Elder Services of Berkshire County will begin converting the rest of the former Lee Central School into housing for senior citizens later this month.

The prosecution wanted its main witness in a firebombing case to serve 18 months in jail.

Alert workers at the Big Y supermarket spotted the man suspected of the armed robbery of Country Bank on North Main Street here on Wednesday afternoon.

New Canaana TMs Dr. Thomas Flynn, who serves on the board of a northern Haitian hospital, HA pital SacrA© Couer, said the facility has received about 250 severely injured patients from Port-au-Prince. Patients are still arriving by road in addition to the seven to eight helicopters full per day, he said.

Two Agawam mothers are hoping a community forum will help shed light on a dark issue.

A woman jumped out the window of a second-floor apartment at 595 Northampton St.

Ludlow Police and State Troopers were searching for a bank robber Wednesday morning.

Gov. Deval L. Patrick is calling for combining the state probation department into the executive branch, a move that administration officials said could save up to $40 million over several years and improve the efficiency of supervising people on probation.

Hospital in Haiti Survives Earthquake But Now Urgently Needs Help for Handling Massive Number of Injured Milot, Haiti - January 20, 2010 -- Hopital Sacre Coeur is located in original capital of Milot which is situated in the northern part of Haiti.

Dr. Peter J. Kelly supervises eye surgery at Sacred Heart Hospital in Milot, Haiti, in this 2006 photo.

Dr. James E. Tierney, retired Superintendent of Ludlow public schools, died on Jan.

Pews inside the old St. John the Baptist Church on Hubbard Street in Ludlow were packed this Sunday morning.

Three men were arrested Thursday on numerous drug charges at a Stony Hill Road duplex after a joint narcotics investigation by Wilbraham, Ludlow and Springfield police.

This is a 6:57 p.m. update of a story posted at 7:24 this morning . LUDLOW - Police have identified a man whom a girl said tried to lure her to his vehicle on East Street in two separate locations Monday night.

The first weekend Mass at the newly named St. Elizabeth Church, the former St. John the Baptist Church, is set for Saturday at 4 p.m. St.

A man suspected of trying to lure a young girl has been found in Ludlow. Police say a witness called in a tip and they paid the man a visit.

Police are seeking the public's help in finding a man in a pickup truck who twice accosted a young girl as she walked along the sidewalk of East Street Monday night.

The Rev. Merle Lavoie delivers the homily at St. John Cantius during the formal closing Mass at the parish on Hawley Street in Northampton Sunday.

The Rev. David Joyce J. Joyce, pastor of Our Lady of Hope Church, accepts offertory gifts during the last Mass Friday at the church.

Parishioners of Our Lady of Hope ended the year with a final Mass and then closed the doors of the church forever.