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Saturday 8 June 2013

WORLD NEWS

June 7, 2013
WORCESTER —  Less than a week since the new Worcester Regional Transit Authority hub facility opened at 60 Foster St, bus company officials are grappling with some problems with the new city bus schedules and routes. (5 comments)

June 7, 2013
SPENCER —  While Spencer-East Brookfield Regional School Committee members were supposed to be trimming the budget to make it more palatable for voters, they instead spent Tuesday night wrangling for hours over cuts and eventually adding to what they’ll request from the towns..

June 7, 2013
WORCESTER —  The 90 sheets of paper are decorated with watercolor hearts, rainbows, butterflies and Kelly green trees on cobalt blue backgrounds.

June 7, 2013
NEW YORK —  A federal appeals court has decided to permit girls of any age to buy generic versions of emergency contraception without prescriptions while the federal government appeals a judge's ruling allowing the sales. (47 comments)

June 7, 2013
NORTHBRIDGE —  Hundreds of people with ties to Pine Grove Cemetery have signed a petition and are trying to put the brakes on talks to transfer ownership of the historic nondenominational cemetery to the Roman Catholic church.(2 comments)

June 7, 2013
GARDNER — Mount Wachusett Community College has received a five-year, $640,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for technology-minded students.

June 7, 2013
Today's storm has forced more than a dozen schools in the region with graduations scheduled for tonight to change their plans. Fitchburg High School has moved its ceremony from Crocker Field to the high school field house. Douglas High School, Bartlett Junior-Senior High School in Webster and Bancroft School in Worcester have also moved graduation ceremonies from outside to inside.
 Tropical storm blasts Florida, spawns tornadoes across state

June 7, 2013
WORCESTER — The state's highest court has affirmed the convictions of two Clinton men found guilty of setting a series of fires in 2007, including one that destroyed the so-called "Mary Had a Little Lamb" house in Sterling and another that heavily damaged a hay-filled barn in Holden.

June 7, 2013
WORCESTER —  The School Committee started its line-by-line budget review Thursday afternoon. (2 comments)

June 7, 2013
BOSTON —  A Grafton man has been ordered to pay $111,000 in restitution after he contracted to perform home improvement projects without proper registration, failed to complete work and misappropriated thousands of dollars from consumers, Attorney General Martha Coakley said Thursday. (2 comments)

June 7, 2013
BELCHERTOWN —  Gov. Deval Patrick had his hands full Thursday, but not on Beacon Hill.

June 7, 2013
WESTBORO —  Under the school system’s new chemical health policy, there will be penalties not only for students caught drinking or using drugs, but for those who choose to be “knowingly in the presence of” those substances and while those activities are taking place.(2 comments)

June 7, 2013
WORCESTER —  A 51-year-old city man accused of trying to carjack a police detective at knife point was ordered held on $250,000 cash bail at his arraignment Thursday in Central District Court.

June 7, 2013
WORCESTER —  A Princeton man awaiting trial in Worcester Superior Court on a murder charge stemming from a fatal stabbing at a party earlier this year on Sherbrook Avenue has been indicted on an unrelated charge of attacking a friend with a crowbar in 2011. (1 comment)

June 7, 2013
WORCESTER —  A Worcester man is accused of going on a driving rampage, allegedly smashing his car into a marketplace, restaurant and law office in the city. (2 comments)

June 7, 2013
PALMER — A Ware woman was arraigned Thursday on drunken driving and drug charges after a state trooper stopped her and allegedly found Ecstasy, prescription medications and psilocybin mushrooms in her car. (2 comments)

June 7, 2013
FITCHBURG —  A woman was flown to the hospital after an altercation on Shattuck Street Thursday night, police said.

June 7, 2013
WORCESTER —  Jury selection got under way Thursday for the trial of a city man charged with murder and firearm offenses in a 2006 drive-by shooting on Southgate Street.

June 7, 2013
In the coming weeks, the Telegram & Gazette will publish a list of graduates for each high school in Central Massachusetts, along with photos of commencement exercises, on the Web at telegram.com/graduations. The lists and photos also will be published June 23 in a high school graduation commemorative section.


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