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1+ hour, 11+ min ago (38+ words) A car slammed into a Dollar Tree store in Worcester. The elderly woman who was driving suffered minor injuries. A car slammed into a Dollar Tree store in Worcester. The elderly woman who was driving suffered minor injuries....

2+ hour, 55+ min ago (15+ words) Eric Fisher has an updated weather forecast. Next Weather: WBZ Update Next Weather: WBZ Update...

3+ hour, 5+ min ago (372+ words) Updated on: December 12, 2025 / 11:12 PM EST / CBS Boston A Massachusetts man says he narrowly escaped death after an alleged road rage shooting on I-495 and is now speaking publicly in hopes of generating new leads for investigators." Steven Burns was driving home from work on Nov. 4, coming through Marlboro, when he noticed a white truck tailgating him on the highway." Burns said he was going 75 miles-per-hour at the time, and the situation escalated after he refused to speed up. "He jumped from behind me and got parallel with me on the side of my vehicle and then tried to ram me off the road," Burns said." Burns said that he tried to maneuver away from the truck, but the driver continued to follow him. Moments later, Burns heard a gunshot. He called police and pulled over, where he discovered a bullet lodged…...

3+ hour, 10+ min ago (48+ words) A Massachusetts man says he narrowly escaped death after an alleged road rage shooting on I-495. The gunman has not been found. WBZ-TV's Logan Hall reports. Driver shaken after alleged road rage shooting on Massachusetts highway Driver shaken after alleged road rage shooting on Massachusetts highway...

5+ hour ago (659+ words) Dec 12, 2025 - 7:03pm Jeanice Swift is pictured on Monday, February 24, 2025. After gathering feedback from families and staff last fall, the Lawrence school district has been streamlining and reducing the number of positions within the district. Superintendent Jeanice Swift said on Monday that as a part of this work, eight positions in the administrator group were eliminated within the last 14 months. Efforts to reduce the number of administrative positions began after the district held several community conversation events last fall to gather feedback from families and staff. A report released at the end of January summarized what parents wanted the district to prioritize moving forward. One of the key themes from the public feedback was the desire to increase teacher and staff salaries while reducing administrative overhead, as the Journal-World reported. This week, Swift presented data to school board members in a memo…...

6+ hour, 24+ min ago (273+ words) Dr. Michael Hirsh, the medical director for Worcester's Division of Public Health since 2012, retired on Dec. 12, City Manager Eric Batista announced on Friday. As medical director, Hirsh was responsible for overseeing policy related to controlling local infections. His work involved making decisions about school closures, healthcare work regulations and distributing COVID-19 vaccines, according to a press release. "My proudest moment at WDPH was serving as a Public Information Officer during the pandemic, leading over 200 press conferences with the City Manager and Mayor and helping to train the Vaccine Corps of medical students who helped administer the COVID vaccine beginning in January 2021," Hirsh said in the press release. Hirsh grew up in New York City and was the son of Holocaust survivors, according to the press release. He graduated from Harvard University in 1979 and then continued his medical career with surgical…...

6+ hour, 41+ min ago (39+ words) Greater Lawrence Technical High School's Gustavo Varela, who is pursuing a plumbing career, broke the state rushing record for football. WBZ-TV's Nick Giovanni reports. Greater Lawrence's Gustavo Varela has career options on and off football field...

6+ hour, 56+ min ago (217+ words) The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, severed ties with Flock Safety over two of their automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) installed in late November that officials weren't aware of. Flock is a safety technology company that provides smart cameras, ALPRs, and other services for law enforcement agencies. In late October 2025, the city council voted to end its agreement with Flock Safety for the license plate readers. As part of that, 16 of Flock's ALPRs that were deployed in the community were deactivated and removed by the city. According to a city spokesperson, in late November, two cameras were installed by Flock technicians without the city's awareness. "Due to this material breach of our trust and the agreement, the City terminated its contract with Flock Safety," the spokesperson said. The city said the two cameras have since been removed. NewsCenter 5 has reached out…...

7+ hour, 32+ min ago (227+ words) SPRINGFIELD " A task force led by the Springfield police Homicide Unit arrested a second suspect Friday in last month's fatal shooting on Home Street. Police said 27-year-old Joey Sanchez was arrested at about 7 a.m. on Quincy Street. Sanchez, of Chicopee, is charged with murder, carrying a firearm without a license, carrying a loaded firearm without a license, attempted armed robbery and discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building. At about 10:40 p.m. Nov. 30, officers responded to the 0-100 block of Home Street for a report of a gunshot victim. Officers located an adult male gunshot victim, later identified as 27-year-old Shain West, of Springfield " inside an apartment. West was taken to Baystate Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries. The Homicide Unit, under the direction of Capt. Trent Duda, identified 21-year-old Daevon Shular, of Seguin, Texas, as a suspect shortly after, arresting…...

7+ hour, 35+ min ago (550+ words) December 12, 2025 / 6:40 PM EST / CBS Boston A dramatic encounter atop the Tobin Bridge last month ended with a man being brought to safety, thanks to the calm and compassionate approach of a Massachusetts State Police crisis negotiator. Body camera video shows MSP Trooper Rassan Charles talking with a man in his 40s who was standing on a beam hundreds of feet above the Mystic River on a cold, windy night. "I'll do everything in my power to get you the help you need," Charles told the man during the encounter. "You've been through so much. You're still standing strong." Charles said he heard the emergency call for a negotiator and rushed to the bridge, when he got there, the man repeatedly said he was going to jump. "I told him, I just want to talk, just you and I, just focus on…...