Holyoke News

A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, authorities said.

But Moran, a former provisional fire chief here, said this week, in his first extensive public comments since being forced to retire early, that one bad decision shouldn't be all that defines him or negate the positives of his 28-year career in firefighting.

One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott walked up the driveway of a classmate's home alongside other teenagers.

Counterterrorism police are questioning a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two men suspected of the savage killing of a British soldier.

The crash of a volunteer Angel Flight in upstate New York that killed at least two people is under investigation, and the search for the missing pilot is ongoing, authorities said.

By PAT CAHILL HOLYOKE - Two high-profile members of the community will be honored when the Holyoke Community College Alumni Association presents its 36th Annual Distinguished Alumni Award Dinner on June 13 at 5 p.m. at the Log Cabin Banquet House in Holyoke.

After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care.

Britain scrambled fighter jets Friday to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan, diverting it to an isolated runway at an airport on the outskirts of London and arresting two British passengers who allegedly threatened to destroy the plane.

Talk show host and crime author Howie Carr will sign copies of his new book, "A AoeRifleman: The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Whitey Bulger'A A s Partner,"A A on May 26 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Barnes & Noble in Holyoke.

Customers walk into and out of a Wal-Mart store in Methuen last year. Chances are Walmart could be opening a store on Whiting Farms Road in Holyoke.

The bridge runs over the Skagit River on Interstate 5 in Mount Vernon and reportedly collapsed around 7 p.m. PST.

HOLYOKE -- An officer used a Taser to stop a woman who came at him with a knife, set fire to a door and cut her wrist Thursday at 281 Beech St., police said.

Having lived most of her life in this Oklahoma City suburb, Barbara Bryen never feared twisters.

The Backstreet Boys singer will release a memoir, "Facing the Music and Living to Talk About It," on Sept.

12, 2011 file photo, workers in protective suits and masks wait to enter the emergency operation center at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Okuma, Japan.

Malaysian authorities detained three anti-government figures, charged a student activist with sedition and seized hundreds of opposition newspapers Thursday, raising political tensions after recent national elections triggered claims of fraud.

MOORE, Okla. - Nine-year-old Sydney Angle was "everywhere at once" when she was out on the softball field.

Different sizes of syringes displayed on a bulletin board in the exchange room at Tapestry's Northampton program site.

A man was arrested Wednesday in a case involving last week's discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.

Pakistani cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan left a hospital Wednesday, more than two weeks after he suffered serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift at a campaign event, a spokesman said.