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In The News
>WEATHER: Mark Rosenthal's 7-day forecast (:56). High of 63 today in Worcester
+5:00: Weekend New England foliage forecast with Yankee Magazine's Jim Salge (10:33)
>TOP OF THE NEWS:
+5:00: Search in West Brookfield called off; no evidence of drowning victim found
+5:00: Add a smile to your step Friday as Worcester celebrates annual World Smile Day
+5:00: Things to Do: Amy Grant, Big Nazo, Cirkus Vampyr, burlesque for brunch and more ...
+5:00: Radio Worcester (8:39): Irish Festival returns to Worcester with sports, music and culture
+5:00: Halloween maze in Shrewsbury touts family-friendly spookiness
+5:00: Red Sox and Yankees face off on anniversary of Bucky (Bleepin') Dent's historic home run (:56). Article
+5:00: Connelly Early’s historic start, and more Red Sox-Yankees Game 3 subplots
+Noon: Auditor: Worcester among hardest-hit communities in unequal Mass Save benefits distribution
+Noon: Man indicted for manslaughter in brother’s fatal shooting
+Noon: F.B.I. offers $25,000 reward in 1978 disappearance of young Webster boy
+Noon: Music, games and more at annual Irish Cultural Festival at Polar Park
+Noon: Mechanics Hall highlights progress, new leader at annual meeting
+Noon: "Avatar: Last Airbender" brings visuals/live orchestra to Worcester
+Noon: How Journalism Works Discussion Series: How to cover City Hall Saturday at Worcester Public Library
+Noon: Last Call: Dianne Langford James, Entrepreneur and community organizer
-Judge mulling release of mentally ill man who shot at family, Worcester police
-Company begins $70 million expansion in Worcester
-Worcester woman plans to open business after $1 million lottery win
-Worcester City Council ups snow removal pay hoping to avoid repeating February nightmare
-Worcester City Council passes resolution barring police from assisting I.C.E.
-Worcester Business Journal launches redesigned site with new subscriber features
-Central Mass. restaurants receive cut of $900,000 to address food insecurity
-Search for missing swimmer at West Brookfield’s Lake Wickaboag
-Worcester's report card for M.C.A.S. shows modest gains, losses
-Aislinn Doyle: Worcester Public Schools in Brief for September
>POLITICS: Meet the candidates: Etel Haxhiaj talks priorities, taking a stand
-Worcester candidates respond in follow-up to M.O.A.D. African Community Forum
-District C, E School Committee races heat up
-Worcester District School Committee forum (1:06:55)
-Radio Worcester Roundtable (48:16): District 2 candidate Rob Bilotta joins Roundtable
>DINING OUT: Phantom Gourmet visits Leominster restaurant (5:17)
-ICYMI: Local woman's self-written obituary goes viral after she dies of A.L.S. (2:32). Article
-Family takes legal action after they say son was kicked off Wachusett youth football team with no explanation (2:42). Article
-Why was "This Old House" filming at WPI? It’s a long story
-Mother arrested in chaotic Worcester I.C.E. operation granted asylum
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
>HOLDEN (brought to you by Lamoureux Ford): October Among Friends senior newsletter
-America's newest game show, filmed at Lamoureux Ford (1:40)
-This week's road closures and traffic delays
>THE BURBS (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Car flips on Route 9 in Westborough, disrupting eastbound traffic
-Fire displaces 15 residents from Fitchburg apartment building
-Charlton Select Board opposes $50,000 senior center feasibility study for Charlton Furniture site
-Trucking company fined $32,000 after leaving state with tab for oil spill in Auburn
-Officials outline Sterling D.P.W. building project
-The Witches of Sutton combine festive dancing with local fundraising efforts
-West Boylston preps for October town meeting
-Meet the sheep responsible for keeping S.E.L.C.O.’s solar operation going
>BARS & BANDS: The Mayor's Live Music List for Thursday
>SHOWTIME: Woostock concert set for Worcester
-Unity Radio's Unity in the Community (57:54): Tim Power, Discover Central Mass.
