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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 (1:27). High of 48 today in Worcester
-How much total snow is Massachusetts forecast to get this winter? (6:11). Article
>TOP OF THE NEWS
+Noon: Neighbors shocked after woman killed in Worcester shooting; man also injured (1:46). Article
-Earlier: Woman dead, man injured in Worcester shooting (:59). Article
+Noon: Sarah Connell Sanders: "Compassionate care" is front and center at UMass' Maternity Center
+Noon: Stolen stained-glass window returned to Worcester Art Museum
+Noon: Magic of "The Nutcracker" ballet is returning to Worcester
+Noon: Check Dining Out and Bars & Bands before making weekend plans
+Noon: New shows and movies to watch this weekend
-John Piccolo, popular Worcester restaurant owner, charged in City Hall attack
-Earlier: Activist sprayed with paint outside City Council meeting; suspect is Worcester restaurateur (2:10). Article
-Tensions boil over as Worcester board grills developer over Polar Park project delays
-Earlier: Worcester councilors frustrated by stalled plans for development around Polar Park
-To meet housing crisis, report finds Gateway Cities need twice as much construction
-Former District 1 City Councilor Sean Rose announces at-large run
-18 months after surprise inspection, Community Healthlink not back to normal operations
-76 become new citizens at naturalization ceremony in Worcester
-Losses mourned, lives celebrated at emotional Transgender Day of Remembrance ceremony
-Mass. says some police officers have been bypassing required training (3:06). Article
-Earlier: Worcester probing 27 officers state says fast-forwarded mandatory online training
-Worcester County Wonders: Shrewsbury woman rescues raptors one feather at a time
-Radio Worcester's The Rundown (24:35): Breaking down the Polar Park deficit
-Radio Worcester Roundtable (48:19): Polar Park, tax rolls and deportation debate
>DINING OUT: Brazillian Burguer to open at former Shrewsbury Street donut shop
-ICYMI: Worcester-area Stop & Shop inventory limited after cyberattack
-David Crowley, part of family that runs Wachusett Mountain, dies at 69
-Man in late 60s, 2 cats killed in early morning condo fire in Leominster
-Charles Luster, co-founder of Uncommonwealth Group, running for Worcester City Council
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
>HOLDEN (brought to you by Lamoureux Ford): Holden tax rate drops, bills rise
-Long-term employees make it fun to own a car or truck from Lamoureux Ford (3:50)
-Wachusett Echo Teacher Profile: Chelsea Blasco
>THE BURBS (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Shrewsbury seeks plow drivers for winter season
-Grafton tax rate down, values up for fiscal 2025
-Board approves single tax rate for all types of property for Sutton
-The Item's calendar of events
-Clinton E.L.P.A.C. hosts holiday family potluck
-2 Berlin firefighters graduate from academy
-Nashoba Class of 2004 to hold 20-year reunion on November 29th
-Organization gets federal grant for new grocery store in Winchendon
>BARS & BANDS: The Mayor's Live Music List for Friday
>SHOWTIME: Five Things to Do: African Talent, "Songs of the Season," and more
-Fractal Tribe art collective set to bring light to holiday festival
-Hunting phantoms, talking puppets bring humor to stage Friday and Saturday
-Jim & Val bring Second Saturdays to Apple Tree Arts
-WCCA-TV's Soapbox No. 1354 (28:06): Mark Henderson, Founder, The 016
-39th annual meeting of the Worcester Regional Research Bureau (54:58)
>OBITUARIES: Tribute to Worcester woman who was a longtime kindergarten teacher
>SPORTS: Boston Celtics visit the White House (12:33)
-Patriots owner Robert Kraft snubbed again in Hall of Fame bid (2:22). Article
-Bruins beat Utah, 1-0
-2004 Boston Red Sox ring and World Series trophy owned by Larry Lucchino featured in upcoming auction
-Joe Nugent steps up for Crusaders men's basketball team
-Holy Cross women’s basketball announces 3 signings
-Check out the schedule for upcoming road races in Central Mass.
>NATIONAL: Are future Social Security benefits in peril?
-Up to 20 human skulls found in New Mexico home
-Tragic: Missing boy with autism found dead
>NEW ENGLAND: Worker injured during "supermove" in medically induced coma with third-degree burns
>COLLEGES: Assumption names new chief financial officer
-Worcester State Magazine’s special 150th anniversary issue hits the stands, goes live online
>TRAVEL (brought to you by Fuller RV & Rental): 7 of the most beautiful places to visit in the Pacific Northwest
>BUSINESS: Central Mass. unemployment rates remain higher than 2023
-LPL Financial Research: Trade, tariffs and inflation
-Unity Radio's L.A.B.O. News (57:40)
>HOMES: What $350,000 can buy you in Worcester County, November 10th to 16th
>SHOPPING: Amazon Haul — What to know about Amazon's new discount store
>HEALTH: Health officials track increases in whooping cough, pneumonia (2:31)
-A few hours of activity a week can lower your risk of A-fib (:58)
>FOOD: How to stay safe during foodborne illness outbreaks (2:16)
>TV/STREAMING: "Jeopardy" contestant’s heart-wrenching interview leaves Ken Jennings speechless
>MOVIES: Matthew McConaughey reveals why he turned down $15 million role
>CELEBRITY: Jussie Smollett’s conviction in 2019 attack on himself is overturned
>HISTORY: Founded in Boston, Staples ushered in era of office supply superstores
>ANIMALS: Cyclist finds puppy in the middle of nowhere (2:08)
>GOOD NEWS: Man discovers owner of his favorite bakery is his birth mother
-Meanwhile, in Miami, woman delivers baby at airport in American Airlines ticketing area
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