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By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON – A Belchertown man accused of striking and killing another man who was waiting at an Amherst bus stop in November denied numerous charges Friday in Hampshire Superior Court.Peter Sheremeta, 20, pleaded not guilty to charges including...

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NORTHAMPTON — Prosecutors never alleged that New Hampshire resident Jesse Carrillo intended to kill fellow University of Massachusetts student Eric Sinacori with the heroin he supplied. They didn’t allege he was selling the drug for personal...

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NORTHAMPTON — Jury deliberations have begun in the case of a former University of Massachusetts graduate student charged in the death of a fellow student.Testimony in the case against Jesse Carrillo, 28, concluded Friday morning in Hampshire Superior...

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NORTHAMPTON — For over two hours Thursday, a former University of Massachusetts graduate student took the stand detailing his heroin addiction and the role he played in the overdose death of an undergraduate in 2013.Day two of the trial of Jesse...

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NORTHAMPTON — Testimony began Wednesday in the trial of a former University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate student accused of supplying a fatal dose of heroin to a fellow student in 2013. J.W. Carney Jr., attorney for Jesse Carrillo, 28, of Derry,...

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NORTHAMPTON — A Newbury man who had a charge of making a bomb threat dropped in a lower court has now been charged with threatening to commit a shooting.Geoffrey Small, 23, pleaded not guilty in Hampshire Superior Court Tuesday afternoon to two counts...

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NORTHAMPTON — A Hampshire Superior Court judge declared a mistrial on all but one of the 11 charges brought against a former Easthampton man accused of raping and assaulting two young girls.Kevin DiRocco, 43, was found not guilty on a charge of...

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NORTHAMPTON — An Easthampton man accused of manufacturing explosives and explosive devices was ordered held on $150,000 bail Tuesday. Bryan O. Desmarais, 42, of 36 Ridgewood Terrace, pleaded not guilty in Hampshire Superior Court Tuesday afternoon...

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NORTHAMPTON — An Easthampton man is suing the Northampton Police Department for $15 million, alleging that he was roughed up outside a bar in April 2014 Gregory S. Stevens claims he suffered numerous physical and mental injuries in the altercation,...

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NORTHAMPTON — A jury in a child rape trial will resume deliberations Monday after twice telling a Hampshire Superior Court judge Thursday they could not reach a consensus.The 12-member jury spent the entire day in deliberations on the case of a former...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — An Easthampton man will spend 4 to 5½ years in state prisonafter he admitted to beating and terrorizing his former girlfriend in the spring of 2015.Kevin Pardee, 30, of Easthampton, who has been on house arrest since June 2016, pleaded...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — The attorney for one of the three men accused in carrying out a South Hadley home invasion last November in which one person was shot in the stomach told a judge on Friday that his client didn’t know one of his alleged co-assailants was...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Soknang Chham, the New Salem man prosecutors say shot and killed a 31-year-old Amherst man in October, pleaded not guilty Friday to a slew of charges he is now facing in Hampshire Superior Court.Police say Chham, 33, and his brother,...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Moments before the two little girls faced their abuser for the last time, the bikers gathered around them — a wall of black leather vests — as they walked into the courthouse. They had nothing to fear, the bikers assured the girls.The...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — A grand jury handed up a vehicular homicide charge for a South Hadley man police said caused a fatal, two-vehicle crash in May that claimed the life of Thomas Flanagan, a 29-year-old Westfield man and father of two who was delivering...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — The college student accused in a drug-related home invasion two months ago now faces nearly a dozen charges in Superior Court, after being indicted by a grand jury last week.Patrick Bemben, 25, is slated to be arraigned early next year....