Springfield News

The United Nations says one of its freelance consultants was fatally shot in the head while driving through an upscale Cairo neighborhood.

HOLYOKE - City councilors questioned the qualifications and work habits of Mayor Alex B. Morse 's choices for personnel director and city solicitor in a committee meeting Thursday.

Gunmen burst into a family home of a provincial judge in eastern Afghanistan, killing him and his niece in the latest assassination of an Afghan government official, authorities said Sunday.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is stepping up efforts to sink a ballot question that would make physician-assisted suicide legal in Massachusetts.

Authorities are investigating the death of a man whose body may have been in the Mill River for more than a week before it was discovered over the weekend in New Haven.

Police say one person is dead and a second one is in critical condition after fighting broke out twice at a house party in Hartford.

Five staff at Britain's largest selling tabloid The Sun were arrested Saturday along with three other people over alleged bribes paid to police and defense officials, detectives and the newspaper's parent company said.

A woman who snatched a newborn baby from a New York City hospital in 1987, then raised the child as her own for more than two decades, pleaded guilty to a kidnapping charge Friday as the girl's true mother wept in the courtroom.

A bus driver safely evacuated children from a school bus just before it caught fire.

HOLYOKE - A Chicopee man was arrested Friday and charged with driving under the influence of narcotics after the vehicle he was in hit the back of a parked trailer of a truck on Hadley Mills Road, police said.

SPRINGFIELD - Albert A. "Baba" Scibelli, a member of the mob family that used to run Springfield, has died at age 91.

Jurors in U.S. District Court deliberated for less than two hours on Thursday before clearing two Monson police officers of brutality allegations in connection with a 2007 traffic stop.

HOLYOKE - Police have released the names of those arrested in a series of Thursday morning raids, conducted by local, state and federal investigators, that netted 3,300 bags of heroin and two guns.

The City Council and local legislators are hunting for ways to give Springfield students additional time before taking MCAS exams this year due to multiple disruptions in their studies due to intense storms including a June tornado and late October snowstorm .

Applications are now available online and hearings will be scheduled soon to determine what bars in Springfield will be permitted to keep their music and other entertainment going past a new time limit of 1 a.m. Mayor Domenic J. Sarno announced Tuesday that he is proceeding with plans to restrict the entertainment licenses of bars and nightclubs to ... (more)

A report of a hostage situation on Leitch Street Thursday night, which ultimately proved to be false, led to the discovery of 31 dogs and 2 cats being kept under horrific conditions.

After nearly two decades as a fugitive, a British man suspected of driving off with an armored car loaded with cash worth about $1.5 million has been captured in southwest Missouri, where he appeared in federal court wearing blue jeans and asking for a court-appointed defense attorney because he didn't have enough money to hire one.

Chicago's city clerk says she will buy a $1,000 savings bond for the boy whose winning design for the 2012-13 vehicle registration sticker was scrapped because some believe it may depict gang signs.

Los Angeles Unified School District administrators, counselors and new teachers gather at the Miramonte Elementary school in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Feb.

Prosecution and defense both agree a woman was shot through the arm and four people got stabbed in the aftermath of a 15-year-old's birthday party on Liberty Street April 10.