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>Latest weather: Another pleasant day, high of 82 today in Worcester
>TOP OF THE NEWS
+6:00: Worcester police make changes to draft policy on drone use
+6:00: Emergency training drill scheduled for Worcester Airport
+6:00: 2 new roundabouts in Worcester may tame dodgy intersection
+6:00: Worcester area real estate roundup
+6:00: Dogs, cats and other pets up for adoption at Worcester area shelters
+Noon: Taste of Shrewsbury Street 2022 participating restaurants
+Noon: 5 Things You Need to Know Today in Worcester- June 14th
+Noon: Get a piece of the pie: Table Talk hosting job fair on June 29th
+Noon: Hector Reyes, Technocopia collaboration helps participants build new futures
+Noon: Tree House fans recall first visits as brewery celebrates 10 years
+Noon: Radio Worcester (12:02): Acting City Manager Eric Batista on Worcester's 300th, drones and the budget
+Noon: Janice Harvey: Author Sheryll O’Brien's blog gives window into cancer struggle
+Noon: Former Boston Celtic allegedly seen panhandling in Virginia
-Vacant Worcester donut shop to be become a law office
-Cafe reopens in new Downtown Worcester site
-New Greater Worcester Community Foundation head quits after just 5 months
-2 teens shot over the weekend in Worcester
-Worcester man arrested for warrant, new drug, gun charges
-Stephanie Fernandes trial: Text message history between accused murderer and Andrew Wagner include threats of violence, suicide
-Detours in place during Mass Pike work in Worcester area
-City Council preview June 14th: Budget stuff, drones
-Rosen's Roundtable No. 481 (28:22): Police Drones, Renewable Three-Deckers, Pickett Plaza
-Don Landgren: Where should chickens be allowed in Worcester?
-Radio Worcester (11:13): Worcester Medical Director Dr. Michael Hirsh talks about Monkeypox, COVID and misinformation
-Bishop McManus to ordain 7 priests
>HOMES: 10 most expensive Worcester County real estate transactions during week ending June 4th
>BARS & BANDS (brought to you by Wachusett Wine & Spirits): The Mayor’s Live Music List for Tuesday
>SHOWTIME: Patriotic Pops Concert July 3rd at Worcester's Institute Park
-Song to Get You Through the Week: Julia Mark delivers heartbreaking "Love and Energy"
-Worcester Historical Museum displays tribute to fallen Worcester officer Manny Familia
-Juneteenth — Freedom Day — marked in Worcester County
-Worcester Technical High School graduation (1:34:51)
-Community Healthlink C.A.R.E.S Club comes to Worcester East Middle
>OBITUARIES: Tribute to area priest who passed away at age 78
-ICYMI: City leaders, veterans groups gather for General Josiah Pickett Memorial Grove dedication
-Worcester Fire Department honors members who have passed away in last year
-Demolition proposed for historic home on Lincoln Street in Worcester
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
>THE BURBS (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Final lowering of the flag at Shaw Elementary School in Millbury
-Grafton Farmer’s Market returns on Wednesday
-Sterling swears in new police chief
-Pizza Church raises funds for Trevor Project
-Autism-friendly dinners make a comeback at Shrewsbury restaurant
>SPORTS: Celtics pushed to brink with Game 5 loss
-Rafael Devers is suddenly the best hitter in baseball and the Red Sox are rolling
-WooBall Weekly: Bravehearts hanging tough after 2-3 week
-Next Bravehearts home game: 6:30 Friday, Scout Night Sleepover & Postgame Fireworks
-Enter to win WooSox tickets, courtesy of North End Motor Sales
-WooSox Rewind: Worcester reaches .500 with 4-2 week
>BUSINESS: Dow tumbles and stocks enter bear market on worries of drastic rate hikes
-WBJ's Movers & Shakers for June 13th
-Understand the difference between branding and marketing
>COLLEGES: WPI graduate student Jakub Kaminski featured in Washington Post
>CARS: Bertera has the car for you (4:08)
-RVs at Clearance Prices at Fuller RV Rentals and Sales (1:07)
>NATIONAL: All entrances to Yellowstone National Park are temporarily closed due to "extremely hazardous conditions"
-Author of "How to Murder Your Husband" was sentenced to life for murdering her husband
-Tragic: 7-year-old Texas boy gunned down in bed during drive-by shooting
>TV/STREAMING: "The Northman" is now streaming on Peacock
>CELEBRITY: Philip Baker Hall, of "Boogie Nights," "Seinfeld," dies at 90
-Mick Jagger, 78, tests positive for COVID; Rolling Stones cancel gig
>HEALTH: 13 hospitalized amid Hepatitis A outbreak tied to strawberries
-Free COVID vaccinations/boosters 11-7 Wednesday at Worcester Public Library
>FOOD: Many baby formula plants weren’t inspected because of pandemic
>SHOPPING/DEALS: Mass. sales tax holiday set for August 13th-14th
>ANIMALS: 33-year-old blind pony gets a seeing-eye donkey (4:02)
>HISTORY: A dance at the Lincoln Park Dance Hall in Worcester
>GOOD NEWS (brought to you by Bertera Nissan): State Trooper keeps mama dear, baby from crossing Mass Pike
-Meanwhile, in Missouri, 14 hospital staffers are expecting babies
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In The News
>WEATHER: Mark Rosenthal's 7-day forecast (1:12). High of 37 today in Worcester
>TOP OF THE NEWS
-Driver hospitalized after car crashes into Dollar Tree store in Worcester (:20). Article
-Worcester apartment project on Shrewsbury Street faces parking concerns
-A year after scathing report on use of force, sex acts, Worcester police have new policies
-Worcester Public Medical Director Dr. Michael Hirsh retires
-TODAY! Guns to Gardens gun buyback
-Related: Radio Worcester (12:45): Dr. Michael Hirsch on Worcester’s “Guns to Gardens” program
-TODAY! The final Village Marketplace of 2025
-Worcester police officers honored at City Hall promotion ceremony
-Proposed development would bring 270 units, supermarket and a half-dozen other businesses to abandoned Shrewsbury factory site
-Dark Downeast Podcast (35:45): The murder of John E. Volungis Jr.
