Thompson students searched, dismissed after ammo found
THOMPSON – State police have begun a criminal investigation after a school official found a clip of live .22-caliber ammunition around 9:15 a.m. today in a hallway in Tourtellotte Memorial High in North Grosvenordale.
Bomb scare shakes up Gardner High
GARDNER – Because of a bomb scare at Gardner High School, tonight’s football game against Milford High, originally scheduled for Gardner High, will be played in Holden at Wachusett Regional High School. andraquo;NOTICE TO PARENTS:
Leominster man gets probation in gambling syndicate case
WORCESTER – A Leominster man accused of being part of an organized gambling syndicate was placed on probation today after pleading guilty to gaming charges.
Two arraigned in lobster theft
DUDLEY – Not guilty pleas were entered today in Dudley District Court on behalf of two Oxford businessmen implicated in the theft of thousands of dollars worth of lobsters taken from the wreckage of a tractor-trailer on Interstate 395 in July.
Sun’s glare may have been factor in pedestrian accident
HOLDEN – Police investigators this morning were out at the same time and place where an 81-year-old woman was struck by a car yesterday, in an effort to analyze the angle of the sun at the curve in the road.
Editorial cartoon by David Hitch
Piety and politics
Despite separation of church and state, religious and public policy values often overlap
Jury convicts Stewart of murder
WORCESTER – Donald H. Stewart III was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole yesterday after being convicted of first-degree murder, robbery and assault charges in the 2003 stabbing and beating death of Nicolas P. Martone.
Woman, 81, hit by car while walking her dog
HOLDEN – A pedestrian was seriously injured when a car driven by a Holden resident struck her on Redgate Lane at 9:30 a.m. yesterday.
Ex-officer sentenced to jail in drug case
WORCESTER – A former temporary correction officer at the Worcester County House of Correction was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison for smuggling drugs into the jail.
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