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Here's what's happening in and around Worcester today
In The News
-Latest weather: Rain on the way, but not a lot
+5:00: Motorcyclist dies in morning crash in Leicester
+5:00: Worcester releases city employee salaries for 2020
+5:00: 5 new homes for sale in Worcester
+5:00: Song to Get You Through the Week: Molly-Jane Gain delivers raw 'What You Never Had'
+5:00: Shopping: Score 45% off must-have HP products during spring sale
+Sunday Funday! Check Dining Out for the latest specials
-UPDATE: 25-year-old man accused of shooting 2 men during fight in Worcester
-Polar Park builder admits giving city inaccurate reports
-600 volunteers help clean up Worcester to celebrates Earth Day
-5 Great Ways to Spend Your Weekend in Worcester
-Shrewsbury St. restaurant closes for the weekend because of a lack of staff
-Group claims hospital owner has spent $33.5 million on strike
-Efforts to 'Save Duffy Field' continue
-Worcester nonprofit shares in $14 million state grant for homeless housing
-The April issue of Pulse Magazine is out
-Bars & Bands (brought to you by Wachusett Wine & Spirits): The Mayor's Live & Streaming Music List
-The Burbs (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Holden street sweeping starts April 12
-West Boylston looking for vendor to serve at the Wachusett Reservoir triangle picnic area
-Clark to hold in-person graduations June 12-13
-UMass wins NCAA men's hockey championship
-Remember a no-frills 1960s Central Mass. football trailblazer
-Enter to win 2 tickets to the WooSox, courtesy of North End Motor Sales
-Tragic: Dorchester grandmother killed in shooting while sitting on her front porch
-Homes: See inside this rural church selling for $400,000 in Leicester
-Video: View the Boston skyline from Worcester over 50 miles away (:26)
-TV/Streaming: New movies on demand
-Cars: Swing into spring with huge savings and selection at Bertera Nissan (6:47)
-Shopping: Best Buy launches a new $200 membership program to fight Amazon
-Fuller RV Rental & Sales: Act now to secure your summer RV rental (10:24)
-Animals: Monster 12-foot gator in South Carolina was a serial dog murderer
-History: The Old South Church in Worcester
-Meanwhile, in North Carolina, goat who tried breaking into home placed on house arrest
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
-Mobile vaccination clinic held in Worcester
-25% of Mass. residents fully vaccinated
-Holy Cross Economics Professor says vaccine distribution is key to restoring economic stability in the U.S.
-Why are more Massachusetts children coming down with COVID?
-ICYMI: Worcester's cases in schools among highest in state in March
-Mass. officials announce 2,107 new cases and 3 deaths with a positivity rate of 2.3 percent
-Sunday last days reserved for teachers only at mass vaccination sites
-More Black Americans open to getting vaccines after outreach efforts
-Mass. to see big drop in Johnson & Johnson vaccines. Here's why
-Wearing masks could save at least 14,000 people from deaths by August, model predicts
-Doctors: Variant causes more severe symptoms
-Good news (brought to you by Bertera Nissan): Retired nurse who barely survived COVID-19 is now administering vaccines
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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
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-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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