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Sex Offender Gets Life For Killing Dancer, Leaving Body In Burning Car In Central Mass Cemetery
Nearly six years after a woman was found burnt beyond recognition in the trunk of a car in a Central Massachusetts cemetery, a convicted sex offender is heading to prison for her murder. Worcester County resident Steven Foley, age 62, formerly of Northborough, was sentenced to life in prison in Worcester County Court on Tuesday, Sept. 5. It followed his jury conviction for second-degree murder in the 2017 killing of 59-year-old Cynthia Webb. Webb, a sterling resident and dancer at a Webster gentleman’s club, was found dead in the trunk of her burning car in Worcester’s Hope Cemetery on Dec…
Police & Fire
Police Probing 'Unattended Death' At Sterling Police Station
The Worcester County District Attorney's Office is investigating an "unattended death" at the Sterling Police Station last week. "Massachusetts State Police Detectives assigned to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office and Sterling Police continue to investigate the June 23 unattended death at the Sterling Police Department," a spokesperson for the district attorney said. "Authorities are awaiting autopsy results which include toxicology reports." Officials did release any information on the person or if they were in custody.
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Justice For Jeremiah: Man Charged With Killing 5-Year-Old Fitchburg Boy Nearly 10 Years Ago
Almost 10 years after the body of 5-year-old Jeremiah Oliver was found stuffed inside a suitcase and left on the side of I-190 in Sterling, authorities announced they have arrested the man they say is responsible. Alberto Sierra Jr., 32, the boyfriend of the Fitchburg boy's mother at the time of his death, was indicted on Wednesday, the Worcester County District Attorney's Office said. He was charged with murder and disinterring a body, the prosecutor said. Sierra is scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday. Jeremiah was last seen alive in September 2014, but his mother did…
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Residents Feel 'Awful' After Beaver Tail Found Nailed To Tree In Central Mass
WARNING: This article contains graphic images Residents are angry and horrified after a severed beaver tail was found nailed to a tree near a pond in one Central Massachusetts town last month. Sterling Police found the tail nailed to the "Beavers No Gnawing" sign on a tree along Justice Hill Cutoff at Stuart Pond on Thursday, April 27, Animal Control Officer Kelly Jones told Daily Voice. Jones determined the tail was nailed sometime between 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 20 and 7:15 a.m. on Friday, April 21 after getting footage from a Princeton resident. After confirming that it was a r…
Police & Fire
Special Needs Van T-Boned In Clinton, 7 Sent To Hospital: Fire Department
A special needs van was T-boned at an intersection in Clinton on Thursday, Jan. 26, sending several people to an area hospital for treatment, fire officials said. The crash happened when a work van collided with a Keissling Transit van carrying several adults with special needs and staff members on Brook Street just after 8:30 a.m. to HMEA, authorities said. The driver of the work van was treated on the scene and released, a Clinton fire captain said. Firefighters took the others to receive care out of precaution, and they had no other means of transportation. The most serious injury app…
Police & Fire
Leominster Man Nabbed After Crashing Into Clinton Home During Police Pursuit
A police pursuit ended in a car crashing into a house in Central Massachusetts and the arrest of a man, authorities said. Multiple departments responded to a report of a car that crashed into a home at 261 Sterling Street in Clinton around 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26, Clinton Police said on Facebook. Upon arrival, officers noticed that the car involved was the subject of a pursuit that started in Sterling and was initiated by Sterling Police. A wild crash in Clinton and the homeowner says the car crashed into the very spot where he was sitting just seconds earlier. @MattReedNews ha…
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RI Car Thief Leads 21-Mile Police Pursuit Before Smashing Into 3 Cruisers In MA
Three Massachusetts State Police cruisers were damaged during a pursuit of a vehicle that was reported stolen out of Rhode Island, authorities said. The situation started when a State Trooper noticed a Dodge Charger that was reported stolen on Route 190 northbound in Sterling around 2:47 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14, Massachusetts State Police said. The same vehicle had just fled from Worcester police as well, police said. When the Trooper tried to stop the vehicle, the Charger refused and a pursuit ensued. Other Troopers tried to deflate the car's tires but the driver continued f…
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Western Mass Man Dies After Being Hit By Two Vehicles
A 29-year-old Western Massachusetts man died after being struck by two vehicles on I-190, State Police said. The man, a Franklin County resident from the Town of Orange, was walking near the median strip on the northbound side of the interstate after getting a flat tire in Sterling shortly after 9 p.m on Thursday, April 15. Police said that the man - whose name has not been released - was driving a 2019 Subaru WRX on the southbound side of the highway when he lost control, crossed over the median into the northbound lanes, and got a flat. The driver and his passenger, a 28-year-old man f…
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