Springfield News

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Do you use a sock puppet to secretly keep track of your frenemies? Plan to spend your staycation watching vlogs and webisodes? Or perhaps you plan to signal a flash mob for a quick bite of shawarma.

A woman faces charges of leaving her newborn baby in a West Springfield motel room says she didn't abandon her infant.

Based on an internal investigation, Superintendent Dr. Alan J. Ingram of the Springfield Public Schools has relieved High School of Commerce Principal Stephen Collins from his duties for allowing 10 seniors to graduate in June although they did not fulfill graduation requirements.

Sirdeaner Walker was cooking dinner on April 6 when she went upstairs to check on her 11-year-old son, Carl Walker-Hoover, who'd gotten into a fight that day at school and seemed upset.

The mother of an 11-year-old Springfield boy who committed suicide because he was allegedly bullied at school is scheduled to testify before Congress.

By GEORGE GRAHAM ggraham@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - Springfield police charged a 23-year-old city man with the armed robbery of a Belmont St.

Investigators, probing the cause of the massive Franklin Street fire that destroyed two buildings and left nearly three dozen people homeless Sunday night, are seeking help from the public.

IN SPRINGFIELD...MORE VIOLENCE AT A CITY STRIP JOINT. POLICE SAY THEY ARE LOOKING FOR A 22 YEAR OLD STRIPPER ACCUSED OF STABBING A DJ SUNDAY NIGHT.

State Sen. Stanley Rosenberg says he's gay. The Amherst Democrat wrote a column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette about liberty over the July Fourth weekend describing himself as "a foster child who grew up as a ward of the state, as a gay man, as a Jew." He declined further comment when contacted by The Republican of Springfield.

A city man was cited after hitting two pedestrians with his speeding vehicle Saturday night, police said.

A massive blaze destroyed two houses and damaged at least three others on Franklin Street late last night, leaving at least three families homeless.

Police have identified the victim of the city's 10th homicide as Noah D. Borders, 23, of 56 Campechi St.

Most city councilors were opposed to a meals tax increase Monday, urging there be public input before the increase was instituted.

Collections are ongoing to aid the Bay Street family that lost two brothers and had four others hospitalized in a Saturday morning fire, said the family minister.

The Memorial Bridge will be closed to all traffic - vehicular and pedestrian - Friday at 11 p.m. to allow workers to set up the Star Spangled Springfield fireworks display.

Dogs, dogs and more dogs from small and elegant looking Yorkshire terriers to family- friends English cocker spaniels to big, hardworking Bernese mountain dogs will turn the grounds of the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield this weekend into "dog city." The "cluster" dog shows they will be competing in begin today with the Holyoke Kennel ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Saturday's Bay Street fire that left two boys dead has fire officials urging people to use smoke detectors.

A jury has convicted one Springfield police officer and acquitted another of charges they stole $2,000 during a traffic stop last year.

Undercover narcotics detectives arrested a 45-year-old city man on heroin and cocaine charges in the North End Tuesday afternoon.

A former Holyoke elementary school teacher who ran off with one of her students has pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated rape and abuse and three counts of statutory rape.