Covid-19, Where Are The Hot Spots? Town Infection Rates And Trends - Worcester County
Positive COVID-19 test rates are surging in Brookfield, North Brookfield, and Spencer, while Worcester's positive test rate is below the month's high in the city, according to the most recent information from the Baker Administration.
Meanwhile, in West Brookfield and Webster, the 14-day COVID-19 positive test rate is going down.
In Massachusetts, the goal is that by December the state will have less than 5 percent of COVID-19 tests come back positive. On Aug. 1, Gov. Charlie Baker reported the state’s 7-day positive test rate was at 2.1 percent, up from a low of 1.7 percent earlier this mo…
Paramus Bust: 7 Pounds Heroin, 2+ Pounds Cocaine, $40G Found Hidden In Car
An unemployed Massachusetts couple had nearly seven pounds of heroin, more than two pounds of cocaine and $40,000 in drug proceeds stashed in hidden compartments of their vehicle when they were stopped in Paramus by members of a joint county, state and federal task force, authorities said.
Candido Tomasini, 35, and Maribel Roman, 40, of Fitchburg were both ordered held in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing this Friday, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said.
Prosecutor’s detectives teamed up with agents from the DEA, the New York State Drug Enforcement Task Force, …
