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With his sentencing this morning, the Tony Baye arson trial comes to a close. There were some dramatic moments in the courtro...
The FBI is looking into a trespassing case at the Quabbin Reservoir. 22News reports agents were sent to Belchertown to invest...
Anthony Baye says he is pleading guilty because he is in fact, guilty. Murder and arson defendant Anthony Baye, pleading guil...
The prosecution in the Tony Baye arson and murder trial could fest its case as early as the end of this week. Friday, jurors ...
The game isn't over for an Amherst man whose rough arrest outside a Northampton bar was captured on a YouTube video. Last...
Friday is the first day of testimony in the Tony Baye arson and murder trial. The jury is hearing from witnesses about the st...
Criminal charges have been dropped against an Amherst man whose arrest outside Tully's bar in Northampton in March was ca...
Two witnesses who claim they each saw arson suspect Anthony Bay near the scene of two different fires will be allowed to test...
Jury selection begins today in Boston for a Hatfield man caught up in the state probation scandal. Forty-year old Christopher...
Northampton's solid waste manager has been placed on paid leave after her arrest for drunk driving. Karen Bouquillon has ...
It's expected the father of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects may head for the U.S. Friday. Human rights activist Khed...
The Justice Department's decision to interrogate the Boston Marathon bombing suspect without his Miranda rights is sparki...
The victims in a fatal fire in Whately Thursday morning have been identified as 64 year old Sonia Golonka and her mother, 94 ...
Two Holyoke men are being held without bail following Friday's raid at a suspected gang stronghold. 34-year old Francisco...
A Holyoke man suspected of selling drugs in the Brattleboro area has been arrested. 20-year old Miguel Serrano was stopped on...
The man allegedly responsible for three Greenfield bank robberies is now in police custody. Greenfield Police Lieutenant Dan ...
The Northwestern District Attorney's office is promising the Cara Rintala murder case will be tried again as soon as poss...
Six UMass students face charges after a massive off-campus party gone bad. Police say the Blarney Blowout involved more than ...
After a three week trial, the fate of accused murderer Cara Rintala is in the hands of the jury. Rintala is accused of strang...
Time of death is being hotly contested in the Cara Rintala murder trial. Friday a medical examiner said Rintala's wife An...
Jurors are being shown graphic evidence in the Cara Rintala murder trial. Thursday, photos and video were shown of AnnaMarie ...
Jurors in the Cara Rintala murder case will hear day two of testimony today. In opening arguments Wednesday, prosecutors pain...
The jury has been seated in the Cara Rintala murder case, and the trial was set to begin with opening arguments Wednesday mor...
A former Amherst soup kitchen worker remains jailed on a parole violation, despite being found not guilty of a crime. A jury ...
Northampton Police are asking for the public's help in solving a brutal beating that took place on Pearl Street early Sat...
Pre-trial hearings in the murder case of Cara Rintala will remain open to the public. Attorney David Hoose had asked the judg...
Smith and Wesson is waving a social media campaign against gun control. On Facebook and Twitter the Springfield gunmaker says...
A 12 year old Easthampton boy will have to get a job as the result of a Massachusetts appeals court ruling. The boy spray-pai...
The operator of the South Hadley landfill is accused of falsifying records. A Department of Environmental Protection investig...
A 49 year old woman accused of an armed home invasion in Northampton has pleaded guilt to weapons and burglary charges. Nancy...
A former Deerfield Academy student has told the boarding school he was subjected to sexual contact by a faculty member in the...
New details emerge about the chemist accused of stealing drugs from the state crime lab in Amherst. Sonja Farak of Northampto...
Anthony Baye's attorneys are making a last ditch effort to have his arson case thrown out. The trial for the 28-year old ...
Two men have been arrested for last week's brazen Girl Scout Cookie cash heist. Cassidy Michalski of Deerfield and Nichol...
A Northampton man accused of attacking a woman in Easthampton has been involuntarily committed. 31 year old William Bower wil...
A local teacher already in trouble with the law faces new charges. Daniel Lozado was a dance teacher at Pioneer Valley Perfor...
The state of Vermont and Entergy had their legal eagles in New York City Monday, at Manhattan's 2nd Circuit Court of Appe...
An embezzler from Amherst has been ordered to pay back a portion of what she stole. 46-year-old Elizabeth Walsh was former tr...
A retired teacher for the Clarke School in Northampton is being mourned after her death in a car accident Friday. Authorities...
The driver of a car that struck an Amherst middle school student Friday afternoon will not face charges. Amherst Police say t...
A fight is brewing over evidence in a high-profile murder trial. Ryan Welch is charged with murdering his girlfriend Jessica ...
The defense for Easthampton murder suspect Ryan Welch is trying to have some evidence in the case suppressed. Welch has plead...
Both sides are claiming victory after a judge declined to shut down Holyoke's needle exchange program Thursday. Even thou...
The obstruction of justice case against the former acting chief probation officer of Hampshire Superior Court may be headed f...
Six elderly Valley women are scheduled for trial this week for chaining themselves to the gate at Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plan...
A judge has ruled that a dance teacher at a local high school does not have to give investigators access to his electronic de...
A Hampshire Superior Court judge has granted an injunction against a former Northampton auto dealer and his general manager. ...
A man is under arrest after an alleged assault in Northampton early Friday morning. 27 year old Thomas Rhodes was allegedly l...
Police are looking for the hit-and-run driver who injured an elderly woman on I-91 in Easthampton Wednesday morning. Police s...
A Hatfield doctor has died from injuries suffered when he was hit by a pickup truck in downtown Northampton on Halloween. The...
New details are emerging in the alleged gang rape of a UMass Amherst student. The Boston Herald reports that the four Pittsfi...
Former Holyoke police detective Paul Barkyoumb will serve 2 1/2 years at the Franklin County House of Correction after admitt...
Bail has been reduced for one of the Pittsfield teenagers charged with raping a UMass student. Judge Daniel Ford on Tuesday l...
The future of Holyoke's needle exchange program will be decided by a judge. Thursday in Hampden Superior Court, Judge Ric...
Amherst College is reevaluating the way it handles alleged sexual assaults. Demonstrations over the weekend were sparked by a...
The city of Northampton has reached a settlement with a man who claims he was wrongfully arrested in 2008. The incident invol...
An alleged burglar who was shot by a Chicopee jewelry store owner is being held on a half million dollars bail. 27-year old R...
The Holyoke City Council has filed a lawsuit against Mayor Alex Morse. On Wednesday a judge will hear the complaint, which se...
A Huntington man charged with beating and threatening to kill his girlfriend Saturday night is being held without bail. 33 ye...
A Springfield man is under arrest for impersonating a police officers. Someone called the cops Thursday saying a man was chan...
Two former employees of the Northampton Walmart are accused of stealing and reselling more than $9,000 worth of merchandi...
61-year old David Doyle of Northampton made an appearance in Hampshire Superior Court Tuesday, answering to charges of arson,...
A UMass student has been arrested for breaking into the Amherst College health center and defacing it with swastikas. 20-year...
A date has been set for the start of the Anthony Baye arson and murder trial. Jury selection will start May 6th, more than tw...
Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan has dropped attempted murder and kidnapping charges against two homeless people...
Northwestern D.A. David Sullivan told Northampton residents last night that his case against accused arsonist Anthony Baye is...
A Chicopee man is free on bail after allegedly punching a 5 year old child in the head at Look Park in Northampton. Police sa...
A Leeds man was arrested not once, but twice over the weekend. Police say 50 year old Gregory Acosta was first nabbed for dri...
The teenaged boy charged with beating children's book illustrator Jane Dyer with a shovel inside her Cummington home was ...
The search is on for a kitten that was seen being tossed from the window of a moving vehicle in Northampton last weekend. Off...
The criminal case against Northampton insurance company executive Scott King has been resolved. The President of King and Cus...
A father and son from Florence were arrested just hours apart Wednesday in what police say were separate but related incident...
The former coordinator of an Amherst soup kitchen has been acquitted of charges in connection with a theft case. 57 year old ...
A former church administrator has pleaded not guilty to charges she bilked donors and other local service organizations of ne...
A well known Northampton businessman is back behind bars after allegedly violating the terms of his bail. Northamptonmedia...
