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In The News
>WEATHER: Watch Mark Rosenthal's updated 7-day forecast (:30); high of 56 today
>TOP OF THE NEWS
+6:00: 5 Things You Need to Know Today in Worcester - October 17th
+6:00: Worcester lists actions it’s taking to address toxic culture racial equity audits
+6:00: Assumption University names its 17th president
+6:00: Photos: Haunted Speakeasy at Bull Mansion gets Halloween season
+6:00: Don Landgren: Rotmans furniture store goes out of business
+6:00: Holy Cross football team moves up to 6th in national poll
+6:00: Former Bravehearts gets start for Cleveland in winner-take-all game vs. Yankees
+6:00: The Faces of Worcester: Desiree Demos
-23-year-old motorcyclist seriously injured in Green Street crash
-$100,000 ticket sold in Worcester Saturday
-For a great time, ride your bike from Worcester to Providence
-Vocero Hispano: 10-14-2022 al 10-20-2022
-Mercedes catches fire on Mass Pike in Southborough
-What you need to know about election deadlines; Worcester early voting starts October 22nd
-First Worcester Superintendent Listening and Learning Forum with Dr. Rachel Monárrez set for Wednesday
-John Monfredo: Ideas for the Worcester Public Schools and our students and families
-SEE THE LIST: The 25 Most Popular Halloween Costumes of 2022
-Joe Pagano: CPA tax increase could bring damaging fiscal storm to Worcester
>GOOD NEWS (brought to you by Bertera Nissan): Good News Garage donates car to Worcester woman who runs nonprofit
>HOMES: 1888 brick row house selling for $600,000 in Worcester
>BARS & BANDS (brought to you by Wachusett Wine & Spirits): The Mayor’s Live Music List for Monday
-Making Bourbon cocktails with great value Bourbons (47:31)
>SHOWTIME: Worcester Chorus sings Verdi's "Requiem" at Carnegie Hall in New York
-All Saints, Pakachoag deliver Halloween fun with "Tunes, Tricks, and Treats!"
-Wonder Years leads joyful, high-energy show at Palladium in Worcester
-Oktoberfest and Halloween events in and around Worcester
-What's Up Worcester's The Sitdown (1:06:58): 14-year-old fashion designer Finn Santora
-The Faces of Worcester: Charles Luster
>OBITUARIES: Tribute to a woman married 72 years who was a devout church-goer
-ICYMI: 6 shot during after-hours party at Worcester warehouse, police say
-Customers flock to Rotmans Furniture as Worcester mainstay plans to shut its doors
-Worcester enters electricity supply contract it hopes will blunt steep winter price increases
-Robert Stuart Jr. identified as man killed in Leicester equipment accident
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
>THE BURBS (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Former Whittier Farms farmhouse in Sutton sacrificed for firefighter training
-Holden Special Town Meeting will be held 7 p.m. Monday
-Shrewsbury Special Town Meeting at 7 p.m. Monday
-Grafton Fall Town Meeting on Monday
-Community gathers to tour Tufts’ Cummings School for open house
-Millbury Board of Selectmen consider 40B, 40U, but yield on Howe and Millbury Ave. changes
-Leicester police log October 6th to 12th
-There’s a moose on the loose in Sterling
>SPORTS: 8 takeaways from the Patriots 38-15 victory over the Browns
-Bailey Zappe becomes first NFL rookie QB to achieve this feat
-Enter to win a Mac Jones jersey, courtesy of North End Motor Sales
-Worcester Bravehearts hosting Jake-O-Treat with Trax and Arthur
-South High runs past Doherty for first victory over Highlanders since 1994
>CARS: Bertera Nissan has the SUV you need this fall for back to school and sporting events (4:48)
-RVs at Clearance Prices at Fuller RV Rentals and Sales (1:07)
>NATIONAL: "Multiple" remains found in Oklahoma river after 4 friends vanish, authorities say
>NEW ENGLAND: Classes canceled in 2 Mass. cities with teachers strikes expected
-Groton Elementary School closed Monday after 215 students sickened by virus
>SHOPPING: The reason TJ Maxx is able to offer discounted merchandise
>BUSINESS: Worcester Business Connect No. 36 (17:42): Sara’s Auto Sales
-Nearly every CEO bracing for recession over next 12-18 months: survey
>COLLEGES: WPI to hold talent and inclusion job fair on 11-3 on Tuesday
-New UMass Medical School $2.75 million grant to help provide wraparound services for 250 people in Worcester
>HEALTH: UMass Medical School researchers study Paxlovid in teens and children
-Long COVID and smell: How to get the treatment you need
>FOOD: "Food at home" prices are up 13% from last year: Here are 4 ways to save on groceries
>TV/STREAMING: "Bridgerton" season 3 opening narration, episode title revealed
>MOVIES: "Halloween Ends" renews streaming debate amid big box office win
>CELEBRITY: How Angela Lansbury saved her daughter from Charles Manson
>ANIMALS: Duck and dog brothers are inseparable (1:00)
-This eye-catching optical illusion will leave your head spinning
-Meanwhile, in California, video shows doctor removing 23 contacts from woman's eye
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In The News
>WEATHER: Mark Rosenthal's 7-day forecast (:34). High of 86 today in Worcester
+6:00: Central Mass. drought status ends thanks to summer rain
-August 2026 was the hottest on record: N.O.A.A.
