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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.

The third annual lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pride week in Springfield, MA begins on May 30, 2013.

The chief medical examiner's office says a former New Milford officer convicted of an on-duty killing committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

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

SPRINGFIELD &#8211 City Council President James J. Ferrera III said this week he is hoping for a council vote in favor of two digital billboards on Tuesday, proposed along Interstate 91, but added that he is bringing the matter back for a vote either at the brink, or just past a 90-day deadline for a vote.

Weather forecasters are predicting another busy Atlantic hurricane season. The storms will get their names from an alphabetical list of 21 names: The National Hurricane Center started using women's names for Atlantic storms in 1953; men's names were added in 1979.

Aundre M.E. Niles was stabbed four times in the early morning hours of July 25, 2010, and died outside the apartment building where he lived.

Britain's military says the soldier brutally murdered in a suspected terrorist attack was a popular drummer and machine gunner, a father, and a passionate fan of Manchester United.

A new musical featuring the songs of Bob Marley, the world premiere of William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" by the innovative Fiasco Theater company and an Australian take on "Peter Pan" are among next season's offerings at The New Victory Theater.

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

Two men have been accused of butchering the soldier with knives and a meat cleaver on a London street while horrified bystanders watched.

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.

From left to rigth, Eric Kobos of CBS3 Springfield, Red Cross volunteer Dupre Wilder, and Gary Brodeur of CBS3 Springfield participate in the 'Western Massachusetts Help for Oklahoma' fundraiser Thursday.

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.

A Chechen immigrant shot to death in central Florida early Wednesday after an altercation with an FBI agent shares a similar background to that of 1 of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who authorities were questioning him about at the time.

SPRINGFIELD - Police continue to investigate a Wednesday evening shooting at the intersection of Hollywood Street and Belmont Avenue that left one Hispanic male victim in serious condition with multiple gunshot wounds.

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

Prosecutors in Malaysia are pursuing rape charges against a 40-year-old man who allegedly had sex with a 13-year-old girl and then married her.