The Bay State ranked seventh on the list of users.

Fallout from the hacking of AshleyMadison.com continued with a list posted of the states, cities and towns of 37 million users of the adultery website.

With approximately 350,000 Ashley Madison users, Massachusetts was ranked as seventh highest on the state-by-state list, according to a data analysis anonymously posted on Reddit. No individual names were revealed.

Since hometowns were entered by users seeking extramarital affairs, the accuracy of the data is suspect.

On a graphic depicting users by area, Alabama placed first, followed by Colorado, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Connecticut, Arkansas and Massachusetts. West Virginia ranked last in the nation.

However, Alabama's dubious distinction may come from its top placement on drop down menus.

The Bay State list of cities and towns of Ashley Madison users raises some red flags too.

For example, Webster, which has a population of 16,767 reportedly has 6,053 Ashley Madison users - more than 36 percent of the town's population. However, Springfield, the state's third largest city, failed to make the list with less than 700 users.

So with a grain of salt, here are the 100 Massachusetts communities identified on Reddit as having the most Ashley Madison users:

1. Boston - 47,951
2. Worcester - 13,079
3. Cambridge - 12,486
4. Watertown - 10,071
5. Quincy - 9,420
6. Lowell - 8,314
7. Somerville - 7,035
8. Newton - 6,496
9. Webster - 6,053
10. Westfield - 5,873
11. New Bedford - 4,495
12. Fall River - 4,491
13. Framingham - 4,434
14. Brockton - 4,411
15. Waltham - 3,876
16. Haverhill - 3,710
17. Lynn - 3,660
18. Randolph - 3,293
19. Pittsfield - 3,219
20. Malden - 3,201
21. Agawam - 3,146
22. Taunton - 3,136
23. Woburn - 3,081
24. Beverly - 3,032
25. Southampton - 3,009
26. Brookline - 3,002
27. Natick - 2,958
28. Marlboro - 2,912
29. Norwood - 2,845
30. Chicopee - 2,794
31. Gardner - 2,776
32. Chelsea - 2,689
33. Peabody - 2,639
34. Leominster - 2,625
35. Revere - 2,607
36. Wakefield - 2,551
37. Fitchburg - 2,549
38. Methuen - 2,492
39. Attleboro - 2,426
40. Westwood - 2,413
41. Allston - 2,386
42. Abington - 2,370
43. Shewsbury - 2,359
44. Northampton - 2,326
45. Braintree - 2,286
46. Grafton - 2.251
47. Gloucester - 2,201
48. Stoughton - 2,067
49. Melrose - 1,933
50. Acton - 1,857
51. Bellerica - 1,831
52. Tewksbury - 1,800
53. Palmer - 1,777
54. Danvers - 1,771
55. Holyoke - 1,714
56. Hyannis - 1,700
57. Rockland - 1,671
58. North Andover - 1,586
59. West Springfield - 1,537
60. Chelmsford - 1,533
61. Jamaica Plain - 1,516
62. Adams - 1,494
63. North Attleboro - 1,453
64. Saugus - 1,450
65. Newburyport - 1,423
66. Norton - 1,361
67. Westborough - 1,350
68. Dedham - 1,348
69. Holden - 1,272
70. Roslindale - 1,177
71. Wayland - 1,165
72. Stoneham - 1,123
73. Hingham - 1,097
74. Winthrop - 1,039
75. Ludlow - 991
76. Weymouth - 984
77. Amesbury - 960
78. Sudbury - 960
79. Walpole - 953
80. Dudley - 915
81. Southbridge - 890
82. Hull - 875
83. Marblehead - 872
84. Athol - 852
85. North Dartmouth - 847
86. Medway - 834
87. East Weymouth - 823
88. South Weymouth - 816
89. Raynham - 815
90. Millbury - 795
91. Buzzard's Bay - 776
92. Halifax - 772
93. Needham - 768
94. East Falmouth - 766
95. Fairhaven - 756
96. Mattapan - 751
97. Easthampton - 731
98. Scituate - 712
99. Whitman - 705
100. Mashpee - 699

Hackers, who call themselves Impact Team, began dumping client data on anonymous websites on Aug. 18 after demanding Avid Life Media close down its Ashley Madison website.

Analysts combing through hacked data and email claimed that of the 37 million identities hacked only 12,000 active users were female.  Gizmodo reported  that  5.5 million female profiles were abandoned directly after they were created.

Impact Team claimed that Ashley Madison posted phony female profiles to attract male users. Also, the hackers noted the company's promise to delete confidential information was ineffective.

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Avid Life Media on behalf of clients.

Ashley Madison CEO and founder Noel Biderman stepped down on Friday in the wake of the  hack, according to a statement released by Avid Life Media. The company said it is working to restore the dating site and cooperating with law enforcement.

Atlanta police say a fan has died after falling from the upper deck at Turner Field during a game between the Braves and New York Yankees.

ATLANTA -- A fan died after falling from the upper deck into the lower-level stands at Turner Field on Saturday night during a game between the Atlanta Braves and the New York Yankees.

Lt. Charles Hampton of the Atlanta Police Department homicide unit confirmed death hours after the fall in the seventh inning.

Hampton said the man was in his early 60s and was pronounced dead at Grady Memorial Hospital. There was no immediate word on his identity pending notification of his next of kin.

Hampton said police don't suspect foul play at this point.

