Longmeadow News

People are downing more beers, wine and hard liquor than expected during the poor economy, judging by booming collections of a new state tax on the sale of alcohol.

No clothes, no minimum wage and no overtime either. A group of exotic dancers has filed an unfair wages lawsuit in Hampden Superior Court against officers of five area strip clubs, arguing owners paid them no salaries, expected $40 to $100 kickbacks per shift and otherwise denied them standard worker benefits.

Longmeadow Police are asking for the public's help in locating a missing woman. Capt. John Stankiewicz tells ABC40 and FOX 6 that they are looking for 63-year-old Mary Johnston of Cambridge Circle.

A 42-year-old East Longmeadow man was charged with attempted bank robbery Wednesday after a Springfield police officer on walking patrol along Main Street apprehended him in the process of demanding cash from a teller, police said.

Kathleen A. DiGiovanni , of Springfield, will be getting a kidney transplant for the second time, and the donor is her daughter Kristyana E. DiGiovanni .

Feb. 1, 2010 By Courtney Llewellyn Reminder Assistant Editor EAST LONGMEADOW -- In November, Fire Chief Richard Brady announced that the East Longmeadow Fire Department had received a 2010 Student Awareness of Fire Education grant in the amount of $1,912 from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety.

Cigar smokers, car owners, people with a sweet tooth and people in poverty could all soon be paying higher taxes or fees if Gov.

The School Committee has reached a two-year collective bargaining agreement with the Longmeadow Education Association that provides no cost-of-living raises for teachers.

The last time Scott Brown visited the Hu Ke Lau, a sprawling Chinese restaurant and comedy club along Route 33, he barely caused a stir, shaking a few hands in the dining room before settling into a booth with an aide for a quiet meal.

Here, Longmeadow's Teddy O'Reilly, left and Cathedral's Jordan Kozub collide during first period action.

Representatives of the Davidson Media Group present a donation to Dawn Leaks at the Pioneer Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross in Springfield to support Haiti relief efforts.

This is the exterior of the Robert M.Hughes Academy Charter School at the corner of School and Union streets in Springfield.

High school seniors and college students interested in transferring will get to tour Bay Path College with their families during an open house geared toward Latina students.

Pianist Danny Holt will perform on Wednesday at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton.

Helen Wagers Dibble, 86, formerly of Longmeadow, Mass., died Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010, at Durgin Pines Nursing Home in Kittery.

Western Mass supporters flocked to the International House of Pancakes in West Springfield to catch a glimpse of the man being dubbed the miracle in Massachusetts.

As church members in Longmeadow wrote checks and offered prayers to help friends they have made in Haiti, local Air Force Reservists took off for their third trip to deliver humanitarian assistance in three days.

Minnechaug's Sarah Bonsall attempts to dribble past Central's Kilandra Bass and A'Lece Mark in the fourth quarter Friday at the Hoophall Classic in Springfield.

An armed man with a ski mask robbed Hiba Food Mart, 471 Cooley St., Friday morning, making off with an undisclosed amount of cash from a back room that the owner had set aside to pay vendors, police said.

These are some of the Haitian nursing school students that members of the First Church of Christ in Longmeadow fear were killed in Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti.