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HOLYOKE — The body of Cory A. Taylor, the alleged marijuana trafficker who has been a fugitive since he disappeared in August after making bail at a local county jail, was discovered by police in a vacant city building at 545 Main St. on...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

BOSTON — Stressing that legal drug consumption sites would save hundreds of lives and that there isn’t a moment to waste, Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan implored lawmakers on Monday to muster up the courage to pass legislation before...

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 – Advocates in the Hampshire County area in favor of overdose prevention centers may soon see their ideas realized this year by legislation from state lawmakers. The Massachusetts Democratic State Committee announced in January that it had...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Eight years after he was first arrested, a Chicopee businessman who owned a Holyoke auto shop was sentenced this week in a cocaine and heroin conspiracy case.U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni on Wednesday sentenced Jamil Roman,...

By DAN CROWLEY

Authorities arrested five men during the past week, including a Belchertown resident, and seized more than two kilograms of fentanyl as part of a lengthy investigation into a drug-trafficking organization, according to the Massachusetts State Police....

By MICHAEL CONNORS

HOLYOKE — After a months-long investigation into a large-scale heroin distribution operation, police and federal authorities raided two addresses and arrested a city teenager on drug and firearm-related charges Wednesday. Luis Garcia-Figueroa, 19, was...

By M.J. TIDWELL

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a four-part series on the role of sedatives known as benzodiazepines in the nation’s opioid crisis. Dr. Christy Huff, a Texas cardiologist, was prescribed Xanax after a dry-eye syndrome caused her eyes to “feel like...

By ANDY CASTILLO

DEERFIELD — An Interstate 91 traffic stop Monday of a Jeep Cherokee for loud exhaust noise subsequently led to a substantial cocaine bust.The driver, Amanda Dodge, 31, of Winchester, New Hampshire, was arrested for driving illegally and passengers...