'Yoga' Dog, Sex Ed Strife, Bar Shooting: Patch Top Stories

See the week's top stories: Fire damages shopping center, prison in teacher aide's killing, Brittany Tee search continues, more.

Posted Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 8:23 am ET

WORCESTER, MA — From a sentencing in a 2017 killing to an dog escape artist, these were the top stories on Patch for the week ending Jan. 20.

A Sunday shooting at TD's Pub in Milford has been linked to a second shooting and drug operation in Hopedale, police said.

A plan to send Worcester public school students off-site for sex ed was stopped before being put into place, officials said Thursday.

Jose Melendez, 60, pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges connected to Sandra Hehir's killing.

The Worcester County DA distributed new surveillance images of Tee, a 35-year-old Brookfield woman missing since Jan. 10.

Ruby the golden retriever used "yoga moves" to elude captors, all while growing a big social media following.

The Thursday morning collision caused a brief closure of the highway near the I-290 interchange.

Plans call for the new all-purpose community center to take over a vacant piece of land near the Wayland Town Center.

The owner of the Route 9 Worcester City Hotel was cited for wage violations along with two connected properties in Woburn and Sutton.

Marlborough and Southborough firefighters worked together to put out the fire over the holiday weekend.

Party City, which also operates Halloween City, filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday.