Springfield News

Rapper Lil Wayne is attempting to stomp his way out of controversy after a clip of him walking on the American flag went viral over the weekend.

SPRINGFIELD - Police are looking for two Hispanic men, one of whom was armed with a sawed-off shotgun , in connection with a Tuesday night armed robbery on Monrovia Street in East Springfield.

Al-Qaida-linked militants detonated multiple bomb blasts and engaged in ongoing battles with security forces in an attempt to breach the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu, officials said Wednesday.

A serial sex offender was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for raping and murdering an Irish woman while he was free on parole after previous convictions for raping five women.

A 13-year-old boy from a New Orleans suburb was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old half-sister after investigators said he told them he repeatedly struck her with wrestling moves imitated from TV.

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.