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NORTHAMPTON — A 34-year-old Amherst man faces multiple charges of possessing and disseminating child pornography, as well as disseminating images of bestiality, after a woman reported being surreptitiously filmed in a gas station restroom.The Sept....
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — A city resident has been jailed without the right to bail after being charged with several felony counts, including attempted murder, while on probation for other offenses.Principe Matrille, 30, is accused of assaulting his girlfriend in...
By JAMES PENTLAND
SPRINGFIELD — A longtime leader in the public health sector with a commitment to equity and community well-being has taken the helm at Tapestry.Mavis Nimoh comes to the regional nonprofit health organization from Rhode Island, where she was executive...
By JAMES PENTLAND
GOSHEN — Voters agreed to appropriate $410,000 in Community Preservation Act funds for the second phase of the Town Hall rehabilitation project after brief discussion at a special Town Meeting Monday.Some 30 residents came out for the evening meeting...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — Weighing emotional stories of loss from the victim’s family members and a tearful plea for leniency from the defendant’s daughter, Hampshire Superior Court Judge Francis Flannery sentenced Cara Rintala to 12 to 14 years in prison for...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — Police and crime scene analysts who responded to 18 Barton St. in Granby in the wake of Annamarie Cochrane Rintala’s 2010 slaying shed light in court Thursday on the extensive blood evidence found at the scene.A State Police sergeant...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — Jurors on Wednesday watched surveillance videos and police interviews with Cara Rintala, while the defense tried to show that investigators failed to thoroughly question other possible suspects in the strangulation death of Annamarie...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — A few hours after finding her wife’s lifeless body on their home’s basement floor, Cara Rintala sat for a 2½-hour interview with police in which she described feeling threatened and bullied in her marriage.During the interview, she...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — Audio recordings of a 911 call from Cara Rintala and of a hearing before a judge after she and Annamarie Cochrane Rintala had each filed restraining orders against the other were among the evidence presented for jurors Monday as trial...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — Fall is on its way, and with it predictions for the fall foliage. Will 2023 produce vibrant displays of fiery red and blazing orange, or will July’s heavy rain dampen even the colors?Yankee Magazine forecaster Jim Salge predicts that...
By JAMES PENTLAND
SPRINGFIELD — A Greenfield man was arrested Thursday on four charges related to his alleged participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to the FBI.Christopher H. Keniley was taken into custody without incident and...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — Annamarie Cochrane Rintala died from manual strangulation approximately six to eight hours before her body was discovered at 7:15 p.m. on March 29, 2010, the former regional medical examiner testified Friday at Cara Rintala’s murder...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — Two paramedics who responded to the Granby home of Cara and Annamarie Cochrane Rintala on the night of March 29, 2010, testified Thursday on what they found, while a defense attorney sought to highlight inconsistencies with their...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — Jurors in Hampshire Superior Court heard from the first two witnesses Thursday as prosecutors once more began laying out their case that Cara Rintala killed her wife at their Granby home in 2010.The two officers first on the scene,...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — A Williamsburg native with many years of experience as trails program director for the state Department of Conservation and Recreation has been tapped to head the state’s new Office of Outdoor Recreation.Paul Jahnige said he was “humbled...
By JAMES PENTLAND
CHESTER — Making good on an offer she extended during a recent legislative debate, East Boston Sen. Lydia Edwards visited Chester on Thursday to learn more about the challenges involved in developing affordable housing in the hinterlands of western...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — Three jurors out of 24 who were questioned were chosen Wednesday for Cara Rintala’s fourth murder trial in Hampshire Superior Court.The process of selecting 12 jurors and four alternates, complicated by the notoriety of the case, is...
By JAMES PENTLAND
SPRINGFIELD — A federal lawsuit filed last year by a former Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School student against the school, claiming a former coach’s inappropriate interest in her damaged her education and caused persistent trauma, was...
By JAMES PENTLAND
WILLIAMSBURG — State officials are seeking a $30 million federal boost to help push a project for Route 9 reconstruction and construction of a shared-use path between Haydenville and Williamsburg closer to reality.The Massachusetts Department of...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — A Superior Court judge has denied Cara Rintala’s bid to have her murder case dismissed, saying the Supreme Judicial Court has twice considered and rejected the same arguments advanced by the defense at a court hearing last week.The...
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