>OBITUARIES: Tribute to former local state Representative
>SPORTS: Red Sox drop Game 2 to Yankees, 4-3
-Costly mistakes haunt Red Sox
-Former Braveheart Ben Rice sets Yankees tone with homer in playoff debut
-Drake Maye may a top-5 passer, but is he an elite quarterback?
-NFL Week 5 schedule, TV and announcers
-Holy Cross guard and former St. John's star Cam Nolan has been an anchor on the line
-Jayson Tatum’s recovery from Achilles surgery could be "unprecedented"
-ECHL rulebook has some minor changes for the 2025-26 season
>NATIONAL: Shutdown fallout: Jobs, pay, benefits, even groceries could be disrupted
-Jane Goodall, conservationist known for chimpanzee research, dies at 91
-Related: T&G Archives: Jane Goodall's visit to Worcester in 1999
-Gas explosion leads to partial building collapse in the Bronx (:50)
-Tragic: Beloved high school football star killed after being mistaken for squirrel during hunting trip
>NEW ENGLAND: Body of teen murdered in 1974 exhumed for new autopsy (2:33)
-3 more spas shut down in Methuen for suspected human trafficking (2:04)
>COLLEGES: Expanding access to social work education: Anna Maria's new B.S.W. program at Q.C.C.
-Nichols donates iPads to Dudley Fire Department to help upgrade technology
>TRAVEL (brought to you by Fuller RV & Rental): Logan ranks among best in nation in customer satisfaction
>BUSINESS: See deadline to claim part of $425 million Capital One settlement
-LPL Financial Research: Equity market melt-up cools as government shutdown looms
-Brady Ravenelle opens Busy Bee Jumpers in Worcester
-What's Up Worcester gains nonprofit status
>HOMES: Rates or price? Which needs to drop to afford a home? (1:55)
>SHOPPING: Oster recalls over 1.2 million countertop ovens. See impacted models
>HEALTH: New, highly transmissible COVID strain fueling wave of infections
-The psychology of ghosting: Why it hurts and how to recover (2:53)
>FOOD: McDonald's Monopoly game returns decades after "McMillions" scam
>TV/STREAMING: Freeform's "31 Nights of Halloween" schedule, movie list
-Connecticut "Wheel of Fortune" player wins historic $1.035 million — in front of her boss
>MOVIES: Ed O'Neill, Danielle Brooks, John Higgins join Cameron Diaz movie
>CELEBRITY: U.S. comics get backlash for performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival
-Why Kristen Bell wishes she were "more sexually active" before marrying Dax Shepard
>HISTORY: The gruesome true story behind the inspiration for the novel "Moby Dick"
>ANIMALS: Foster kitten's clumsiness wins his family over (1:33)
>GOOD NEWS: Replayed numbers from old lottery ticket earn woman $30,879
-Meanwhile, in Washington, watch package-stealing bear swipe sweater from porch
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In The News
>WEATHER: Mark Rosenthal's 7-day forecast (:38). High of 32 today in Worcester
+1:00: Monster winter storm set to move across country. Boston meteorologists discuss latest forecast (12:38)
+4:00: How much did it snow in Central Mass.? See town-by-town totals
>TOP OF THE NEWS
+4:00: Vehicle buried in Shrewsbury Police Department lobby (:16). Article
+4:00: Declared winter parking ban in Worcester lifted
+1:00: West Brookfield woman, 73, dies after struck in Ware Walmart parking lot
+1:00: Worcesteria: Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday is a day of service
-City education advocate to address MLK Day Breakfast at Assumption
-Passing torch of MLK's legacy: Youth Breakfast held at Worcester State
-Related: When Martin Luther King Jr. preached in Worcester
-Related: MLK Jr. honored in Worcester, through the years (16 photos)
-A meal fit for royalty is coming to Worcester’s Mechanics Hall this month
-Worcester horror film festival moves to DCU Center for 2026
-Worcester foundation launches $125,000 grant program for community health
-UMass Medical School tapped by Department of Defense to test a better way of treating postpartum depression
-The community engine fueling Worcester County’s philanthropy
-Worcester city offices closed Monday, trash and recycling delayed
-Holiday reminders: What's open, closed on MLK Day