>TOP OF THE NEWS
+6:00: Pulse Magazine Weekend Guide (:22)
+6:00: Stephen DiRado’s Bell Pond photos are subject of N.Y.C. show, new book
+6:00: Worcester Arts Council opens grant application
+6:00: Gateway Players announce October dates for "The Outsider"
+Noon: A brief tour of Worcester's "Main Street USA"
+Noon: Worcester Pride returns downtown Saturday for one of city’s largest cultural celebrations
+Noon: Auburn Fire Department hoping its fire-damaged truck not beyond repair
+Noon: Things to Do: Armadi Tsayn, Infinite Alien, Chet Williamson and more
+Noon: Art in spirit: Clinton's Icon Museum and Study Center marks 20 years
+Noon: First Person: For Wayne-Daniel Berard, poetry requires a poet's work
-Renovated apartment building in Main South to welcome families in crisis
-Worcester faith leaders prepare for 25th anniversary of 9/11 attacks
-Worcester events mark 25th anniversary of 9/11 attacks
-Mount Washington 9/11 tribute to feature twin light beams visible from over 100 miles away
-Worcester market sells $50,000 lottery ticket
-Michael Jackson impersonator moonwalks, sings at City Council meeting (2:04)
-Worcester by gaslight: Gas lantern stroll a trek into history
-City View Discovery School awarded $2.73 million for heating system
-W.C.A.C. to offer eviction record sealing assistance
-WCCA-TV back on the air on cable channel 194
-Radio Worcester (21:36): Mayor Petty addresses racist mural incident, police oversight and A.L.P.R. policy
>DINING OUT: Big E Preview: All the new foods coming this fall (1:09)
-Table for Woo: Simple Man Saloon and Grill
-ICYMI: "Every day is 9/11": Loss endures after 25 years for 3 local families
-Tractor-trailer fully engulfed in flames on I-84 in Sturbridge
-Miss Massachusetts returns to police work after Miss America pageant
-Artists painting Worcester mural targeted by racial slurs
-Earlier: Worcester NAACP condemns racist, sexist harassment directed at Wall of Women Artists
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
>HOLDEN: Holden police introduce newest officer
-This week's road closures and traffic delays
>THE BURBS (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Webster man pleads guilty to illegally dealing 3D-printed guns
-Southbridge’s Wellsworth Hotel to be auctioned, as part of Norton bankruptcy
-Spencer selectmen appoint interim treasurer/collector
-Tackle the Stigma 5K at Shepherd Hill to support mental health awareness
-Meet Leo Waible, the 2026 Applefest Grand Marshal
>BARS & BANDS: The Mayor's Live Music List for Thursday
-Jazzed Up Trio at Uxlocale Friday and Val's on Saturday
>SHOWTIME: Jane & the Archivists pen "love letter to Worcester" on new album
-"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" actor Lauren Adams visits Clark for improv workshop, film screening
-Taylor Swift back at top of country radio chart for first time in 13 years
-Harmonica maestro Chet Williamson to play in FrontRoom at WCUW
>OPINION: Tom Marino: The police reform plan Worcester government refuses to produce
-Last Call: Aileen Lovejoy, substance use awareness advocate
-WCCA-TV's Activate Worcester No. 343 (27:52): Jay Givan and Fred Nathan, 250th anniversary of America
-Radio Worcester's The Rundown (26:02): Why words matter—and what makes local news truly local
-Radio Worcester Roundtable (48:31): Racism in Worcester, examining primary results
>OBITUARIES: Tribute to former senior aide at Friendly House
>SPORTS: Drake Maye's interceptions cost Patriots in crushing season-opening loss
-A.J. Brown exits first game with Patriots in injury concern
-NFL Week 1 schedule, TV and announcers
-"It’s about finding a way to get better": Holy Cross aims to fix red zone woes
-Red Sox lose to Angels, 6-4
-WooSox beat Lehigh Valley, 8-3
>NATIONAL: Flock cameras are surveilling hundreds of public school campuses across the country
-New Apple C.E.O. unveils latest iPhone lineup, including a foldable model called Duo
-Tragic: Dad dies after suffering spinal injury on cruise while celebrating son’s wedding
>NEW ENGLAND: "Harsh" Lindsay Clancy prosecution backfired, instead proving she was good mom who "snapped": jurors
-Lindsay Clancy juror defends lone holdout, makes surprising admission about others on the panel
-Mass. D.O.T. scrapped overtime tracking tool years before suspected fraud (2:47)
>COLLEGES: WPI Podcast, Episode 43 (31:43): Journey to industrial engineering in themed entertainment
>TRAVEL (brought to you by Fuller RV & Rental): National Geographic names "most iconic New England town" (:20)
-How flight attendant uniforms have changed over the years
>BUSINESS: Worcester County spared the worst of state's employment drop
-LPL Financial Research: Signs point to a normalization, not a crisis
-North Worcester Business Association kicks off season September 16th
-What Canada's retaliatory tariffs mean for American consumers
>HOMES: People are taking advantage of the Mass. Save brand (1:52)
>SHOPPING: Consumer Reports: September is a good time to shop for appliances and outdoor equipment (1:53). Article
>HEALTH: Flu and COVID vaccines rolling out, but 1 shot is delayed
>FOOD: Beef prices hit record highs: How families can save money (2:19)
>TV/STREAMING: Norah O'Donnell returns to "CBS Mornings" after evening news stint
>MOVIES: When Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock first made magic: Flashback
>CELEBRITY: Cardi B wears her most daring backless suit and more star snaps
-Pamela Anderson was given 10 years to live after hepatitis C diagnosis
>ANIMALS: Stray Boxer follows hikers down mountain, chooses her person (11:13)
>HISTORY: Remembering Spag Borgatti’s passing, 30 years later
>GOOD NEWS: Man uses money from returned cans to win $500,000 lottery
-Meanwhile, in Italy, airport authorities find crocodile head in man’s luggage
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