The man fell close to the area where players' wives and families sit, and there was blood was on the concrete surface around the seats.

Stadium medical personnel treated him for about 10 minutes, applying CPR. As they worked in a circle around the man, security officers cleared the area. The fan was taken from the seating area on a backboard.

A fan died at Turner Field on Aug. 12, 2013, after falling 85 feet from a walkway on the fourth level of the stadium. Investigators from the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office later ruled that the death of Ronald Lee Homer Jr., 30, was a suicide.

Police said Homer, of Conyers, Georgia, landed in the players' parking lot after a rain delay during a game between the Braves and Philadelphia.

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-- Atlanta Braves (@Braves) August 30, 2015

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-- Atlanta Braves (@Braves) August 30, 2015

Two fans died at major league games in 2011.

In Texas, a man fell about 20 feet to the ground beyond the outfield fence trying to catch a baseball tossed his way by Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton. Shannon Stone, 39 and a firefighter in Brownwood, Texas, was attending the Rangers game with his young son.

Earlier that year, a 27-year-old man died after falling about 20 feet and striking his head on concrete during a Colorado Rockies home game. Witnesses told police the man was trying to slide down a staircase railing at Coors Field and lost his balance.

After Saturday night's fall, some fans in the family section were escorted to a room near the Braves' clubhouse, and many were crying.

Braves outfielder Cameron Maybin's son was crying. A woman went to the Braves dugout and told catcher A.J. Pierzynski about what had occurred.

A security guard at the room where the family members went said witnesses saw the man trying to hang onto a wire that runs from the protective net behind the plate to under the press box. The man then fell the rest of the way into the seats.

The wires and even the net shook for a few seconds immediately after Alex Rodriguez was introduced as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning.

Police blocked off about 10 rows of seats in section 201.

Sacks had announced in February that he was terminally ill.

An author and neurologist who explored the wonders of the human brain in books like "Awakenings" has died. Dr. Oliver Sacks was 82.

Sack's assistant, Kate Edgar, says he died Sunday at his home in New York City.

Sacks had announced in February that he was terminally ill with a rare eye cancer that had spread to his liver.

As a neurologist, Sacks looked at some of his patients with a writer's eye and found new ways of explaining how all human brains function.

His book "Awakenings," about patients who spent years in a helpless, almost frozen state, was made into an Oscar-nominated 1990 movie starring Robin Williams.

His 1985 "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" became a best-seller. The title referred to a patient who had difficulty interpreting what he saw and really did mistake his wife's face for his own hat.

The New York resident was riding his motorcycle with a large group of motorcyclists when he crashed.

Dave Canton | dcanton@repub.com 

Seaborn R. Hall, 68, of Brownville, N.Y., was traveling on his 2006 Honda Goldwing Trike motorcycle around noon with a large group of motorcyclists when he drifted off the right shoulder of the highway and into the guardrail, police said.

Vermont State Police in Bradford responded to Route 113 where Hall was pronounced dead at the scene from his injuries.

Police said speed did not appear to be a factor in this collision. Police continue to investigate the accident.

The man was found driving a speeding car with his girlfriend and 3-year-old daughter in the car.

St. Johnsbury, Vt.-- Casey Perry, 26, of Barton, Vt., was arrested Aug. 28, for DUI, reckless endangerment and cruelty to a child.Vermont State Police 

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. — Police arrested a Vermont man for allegedly driving drunk and speeding on the highway with his 3-year-old daughter in the car.

Vermont State Police arrested Casey Perry, 26, of Barton, Vt. on Friday night after they spotted his 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt, speeding down Interstate 91 northbound at 90 miles per hour.

After a four mile chase on the highway police stopped Perry around 10: 30 p.m. on South Wheelock Road, in Lyndon, VT.

Police found Perry was driving with a suspended license with his 3-year-old daughter and his girlfriend in the car. He was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, attempting to elude police, negligent operation, reckless endangerment and cruelty to a child under 10 by one over 16.

Perry is set to appear in Caledonia Criminal Court, in St. Johnsbury, VT., on Monday.

NEW YORK — There was the blind man who had the disastrous experience of regaining his sight. The surgeon who developed a sudden passion for music after being struck by lightning. And most famously, the man who mistook his wife for a hat. Those stories and many more, taking the reader to the distant ranges of human experience, came from...

NEW YORK -- There was the blind man who had the disastrous experience of regaining his sight. The surgeon who developed a sudden passion for music after being struck by lightning. And most famously, the man who mistook his wife for a hat.

Those stories and many more, taking the reader to the distant ranges of human experience, came from the pen of Dr. Oliver Sacks.

Sacks, 82, died Sunday at his home in New York City, his assistant, Kate Edgar, said. In February, he had announced that he was terminally ill with a rare eye cancer that had spread to his liver.

As a practicing neurologist, Sacks looked at some of his patients with a writer's eye and found publishing gold.

In his best-selling 1985 book, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," he described a man who really did mistake his wife's face for his hat while visiting Sacks' office, because his brain had difficulty interpreting what he saw. Another story in the book featured twins with autism who had trouble with ordinary math but who could perform other amazing calculations.

Discover magazine ranked it among the 25 greatest science books of all time in 2006, declaring, "Legions of neuroscientists now probing the mysteries of the human brain cite this book as their greatest inspiration."

