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Southbridge mom claims male administrator is peeping in high school girl's bathroom
A mom in Southbridge, Massachusetts, is furious after she claims a male administrator has been seen multiple times inside the high school girl's bathroom. Justine Nordby tells NBC10 Boston that she reported it months ago and that nothing was done. This week, her daughter snapped a photo of the man allegedly looking into the bathroom at Southbridge High School, and Nordby says she's had enough. But the school says the picture doesn't show the man doing anything wrong.
One of UConn’s first NCAA men’s basketball champs earns his degree
STORRS, CT (WFSB) - University of Connecticut men’s basketball champion Khalid El-Amin can add “graduate” to his list of accolades. The point guard from UConn’s ‘99 championship team participated in the university’s commencement ceremony over the weekend. El-Amin finished his academic work over the...
Watch the young Huskies cross the stage with the University of Connecticut’s commencement schedule
STORRS, Conn. (WTNH) — Commencement ceremonies for the University of Connecticut have been going on all weekend in Storrs. Find locations, times and links to watch your favorite Husky cross the stage in the list below. Saturday College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources Undergraduate CeremonyMay 4, 2024, 6:00 p.m. at the Gampel Pavilion. School of […]
This part of Massachusetts ranked as the third most competitive rental market in the country. It’s not the Boston area.
You might not think finding an apartment in Gardner would be all that tough. But as it turns out, Central Massachusetts is home to one of the most competitive rental markets in the United States, a new study has found. The study by Forbes Advisor analyzed data on the cost...
Selections from what customers at Booklovers' Gourmet are reading
Every other week, we ask local bookstores what their customers have been picking up in the preceding month. Some of them will be best-seller lists, others will be lists of some of the more interesting selections, but all of them are a representation of What Worcester's Reading. This week's featured store is Booklovers' Gourmet.
A CT woman was ‘locked in’ her paralyzed body. She claims negligent medical care caused it.
Ashley Wade was trapped inside her paralyzed body. She couldn’t even blink. Her eyes were moving up and down on their own, so communicating was difficult. Wade, 29, had locked-in syndrome. She was quadriplegic and her facial muscles were paralyzed, including her mouth and tongue. “From … Monday, when I was admitted into Hartford Hospital, by Friday I was placed on life support,” Wade, a ...
Kentucky Derby winner handed trophy made in Rhode Island
SMITHFIELD, R.I. (WJAR) — After a photo-finish for the ages Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear handed the owner of Mystik Dan the winner's trophy - one that was made right here in Rhode Island. The award was crafted at New England Copperworks - a family business in Smithfield. Its owners...
Person hospitalized from Canterbury house fire
CANTERBURY, CT (WFSB) - A person was sent to the hospital from a house fire in Canterbury. The Scotland Volunteer Fire Department said it responded to the fire on Bingham Road around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Firefighters reported seeing flames through the roof. They were able to attack it from...
An unexpected call led to this Durfee graduate getting drafted by a pro baseball team
FALL RIVER — While sheltered at Nichols College in Dudley during the winter months, Josh Boria received an unexpected phone call. The 2023 Durfee graduate took the call from his native homeland in Puerto Rico from his old coach, who relayed to him that he was eligible to get drafted for pro baseball.
Things to Do: Get up close with sharks — and therapy dogs
Photographer and scuba diver Brian Perry gets up close and personal with sharks and other denizens of the depths, sharing his experiences through his photos. An exhibit of Perry's work, "Underwater Photography," is set for May 1 to 31 at the café gallery at Booklovers' Gourmet in Webster, with an artist's talk on May 4. Perry, who taught diving at Inland Divers and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, said, "My local underwater photography is done in Gloucester and Rockport and my favorite area is Key Largo, Florida, where the water is clear and the fish colorful." (MS)
Sterling man with active arrest warrants from multiple states turns himself in
PLAINFIELD, Conn. (WTNH) – Plainfield police say a suspect who turned himself in Sunday after evading a traffic stop in January was found to have multiple active arrest warrants- including a felony one. 23-year-old David Rajchel of Sterling faces the following charges in Plainfield: In Plainfield, his charges stem from Jan. 27, when an officer […]
At UConn protests, echoes of earlier student activism from civil rights to Vietnam
Fifty years ago, 300 Black students entered the Wilbur Cross Building at the University of Connecticut with a list of demands. More than 200 would leave with criminal charges. It was just before midnight on April 22, 1974, and the then-library was about to close when the Organization of African American Students launched a “study-in” — the students would not leave unless the president of the ...
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