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By DOMENIC POLI

WHATELY — Tea Guys LLC must pay more than $2 million to a Baltimore tea company due to a breach of contract, a Franklin County Superior Court judge has ruled.The small business in Whately was sued last summer by Zest Tea LLC and had two bank accounts...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Deerfield woman was sentenced Tuesday to three years of probation after admitting in Franklin County Superior Court to stabbing the 82-year-old husband of a woman she was caring for as a personal care attendant last year.Kady J....

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — After longtime clerk Harry J. Jekanowski Jr. announced earlier late last week that he would not seek reelection for Hampshire County Clerk of Courts, state Rep. Daniel Carey, D-Easthampton announced his candidacy for the position on...

By DOMENIC POLI

The backlog plaguing courthouses across much of the state seems to have spared Franklin and Hampshire counties, where the Northwestern district attorney’s office put many cases to bed while in-person jury trials were suspended during the COVID-19...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Sonya Epstein was crystal clear before a Hampshire District Court judge Thursday afternoon when explaining why she took part in a protest outside the Northampton facility of defense contractor L3Harris that led to her arrest two months...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Massachusetts Environmental Police arrested two brothers Saturday night after they allegedly shot a deer from their truck while in Colrain.Police arrested Colrain resident Seth Doull, 51, and Worthington resident Ira Doull, 46, on...

By DOMENIC POLI

WHATELY — The owner of Tea Guys in Whately is in hot water for not shipping products to paying customers and failing to respond to Franklin County Superior Court matters.Oliver Rich is being sued by Zest Tea LLC, a Baltimore company that alleges...

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 — 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 DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The Florida man who was the subject of an hourslong search Tuesday after allegedly shooting a Turners Falls man in the thigh was arrested as a vehicle passenger in Holyoke later that day and arraigned in Greenfield District Court...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The personal care attendant accused of stabbing the 82-year-old husband of a woman she was caring for in Montague had her charges and conditions of release transferred to Franklin County Superior Court on Friday due to the case’s...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Tea Guys had two bank accounts frozen last week when a Franklin County Superior Court judge granted a pair of motions filed on behalf of a Baltimore tea company that is suing the Whately business.Judge David Hodge put a freeze on accounts...

By BILL NEWMAN

Here we go again. Last June the Supreme Court overruled a half-century of precedent and repealed the right to abortion. This June, the court again jettisoned a half-century of precedent, this time to gut affirmative action.Let’s be clear. This is not...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

The Supreme Court decision Thursday banning the use of affirmative action in college admissions drew condemnation from education leaders, politicians, and others across the Pioneer Valley and state.In statement after statement released shortly after...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A personal care attendant accused of stabbing the 82-year-old husband of a woman she was caring for in Montague pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to three charges stemming from the incident last Saturday.Kady J. Flanagan, 28, of Deerfield,...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Three of a dozen people arrested in 2021 in connection with a cocaine trafficking syndicate operating out of a Greenfield barbershop changed their pleas Tuesday regarding their involvement in the operation and another had her case...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The state opted Monday to drop its case against a Level 3 sex offender and former fugitive to spare the named victim the trauma of taking the witness stand in a trial.Jeffrey Cancel-Muniz, 42, formerly of western Massachusetts, has been...

By JAMES PENTLAND and ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — An Easthampton woman was ordered held without the right to bail Wednesday after her arraignment on a charge of murder in the stabbing death of a 23-year-old man at the home they shared.Jean Marie Echevarria, 23, showed no emotion during...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — The driver involved in a head-on crash on Route 2 that resulted in serious injuries to four Rhode Island residents, including two children, Sunday afternoon allegedly admitted to police officers he had used drugs prior to the...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Southampton man facing sexual assault charges pleaded not guilty in Franklin County Superior Court on Monday and was released on the same conditions imposed by the Hampshire County Superior Court judge who handled his arraignment on...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — An Amherst man was sentenced to five to six years in state prison Monday after being convicted last week of five counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and witness intimidation.Judge Richard Carey sentenced Jorge...