Sacks' 1973 book, "Awakenings," about hospital patients who'd spent decades in a kind of frozen state until Sacks tried a new treatment, led to a 1990 movie in which Sacks was portrayed by Robin Williams. It was nominated for three Academy Awards.

Still another book, "An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales," published in 1995, described cases like a painter who lost color vision in a car accident but found new creative power in black-and-white, and a 50-year-old man who suddenly regained sight after nearly a lifetime of blindness. The experience was a disaster; the man's brain could not make sense of the visual world. It perceived the human face as a shifting mass of meaningless colors and textures.

After a full and rich life as a blind person, he became "a very disabled and miserable partially sighted man," Sacks recalled later. "When he went blind again, he was rather glad of it."

Despite the drama and unusual stories, his books were not literary freak shows.

"Oliver Sacks humanizes illness ... he writes of body and mind, and from every one of his case studies there radiates a feeling of respect for the patient and for the illness," Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, said in 2001. "What others consider unmitigated tragedy or dysfunction, Sacks sees, and makes us see, as a human being coping with dignity with a biological problem."

When Sacks received the prestigious Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing in 2002, the citation declared, "Sacks presses us to follow him into uncharted regions of human experience -- and compels us to realize, once there, that we are confronting only ourselves."

In a 1998 interview with The Associated Press, Sacks said he tries to make "visits to other people, to other interiors, seeing the world through their eyes."

His 2007 book, "Musicophilia," looked at examines the relationship between music and the brain, including its healing effect on people suffering from such diseases as Tourette's syndrome, Parkinson's, autism and Alzheimer's.

"Even with advanced dementia, when powers of memory and language are lost, people will respond to music," he told The Associated Press in 2008.

Oliver Wolf Sacks was born in 1933 in London, son of husband-and-wife physicians. Both were skilled at recounting medical stories, and Sack's own writing impulse "seems to have come directly from them," he said in his 2015 memoir, "On the Move."

In childhood he was drawn to chemistry (his 2001 memoir is titled "Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood") and biology. Around age 11, fascinated by how ferns slowly unfurl, he set up a camera to take pictures every hour or so of a fern and then assembled a flip book to compress the process into a few seconds.

"I became a doctor a little belatedly and a little reluctantly," he told one interviewer. "In a sense, I was a naturalist first and I only came to individuals relatively late."

After earning a medical degree at Oxford, Sacks moved to the United States in 1960 and completed a medical internship in San Francisco and a neurology residency at the University of California, Los Angeles. He moved to New York in 1965 and began decades of neurology practice. At a Bronx hospital he met the profoundly disabled patients he described in "Awakenings."

Among his other books were "The Island of the Colorblind" (1997) about a society where congenital colorblindness was common, "Seeing Voices" (1989) about the world of deaf culture, and "Hallucinations" (2012), in which Sacks discussed his own hallucinations as well as those of some patients.

Even apart from his books, he wrote prolifically. He began keeping journals at age 14, and in his 2015 memoir he said he'd filled more than a thousand at last count. He kept a notebook nearby when he went to bed or swam, never knowing when thoughts would strike. They often arrived in complete sentences or paragraphs.

FILE - This is a Nov. 26, 2008 file photo of Dr Oliver Sacks, receiving his Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE ), by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, London.Lewis Whyld 

Yet, he rarely looked at his journals after filling them. "The act of writing is itself enough ... ideas emerge and are shaped, in the act of writing," he said in his 2015 book.

Writing gave him "a joy, unlike any other," he said. "It takes me to another place. ... In those rare, heavenly states of mind, I may write nonstop until I can no longer see the paper. Only then do I realize that evening has come and that I have been writing all day."

In the AP interview, Sacks was asked what he'd learned from peering into lives much different from the norm.

"People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever," he replied. "And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world."

Sacks reflected on his own life this year when he wrote in the New York Times that he was terminally ill. "I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions," he wrote.

In the time he had remaining, he said, he would no longer pay attention to matters like politics and global warming because they "are no longer my business; they belong to the future. I rejoice when I meet gifted young people. ... I feel the future is in good hands."

"I cannot pretend I am without fear," he wrote. "But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. ... Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure."

The stabbing occurred on High Street in Springfield Saturday night.

Conor Berry | cberry@repub.com 

SPRINGFIELD — Police have identified the victim of a stabbing death in Springfield as David Steven Guasp.

Guasp, 21, of Springfield, was killed Saturday night after being stabbed behind an apartment building at 92 High St. just after 7 p.m.

The victim was rushed to the hospital, but later died of his injuries.

Police say they have no suspects at this time and the incident remains under investigation.

"Detectives have been working around the clock under the direction of Cpt. Trent Duda and have been following leads," said police spokesman Sgt. John Delaney, adding that the street is in a high crime area known for gang activity.

Anyone with information about the homicide is asked to call the Springfield police Detective Bureau at (413) 787-6355.

Those who wish to remain anonymous may text a tip via a cell phone by addressing a text message to "CRIMES," or "274637," and then beginning the body of the message with the word "SOLVE."

The U.S. flag flew at half-staff at Turner Field on Sunday, one day after a fan died following his fall from the upper deck into the lower-level stands during a game between the Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees.

ATLANTA -- The U.S. flag flew at half-staff at Turner Field on Sunday, one day after a fan died following his fall from the upper deck into the lower-level stands during a game between the Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees.

Mary Beth Hauptle, an investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner, identified the victim as Gregory K. Murrey, 60, of Alpharetta, Georgia. Murrey was pronounced dead at Grady Memorial Hospital.

