Westfield News

A former Western Massachusetts priest with ties to Westfield and South Hadley was sentenced to 10 years of probation after he was found guilty Monday in a Maryland court of sexually abusing an altar boy seven years ago.

Root Road residents are organizing in opposition to a proposal to create an explosives depot on an industrial-zone tract in their neighborhood.

Marianne L. Madru, a student at Westfield State College, shows her student ID that is loaded with Owl Bucks.

Bright Nights begins its 15th annual run on Wednesday at Forest Park in Springfield.

Two veterans who each had recent tours of duty in Iraq were honored Saturday at the eighth annual Veterans Memorial Breakfast at St.

The City Council tonight is expected to launch a study toward the possible creation of a central motor pool that will be responsible for maintenance of municipal vehicles.

State police arrested a 22-year-old Westfield man for possession of marijuana and other charges Tuesday night after he was spotted driving north on Interstate 91 without his headlights on.

Trucking company A. Duie Pyle is expanding its warehousing operations, opening a 243,000-square-foot warehouse in Westfield, Mass.

Westfield motorcycle dealership Popoli Powersports has become the latest casualty of the bad economy.

A Southwick, Mass., man has been hired as the new dean of students at Windsor Locks High School.

Police continue to search for a suspect who stole a pickup truck in Westfield early Friday morning, fled from police in this town and then crashed it on Route 57 just over the line in Agawam.

The Micro Uzi machine gun that killed 8-year-old Christopher K. Bizilj at a Westfield gun fair last October reportedly jammed twice and was inspected by a 15-year-old boy before it slipped from Christopher's grasp and discharged, according to a $4 million wrongful death lawsuit filed Monday.

Domenico Spano, front, of New Milford, Conn., and his son Michael, 12, load an MG-42 machine gun during the Westfield Sportsman's Club's 2005 Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo in Westfield.

26, 2008, while shooting an Uzi for the first time at a gun show. CBS The family of an 8-year-old boy who fatally shot himself at a gun show in western Massachusetts say the Uzi submachine gun jammed twice before he lost control of the weapon and fired into his head.

Burdened with a terrible state fiscal crisis and deep cuts in local aid, the winners of today's mayoral elections in Western Massachusetts will be dealing with some of the worst fiscal conditions in decades, observers said on Monday.

This year's political campaign season ends today when Western Massachusetts voters head to the polls.

WESTFIELD IS ONE OF VERY FEW COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE THE SWINE FLU VACCINE. AND, YESTERDAY, 12 HUNDRED KIDS GOT THE FIRST ROUND OF SHOTS.

The cafeteria at South Middle School turned into a massive swine flu shot clinic Thursday afternoon with at least 50 volunteers prepared to administer 1,200 doses of the vaccine to elementary school aged children.

Mayor-elect Daniel M. Knapik began launching his campaign promise to reactivate the long-dormant Industrial Development Commission, part of his efforts to attract new business to the city.

New Mayors but Old Pros---that was the call of the day as western Mass went to the polls Tuesday.