Hampden County News

David E. Whitney talks about redistricting at his home in Bondsville; he is one of 364 residents affected by the change.

Music mogul and businessman Eric Suher, of Holyoke, bought the Holyoke Country Club on Thursday, paying $850,000 for the 112-acre parcel at 2 Country Club Road, according to records of the Hampden County Registry of Deeds.

Press release from the New England Historic Geneological Society On February 8, the New England Historic Genealogical Society , located at 99-101 Newbury Street, held a day-long African American History and Genealogy Open House.

Holyoke resident Juan G. Rodriguez pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.

Last June's tornado that ripped through southern Worcester and Hampden counties and left a trail of debris also wreaked havoc with tax collectors' ledgers.

Long Dinh Duong, 42, of Springfield , was sentenced Tuesday to 21 2 years in the Hampden County Correctional Center in Ludlow.

A City Council committee will meet Thursday to discuss two proposals - a group home for women in the McKnight neighborhood and a proposed ordinance that would regulate barbershops in the aftermath of a homicide and drug case in recent months.

Dennis Dudkin, a student at West Springfield High School speaks to Hampden DA Mark Mastroianni following Wednesdays meeting of the Youth Advisory Board in the Hampden County Courthouse.

Kimani Anderson was ordered held without right to bail Wednesday afternoon after denying a murder charge for the July 7, 2011 shooting of 16-year-old Tyrel Wheeler .

Springfield Partners for Community Action will hold free information sessions and tax preparation for victims of the June 1 tornado.

SPRINGFIELD - State police and members of the Hampden County Narcotics Task Force on Thursday night executed search warrants on two Lowell Street apartments in the city's Brightwood neighborhood, and arrested six people and confiscated heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and cash, officials said.

Lawmakers got an insider's look at the inner-workings of criminal investigations in the Hampden County District Attorney's office during a legislative breakfast on Friday, as well as a refresher course on the chronic budget woes of the office.

Hampden Superior Court Judge Tina S. Page on Thursday gave probation as punishment to a father and son who admitted having more than $30,000 in stolen goods, about 2200 pirated DVDs and 300 cartons of untaxed cigarettes when police raided their Hancock Street fish market.

SPRINGFIELD - A state official notified the city Wednesday that an $800,000 grant to combat youth and gang violence may be in jeopardy unless the City Council can agree to accept the money by the Tuesday deadline.

The defense lawyer argued Kenneth Rogers bit another inmate's ear off in self defense during a February 2010 incident at the Hampden County Correctional Center at Stony Brook in Ludlow .

The Berkshire District Attorney's Office on Monday turned over 141 computer discs of video and audio files to the lawyers representing three men accused in last August's triple slaying.

The National Weather Service in Taunton has issued a freezing-rain advisory for parts of the Pioneer Valley on Monday evening due to a combination of drizzling rain and temperatures in the low 30s.

While final snow reports are still coming in, the Springfield area and much of Hampden County will likely have received about 3 to 4 inches of snow from Saturday morning's storm.

A city woman was sentenced to two and a half years in jail Thursday, with 18 months to be served, after pleading guilty to a charge of possession of heroin with intent to distribute in Hampden County Superior Court in Springfield.

Video footage shows an officer and a bystander holding down Erik Aguilar on July 22, 2010.