The Braves said Sunday they are "deeply saddened" by Murrey's death.

"Greg was a valued and longtime season-ticket holder and an incredibly passionate Braves fan," the team said in a statement. "This tragic loss is felt throughout Braves Country, and the thoughts and prayers of the entire Braves organization continue to go out to his family and friends."

The Braves displayed a photo of Murrey on the videoboard and observed a moment of silence before Sunday's game.

The fall in the seventh inning immediately followed the introduction of Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez as a pinch hitter.

Yankees react to fan's death

Lt. Charles Hampton of the Atlanta Police Department homicide unit said foul play is not suspected at this point. He said no fans were hurt in the 200-level seats where the man fell from section 401, landing close to an area where players' wives and families sit.

Braves president John Schuerholz said grief counselors have been made available to players' friends and family members who witnessed the fall.

"It's just sad and we're all dealing with the sadness and the tragedy of it for the gentleman's family and anybody who happened to witness it," Schuerholz said. "It's difficult and that's what our focus is now."

A Braves security officer blocked an Associated Press reporter from entering section 401 on Sunday without a ticket.

Braves second baseman Jace Peterson said his girlfriend was close to the spot Murrey fell.

"It was within 10 feet from her," Peterson said. "So everybody whose families were here definitely experienced some part of it. It's not good for anyone to see something like that.

"A lot of player families were right there. I heard some pretty graphic stuff. It's not something I really want to get into. It's just unfortunate."

Yankees catcher Brian McCann's mother, who is a nurse, was one of the first to assist Murrey following his fall.

"She ran to him," said McCann, who began his career with the Braves. "She was in the mix trying to do everything she could."

This was the third fan death from a fall at Turner Field in eight seasons. In 2013, a fan's death was ruled a suicide; In 2008, police cited alcohol as a factor after a man died.

Major League Baseball said it had been in contact with the Braves and was monitoring the situation.

A sellout crowd of 49,243 was the largest of the season at Turner Field. The Braves are set to move into a new suburban stadium in 2017.

Schuerholz said now is not the time to say if the latest death at Turner Field would affect plans for the new stadium, including the height of the rails which line the bottom of each section of seats.

"We made our plans long before this event occurred," Schuerholz said. "Every facility that's getting built, there's a great deal of communication with architects and engineers and the league in terms of abiding by league standards for the industry. We certainly will do that."

Adam Staudacher and his girlfriend were returning to their seats near where Murrey fell.

Staudacher, 33, from Atlanta, said it appeared Murrey landed headfirst on a 3-foot-wide walkway between sections. He estimated 20 EMTs immediately surrounded the fan and began doing CPR, adding they treated him for "five to seven minutes" before taking him away.

Staudacher said he saw no movement from the fan.

"There were a ton of kids right there," he said. "It was a disturbing scene. Disturbing doesn't really go far enough."

MLB has said it is studying the issue of fan safety in the wake of several people being hurt by foul balls and flying bats this season. Some players have called for more protective netting around the field.

A fan died at Turner Field on Aug. 12, 2013, after falling 85 feet from a walkway on the fourth level of the stadium. Investigators from the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office later ruled that the death of Ronald Lee Homer Jr., 30, was a suicide.

In 2008, Justin Hayes, 25, died after falling down a stairwell in Atlanta during a game against the Mets. Police said alcohol contributed to his fall that caused head injuries.

Two fans died at major league games in 2011.

In Texas, a man fell about 20 feet to the ground beyond the outfield fence trying to catch a baseball tossed his way by Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton. Shannon Stone, 39 and a firefighter in Brownwood, Texas, was attending the Rangers game with his young son.

Earlier that year, a 27-year-old man died after falling about 20 feet and striking his head on concrete during a Colorado Rockies home game. Witnesses told police the man was trying to slide down a staircase railing at Coors Field and lost his balance.

Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona said fan safety is always a concern.

"I think the powers that be are constantly trying, one, give the fans the experience they want while also making it as safe as possible," Francona said. "People smarter than me spend a lot of time trying to make it the best it can be."

The man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a uniformed suburban Houston sheriff's deputy had a lengthy criminal record going back a decade, but never spent more than short stints in jail.

HOUSTON -- The man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a uniformed suburban Houston sheriff's deputy had a lengthy criminal record going back a decade, but never spent more than short stints in jail. 

Shannon J. Miles, whose criminal record includes convictions for resisting arrest and disorderly conduct with a firearm, was to be arraigned Monday in the shooting of Darren Goforth, a 10-year veteran of the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Miles' arrest Saturday came less than 24 hours after authorities said he ambushed Goforth at a suburban Houston Chevron station.

Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman said the attack was "clearly unprovoked," and there is no evidence that Goforth knew Miles. Investigators have no information from Miles that would shed light on his motive, Hickman said.

"Our assumption is that he (Goforth) was a target because he wore a uniform," the sheriff said.

Miles' criminal record begins in 2005, when he was convicted of criminal mischief, giving false information to police and resisting arrest, according to records. In 2006, he was convicted of disorderly conduct with a firearm and sentenced to a maximum of 15 days in jail. He was convicted of evading arrest in 2007, and his most recent conviction came in 2009 for again resisting arrest.

Records show that the 30-year-old Houston resident was sentenced to several short stints in jail, anywhere from 10 to 6 days.

