza delivery drivers were robbed at gunpoint in the Vernon Hill area. “I think delivery people should stop delivering when they get phone calls to deliver,” said resident Mary Jane Urban. “Or say credit card only.” The latest incident…

Two men have been indicted on murder charges in the shooting deaths of a woman and her 11-year-old daughter earlier this year in Worcester, Massachusetts. Chasity Nunez, 27, and her daughter, Zella, were gunned down in a parked car March 5 on Englewood Avenue. They were brought to a hospital, where both were pronounced dead. One man, 28-year-old Karel Mangual,…

The teen’s brother says the fact that she is awake is truly a miracle and hopes her story will lead to road safety improvements and drivers slowing down.

New details were revealed in court documents as William Rodriguez, who fatally stabbed his wife 20 years ago, was arraigned on two murder charges in Worcester District Court after his arrest in New York City

Worcester police are investigating a fourth robbery of a pizza delivery driver at gunpoint in a month, the department said Thursday. The latest pizza deliveryman robbery was at 1:18 a.m. Thursday morning on Lund Street, according to Worcester police — that’s the same street where the first robbery took place, on Aug. 12. In Thursday’s robbery, two people, one with…

Firefighters said one person was taken to the hospital.