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Here's what's happening in and around Worcester today
In The News
+1:00: It's Saturday! Check Dining Out and Bars & Bands before making plans
-Bars & Bands (brought to you by Wachusett Wine & Spirits): The Mayor’s Live Music & Live Streaming List by Jay Berman
-5 Great Ways to Spend Your Weekend in Worcester
+9:30: 2 dead, 14 injured in Rochester, N.Y., shooting
+8:00: 4.5 quake rattles Southern California overnight
-Victim ID'd after divers recover body from Auburn's Dark Brook Reservoir. Press conference
-Worcester lodging house fire displaces 17 residents. Photos
-Former Worcester priest gets 6 years for child porn
-Worcester police arrest West Boylston man for cocaine trafficking
-Southbridge man indicted for cocaine sent by mail
-TODAY! A chance to walk down the halls of St. Stephen’s one more time
-Good Worcester development news: $55M rehab of downtown building proposed
-Bad Worcester development news: Hotel, apartment development surrounding Polar Park shrinks and is delayed 2 years
-Earlier: Polar Park's looming uncertainties
-Ray Mariano: Readers respond to ‘Worcester is filthy’
-Bob Moylan: If the City Council wanted a cleaner Worcester, it would have acted on recycling bags
-Those missing in action remembered in Worcester on POW/MIA Recognition Day
-Holy Cross, WPI land in Wall Street Journal's top 120 colleges
-Congressman McGovern pushes for $120B in restaurant relief
-The Burbs (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Leaf and brush disposal today in Holden
-Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87. Photos. Her biggest cases
-Confused with your Medicare options? Help to Retire can help you! (1:07)
-Cars: The whole team at Bertera Nissan looks forward to serving you
-Holy Cross Athletics' Beat the Buzzer with Brendan McCabe (1:17)
-TV/Streaming: New movies + shows to watch this weekend
-Shopping: Up to $2,000 in rebates with purchase of select GE Profile appliance packages at Better Electric
-Homes: Don't miss these 5 open houses in Worcester
-Good news (brought to you by Bertera Nissan): First responders build handicap ramp for WWII veteran in Oxford
-Meanwhile, in Florida, city's new 'welcome' sign erected in the wrong city
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
-Area market closes 'immediately' because of COVID-19
-Worcester student athletes react to postponed fall season
-Worcester researchers part of nationwide plasma study
-ICYMI: 2 Worcester restaurants cited for COVID-19 violations
-Mass. reports 431 new cases, 8 additional deaths
-Mass. unemployment rate down to 11.3%, biggest drop in country
-Tufts doctor on what's a realistic timeline for vaccine
-U.S. case rates are ticking up after weeks of decline
-Tips to cope with seasonal depression during pandemic
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In The News
>WEATHER: Mark Rosenthal's 7-day forecast (1:07). High of 58 today in Worcester
>TOP OF THE NEWS
-Death of bakery worker Joanna Brown remains under investigation in Worcester
-After arrest in '09 murder, Worcester police confront lengthy list of unsolved cases
-Witness recalls Gardner slay suspect saying, "Don’t ask things you don’t need to know"
-Developer plans restaurant, 44 apartments in historic Downtown Worcester building
-Legendary rock band coming to DCU Center
-Worcester City Council candidate calls for a recount
-Worcester council newcomers will reshape agenda on housing, police oversight
-WPI to lead $5.2 million state-funded effort to build Central Mass. BioHub
-Worcester assistant clerk magistrate Padraic Rafferty nominated for top Uxbridge clerk job
-Channel 5 Wake Up Call from Run4Veterans 5K Road Race in Worcester (:54)
-T&G This Week: Why our past is still a part of our present and future
-Radio Worcester's The Rundown (25:56): Review of Worcester municipal election
>DINING OUT: Radio Worcester (8:34): Birch Tree Bread expands hours and offerings
-ICYMI: Worcester among best places to retire in Mass., U.S. News ranking says