Court and jail records did not list an attorney for Miles and attempts to reach his family members on Sunday were unsuccessful.

Goforth, 47, was pumping gas at a Chevron station Friday night in Cypress, a middle- to upper-middle-class suburban area of Harris County located northwest of Houston, when the gunman approached him from behind and fired multiple shots, continuing to fire after the deputy had fallen to the ground.

The killing evoked strong emotions in the local law enforcement community, with Hickman linking it to heightened tension over the treatment of African-Americans by police. Goforth was white and Miles is black.

The nationwide "Black Lives Matter" movement that formed after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, has sought sweeping reforms of policing. Related protests erupted in Texas recently after a 28-year-old Chicago-area black woman, Sandra Bland, was found dead in a county jail about 50 miles northwest of Houston three days after her arrest on a traffic violation. Texas authorities said she committed suicide but her family is skeptical of that.

Hickman and Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson pushed back against the criticism of police.

"We've heard Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter. Well, cops' lives matter, too," Hickman said Saturday.

Deray McKesson, a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, told the Houston Chronicle: "It is unfortunate that Sheriff Hickman has chosen to politicize this tragedy and to attribute the officer's death to a movement that seeks to end violence."

A prayer walk and second vigil at the Chevron station where Goforth died has been planned for Sunday night. A Houston-based non-profit group called the 100 Club, which supports the families of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, is providing Goforth's wife with $20,000, and additional support, up to $300,000, could be provided to his family depending on their needs after an assessment is completed, the organization said.

At a vigil at the gas station Saturday night, members of the community were joined by law enforcement officers. Goforth's wife, Kathleen, released a statement to Houston television station KPRC-TV that said her husband was "ethical; the right thing to do is what guided his internal compass.

The victim has been identified as David Steven Guasp, 21.

This updates a story posted at 2:53 p.m.

SPRINGFIELD - Police continue to investigate the stabbing death of a 21-year-old man, who was killed behind his apartment building Saturday night.

Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni said he was called Saturday night about the stabbing, that happened at about 7 p.m. behind a brick multi-story apartment building at 92 High St.

He said the city's 14th homicide is under investigation and could release little information about the case.

"Nothing has really developed in the recent hours," he said Sunday afternoon.

David Steven Guasp, 21, was stabbed at about 7 p.m. He was rushed to the hospital by ambulance but later died of his injuries, according to Sgt. John Delaney, Police Department spokesman.

"Detectives have been working around the clock under the direction of Capt. Trent Duda and have been following leads," he said.

Police do not have any suspects yet, he said.

Anyone with information about the homicide is asked to call the Springfield police Detective Bureau at (413) 787-6355.

Those who wish to remain anonymous may text a tip via a cell phone by addressing a text message to "CRIMES," or "274637," and then beginning the body of the message with the word "SOLVE."

The city's last homicide was on June 30 when Chris Calvente, 19, was shot to death at the corner of Prospect and Massasoit streets. Within hours after the crime, police arrested Eric Rivera, 25 and Yeyson Rivera, 27, and charged them with the crime.

The victim has been identified as David Steven Guasp, 21.

This updates a story posted at 2:53 p.m.

SPRINGFIELD - Police continue to investigate the stabbing death of a 21-year-old man, who was killed behind his apartment building Saturday night.

Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni said he was called Saturday night about the stabbing, that happened at about 7 p.m. behind a brick multi-story apartment building at 92 High St.

He said the city's 14th homicide is under investigation and could release little information about the case.

"Nothing has really developed in the recent hours," he said Sunday afternoon.

David Steven Guasp, 21, was stabbed at about 7 p.m. He was rushed to the hospital by ambulance but later died of his injuries, according to Sgt. John Delaney, Police Department spokesman.

"Detectives have been working around the clock under the direction of Capt. Trent Duda and have been following leads," he said.

Police do not have any suspects yet, he said.

Anyone with information about the homicide is asked to call the Springfield police Detective Bureau at (413) 787-6355.

Those who wish to remain anonymous may text a tip via a cell phone by addressing a text message to "CRIMES," or "274637," and then beginning the body of the message with the word "SOLVE."

The city's last homicide was on June 30 when Chris Calvente, 19, was shot to death at the corner of Prospect and Massasoit streets. Within hours after the crime, police arrested Eric Rivera, 25 and Yeyson Rivera, 27, and charged them with the crime.

President Barack Obama will change the name of North America's tallest mountain peak from Mount McKinley to Denali, the White House said Sunday, bestowing the traditional Alaska Native name on the eve of a historic presidential visit to Alaska.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will change the name of North America's tallest mountain peak from Mount McKinley to Denali, the White House said Sunday, bestowing the traditional Alaska Native name on the eve of a historic presidential visit to Alaska.

By renaming the peak Denali, an Athabascan word meaning "the high one," Obama is wading into a sensitive and decades-old conflict between residents of Alaska and Ohio. Alaskans have informally called the 20,320-foot mountain Denali for years, but the federal government recognizes its name evoking the 25th president, William McKinley, who was born in Ohio and assassinated early in his second term.

"With our own sense of reverence for this place, we are officially renaming the mountain Denali in recognition of the traditions of Alaska Natives and the strong support of the people of Alaska," said Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.

