Brad Petrishen

WORCESTER — Five organizations that scrutinize government affairs are calling for the city to restore access to its online checkbook following reporting on its removal by the Telegram & Gazette.

The state has OK'd a payment for $120,000 in legal bills for a prosecutor cleared in a 2022 probe but will not pay two state troopers also cleared.

WORCESTER ― Federal prosecutors are seeking a 71-month prison sentence for a state police lieutenant convicted in December of a three-year overtime scheme, calling him the “poster boy” of state police corruption.

WORCESTER ― Federal prosecutors are seeking a 71-month prison sentence for a state police lieutenant convicted in December of a three-year overtime scheme, calling him the “poster boy” of state police corruption.

When jury selection began Tuesday in the highly anticipated murder trial of Karen Read, the state took the unusual step of erecting a 200-foot buffer zone, complete with barricades, to prevent demonstrators from surrounding Norfolk Superior Court.

Worcester Telegram & Gazette When jury selection began Tuesday in the highly anticipated murder trial of Karen Read, the state took the

WORCESTER — Six years after Sara Bermudez and her three children were found stabbed to death inside their West Brookfield home, the family relative accused of their murders, Mathew P.

WORCESTER ― Kevin Perry Jr., the man sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2018 for laundering a large fentanyl pill operation through two city restaurants, asked a federal judge Monday to reduce his prison sentence by nearly four years.

DEDHAM ― A Norfolk Superior Court judge Tuesday ordered a special prosecutor to turn over documents to Aidan Kearney at a hearing in which the Holden blogger's lawyer accused the state of slow-walking its legal obligations in order to keep Kearney from writing about the murder trial of Karen Read.

The settlement received preliminary approval over the objections of the company, which maintains it did nothing wrong.