-Voter turnout in Worcester election tops 22% for first time in over a decade
-WPI resident advisors are on strike: Here's why
-Holy Cross professor teams up with 3 students to cut down on litter in Worcester neighborhood
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
>HOLDEN (brought to you by Lamoureux Ford): Wachusett Teacher Spotlight: David Lookwhy
-Unique Happy Thanksgiving wishes from Lamoureux Ford (:29)
-Wachusett Echo: How late bus cuts affect after-school activities
>THE BURBS (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): I.C.E agents take mother into custody during hostile arrest in Fitchburg (2:07). Article
-Webster man arrested after joint investigation leads to cocaine seizure at apartment
-eBikes now banned from Shrewsbury school campuses
-Shrewsbury Town Meeting to decide on 2-year mixed-use moratorium along Route 20 and Route 9
-Grafton budget workshop predicts difficult decisions for fiscal 2027
-Grafton awarded $100,000 for Fisherville Mill Feasibility Study
>BARS & BANDS: The Mayor's Live Music List for Friday
>SHOWTIME: Film "Shattered Ice" explores grief, reckoning left in suicide's wake
-Salisbury Singers beginning 52nd season with a choral concert "Songs of Solstice" November 16th
-Holy Cross composer Matthew Jaskot's new work marks loss and healing
>OPINION: WCCA-TV's Close To Home No. 599 (28:33): Teri Frykenberg
-Outdoor Cats Podcast (1:18:52): That is my file (featuring Heather Prunier, Tom Marino)
>OBITUARIES: Tribute to Worcester man who lost his fight with A.L.S.
>SPORTS: Making the case for Patriots valuing draft picks over trade acquisitions
-Former Patriot Antonio Brown facing attempted murder charges in Miami shooting
-Bruins beat Senators, 3-2
-Holy Cross men’s basketball to battle No. 8 BYU, Utah
-Holy Cross announces coaching change in field hockey program
-Holy Cross men’s ice hockey to host Niagara
-Holy Cross women's hockey to face Merrimack this weekend
-Predicting the winner of every Week 10 high school football game in Central Mass.
>NATIONAL: Dashcam video shows moment UPS plane crashed in Kentucky (1:01)
-Jury awards $10 million to Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old student
-Tragic: Cleaning woman fatally shot after arriving at the wrong house
>NEW ENGLAND: 3 firefighters hospitalized after Keene house fire rescue (1:33)
-Channel 7 anchor Kim Khazei announces departure after 25 years
>COLLEGES: WPI celebrates Native and Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month
-Journalist Jonathan Martin discusses the state of American politics at Worcester State
>TRAVEL (brought to you by Fuller RV & Rental): 3 music-themed U.S. road trips that hit all the right notes
>BUSINESS: A.I. wreaks havoc on jobs with 2-decade high 150,000 cut in October: report
-LPL Financial Research: From micro to macro — A busy week of market-moving data
-Financial freedom: Make these money moves after paying off debt (1:51)
>HOMES: Median age of first-time U.S. home buyer hits shocking new high
>SHOPPING: Shop Target's Black Friday sale, holiday deals and discounts
>HEALTH: Doctor on F.D.A.'s radio-frequency micro-needling warning (3:20)
-Study links long-term melatonin use to higher risk of heart failure and death
>FOOD: Fears of Thanksgiving turkey shortages grow amid avian flu
>TV/STREAMING: "CBS Saturday Morning" to get radical revamp -- Michelle Miller, Dana Jacobson are out
>MOVIES: Miss Piggy movie in the works with Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence producing
>CELEBRITY: Jimmy Kimmel leading celebs in addressing food insecurity
-Helen Mirren to Receive Cecil B. DeMille Award
>HISTORY: The oldest restaurant in Mass. is over 300 years old. Here's how to eat there
>ANIMALS: 16-year-old dog abandoned at shelter gallops like puppy again (4:31)
>GOOD NEWS: Woman wins $154,168 after using same lottery numbers for 6 years
-Meanwhile, in Colorado, watch deputies free large bruin from "bear-icade" inside vehicle
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