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With spring not yet sprung, winter gets last laugh by blanketing Western...
Spring arrives at 7:02 a.m. but don't put away the winter jacket and mittens just yet. SPRINGFIELD – Spring has almost sprung but one would never know it by looking out the window. A late-winter storm...
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Holyoke City Council to revisit charter-change issues including fewer council...
Votes said no to the last attempted charter change in 2011. A copy of Holyoke's 1896 Charter. HOLYOKE -- The City Council Tuesday agreed to discuss the merits of shrinking itself. The council's city...
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As foreclosed properties add up, they've become a liability in Belchertown,...
More than 50 foreclosed properties that Belchertown owns may finally get sold at public auction. BELCHERTOWN - More than 50 foreclosed properties that Belchertown owns for nonpayment of taxes that...
View ArticleLudlow Cares Coalition plans forum on adolescents' issues at Ludlow High School
The forum is for adults only. LUDLOW - The Ludlow Cares Coalition will hold its second annual forum to address problems encountered by adolescents in the community April 1 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at...
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Springfield police investigating two armed robberies in Indian Orchard,...
The two robberies occurred roughly an hour apart. The Republican file photo SPRINGFIELD – Police are investigating two separate armed robberies involving different suspects that occurred roughly an...
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Jack-knifed tanker blocks off westbound traffic on MassPike; 3 injured
When the road was finally opened, traffic was backed up 5 miles, state police said. Republican file photo FRAMINGHAM - Three people were injured and westbound traffic on the Massachusetts turnpike was...
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Baystate Medical Center in Springfield teams up with entrepreneurs to improve...
Baystate Medical Center is one of two hospitals in the state that is so far participating in the program to allow medical-device entrepreneurs to shadow doctors. Baystate Medical Center Trauma and...
View ArticleNewtown school massacre records ought to be unsealed, media argues in court...
The prosecutor successfully argued in December for keeping search warrants related to gunman Adam Lanza’s house and the car he drove to the school sealed for 90 days, saying disclosure would...
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Northampton council to vote on licensing ice cream trucks
The proposed license fee is $50, an amount intended to cover the cost to police of doing the background check. NORTHAMPTON – There is no summer music sweeter to the ear than the sound of an ice...
View ArticleBetty Bloomberg of West Springfield meets man who gave her gift of kidney -...
The donor, who lives in Cambridge, donated his kidney just to help out a fellow person SPRINGFIELD - About a year ago, 25-year-old Gregory Madan saw one of those feel-good news stories about a good...
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South Hadley Public Library $7.75 million construction contract approved by...
At $7,753,500, Fontaine Brothers of Springfield won the bid to build the new South Hadley library This is an artist's rendering of the new library proposed in South Hadley. SOUTH HADLEY - Ground...
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Jury selected in motor vehicle homicide trial of Daniel Leary in death of...
A jury was selected Wednesday and was taken by bus to Dewey Street in West Springfield to view the area of the crash that killed David Laduzenski. Daniel Leary The Republican/Don Treeger SPRINGFIELD...
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Springfield police investigate Orange Street shooting
The front door to the restaurant appeared to be shattered. Springfield police detectives examine the front door of Red Apple Chinese restaurant, 5 Orange St. where several shots were fired Wednesday...
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Brandon Daniels, 28, of Springfield, pleads guilty to criminal contempt, gets...
Daniels, 28, of Springfield, pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal contempt Wednesday in Hampden Superior Court. The Republican / File photo SPRINGIELD - Brandon Daniels failure to show up to...
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Greenfield bank robbery suspect Richard May arrested in Holyoke
May was apprehended by Holyoke police as they spotted him walking out a building at South Bridge and Hamilton streets. Richard May Greenfield Police Dept. HOLYOKE - A man wanted by police as a...
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Chicopee School Committee votes to add vocational program in computer design
The School committee will need about $58,000 to start the program in the first year. Chicopee Comprehensive High School culinary arts teacher Karl Krawczyk, left works with Jake Flaucher 18, a senior...
View ArticleAmherst League of Women Voters holding candidates forum March 27
AMHERST – The League of Women Voters of Amherst is hosting a Candidates’ Night March 27 in the Amherst Regional Middle School Auditorium, 170 Chestnut St. The informal meet and greet begins at 7 p.m....
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South Korea: Chinese address source of cyberattack
A Chinese Internet address was the source of a cyberattack on one of the South Korean companies hit in a massive computer shutdown that affected five other banks or media companies, initial findings...
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Colorado Corrections Department chief shot, killed at home
The fatal shooting of Colorado's top prisons official when he answered the front door at his house highlights a troubling reality for the nation's judges, prosecutors and other legal officials: At a...
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Changed minds and demographics shift regarding gay marriage
The nation's views on gay marriage are more favorable in large part because of a shift in attitudes among those who know someone who is gay or became more accepting as they got older of gays and...
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