A homeless man is being held without bail in Northampton and his girlfriend is being allowed to go free on bail with provisio...
Anthony Baye has been reindicted on charges of arson and murder in Northampton. A Hampshire County grand jury has issued a 42...
A dangerousness hearing is set for Tuesday for two suspects in a jump rope attack on a girl in Northampton. The incident took...
A Buckland teenager is charged with negligent driving in the wake of a crash that killed a motorcyclist over the weekend. Sta...
Northampton Police say when they removed a dog that had been left i the back of a pickup truck in Tuesday's sweltering he...
Another case of a dog left in a hot car, this time in Northampton. Animal control officers removed an animal left in a parked...
A Northampton man is being held without bail on charges of attempted murder and arson in connection with an incident early Tu...
The Worcester District Attorney has a new lead in the Molly Bish murder case. Bish was the teenaged lifeguard abducted and ki...
A Greenfield man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for child pornography charges. 57 year old Louis Kevin Wieprecht w...
A Cummington photographer will be deported to England after pleading guilty to assaulting a seven year old girl. Richard Shep...
Family, friends, and the community gathered in Huntington Monday night to honor murder victim Jessica Dana. A ceremony organi...
Federal Prosecutor Carmen Ortiz has ramped up her investigation of the state Probation Department in recent months. Now inves...
The Northwestern District Attorney's office has dismissed murder and arson chages against Anthony Baye in the Northampton...
A Hadley woman is charged with embezzling more than $100,000 from the Amherst-Pelhem Education Association. 45-year old E...
A former Hopkins Academy softball coach has pleaded guilty to having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student. Gle...
A Northampton man who allegedly threw a fit over a broken air conditioner in his apartment is under arrest. Police say 32 yea...
A Southampton woman who lost her bid to keep poultry at her home is fighting that ruling in court. Claire Leduc has filed a l...
A Belchertown man charged in a child porn sting is free on his own recognizance after denying the charges against hm. 28-year...
There is no personal vendetta. Greenfield Mayor William Martin says he is not out to get the town's police department, de...
An Easthampton man accused of killing his girlfriend has been ordered by the court to deliver a DNA sample. Ryan Welch's ...
A tenantn of Meadowbrook apartments in Northampton is nursing a broken leg after tryig to catch two alleged thieves. Police s...
Murder charges have been filed against Jeb Daly, the man accused of killing his live-in girlfriend in Huntington. Police say ...
The Transgender Equal Rights Bill is now in effect in Massachusetts. The law adds gender identity as a protected category und...
A lwsuit against a proposed supermarket in Easthampton will go forward. But in denying a bid to dismiss the cae, a judge sugg...
State Police investigators are working to figure out why a car went out of control and crashed into a home in South Hadley We...
The family of a Huntington woman found dead over the weekend is speaking out. Tammy Zuccala, the aunt of Jessica Dana, tells ...
Friends of a Huntington couple say the two had argued the ight Jessica Dana disappeared Friday. Her boyfriend reported her mi...
A Huntington man is under arrest in connection with the discovery of a body in the small town, where a search had been underw...
Sentencing is scheduled for Friday afternoon for a Westfield man after his conviction on two counts against him in the 2010 b...
A former Agawam man is being held without bail on numerous charges including attempted murder, after his arrest early Thursda...
A man at the center of a massive late night search in Hatfield Wednesday is under arrest. Hatfield Police tell local news out...
The second of two women who tried to develop a gay and lesbian condo project in Easthampton says she's not guilty of bilk...
The fate of the defendant in the Norwich Lake boating death trial is now in the hands of a jury. Closing arguments were held ...
Closing arguments are set for Monday in the Lake Norwich boating death trial. Steven Morse of Westfield is accused of killing...
Two men face multiple charges after being arrested in connection with an early morning car crash Thursday at Northampton'...
The man charged with the boating death of a 10 year old boy on Norwich Lake in Huntington two years ago could not explain to ...
The trial of a Westfield man charged with manslaughter in the boating death of a ten year old boy is underway in Hampshire Su...
A woman who was badly burned in the backyard of her Northampton home over the weekend has died from her injuries. Officials s...