-Worcester Guardian week in review: Legacy businesses, tax rate debate, winter prep
-Radio Worcester Roundtable (49:36): Worcester snowstorm response, police oversight & affordability
-Radio Worcester's The Rundown (27:03): Tax rates, infrastructure challenges and a major coaching milestone
>DINING OUT: Table Hoppin': Bonchon, from owners of Gong cha, sees crowds, lines
-ICYMI: Couple arrested after 5-hour standoff in Worcester (1:37). Article
-Related: Worcester officers treated for hypothermia after standoff
-Water restored as crews continue work on Shore Drive in Worcester
-Winter homeless shelter to open at former Quality Inn near Lincoln Plaza
-Worcester woman wins Lucky for Life, takes lump sum of $390,000
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
>HOLDEN (brought to you by Lamoureux Ford): Wachusett Echo: Phone-free school by 2026? The newest phone policy controversy
-Merry Christmas from Lamoureux Ford! (:47)
-Chief Tim Sherblom sworn in as head of Central Mass. Chiefs of Police Association
>THE BURBS (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Pedestrian struck and killed on Providence Road in Northbridge
-Police determine threat at Sterling school not legitimate
-West Boylston town administrator, hired after flag controversy, headed to Rutland
-TODAY! Santa visits Paxton Fire Department
-Apple store opens in Millbury
-Disabled veteran tax exemption available in Shrewsbury
-Kindled Planning hopes to "spark" more for customers
-The Item's calendar of events
>BARS & BANDS: The Mayor's Live Music List for Saturday
>SHOWTIME: Things to Do: Assabet Valley Mastersingers, High Command and more ...
-"Sister's Christmas Catechism" coming to Worcester
-"Night Lights" named best holiday garden display in nation
-Anxious Taylor Swift was scared to continue Eras Tour after Vienna terror threat
>OPINION: Tom Marino: Extremist views of Worcester’s self-proclaimed moderates
-WCCA-TV's Soapbox No. 1399 (24:41): John Stanford, Executive Director, Incubate
-Unity Radio's The Susanity Life (59:28)
>OBITUARIES: Tribute to Professor Emerita at UMass Medical School
>SPORTS: What’s impressed Josh McDaniels the most about Drake Maye this season
-Jayson Tatum looks spry in latest workout videos amid injury recovery
-Holy Cross baseball, men's lacrosse announce schedules
-A banner day: St. Paul honors championship history of former high schools
>CARS: List of the most stolen cars in 2025 revealed
>NATIONAL: Terrifying gas explosion caught on doorbell cam (:49). Article
-The 10 richest states in America
-Tragic: 8 high school athletes injured during training run after car veers onto sidewalk in suspected D.U.I. crash
>NEW ENGLAND: Brian Walshe trial recap (21:57): After closing statements, the jury deliberates
-Driver shaken after alleged road rage shooting on I-495 (1:47)
>COLLEGES: WPI professor named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
-Assumption named peacebuilder and conflict-resolution expert Alice Nderitu Civic Friendship Fellow
-Late-night breakfast at Clark, in photos
>TRAVEL (brought to you by Fuller RV & Rental): Where to go in Charlevoix, a French-Canadian snow globe
>BUSINESS: Lawmakers mull action on "dynamic" A.I.-powered pricing in wake of "shocking" Instacart report
-Open AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT’s alleged role in Conn. murder-suicide
-Radio Worcester (7:03): Holiday spending budgeting and scam-proofing advice
-Former Worcester City Councilor candidate founds organization to address systemic oppressions
>HOMES: Foreclosures are soaring in the U.S.: study
>SHOPPING: Shoppers say ’tis the season for inflation, poll finds
>HEALTH: Tips to protect your sleep during the holidays (4:56)
-Under 7 hours of sleep shortens your life — 5 tricks to snooze faster
>TV/STREAMING: How to stream Taylor Swift docuseries, "The End of an Era," on Disney+
>MOVIES: New movies on streaming: "Die My Love," "Christy," and more
>CELEBRITY: Jason Bateman makes eyebrow-raising remark about sister Justine
-Judi Dench believes Harvey Weinstein has "done his time" for sexual assault, says she forgives him
>ANIMALS: Bear cub runs across frozen Hubbardston pond (:37)
>HISTORY: Then & Now: 187 Washington St., Worcester
>GOOD NEWS: Steve Hartman’s 10 most memorable stories over the years (29:41)
-Meanwhile, escaped horse visits New York's J.F.K. Airport
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