The announcement came as Obama prepared to depart early Monday on a three-day visit to Alaska, becoming the first sitting president to travel north of the Arctic Circle. As part of his visit, Obama is attempting to show solidarity with Alaska Natives, and planned to hold a round-table session with a group of Alaska Natives just after arriving Monday in Anchorage.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who had pushed legislation for years to change the name, said Alaskans were "honored" to recognize the mountain as Denali -- a change in tone for the Alaska Republican, who had spoken out against Obama's energy policies in anticipation of his visit to her state.

"I'd like to thank the president for working with us to achieve this significant change to show honor, respect, and gratitude to the Athabascan people of Alaska," Murkowski said in a statement.

Prior efforts by Alaska's leaders to change the name date back to 1975, but have been stymied by members of Ohio's congressional delegation. It was unclear whether Ohio leaders or other opponents of the change would mount an effort to block the resignation. The White House cited Jewell's authority to change the name, and the Interior Department said Jewell planned to issue a secretarial order officially changing it to Denali.

The peak got its officially recognized name in 1898, when a prospector was exploring mountains in central Alaska, the White House said. Upon hearing the news that McKinley, a Republican, had received his party's nomination to be president, the prospector named it after him and the name was formally recognized.

The White House noted that McKinley never visited Alaska, and said the site is significant culturally to Alaska natives and central to the Athabascan creation story.

Temperatures are expected to be in the high 80s or 90s all week and it will be humid.

When students and teachers return to school this week in Western Massachusetts they may spend their first week of classes battling a heat wave.

"It is going to feel more like mid July than the beginning of September," said Don Maher meteorologist at Western Mass News, the media partner of The Republican and Masslive.

Students in a variety of communities including Chicopee, Holyoke, Springfield, Longmeadow and South Hadley are starting school on Monday. Along with being greeted by their new teachers and classes, they will be facing a predicted temperature high of 89 degrees.

The warm weather is not expected to abate quickly, so East Longmeadow students, who are starting Tuesday, or children in Northampton, West Springfield and Wilbraham-Hampden who are beginning school on Wednesday won't be spared.

For now the forecast is calling for a high temperature of 88 degrees on Tuesday, a high of 92 on Wednesday and a high of 91 on Thursday. The dew points will also climb into the 60s so it will also be humid all week, Maher said.

The warm weather is due to a southerly jet stream which is bringing the heat from the Gulf of Mexico, he said.

Western Massachusetts has skipped having a heat wave, which is defined as three days of 90 degree temperatures in a row, all summer. It missed by one degree in late July after the region had two days of 90 degree temperatures but the high on the third day was 89 degrees. That was repeated two week ago when the region missed the heat wave again by just one degree.

A heat wave could strike this week, Maher said.

"It certainly is looking like a possibility," he said. "Ninety degrees is not out of the question for Monday or Tuesday."

While some newer schools including Elias Brookings, in Springfield, Minnechaug High School, in Wilbraham, and Chicopee High, Comprehensive High and the Dupont Middle School, all in Chicopee, have air conditioning, the majority of schools across the region do not.

The 26th annual Olde Time fiddle Contest is scheduled Saturday at 1 p.m..

BLANDFORD - Midway rides, agricultural and livestock judging, ox draws, antique tractor pulls and the 49th annual Art Show will be highlighted when the Blandford Fair Grounds opens Friday for its 148th annual fair.

Grounds will open at 3 p.m. Friday and at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The fair will remain open until 9 a.m. each day except for Monday when the grounds will close at 6 p.m..

Various exhibit halls will be open each day featuring agricultural and livestock history of the region and the annual Art Show and sale will be open during regular fair hours.

A Barnyard Petting Zoo and pony rides will be featured for young children in addition to various midway rides and games.

Various food vendors will offer refreshment for sale and the fair will feature a different dinner in the dining hall each day.

There will also be numerous exhibits and displays throughout the four-day fair.

Entertainment will include Orange Crush Band on Friday and Cory & The Knightsmen on Sunday. Also on Sunday the Tom Ingram Band will perform.

Children's old fashioned games will be featured on Saturday and a kids' corn husking contest on Sunday.

A scarecrow building contest is scheduled at 12:30 p.m. Saturday followed at 1 p.m, by the 26th annual Olde Time Fiddle Contest.

A pro-horseshoe Tournament has been scheduled for noon on Sunday and at 5 p.m. Sunday there will be ox draws and the Stone Boat Truck pulls.

Monday will feature a youth dairy cattle show and the 8th annual Kiddie Pedal Tractor Pull.

The girl, who is now 17, said she was abused over a three-year period.

MANCHESTER, VT - A 41-year-old man had been arrested and charged with sexually abusing his stepdaughter over a period of three years.

Ryan Neidhold, of Manchester, was arrested on Friday and charged with aggravated repeated sexual assault and lewd and lascivious conduct with a child after, Vermont State Police said.

Ryan NeidholdVermont State Police photo 

"The victim stated that Neidhold sexually abused her while they lived in three different homes over a three-year period," police said in a written statement.

The victim, who is now 17, gave police a detailed account of the abuse, said the crimes happened between 2011 and 2013, police said.

Neidhold is being held at the Shaftsbury State Police barracks without bail until his arraignment, scheduled for Monday, police said.

The number of police tows has been declining in recent years.

SOUTHWICK - The three-member Board of Selectmen is scheduled to consider adding a second motor vehicle tow operator, on a rotating basis, for police ordered tows when it meets Monday night.

