Hampden County News

Mike, of Greenfield, says Greenfield District Drug Court gave him the time to examine his life and helped him pick up tools like Alcoholics Anonymous that have helped keep him sober after years of intermittent problems.

BOSTON - For the past 15 years, Jean Caldwell has volunteered to teach English to children in Springfield Public Schools who mostly speak another language in their homes.

The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning through 8 am for all of Hampden County and valley areas of Hampshire County.

Some escaped through the front door, others ran down the back stairs. By 3:15 a.m., three generations of Stephen Guy's family were standing in the rain outside 11 Crescent St.

David D. Curti, who has seen the the price of flood hazard insurance on his home at 20 Brightwater St.

The prosecutor in the Anthony P. Baye case told the jury Thursday that there is no physical or eyewitness evidence tying the defendant to a rash of fires that terrorized Northampton on Dec.

SPRINGFIELD - U.S. marshals tracked a man to Utah a year after he allegedly drugged and raped a 13-year-old in Agawam.

As lifestyles have become more face-paced and informal, members-only country club dining has become something of an anachronism.

The Hampden County Bar Association's John F. Moriarty Scholarship Award will be offered to a county resident who has been admitted to or is attending a certified law school for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Anne Miller, center left, of the Westfield Kiwanis Club, presents the Southwick Fire Department with trauma bears to be given to children involved in traumatic incidents.

The trial of a Northampton man charged with setting a series of fires in the city in 2009 that resulted in two deaths has been moved.

Hampden County in Massachusetts has seen a lot of American history. Officially founded in 1812 when it was split off from it's now northern neighbor, Hampshire County, it actually existed in one form or another since 1636.

A Hampden County Superior Court judge ruled last week that the man who was defeated for the Ward 2 City Council seat by James E. Brown Jr.

The exterior of Union Station is seen on Frank Murray Street in downtown Springfield.

PITTSFIELD -- Adam Lee Hall , one of three men accused in a 2011 triple slaying that prosecutors say is linked to the Pittsfield chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, has proclaimed his innocence in a letter to the Berkshire Eagle .

Above, Father Mathew Hall, built in 1901. Above right, the Rev. Theobald Mathew, a famous proponent of total abstinence from alcohol, who spoke in the area in 1848 and 1849.