Springfield News

A Fall River man has been convicted of killing one man and injuring another in an early morning shooting on the city streets nearly four years ago.

A judge Tuesday declared a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl.

Authorities say 19-year-old city resident Keith Callabrass was shot multiple times Sunday night on Cleveland Avenue in the North End.

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in and around a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing thirteen people and wounding 32, according to Iraqi authorities.

Prominent British art collector Charles Saatchi has admitted assault and accepted a police caution after published photos showed him grasping the throat of his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson.

In this file photo from The Republican, a tow-truck operator prepares to extricate a van from the facade of Shell Food Mart, 1110 Wilbraham Road, after the vehicle crashed into the store on March 20. On Tuesday, June 18, the store experienced some more bad luck when a man armed with a shotgun robbed the business and fled on foot.

Another U.S. Senate election for Massachusetts is drawing to a close, with the two combatants set to square off one final time before voters head to the polls June 25. Democratic Congressman Edward Markey of Malden and Republican businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez will hold the last of three debates Tuesday evening in the race to ... (more)

WESTFIELD - An 18-year-old male was charged with assault with a knife, attempted murder, resisting arrest and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute after he stabbed a man on Elm Street Monday night.

SPRINGFIELD - Firefighters on Monday afternoon extinguished a fire that started in a second floor bathroom at 100 Northampton Ave. in the Upper Hill neighborhood of the city.

As part of the continuing recovery from the June 1, 2011 tornado , city officials are seeking a developer to build four new houses on Central Street.

Maine state police say a cyclist killed during the Trek Across Maine likely veered into the path of a tractor-trailer when he had one hand on his handlebar while sipping water.

Springfield police say what started as a street fight involving as many as 20 people turned deadly when someone pulled a gun and opened fire.

A Japanese aircraft carrier and two destroyers are attacked during the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

Three bomb attacks in Iraq including a blast inside a roadside restaurant killed 12 people on Monday, officials said, the latest in a surge of violence that has left nearly 2,000 dead since the beginning of April.

They found one person dead inside a car. Witnesses told police that the shooter had run into a nearby house.

Authorities say the man was found shot multiple times near the corner of Barbour Street and Cleveland Avenue at about 11 p.m. Sunday and later died at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center.

Erin Brady won the beauty pageant at the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino last night after strutting in a white sparkly gown and answering a question about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding widespread DNA tests.

Rhode Island State Police say a man driving in Providence with two children in the back seat of his SUV was stopped by troopers after they received calls of a possibly intoxicated motorist going slowly, drifting from lane to lane and nearly hitting other vehicles on Route 95 South.

Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a historic Microsoft antitrust case and the drug possession trial of former Mayor Marion Barry, has died.

The North Adams Transcript reports that the bar's liquor license was suspended after the Saturday morning melee.