Springfield News

Officers responded to the city's Forest Park neighborhood at about 8 p.m. Tuesday after being alerted by the department's automated gunshot detection system.

That dish was always filled with an assortment of hard candies: root beer barrels, red hots, butterscotches.

A line of showers developed across western Massachusetts around 1 p.m. today, and has been a little bit steady in the Springfield area at the moment.

Police say a 7-year-old girl has drowned in a pool at a home in Wilbraham. The Republican reports that Wilbraham Police Sgt.

Susan Mielnikowski works on paperwork as Edward McDonough, center, fields a call during the Dial-A-Lawyer program in October at the Western New England School of Law in Springfield.

SPRINGFIELD - For honorary degree recipient Mary Raissi Stewart AIC does not only stand for American International College.

Dylan Bilka, a 2011 Seneca Valley graduate, recently cleared a 16' 7.75" in the pole vault, setting a new outdoor record at Penn State University Behrend.

PRESS RELEASE Diocese of the Armenian Church of America 630 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Tel: 686-0710 Fax: 779-3558 Web: http://www.armenianchurch.org/ Email: prl@armeniandiocese.org ** TOP STORY May 16, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------ Pentecost In the words of the Armenian hymn of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit ... (more)

The House Ethics Committee met for a second day at the Statehouse Thursday continuing a closed-door investigation into alleged ethical violations believed to have been lodged against state Rep.

Western New England University Law School students walking across the stage at Symphony Hall in Springfield this coming Saturday were supposed to hear an inspiring speech by a successful woman who walked the stage before them.

Dise was given probation until May 13, 2014 and fined $50. * Robert S. Bessette Jr., 47, of Jackson Street in North Adams, was arraigned on charges of disturbing the peace and violating a miscellaneous municipal ordinance or bylaw.

Pit bull is going to be performing with Ke$ha on Friday May 24 at the Mass Mutual Center.

The death of a Marine Corps veteran who struggled to have his disability claim processed through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs could provide "a wake-up call" nationally, according to Rosanne Frieri, the city's director of Veterans Services.

The new flagship to the brand, which was purchased by Polaris Industries in 2011, will be officially unveiled at the 73rd annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota.

WHAT'S NEW: Tuesday night. ABC is scheduling four of the eight new series on its fall schedule for Tuesday night, making it an entire evening of new shows.

States should cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half_from .08 blood alcohol level to 0.05_matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries, a U.S. safety board recommends.

British Prime Minister David Cameron visited an impromptu memorial that sprang up near the site of the Boston Marathon bombings, striking a combative tone Tuesday in saying that democratic and multiracial countries like the United States and Britain will never give in to terrorists who feed on "the poisonous narrative" of violence, extremism and ... (more)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a stern warning Tuesday to Syria's government, saying that new help will be given to opposition forces should President Bashar Assad's regime decide to back out of upcoming negotiations aimed at ending Syria's two-year war.

A prosecutor told a Hampden Superior Court jury cell phone records are the heart of the murder case against 19-year-old Armando Olivares .

Officers from the Springfield Police Department's narcotics unit process the scene at 92 Draper St.