A Southampton man is being treated at a Boston Hospital for serious burns over nearly a third of his body after an accident M...
There's a new policy in plce in Northampton against city employees borrowing municipal property. The policy was put into ...
A Northampton woman is being treated at a Boston hospital for severe burns she suffered in a fire Saturday in her yard. Offic...
Jury selection is scheduled for today in the trial of a man charged in the boating death of a boy in Huntington. Charges agai...
Northampton Police Chief Russell Sienkiewicz will lead a contingent of about 40 Northampton police officers attending Friday ...
A prominent Northampton businessman faces charges of threatening to kill his wife and an employee as well as violating a rest...
A Haverhill teenager has been convicted of negligent homicide in a landmark case for causing a deadly crash by texting while ...
An Easthampton woman has pleaded not guilty to larceny charges for bilking clients involved in a condo complex project. Heath...
The woman who was shot and wounded during the incident Monday in which a Springfield police officer was killed, remains hospi...
The city of Springfield is in mourning after Monday's shooting death of a 36 year veteran of the police force. Police Com...
Northampton police are looking for a man and a woman suspected of stealing more than $2,500 worth of merchandise from the...
A federal appeals court says a federal law that defines marriage as being between one man and one woman is unconstitutional. ...
A naked man who Amherst police say may have been under the influence of drugs, faces charges of assault and battery on police...
An 18-year old bicyclist from Hadley who was involved in a collision with a car Saturday night in Northampton has died from h...
The state’s highest court has thrown out the alleged confession of a Northampton man who admitted setting a series of f...
The Select Board in Amherst has voted to support a resolution that's critical of a federal immigration enforcement progra...
A 58-year old Easthampton man is declared innocent of the attempted murder of his mother, by reason of mental illness. A Hamp...
Despite opposition from Governor Deval Patrick, federal authorities will implement the Secure Communities program in Massachu...
A Montague woman will face animal cruelty charges after she allegedly left five dogs alone in an apartment for at least a wee...
A Sunderland woman has been indicted on charges of felony motor vehicle homicide and other violations in connection with an A...
The oldest resident of Shelburne has died at the age of 100. Margaret Jones died Wednesday morning, just days after getting a...
Easthampton murder suspect Ryan Welch will remain jailed without bail as he awaits trial in connection with the February murd...
A Hadley man is being held on $25,000 bail after his arraignment Monday on charges of trying to strangle his female roomm...
An Easthampton man accused of killing his girlfriend pleaded innocent Friday morning in Hampshire Superior Court. 36-year old...
A Hampshire County grand jury has formally indicted 36 year old Ryan Welch for the murder of his girlfriend Jessica Ann Prips...
The preliminary report has been released about an incident last Friday in Chicopee that left the suspect dead and a state tro...
A Hampshire Superior Court jury has convicted Hakam McCoy of assault in connection with an attack on his girlfriend in their ...
The man who shot a State Trooper from Greenfield last Friday during a gun battle in Chicopee had a long criminal record leadi...
Hindsale, New Hampshire police say two men entered a Depot Street apartment on Sunday night, demanding items from the residen...
The Massachusetts State Trooper shot during a standoff in Chicopee Friday morning has been identified as Greenfield native Jo...
The suspect in an armed standoff with police in Chicopee Friday morning is now dead. State Police report on their official Tw...
Granby police have arrested a Westfield man on charges of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. 25-year old Chris...
A Belchertown man is among 32 people arrested statewide in an internet child porn sting. Police executed a search warrant at ...
Reporting a crime in Hampshire and Franklin counties just got easier with the Northwestern District Attorney's new text-a...
The older brother of Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse was arrested over the weekend on charges that he participated in a bank robbery...
A man was shot and killed by police over the weekend in Westfield. Police say 28-year old Douglas Musto was shot in the hallw...
Town officials in Orange have been put on notice by the state Attorney General that they need to respond quickly to a complai...
Attorneys for married gay couples urged a federal appeals judge in Boston yesterday to strike down the federal law that defin...
The brother of Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse is facing charges of bank robbery. Douglas Morse is accused of driving the getaway ca...
A Northfield woman was killed Monday in a three vehicle accident in Bernardston. State Police are investigating the crash tha...
