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By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A 23-year-old man was charged with manslaughter Friday following a grand jury indictment in the shooting death of Johnathan Letendre, 27, at a Chesterfield home in December.Brian Camp, a Southampton resident, appeared in Hampshire...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

A criminal trial can proceed against two former Holyoke Soldiers’ Home officials accused of negligence that led to the deaths of elderly veteran residents early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday.In a 5-2 decision that...

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 ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The city paid former Northampton High School Principal Lori Vaillancourt $80,000 as part of a settlement last fall, some seven months after she was placed on paid leave following protests by students.Vaillancourt officially resigned on...

By DOMENIC POLI

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Athol man who was previously found guilty of felony and misdemeanor charges related to his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol will spend the next 5½ years in federal prison.Vincent J. Gillespie, 61, was...

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...

NORTHAMPTON — A Hampshire County grand jury has indicted a South Hadley man in connection with the slaying of his father, David Weise Sr., 70, in September, according to the Northwestern district attorney’s office.Craig R. Weise, 35, is expected to be...

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...

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HADLEY — A Millers Falls woman is facing two counts of armed assault to murder for allegedly slamming her vehicle into another car with a woman and child inside in the driveway of a Hadley home on Feb. 2.Christine DiPietro, 43, also is charged with...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A city teen pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges relating to a double stabbing outside Meadowbrook Apartments in August.Jesus Baez, 18, was sentenced to two years in the Hampshire County Jail with nine months to be served and the remainder...

BELCHERTOWN — A Connecticut man who allegedly shot a Hadley man on the afternoon of Dec. 31 will continue to be held without bail until a dangerousness hearing on March 1.Defense attorney Francis Dimento Jr. of Boston asked for a six-week continuance...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A Southampton loan officer and broker pleaded not guilty Friday in Hampshire Superior Court to a series of sexual assault charges, including rape, and threatening to commit a crime (murder), related to alleged incidents in 2017 and 2022...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — The Connecticut man accused of shooting a Hadley farmer on Mill Valley Road on the afternoon of Dec. 31 allegedly is in a relationship with the farmer’s ex-girlfriend, and was previously involved in a confrontation with the farmer at the same...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — A Franklin County Superior Court judge has ruled that a resident appealing the town’s North Main Street park project can conduct an independent review of the property’s wetlands, as an appeal of the project continues.In a decision...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A Hampshire Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Hampshire County sheriff and other staff members at the Hampshire County Jail and House of Correction brought by a former inmate who argued his rights were violated...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — After 50 years of service, Alan Rubin’s career as a prolific public defender is finally coming to an end.Rubin, a graduate of Harvard Law School, has seen a lot in his long career, from scandalous judges to serial killers to an...