Holyoke News

On Saturday is a Highland Hash Spring Fun with the Parkway Running Club at 2 p.m. at Porter Cafe with Backlash Beer .

Five hours, five floors, "140 clicks" - it's how the Barre Democrat and chairman of the state Senate Ways and Means Committee spent his Friday three weeks ago, sitting in as case workers - sometimes with piles of papers and files around them - plugged away at a Holyoke welfare office.

Tonight Fairview Corner is rolling out the red carpet and shining the spotlight on the latest Spring trends in clothing and accessories with a Fashion Show on Spring Street! There will be many raffles for various gift certificates with all proceeds going to the Pan Mass Challenge.

WHAT'S NEW: Tuesday night. ABC is scheduling four of the eight new series on its fall schedule for Tuesday night, making it an entire evening of new shows.

The death of a Marine Corps veteran who struggled to have his disability claim processed through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs could provide "a wake-up call" nationally, according to Rosanne Frieri, the city's director of Veterans Services.

The costume drama about the family and servants in a stately English home stars Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith and Michelle Dockery.

British Prime Minister David Cameron visited an impromptu memorial that sprang up near the site of the Boston Marathon bombings, striking a combative tone Tuesday in saying that democratic and multiracial countries like the United States and Britain will never give in to terrorists who feed on "the poisonous narrative" of violence, extremism and ... (more)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a stern warning Tuesday to Syria's government, saying that new help will be given to opposition forces should President Bashar Assad's regime decide to back out of upcoming negotiations aimed at ending Syria's two-year war.

A convoy of gunmen opened fire on a row of liquor stores in eastern Baghdad immediately after sunset on Tuesday, killing 11 people and wounding five others, officials said.

The popular psychologist pioneered the television advice show in the 1950s, opening the airwaves to discussions of love, marriage and parenting, as well as such taboo subjects as menopause, frigidity, impotence and sexual enjoyment.

Russia says it will expel a U.S. diplomat who it claims was caught disguised in a blond wig while trying to recruit a Russian agent in Moscow.

Authorities say they have arrested two people in connection with what they call an "extensive" human trafficking enterprise that forced women into prostitution and made them live in squalor.

Former President Joseph Estrada was proclaimed Tuesday as the new mayor of the Philippine capital, his first elected post since he was ousted in an anti-corruption revolt 12 years ago.

An outspoken nationalist mayor said the Japanese military's forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary to "maintain discipline" in the ranks and provide rest for soldiers who risked their lives in battle.

HOLYOKE -- Two miles of new trails connecting Mount Tom State Park with Little Tom Reservation will be dedicated Saturday at 10 a.m. Take Route 5 to Reservation Road and meet at the reservation's Bray Lake for the event that will include hiking and will last until about 1 p.m. The event will include about two hours of total hiking, according to a ... (more)

The woman whose decomposing body was pulled from a New Jersey home following a tense, 37-hour standoff died from stab wounds and blunt force trauma, authorities said Monday.

HOLYOKE - Police are searching for a man who robbed a bank Monday by ordering the teller to turn over cash through a message written on a sign.

Police say a 78-year-old woman was killed in Portsmouth after her car crossed over the center lines and collided with an oncoming truck.

A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's debate over abortion.

HOLYOKE -- Construction on a $6 million to $7 million expansion at U.S. Tsubaki Inc.