The request that a second tow operator be added to the Police Department call list was presented to selectmen last week by Police Chief David Ricardi.

Ricardi said that despite a decline in the numbers of police order tows annually, a second operator is needed as a backup and should be added on a rotating basis.

That operator, Southwick Collission Center will join Prifti Motors if selectmen approve the chief's request. Prifti has been a police tow operator for many years and several years ago the Police Department relied on as many as three two operators.

"The number of required tows has declined from 200 in 2013 to maybe 100 this year," Ricardi told selectmen last week.

But, the chief said Todd Doiron, owner of Southwick Collission Center has asked to be added as an operator for the Police Department.

"We should have two operators to avoid any long-term delay in getting vehicles towed in emergencies and because of accidents," the chief said.

Donald Prifti attended last week's selectmen meeting are argued against the need for a second operator.

"I have a back up system in place with a fleet of 20 trucks. I never refuse a police tow call and we can be there within 20 minutes," Prifti told selectmen.

The Board of Selectmen is scheduled to meet Monday at Town Hall at 6:50 p.m..

The event included a homebrew contest, bands and food.

SPRINGFIELD - Hundreds gathered at the city's inaugural Valley Beer Fest on Court Square on Saturday to sample some of more than 100 different beers from 51 breweries across the country.

The event was organized by Raymond Berry and his Springfield brewery White Lion Brewing Company. It was the second beer festival held in the city this year.

While beer was the focus, there was also plenty of food and entertainment to keep people busy while they sampled the many brews available.

The event also featured a homebrew contest.

A portion of the proceeds from the festival was donated to the American Cancer Society and Dakin Humane Society.

Here are some of the things people were Tweeting about the event.

Two members are not running again, and one incumbent is up for re-election.

NORTHAMPTON -- Five residents will vie for three seats on the Forbes Library Board of Trustees, according to the City Clerk's office.

The candidates whose names will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot are Kathleen Wight of 20 Northern Ave., Peter L. Kobel of 57 Lyman Road, Janet S. Gross of 38 Round Hill Road, Elaine M. Reall of 12 East St. and Joseph A. Twarog of 21 Longfellow Drive.

Wight, who goes by the nickname "Katy," is North American sales and marketing manager for Edward Elgar Publishing in Northampton. She is enrolled in Simmons College, working towards a master's degree in Library and Information Science.

"I have 20 years of experience in the publishing industry," Wight writes on her campaign's Facebook page. "I believe Forbes Library is an invaluable institution in our community as a provider of free information and protector of privacy for everyone, regardless of income, ability or background."

Kobel is a communications consultant with the Massachusetts Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and adjunct professor of journalism at Springfield College, according to his LinkedIn page. He is also a journalist and author. Kobel currently edits the library's newsletter.

Janet Gross, a retired academic, moved to Northampton with her husband Nicolas in 2007, where the two bought and restored their 1860s Carpenter Gothic home. The couples' children attended Hampshire College in the 1990s, according to the Amherst Bulletin.

Twarog is Associate Director of Labor Education and Training for the Massachusetts Nurses Association. He is finishing up his first four-year term as a library trustee. A native of Holyoke, he has lived in Northampton for more than two decades.

Reall was a lawyer for the city of Northampton between 1997 and 2012. A member of the city's three-member License Commission, she also served as labor counsel for the Forbes Library for 18 years.

In a prepared statement, Reall said she wants to "expand the library's outreach into the community, restore cuts whenever possible, and make sure its finances stay strong." She plans a Sept. 9 campaign kickoff at Roberto's Restaurant at 223 Pleasant St.

Twarog is running as an incumbent; trustees Peter Rowe and Bonnie Burnham are not running re-election. Trustees serve in a volunteer capacity in staggered four-year terms.

Trustees' meetings are open to the public and generally held on the third Thursday of each month at 4:00 PM in the Watson Room of the library. The Forbes operates with a $1.2 million annual budget.

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Mary Serreze can be reached at mserreze@gmail.com.

All five Democratic presidential candidates are expected to speak at the New Hampshire Democratic convention. But the candidates apparently will not make it to Springfield, where Massachusetts Democrats will be holding their own annual event on the same day.

Good news for New Hampshire Democrats means a disappointment for some Springfield activists.

All five Democratic presidential candidates are expected to speak at the New Hampshire Democratic Party's convention in Manchester, N.H. on Sept. 19. But the candidates apparently will not make it two hours south, to Springfield, where the Massachusetts Democratic Party will be holding its own annual event.

"Unfortunately, when our convention was scheduled, New Hampshire hadn't done theirs yet," said Candy Glazer, a member of the Democratic State Committee's executive committee from Longmeadow and a member of the Massachusetts convention's host committee. "New Hampshire is holding their state convention on the same day, so obviously the candidates will be in New Hampshire."

Glazer said Democrats scheduled the Massachusetts convention for September, instead of in June as is typical, in the hopes that some of the presidential candidates would show up.

However, so far, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's campaign has said it will send Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor and Democratic National Committee chairman. Former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley will send Boston City Councilor Matt O'Malley, who is unrelated to the candidate. The Massachusetts party has not yet heard back from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee or former Virginia senator Jim Webb.

Lizzy Price, a spokeswoman for the New Hampshire Democratic Party, confirmed that all of the Democrats plan to attend the Manchester, N.H., event.

Some Western Massachusetts delegates say they understand.

