Hampden County News

By BUFFY SPENCER bspencer@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - A 30-year-old South Hadley woman pleaded guilty to embezzlement and larceny charges of more than $58,000 Friday and was ordered to serve 60 days in the Hampden ...

Demolition crews work to take down a building Tuesday at the corner of Taylor and Chestnut streets to make way for a parking lot.

NOW VOTERS WILL DECIDE Wednesday, October 8, 2008 Two dozen public safety and school officials, headed by the D-A's of Hampden, Hampshire and Berkshire Counties say the proponents of Question Two, the question ...

The Massachusetts Career Development Institute has launched its independence from city government under an agreement that will result in a declining municipal subsidy over the next four years.

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 Readers of SHS will recall the tragic tale of Haleigh Poutre , beaten nearly to death by her adoptive parents and consigned quickly to death by dehydration by doctors who swore she ...

By STEPHANIE BARRY sbarry@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - A candidate for the state Legislature was arrested over a child support dispute today, two weeks after he was convicted on an assault-related charge linked to a ...

Members of the Springfield Arson and Bomb Squad apprehended a 17-year-old suspect for a series of arsons on Commonwealth Avenue, according to the fire department.

A 14-year-old brain-damaged girl may be called as a defense witness during the trial of the man prosecutors say helped beat her into a coma, his lawyers said Wednesday.

The Massachusetts open meeting law does not apply to a board created to review citizen complaints against police, the Hampden County district attorney's office has decided, according to a report yesterday in ...

The Hampden County medical examiner's office in Holyoke conducted an autopsy Saturday on a badly decomposed body recovered from the Connecticut River near Skeele Street on Wednesday, police said today.

By BUFFY SPENCER bspencer@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - The 20-year-old man who is charged in a hit and run accident here that crushed a 17-year-old Northampton woman's legs was ordered held without right to bail at ...

By JIM KINNEY Business writer SPRINGFIELD - Mortgage foreclosures in Hampden County rose by 55 percent this year through August, compared with the same period last year.

With fuel prices at an all time high, many people are worried about how they'll heat their homes this winter.

Widespread frost was expected overnight across Franklin County and in Western Hampden and Hampshire counties.

An important lesson for local law enforcement officers learning how to rescue and treat victims in critical situations.

A Massachusetts state trooper's mistake while processing a fingerprint match put an innocent man in jail for 22 days in two states, the Daily News has learned.

By ANGELA CARBONE acarbone@repub.com Incumbent U.S. Rep. John W. Olver, D-Amherst, crushed Democratic primary opponent Robert A. Feuer in the 1st Congressional District race.

J. John Ashe, superintendent of the Hampden County Sheriff Department and Correctional Center, left, and Robert N. Belyea, business development manager with Constellation Energy Projects and Services of Lowell, ...

By JEANETTE DeFORGE jdeforge@repub.com HOLYOKE - A man accused of shooting at two police officers early Saturday morning was being held on $100,000 bail after being arraigned on 14 charges Monday morning in ...

Joe Quinlan has been putting bad guys away for as long as some of the young lawyers who sat listening to him yesterday have been alive.