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WORCESTER (CBS) – The bodies of two more victims were found during the search of a 6-family Worcester apartment building that caught fire on Saturday, bringing the death total to at least four people. Heavy fire broke out around 3:30 a.m. at the triple-decker on Gage Street. Firefighters initially said Saturday that two people died and three others were hurt during the fire. Investigators returned to the scene Monday and found a third victim around 8 a.m. Several hours later, a fourth victim was discovered. Federal investigators joined the locals at the scene Monday as the building’s owner openly suspected arson. Jim...

WORCESTER, Mass. — The death toll of the Gage Street apartment building fire rose from two to four Monday as authorities pulled out two more bodies. The building owner Jim Li says the fire started on the back deck. He is now thanking someone who lived in the building for preventing more deaths.

A woman from Orange pleaded guilty Monday to her role in a drug trafficking ring in the Fitchburg area. Jessica Hughes was charged with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine along with 17 others in July 2020, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Rachel Rollins.

In total, officials have confirmed four people died. The death toll of the massive fire in Worcester that occurred on Saturday continues to climb. On Saturday, officials said two residents had died. Acting Fire Chief Martin Dyer said Monday that two additional victims were found in the wreckage on Gage Street, WCVB reported. K-9 units were used to recover one victim at 8 a.m., and another at 1 p.m.

WORCESTER, Mass. — A missing Worcester boy has been located. Police sought the public’s help in finding 12-year-old Elias Ferreras. They said he was last seen at Ward and Harlem Streets. Police described him as 4 feet, 5 inches tall and was last seen wearing a black hooded...

WORCESTER, MASS. (WHDH) - A man accused of stabbing a Worcester bus driver in the face last week was held without bail after appearing in Court Monday. Dashaun Stokes-SIms, 28, pleaded not guilty to several charges including assault with intent to murder. He will be back in court Friday for a dangerousness hearing.

A portion of East Main Street in Orange is closed after a motor vehicle accident Tuesday morning.

WORCESTER - A woman became the thirteenth defendant to plead guilty in a federal drug trafficking conspiracy case that originated in Fitchburg. Federal prosecutors announced on Monday, May 16, that Jessica Hughes, of Orange, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, heroin and cocaine.

Four people have died in a blaze that ripped through a multifamily home in Worcester, Massachusetts, over the weekend that caused the roof to fall in and left the structure unstable. The four-alarm blaze was reported at 3:31 a.m. Saturday in the Bingham Square Apartments at 2 Gage Street, a...

After more than three decades, the family of a slain New England girl are welcoming news that a man was arrested and arraigned in her death. Nonetheless, the loved ones of Melissa “Missy” Ann Tremblay, 11, are also voicing mixed emotions because it took so long to arrest murder defendant Marvin “Skip” C. McClendon Jr., 74. Relatives, including the child’s mother, have passed away in the intervening years.

WORCESTER, Mass. — A fire that broke out in a triple-decker in Worcester has claimed four lives. Mass Live reported that two more bodies were found in the burned-out house Monday, in addition to two victims found over the weekend. The fire broke out early Saturday morning. About 70...

The structural integrity of a multi-family home in Worcester continues to hamper investigation efforts after a massive blaze tore through the building early Saturday morning, claiming at least four lives. At first, officials reported that two people died and three were hurt, but two more bodies were found in the...

The top lottery prizes in Massachusetts Monday were three $100,000 winners. One of the tickets was for the game “Massachusetts Millionaires’ Club” and it was sold at a Shell gas station in Great Barrington. Another $100,000 winning ticket was sold at Dicks Variety North in Salisbury. It was for the game Mass Cash. And the final $100,000 winning ticket was for the game “$15,000,000 Money Maker.” It was sold at King Liquors in Lowell.

WORCESTER, Mass. — Two more people have died as a result of a fire at a Worcester apartment house, bringing the fire's death toll to four. Acting Fire Chief Martin Dyer announced Monday that K-9s from the Massachusetts State Police and Auburn Fire Department found the body of a third victim at 8 a.m. inside 2 Gage St., while the fourth victim's body was found at 1 p.m.

One-third of the homicides reported in New Hampshire so far this year happened on a single day last week. Since 2005, New Hampshire has averaged about 20 homicides annually, according to figures provided by the Attorney General’s Office. So far this year, the state has recorded nine total, including three last Friday: in New Boston, Keene and Manchester.

Many knew him, but few remember how they met him. That was Jason Macierowski, a fixture of the Worcester music scene. “Everyone’s biggest cheerleader,” as Katie Tucker, a friend and former bandmate, said, who never seemed to see a band he didn’t like. Macierowski died in a household accident in early January, and it is a loss that has reverberated throughout the city’s music community.

KEENE, N.H. — Opening statements were delivered Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of killing a man and ordering his wife to decapitate him. Armando Barron is charged with first-degree murder in the 2020 death of Jonathan Amerault, 25. Prosecutors alleged that Barron beat his wife Britany...

Worcester state Rep. David LeBoeuf, who was charged with drunken driving after Massachusetts State Police found nine empty nip bottles and two cans of wine in his car following reports of an “erratic” driver on Interstate 93 in Quincy, has issued a second statement following his arrest. In...

The number of people who died in a fire at a Massachusetts apartment building last weekend has climbed to four with the discovery of two more bodies on Monday, fire officials said.