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Bay State Bank promoted Kevin Hussey to senior vice president (he brings more than 35 years of financial services and commercial credit experience).

The move is expected to strengthen the bank’s leadership for future growth.

Animal control officers shot a fox on Sunday, Aug.

16 at around 8:00 a.m. on Harrington Way after it attacked a local dog, following earlier fox incidents where a 6-year-old girl and a grandmother were injured.

Worcester entrepreneur Ulysses Youngblood (president of Major Bloom) will release his book Playing Your Position: Help Children Stay Whole in April, drawing on his experience with co-parenting and family court.

The book is published through a crowdfunding campaign launched Monday.

A fox that bit a 6-year-old on Jones Street on Aug.

12 and a woman on Granite Street on Aug. 13 tested positive for rabies after it was euthanized on Aug. 13; state public health officials urge residents to vaccinate pets and exercise caution around wild animals.

WPI researcher Catherine Whittington received a $555,371 NIH grant to develop lab models for uterine fibroids based on pioneering student research; the three-year project aims to improve our understanding of a condition that affects millions of women.

Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School and the University of Bath discovered a receptor complex that guides neutrophils to infection sites without harming healthy tissue; the study in Science Advances may lead to targeted anti-inflammatory treatments (a method to refine therapy precision).