WORCESTER - Detectives arrested a teenager yesterday morning in connection with the armed robbery Nov. 11 of San Miguel Grocery, 103 Canterbury St.

FITCHBURG - A former city councilor and her passenger were taken to the hospital yesterday after the car they were in hit a parked commuter train about 3 p.m. at the Intermodal Center at 100 Main St.

At about 5:10 p.m. on June 9, 1953, the whirlwind that came to be known as the "Worcester Tornado" crashed into Assumption College in Worcester, shrouding it with menacing, black-ink clouds and furiously pummeling it with fist-sized hail, driving rain and train-roaring winds.

WORCESTER - Four years of high school math makes educational sense at the state level, but the numbers seem to compute differently in the city.

WORCESTER - Maico R. Caceres was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter yesterday in the death of Jose L. Alvarado during a brawl in Denny's restaurant on Lincoln Street two years ago.

BOSTON - State Rep. Lewis G. Evangelidis' plan to challenge House Minority Leader Bradley H. Jones Jr. for the Republican Party's leadership post has divided the Central Massachusetts Republicans in the House just as it has the entire GOP delegation in the House of Representatives.

CHARLTON - Katie Brodeur of Charlton was 3 years old when a drunken driver shattered her family and took her father's life. Today, the accomplished 14-year-old will carry his memory and a dream of making him proud as she walks the runway of the Miss Massachusetts Teen USA pageant.

WORCESTER - A move is afoot to name the baseball diamond at Rockwood Field on Chandler Street after the late Kevin D. Lyons, an outstanding baseball player in high school and college and a longtime supporter of local youth and interscholastic athletic teams.

On Wednesday, two Worcester public school students were arrested in school, one, a 16-year-old, for getting into a fistfight with another student, the other, a 15-year-old, for throwing putty around a classroom, acting out and possessing a knife.

WORCESTER - Chris Leavitt pulled into the Registry of Motor Vehicles lot yesterday, his hands placed on the wheel at 2 and 10 o'clock.

WORCESTER - A doctor accused of masturbating in front of a female patient is scheduled to be arraigned today on a lewd and lascivious conduct charge.

PAXTON - An elderly mother helping out her son, a lawyer helping himself to a Brookfield man's millions and an older gentleman with a Ph.D. who won the prize of a lifetime were cases of elder abuse - one fictitious, two very real - highlighted during a conference on elder abuse at Anna Maria College's Molly Bish Center for the Protection of Children and the Elderly yesterday.

WORCESTER - The leader of the state's medical school believes forging stronger bonds with its clinical partner and working more collaboratively with the university's other campuses will bring broader success to an institution known internationally for its basic science research.

WORCESTER -- The Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency Wednesday awarded a $75,000 grant to the Massachusetts Veterans Housing and Outreach Center. The funds, part of $207,429 in statewide grants, will be used in the construction of 10 new units of affordable housing for veterans in Worcester, the agency said in a statement.

WORCESTER - Firefighters extinguished a one-alarm fire in a Millbury Street apartment that started about 1 p.m. yesterday, causing several nearby streets to be temporarily closed.

WORCESTER - The jury in the Maico R. Caceres murder trial began its deliberations yesterday after hearing conflicting takes on the evidence from lawyers for the prosecution and defense.

When I heard about the evil school bus driver who ordered a child off the bus on busy Route 9 and left her stranded, the cynic in me scoffed.

WEST BOYLSTON - Police officers are now authorized to carry Tasers, after the Board of Selectmen last night approved the Police Department's electronic weapons policy.

WORCESTER - Fights, stabbings and other violence around bars over the past month had one common thread, police noticed: Every event at the clubs or bars had a club promoter running an event inside.

WORCESTER - A $300,000 study aimed at improving the movement of people and goods in Central Massachusetts got an official kickoff yesterday, when members of the public shared their concerns about traveling around the region.