Springfield News

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.

One of the FBI's Most Wanted for more than a decade, James "Whitey" Bulger went on trial last week.

Officials say 10 apparently coordinated car bombs and a shooting across Iraq have killed at least 24 and wounded dozens.

Pakistani police say the death toll from attacks on a hospital and a women's university bus in a southwestern provincial capital has increased to 24. Senior police officer Fayaz Sumbal said Sunday that a doctor and two nurses who were critically wounded in the suicide attack on the Bolan Medical complex in the city of Quetta died overnight.

Because West Springfield Mayor Gregory Neffinger has chosen not to veto any of the $178,000 in cuts the Town Council on June 3 made to his proposed fiscal 2014 budget of $82,902,037, the $82.7 million budget will take effect.

SPRINGFIELD - A fire caused by unattended cooking damaged one apartment and caused the evacuation of more than 100 residents.

SPRINGFIELD - New Leadership Charter School's commencement was bittersweet for the graduates and staff, as this school year will be its last.

A recent Associated Press-WE tv poll found more than 8 in 10 men said they have always wanted to be fathers or think they'd like to be one someday.