Springfield News

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Quick-acting police officers, including an off-duty officer who went home and grabbed his pontoon boat, rescued a young dog that had fallen through the ice of Watershops Pond early Tuesday morning.

A woman was arrested and charged with stabbing her boyfriend during an argument and attacking a woman who tried to intervene in the fight at Sunday morning.

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Two drivers were seriously injured and a passenger received minor injuries in a two-car accident on Granby Road, Sunday.

Although there was no sign of snow as of 9:30 p.m. in Springfield, the National Weather Service maintains a Winter Storm Warning for all of Hampden County, including Springfield, as well as eastern Hampshire County, including Northampton.

Springfield police are investigating an early morning shooting of two young men near 173 Oakland St.

It started as a normal Monday morning for a normal 5-year-old until she found her father lying unconscious on the floor.

The December 17 issue of The Republican, the daily newspaper of Springfield, Massachusetts, has this editorial, opposing any 3-candidate debates in the upcoming special election for U.S. Senate.

Technically speaking, Mark Visconti, the 49-year-old East Longmeadow man arrested for bank robbery Wednesday night, was suspected of a crime before the crime ever happened, police said.

School officials at Springfield's Robert Hughest Charter School say they're determined to push through the rumors and threat of closure...after the state's education commissioner lodged charges of pervasive cheating by staff during this year's MCAS testing.

State police have identified the man struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 91 in what has been ruled a suicide.

Massachusetts Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester recommended on Tuesday that charter schools in Springfield and Lowell be closed, citing concerns for the students' "well-being." Meanwhile, charter school advocates say the demand for the nontraditional schools is rising and they expect more charter schools to open in Massachusetts.

New Jersey's largest newspaper is getting a new publisher. Penn Jersey Advance President Richard Vezza will assume the additional role of publisher of The Star-Ledger of Newark.

Republican state Sen. Scott Brown is challenging Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley to seven debates in the campaign to fill the late Edward Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat.

Rabbi Chaim A. Kosofsky checks the first light on the menorah during the lighting ceremony Friday afternoon at Court Square, marking the first night of Hanukkah.

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama split the difference in his Nobel speech, laying down a doctrine that will likely define his presidency: a steadfast defense of warfare against evil mixed with praise of nonviolence and exhortations for mankind to affirm the 'spark of the divine' in everyone.

Springfield police, responding to a burglar alarm at a charter school on School Street early Tuesday morning, arrested two 14-year-old juveniles that they discovered inside.

Staff at Springfield's sewage treatment facility on Bondi's Island rescued three abandoned kittens Thursday morning, including two that had to be fished out of a pool of raw sewage, officials with the MSPCA said.

A 27-year-old Springfield man was ordered to serve five years in state prison on cocaine trafficking and other drug charges.