-Man steals $2,600 worth of goods from Shrewsbury store after posing as another person
>DINING OUT: Boston's first-ever Michelin star delivered to 311 Omakase (1:12)
-ICYMI: UMass Medical School Professor: New variant of the flu virus is driving surge of cases
-Worcester veterans services director out amid dispute over academic credentials
-Worcester man pleads guilty after nightclub gun report, foot chase through Worcester Common
-Professor reflects on service work with Ukrainian refugee students
-UMass Medical School student Jaein Jung launches Lantern Project to help refugee teens
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
>HOLDEN (brought to you by Lamoureux Ford): Wachusett Echo: Rhubarb Pie Club Spotlight
-Lamoureux Ford welcomes Jeff Tripp from Sunnyside Motors (1:44)
>THE BURBS (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Leominster project aims to prevent reprise of disastrous 2023 flood
-Sanitary line issue, topping off ceremony talked about by D.P.H.S. Building Committee
-Sterling Rail Trail entrance features new signage
-Sutton business pretties up porches with sustainable, locally made decor
-Introducing Grafton High's new gymnastic co-op
-Shrewsbury draft calendar keeps schools open on religious holidays
-Swim school to occupy former party store in White City
>BARS & BANDS: The Mayor's Live Music List for Monday
>SHOWTIME: Former Grafton resident pens first book
-Worcester Chamber Music Society presents "Shadow & Light" February 1st in Worcester
-100 FM The Pike (15:12): Virginia Madsen on her new movie filmed In Western Mass.
>OPINION: Robin Darling: What my laundry pile taught me about being a good mom
-This Week in Worcester Podcast (2:44:01)
-Radio Worcester's The Rundown (26:06): Defamation lawsuit sparks debate over press freedom in Worcester
-Radio Worcester Roundtable (48:53): Lawsuit against This Week in Worcester spurs press freedom debate
>OBITUARIES: Tribute to doctor from Shrwewsbury
>SPORTS: Patriots top Texans, 28-16, to reach AFC title game
-Patriots defense proves it’s elite with masterclass vs. Texans
-Patriots’ win over Texans a big "program victory" for Mike Vrabel
-Drake Maye embraces wife in snowy scene at Patriots game
-Left-hander Ranger Suárez and Boston Red Sox agree to $130 million, 5-year contract
-Holy Cross' Abby Hornung named to Goalie of the Year Watch List
-Railers lose to Maine, 4-3
>NATIONAL: Iran protests death toll reaches over 3,000, rights group says
-High-speed trains collide after one derails in southern Spain, killing at least 21
-Tragic: Beloved pastry chef, 71, killed in freak accident with bread-mixing machine
>NEW ENGLAND: Driver suffers traumatic injuries in fiery Cape Cod crash (:27)
-Skiers rescued from deep snow in White Mountains
>COLLEGES: Assumption Fall Dean’s List
-Clark Career Exploration Week to feature sustainability panels, pop-up
>TRAVEL (brought to you by Fuller RV & Rental): American Airlines to offer new AAdvantage Rewards, free wifi in centennial year
>BUSINESS: Central Mass. business by the numbers
-Here's how A.I. data centers affect the electrical grid
-You’re probably using this every day at the office, and it’s teeming with bacteria
>SHOPPING: Best portable chargers to keep your devices powered anywhere
>HOMES: Here's a winter checklist to save money and keep your house warm (1:56)
>HEALTH: Discussing the new A.I. health app
-New F.D.A. warning: possible seizure risk after flu vaccine in young kids (2:22)
>FOOD: Viral supermarket chicken hack sparks debate
>TV/STREAMING: One of the world's best climbers attempts to scale Taipei 101 live on Netflix (1:01)
>MOVIES: Trailer for Nate Bargatze movie, "The Breadwinner" (2:39)
>CELEBRITY: Melissa Leo gripes winning an Oscar was terrible for her career
-Timothy Busfield’s attorneys say an investigation undermines state’s child sex abuse charges
>ANIMALS: Dumped mama and 7 babies rescued from abandoned house (1:54)
>HISTORY: 107 years ago: The Great Molasses Flood, Boston's strangest disaster
>GOOD NEWS: 9-year-old boy honored fire department after saving family from fire
-Meanwhile, in St. Louis, multiple mystery monkeys on the move
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