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Elizabeth Warren calls for House Republicans to back off Consumer Financial...
Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren is calling on Republicans in Congress to back off attempts to limit the power of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. View full sizeDemocratic...
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U.S. hiring slowdown sends the stock market reeling; Nasdaq has worst day in...
A government report confirmed investors' fears that the U.S. economic recovery is faltering. By PALLAVI GOGOI | AP Business Writer File photo | Associated PressThe Labor Department said Friday, May 4,...
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Driver killed after car crashes into building in Springfield
Three other males survived the crash. Springfield Fire DepartmentHere is the aftermath of the car crash at 1104 Bay St. in Springfield early Saturday morning. The driver was killed. SPRINGFIELD - A...
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Holyoke Geriatric Authority board, City Councilors agree to seek state audit...
City officials also said steps are being developed to require the authority follow a plan to repay $465,000 in employee-retirement costs that the city was forced to pay in December. Todd A. McGee The...
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3rd session of Amherst Town Meeting to begin with debate on Supreme Court...
The meeting will take on the issue of corporate citizenship AMHERST – Town meeting returns for its third session Monday night and will take a break in budget deliberations to open the meeting with a...
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West Springfield Town Council to vote on $7.1 million plan to renovate and...
Officials hope to convince the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners to let them use a $6.3 million grant awarded to build a new library to instead renovate and expand the existing building...
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Former Belchertown State School development needs $1.25 millon road project...
The 24-foot-wide road with a sidewalk would be completed when the planned assisted living facility at the former state school site is done. By JIM RUSSELL BELCHERTOWN – Town Meeting approval of a...
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Kitchen fire displaces Springfield family
The American Red Cross is assisting the displaced family, which includes two adults and four children. SPRINGFIELD – A kitchen fire caused by unattended cooking on the stove at 166 Quincy St....
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Obituaries today: Robert Daunais worked at area car dealerships
Obituaries from The Republican. Robert Daunais Robert H. Daunais, 76, of South Hadley, died Friday. He was born in Springfield. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and was discharged in 1963. Daunais...
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Agawam woman accidentally shot by police responding to call at her apartment
The woman was shot once; she was brought to Baystate Medical Center for treatment. Her condition was not available. 03.09.11 | Photo by Julian Feller-Cohen â An Agawam Police cruiser. An update to...
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Ludlow School Committee to meet to begin prioritizing budget cuts
Selectmen suggested that cuts should be considered to the administrative portion of the school budget. LUDLOW - When the School Committee meets Tuesday it is scheduled to begin prioritizing the cuts...
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Supporters rally for Charles Wilhite in Springfield; Wilhite was convicted of...
“I hope they let him go Monday. There’s no way they should have found him guilty,” said Wilhite’s grandmother, Helen W. Drungo. The Republican/John SuchockiSheila Drungo, of Springfield, is the mother...
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Repairing or replacing Chicopee police station at top of Mayor Michael...
“We can’t say yes to everything but we can’t say no to everything,” Bissonnette said. Michael D. Bissonnette CHICOPEE – Repairing or replacing the police station, finding a use for the former library...
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Agawam police accidentally shoot woman while responding to domestic call; DA...
According to an Agawam police statement, "As police entry was made, the weapon of one of the responding officers was discharged. The bullet struck a female party within the apartment." The Republican...
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Amherst tournament is the ultimate destination for Ultimate players
Thirty-teams converged this weekend on Amherst for the two-day tournament, now in its 21st year. Watch video Related links More stories by Patrick Johnson Follow Patrick Johnson on Twitter AMHERST -...
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9/11 defendants facing nearly 3,000 counts of murder ignore judge at...
The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants defiantly disrupted an arraignment that ended late Saturday in the opening act of the long-stalled effort to prosecute...
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Massachusetts man accused of killing wife and eating her flesh dies in hospital
Prosecutors said that Jieming Liu died at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Associated PressJieming Liu, 79, appears for arraignment in Westborough District Court, where...
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Civil War May 1862: Land mines, Merrimac destroyed, Lincoln deals with...
The emancipation of slaves in Washington, D.C., had prompted more than 1,000 escaped slaves from Maryland to seek shelter in the capital only to be subject to violations of the Fugitive Slave Law...
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Springfield police search for robbery suspect who jumped in the Connecticut...
Springfield Police search for robbery suspect. Republican file photo SPRINGFIELD – Police are searching for a man involved in a robbery around 4 a.m. this morning, officials said. WWLP is reporting...
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Chicopee sobriety checkpoint results in 13 arrests
State police arrest six for operating under the influence. File photo CHICOPEE — A sobriety checkpoint on Memorial Drive in Chicopee resulted in 13 arrests, said state police Lt. Stephen Kelly. Police...
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