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Holyoke screening committee seeks public comments about the next police chief
The committee will recommend finalists to the mayor, who is authorized to appoint the police chief. Joseph McGiverin, chairman of the police chief search committee | Republican file photo HOLYOKE – A...
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates: Libya operation could last "far longer" than...
On ABC's "This Week," Gates said some NATO officials suggested it would take three months "but people in the Pentagon think it could be far longer than that." View full sizeAssociated Press...
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Distressed Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima Dai-ichi faces additional...
Despite Sunday's troubles, officials continued to insist the situation had at least partially stabilized. View full sizeAssociated PressWhite smoke billows from the badly damaged No. 4 unit of the...
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GOP appears poised to take on entitlement programs like Social Security,...
Thirty-two Senate Democrats joined 32 Republicans in urging Obama to negotiate a broad-based spending plan that includes changes to Social Security and Medicare. View full sizeAssociated PressIn this...
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear massive class action sex bias suit against Wal-Mart
The largest job discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history will be heard by the high court on Tuesday. View full sizeAssociated PressChristine Kwapnoski at home in Bay Point, Calif., Thursday, March 17,...
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Municipal meeting schedule for communities across Western Massachusetts
This is a list of major municipal meetings for the coming week. Republican file photo Here is a list of major municipal meetings for the coming week: Amherst Mon.- Amherst Housing Authority, 4:30...
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Bandag industrial building on fire in Chicopee, aid from Holyoke and...
The fire was first reported at about 6:45 p.m. It is burning through the roof of the metal framed building and thick black smoke is pouring from the building. CHICOPEE - Firefighters are trying to...
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Trial of 3 defendants in murder of Adolfo Bruno enters 3rd week in Manhattan
Felix Tranghese, of East Longmeadow, is expected to tell jurors further details about how the plot to murder Bruno developed, and of meetings he had with bosses of the Genovese crime family in New...
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Bandag company of Chicopee destroyed in a smokey fire
Foam trucks from Westover Air Reserve Base were called to help extinguish the blaze. Republican staff photo by Michael BeswickMultiple fire engine companies respond to a fire in the Bandag building at...
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Daniel Leary pleads innocent to motor vehicle homicide in West Springfield...
Leary had a blood alcohol level of .19 -- twice the legal limit, Assistant District Attorney James R. Goodhines said. Don Treeger / The Republican03.28.2011 | SPRINGFIELD - Daniel Leary of Southwick...
View ArticleDarryl Davis of Springfield is cleared of one crime but charged with another...
Although Davis was eventually ruled out as a suspect in an assault case, police could not ignore the amount of marijuana they found in his car, police said. SPRINGFIELD - A 30-year-old Springfield man...
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Copper thief targets downspouts on Longmeadow's St. Andrew's Church
An unknown man was seen trying to pull copper downspouts off the side of the Longmeadow Street church. Photo from St. Andrew's Episcopal ChurchExterior of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Longmeadow....
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Lifelong bachelor Patrick Kennedy, 43, is engaged after finding his 'true...
Kennedy, a Democrat, decided last year not to run for a ninth term representing Rhode Island in Congress. Associated Press photoThis March 2011 photograph released by Patrick Kennedy, show Kennedy,...
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Pioneer Valley auto dealers predict car scarcity due to Japan troubles, but...
Since the earthquake and tsunami, the Japanese have suffered problems with water, electricity and transportation, and have closed factories as a result. The Republican | Dave RobackMike Balise of...
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Amherst police charge four with Puffton Village break-ins
Arrested were Amherst residents Justin Satterfield, Jack M. Ryan-Ackerman, Daniel J. Dickinson, and Tobias K. Luz. Photo by Julian Feller-Cohen03.09.11 | Photo by Julian Feller-Cohen â An Amherst...
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New Insitute for Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies officially opens at...
The idea for the museum was sparked by the traveling exhibition called "A Reason to Remember: Roth Germany, 1933-1942," which was in need of a permanent location. James E. Young, director of the...
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Bandag fire in Chicopee continues to smolder
No one was injured in the fire, and no employees were working when it started. The Republican | John SuchockiFirefighters Monday pour water on the smoldering remains of a fire at Westover Bandag that...
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Stock market falters despite improving economic reports
The Dow Jones industrial average fell about 23 points, to 12,198. File photo / Associated PressA full moon is bisected by the peak of the Kodak headquarters building in Rochester, New York, earlier...
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Massachusetts House leaders to huddle in Amherst on casinos, other key issues
Leaders will meet in private at UMass during a retreat organized by House Speaker Robert DeLeo. File photo | The RepublicanMassachusetts Speaker of the House Robert A. DeLeo, shown at a recent event...
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Springfield church arson defendant Michael Jacques confronted with...
The marathon confession to setting fire to a predominantly black church the night Barack Obama was elected president is a crucial part of prosecution and defense cases. Watch video Republican file...
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