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By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — As the city slept, the deer ran free.At some point Thursday evening, police said, a tree at Look Park fell and left an escape route open in one of the enclosures that hold two deer. On Friday morning, when park staff realized the deer...

By Bob Dunn

CLARKSBURG — The husband of a missing Clarksburg woman with ties to Easthampton was found dead Friday in what investigators are calling an apparent suicide.A family member of 42-year-old Charles “Chad” Reidy had asked police to conduct a well-being...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — The embattled Pine Spa in Florence, one of several area massage businesses embroiled in an ongoing human trafficking investigation, was condemned by the Board of Health and forced to close Friday until further notice after officials said...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Police charged a Springfield man in connection with a string of reports, all in the same day, involving the passing of several counterfeit $100 bills.Robert M. Walter, 45, faces three counts each of uttering a counterfeit note and...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — The previous 48 hours were fraught, with a heroin overdose, a bald eagle rescue and a man with a gun. These events, Northampton Police Chief Jody Kasper said during opening remarks at a police department ceremony, exemplify the different...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — After a three-month hiatus, a Florence massage business at the center of a human trafficking investigation has reopened after fixing the health violations that led the city’s Board of Health to condemn the space.On Tuesday, the neon...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — The number of heroin overdoses in the city has nearly tripled in the last year, according to data released Wednesday by the Northampton Police Department .“We are indeed in the midst of a terrible epidemic,” the department wrote in a...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Break-ins at three homes, all reported Saturday afternoon, are being investigated by Amherst Police.Police are also investigating an armed robbery in which two men allegedly showed a knife, while stealing $10 in cash and a cellphone from a...

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 — Police are searching for a man they say robbed another man at knifepoint downtown Tuesday evening.A 33-year-old man told authorities a Hispanic male, who appeared to be in his late 20s, approached the victim around 10:30 p.m. while at...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — The morning after the votes were cast and the markets were sent into a frenzy and Donald Trump addressed a stunned electorate, a distraught city man wept inside a Wal-Mart.“How do I explain to my daughter that we have a sexist bully as...

By EMILY CUTTS and SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — No new arrests were made Tuesday in connection with a violent home invasion that injured at least three men on South East Street early Sunday, according to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office.And while 25-year-old Patrick M. Bemben,...