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Hampden DA Mark Mastroianni announces 2 public forums with domestic violence...
Fishel will speak about the 2001 domestic homicide of Amy Homan McGee, which was the basis of a 2011 documentary "Telling Amy's Story." Deirdi Fishel Courtesy of Penn State Public Broadcasting...
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Southampton Rite Aid robbed; suspect steals oxycodone from pharmacy
The clerk told police the robber indicated he had a gun and demanded oxycodone from the pharamacy. A police sketch of a suspect in an oxycodone theft at the Rite Aid drug store, 14 College Highway,...
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Martin Luther King Day celebrated in the Pioneer Valley
On Friday 75 people gathered at City Hall in Springfield for a ceremony and flag-raising sponsored by the NAACP. Students from the Martin Luther King Charter School and others gather for the Martin...
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New York newspaper removes controversial handgun permit data from its website
The Journal News took down interactive maps that included names and addresses of residents with handgun permits just 3 days after the state enacted a gun control law that included privacy provisions...
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Jay Torres, son of fallen Westfield police officer Jose Torres, sworn in as...
Jay Torres said his biggest regret is he will not be able to serve with his father, who was killed on duty last summer. ay Torres, son of Officer Jose Torres, who was killed working a traffic detail...
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Southwick Selectman Tracy Cesan says minutes of board meetings manipulated to...
Selectman Russell Fox said the board has never had problems in the past, and the animosity must end in order to conduct productive meetings. Southwick selectman Tracy Cesan is seen with the town's...
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Key witness testifies in 43-year-old Massachusetts slaying case
Prosecutors say 2 teens abducted 15-year-old John McCabe in Tewksbury in September 1969, bound him, taped his eyes and mouth and left him in a Lowell field where he suffocated. Edward Allen Brown...
View ArticleAlgeria: 7 hostages, 11 militants dead after raid
Algeria's special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the middle of the Sahara desert in a final assault Saturday, killing 11 militants, but not before they in turn killed seven hostages, the...
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Easthampton officials evaluate $48.2 million in capital needs including...
Mayor Michael Tautznik is the process of finalizing the list to fund at the most dire of needs to first. The Easthampton capital plan includes replacing police cruisers. The Republican file / Don...
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Memorial recognitions omitted from West Springfield annual report...
"I have the utmost respect for the late former Fire Chief John J. Flaherty, the late former Police Chief Thomas P. McNamara Jr., and the late former Town Historian F. Bernard Lally, and I appreciate...
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Obituaries today: Janice Colby worked at Colby Co. and Damon Precision in...
Obituaries from The Republican. Janice Colby Janice A. (Duffus) Colby, 75, of Westfield, died Wednesday. She was born in and grew up in Northampton, attended local schools and was a graduate of...
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Returning Westfield State University students to be greeted by renovated Ely...
The campus center renovations are just one part of a $73.8 million comprehensive building project at the university. WESTFIELD – Students who return Monday to Westfield State University for the spring...
View ArticleSpringfield Parks Department warns public to stay off ponds and lakes due to...
SPRINGFIELD – The city’s Department of Parks, Buildings and Recreation Management is warning the public to stay off all ponds and lakes in Springfield, due to unsafe ice conditions. As a result recent...
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Western Massachusetts Military Order of the Purple Heart forms to support...
Brian Willette, the commander of the Purple Heart chapter said the organization will work with other veterans groups to advocate for veterans and their quality of life. Brian Willette, commander of...
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Holyoke police investigating gunpoint robbery at Dairy Mart on Dwight Street
A masked man entered the Dairy Mart convenience store, 1552 Dwight St., pointed a handgun at a clerk, then demanded money from the register. The heavyset man fled the scene in an SUV, which was later...
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9 people injured in 3-car crash on Boston Road in Springfield
The pedestrian claimed he was hit by a flying car part, said Dennis Leger, public information officer for the Springfield Fire Department A three-car crash near 187 Boston Road in the Pine Point...
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Springfield receives more than $700,000 to help fight crime in city's North End
Jose Claudio, president of the New North Citizens' Council, said changes in the North End are palpable due to ongoing anti-crime efforts in the neighborhood. SPRINGFIELD — Funding from the state's...
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Shelburne Falls, Eric Carle Museum win Massachusetts Cultural Council awards
Given every two years, the Commonwealth Awards spotlight the contributions the arts, humanities, and sciences make to education, economic growth and vitality, and quality of life. The Eric Carle...
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Roe v. Wade: After 40 years, nation still deeply divided over landmark...
By today's politically polarized standards, the Supreme Court's momentous Roe v. Wade ruling was a landslide. By a 7-2 vote on Jan. 22, 1973, the justices established a nationwide right to abortion....
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Abortion rights activist Bill Baird savors role in Roe v. Wade ruling
A Catholic priest denounced him as “the devil incarnate” and some feminists, including Betty Friedan, called him a chauvinist, a CIA agent and worse. Bill Baird, 80, pauses by a display showing him as...
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