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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

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 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 JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — The attorney for a man charged with murder is trying to persuade a judge that police relied on conflicting statements and unreliable witnesses when they arrested and charged his client.Joseph Perullo filed the motion in Hampshire...

By JAMES PENTLANDNORTHAMPTON — An attorney for Cara Rintala, facing her fourth murder trial for allegedly killing her wife almost 13½ years ago, urged a judge Wednesday to overturn a high court ruling and dismiss the case.With Rintala beside him at...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A Southampton couple who say they were rejected as prospective foster parents because of their religious views on homosexuality and gender identity are suing a dozen representatives of the state Department of Children and...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A 23-year-old woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the March slaying of her boyfriend in Easthampton and will continue to be held without the right to bail.Jean Marie Echevarria was arraigned on the murder charge before Judge Jeremy...

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...

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BELCHERTOWN — The driver of a car that hit a motorcyclist, killing him and badly injuring his passenger, in 2021 pleaded guilty Thursday before Eastern Hampshire District Court Judge Tina Cafaro to a single charge of negligent operation of a motor...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A 30-year-old man serving a prison sentence in Oregon for child pornography offenses is facing similar charges in Hampshire County.Blake Lassiter appeared before Judge Jane Mulqueen in Hampshire Superior Court Friday for a status...

By MAX BOWEN

SPRINGFIELD — A former employee of the VA Medical Center in Leeds has been sentenced in Springfield federal court on charges of distributing child pornography using the Wi-Fi at the Center.Kevin A. Divoll, 51, of Royalston, was sentenced by U.S....

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The state’s highest court on Monday upheld the 2007 conviction of a Greenfield man serving two consecutive life sentences in prison for the strangulation death of Brandy Waryasz and her unborn son two years earlier at a Deerfield gas...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

BELCHERTOWN — A 30-year-old Granby man is facing four criminal charges in connection with the death of his girlfriend in an early morning motor vehicle crash on July 1.Cory Menard was arraigned Wednesday in Eastern Hampshire District Court and pleaded...

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 JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A former physical therapist from South Hadley pleaded not guilty Monday in Superior Court to two counts of rape following indictments by a grand jury.Edward Kostek, 42, worked at Cooley Dickinson Hospital Rehabilitation Services for many...

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...