Three teenagers are under arrest in Brattleboro, Vermont in connection with a series of weekend fires and vandalism. Little i...
A dangerous intersection in North Amherst is getting new traffic lights this week. Workers have begun to install the traffic ...
A snow plow driver and his wife are being charged in connection with the killing of a Vermont prep school teacher, who police...
A mistrial has been declared in the trial of a man accused in the attack on an elderly South Hadley man during a 2010 home in...
The seventh and final suspect wanted in connection with the kidnapping and beating of a 19 year old homeless man turned himse...
A bizarre story in Montague where police have arrested six people for allegedly kidnapping and beating a 19 year old homeless...
Environmental Police say they suspect more than a dozen coyotes found in Belchertown were shot and dumped illegally. Coyote s...
A Greenfield man faces charges of assault with a dangerous weapon after police say he threw a trashcan at the mother of his f...
Locked doors didn't stop thieves who targeted vehicles over the weekend in Northampton. Police say three locked vehicles ...
The older brother of Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse has been arrested in Northampton on narcotics and motor vehicle charges. Police...
A Mount Holyoke College squash coach has been placed on administrative leave after his arrest on sex assault charges. Allen F...
Two weeks after an Easthampton woman was murdered in what police suspect is a case of domestic violence, police say a Springf...
About 100 people turned out in Northampton last night to honor murder victim Jessica Ann Pripstein. The Easthampton woman was...
A new study shows that Connecticut has experienced no increase in crime in the area of the state's two casinos since they...
An Easthampton man remains hospitalized without bail, after being arraigned inside Baystate Medical Center for the murder of ...
An arrest has been made in connection with Monday's homicide of a 39-year-old Easthampton woman, Northwestern District At...
The identity of the woman found dead in an Easthampton apartment has been released. The Northwestern District Attorney's ...
Northampton's former Parking Director William Letendre has pleaded not guilty to charges of drunk driving. Letendre was r...
Easthampton police continue to investigate the discovery of a woman's body found inside a Ward Avenue apartment just afte...
Vermont's Attorney General has filed an appeal of the recent court decision in favor of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power ...
A former UMass student expelled after his arrest at a post Super Bowl disturbance on the Amherst campus is suing the universi...
A judge has cleared the way for Amherst attorney Alan Seewald to become Northampton's next city solicitor. Seewald had be...
The state's Supreme Judicial Court says a defendant can be charged with dealing marijuana even when possessing only a sma...
A Granby man is being held without bail on a charge of arson related to a fire at a home last September. 45-year old Scott Sz...
Federal, state and local law enforcement made 20 arrests Thursday during a series of drug and weapons raids targeting reputed...
Police say a series of text messages helped to link a Holyoke woman to the suspect in Friday's robbery of the Florence Sa...
David Fried Oppenheim has been found guilty by a jury no all five counts of child rape that were lodged against him. The co-f...
Police in Vermont say they've caught the people responsible for nearly 100 break-ins in five different states, including ...
A quick arrest was made in a Northampton bank robbery, thanks to a surveilance picture. 33-year old Thaddeus Romanowski of Ho...
A woman testified Wednesday that David Fried Oppenheim confided in her that he had a sexual relationship with an underage gir...
A New Hampshire man is free on bail after pleading not guilty to manslaughter in connection with a plane crash last year in O...
The credibility of the alleged victim was called into question Tuesday during the statutory rape trial of David Fried Oppenhe...
Drivers on Route 91 in Franklin County got quite a scare Friday morning. State police say a car was driving the wrong way, go...
A judge has decided to allow testimony about previous liaisons into the rape trial of David Fried Oppenheim, the former direc...
A Hadley man faces multiple counts of child rape and indecent asasult. 40-year old Frank Stanley pleaded not guilty Tuesday t...
The woman charged with breaking into a Northampton home on Christmas night and contronting the owners with a gun has been ind...
A court hearing involving the former acting Chief Probation Officer in Hampshire Superior Court has been postponed. 39-year o...
Two local teachers are taking part in a lawsuit filed by the state's largest teachers' union to stop a proposed ballo...
The rape trial of Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton funder David Oppenheim is underway in Northampton District Court. Oppenh...
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