Edward Collins, a Democratic State Committee member from Springfield, said he assumed O'Malley and Sanders would come, until he heard about the conflict with New Hampshire.

"If they're in the area, it doesn't mean they couldn't try to do both," Collins said. "But if they can't possibly be at both, the smart play would be for them to go to New Hampshire."

The Massachusetts convention, he said, does not have a straw poll, which could have drawn more attention.

"It would be just a speaking engagement, so I'm not terribly concerned one way or another if they come," Collins said.

New Hampshire holds the nation's first primary and is considered one of the most important contests for candidates, particularly those lesser-known candidates who are trying to show potential supporters that they can win public support. Massachusetts is one of 10 states voting on March 1, so-called Super Tuesday, the first day of contests after the four early nominating states.

But other activists are disappointed. Matt Barron, a Democratic strategist from Chesterfield, said he will boycott the convention, partly because he is upset that none of the presidential candidates are coming.

"I find it a little insulting," Barron said. "Massachusetts has more delegates on the floor of the convention next summer than Iowa and New Hampshire combined, and we have one more electoral vote than they do combined."

Barron said the candidates raise funds in Massachusetts and should take the opportunity to speak to grassroots activists. "We're seen as an ATM machine," Barron said.

Barron said he does not see why candidates could not travel between Manchester and Springfield and speak at both conventions.

Barron recalled a Springfield convention in 1983, when a straw poll attracted that year's Democratic candidates - including Gary Hart, Walter Mondale, John Glenn, Reubin Askew and others. (Mondale won.)

"It was exciting," Barron said. "Having surrogates doesn't do it for me."

In May 1999, Massachusetts voters again held a straw poll at the Democratic convention in Springfield. Al Gore beat Bill Bradley three to one, although both sides dismissed the poll as a distraction from the next year's primaries, and the candidates did not attend. (The Union-News, forerunner of The Republican, reported that year that the idea of holding a straw poll was controversial, with some Democrats hoping it would attract presidential candidates and others fearing it would keep them away.)

Governor's Councilor Michael Albano, now a Longmeadow Democrat, recalled that the convention in 1999 generated excitement in Springfield, where he was then mayor. But Albano said he is not surprised that the candidates are not coming to the Massachusetts convention this year.

"That's to be expected because of where we fall in the presidential primary. I don't fault those seeking the nomination not to spend a lot of time and money and effort here," Albano said.

Pat Beaudry, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Democratic Party, said, "No one would like to see a presidential candidate speaking in Springfield more than us at the party."

But Beaudry said there was a series of "unfortunate coincidences" in which the New Hampshire convention was scheduled after the Massachusetts convention on the same day.

"You also have to remember, this is the Massachusetts Democratic Party. We have the national figures right here in the Bay State," Beaudry said.

Massachusetts has bred numerous powerful Democrats both currently and in the past, including U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Secretary of State John Kerry and the Kennedy family.

"The country watches us, not the other way around," Beaudry said. "We're going to be wiling and able to do our part to elect a Democrat to the White House just like we did four and eight years ago for President Obama."

The man who admitted killing three people at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites gave jurors a Nazi salute Monday after they convicted him of murder and other charges for the shootings, which he said would allow him to "die a martyr."

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) -- The man who admitted killing three people at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites gave jurors a Nazi salute Monday after they convicted him of murder and other charges for the shootings, which he said would allow him to "die a martyr."

It took the jury of seven men and five women just over two hours to find Frazier Glenn Miller guilty of one count of capital murder, three counts of attempted murder and assault and weapons charges.

After the verdict was announced, Miller, 74, of Aurora, Missouri, said: "The fat lady just sang." As jurors were filing out of the courtroom, he raised his right arm in the Nazi salute and told them: "You probably won't sleep tonight."

During the prosecution's closing, District Attorney Steve Howe cited a "mountain of evidence" against Miller, who is charged with capital murder in the April 2014 shootings at two Jewish sites in Overland Park, Kansas. Although he has admitted to killing the three people, he has pleaded not guilty, saying it was his duty to stop genocide against the white race. None of the victims was Jewish.

"He wants to be the one who decides who lives and dies," Howe said of Miller.

The Passover eve shootings killed William Corporon, 69, and Corporon's 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, and Terri LaManno, 53, at the nearby Village Shalom retirement center.

During his closing, Miller said he had been "floating on a cloud" since the killings. Earlier, he objected when Howe alleged he wanted to kill as many people as possible. Miller interjected: "I wanted to kill Jews, not people."

Miller urged jurors to "show great courage" and find him not guilty.

"You have the power in your hands to inspire the world," he said. "You can become a man or woman your forefathers will be proud of for your bravery."

The proceedings were marked with frequent outbursts from Miller, who objected repeatedly while jurors were out of the courtroom during discussions about what instructions should guide deliberations. At one point, he said, "I object to everything on the grounds of George Washington, our founding father."

The objections became so heated that Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan temporarily ejected Miller from the courtroom when Miller said he didn't respect the process and used an anti-Semitic comment to criticize the court system. Ryan told Miller that if there were further outbursts, he would permanently eject him or declare a mistrial.

Miller groused before finally agreeing, "I will take it under advisement and try to improve."

Miller is a Vietnam War veteran who founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in his native North Carolina and later the White Patriot Party. He also ran for the U.S. House in 2006 and the U.S. Senate in 2010 in Missouri, each time espousing a white-power platform.