Holyoke News

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.

British officials are saying one man is dead and two others were injured in a possible terrorist attack in London on Wednesday.

Police laid out their case Wednesday against a man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl whose body was found in a wooded area miles from her home, but the details remained hidden from public view after a judge sealed a crucial affidavit at the request of the suspect's lawyer.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials say 18-year-old Braxton Bielski bagged the record gator last week at Choke Canyon State Park, about 90 miles south of San Antonio.

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.