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By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Smith College is transitioning its varsity equestrian team into a club sport, a move that has drawn considerable backlash since the plan’s announcement last month.The move from varsity to club status will allow the college to “focus its...

By DOUG ALDEN

BOSTON — Isaiah Thomas keeps setting personal bests, and the Boston Celtics keep winning games.Thomas had 29 points and a career-high 15 assists for Boston, which made 17 3-pointers for the second straight game while defeating the Utah Jazz 115-104 on...

By GEIR MOULSON

BERLIN — An annotated edition of “Mein Kampf,” Adolf Hitler’s notorious manifesto, has become a non-fiction best-seller in Germany. The publisher said Tuesday that a sixth print run will go on sale later this month.Some 85,000 copies of the book have...

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...

Staff reports

The South Hadley and Easthampton boys basketball teams were locked in a back-and-forth game until the buzzer.Just when the Eagles thought they earned their second win, Nate Poirier and the Tigers snatched it away.Poirier’s fade-away jumper from just...

By CAROLYN THOMPSON

Hundreds of thousands of New York students would be able to attend college for free under a proposal announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to make state universities tuition-free for residents earning $125,000 or less.The Democrat unveiled his plan Tuesday...

By STEVE LeBLANC

BOSTON — Former Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is urging U.S. senators to reject President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions.In 1985, Patrick was part of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund team...

Concerns about changes to marijuana measure I am finding it increasingly difficult to have faith that our politicians will respect the will of the people with regards to the proper execution of Question 4.In the beginning, I certainly had a...

By PHILIP MARCELO

BOSTON — Shoe makers are racing to the Boston area as they compete for millennial talent.Reebok picked the city’s rapidly growing Seaport District for its new global headquarters in December, following in the footsteps of New Balance and Converse,...

By Dr. Wilson Mertens

Last month, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released a report on the substance addiction crisis. Similar to the 1964 version that raised the alarm on tobacco, it too did not reveal much new research but rather serves as a compilation of previous...

SPRINGFIELD (AP) — Former Bishop Thomas Dupre, the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States to be indicted on a sexual-abuse claim during the flood of abuse accusations against church officials, has died. He was 83.Dupre died Friday, the...

BOSTON (AP) — Certified nurse practitioners would be allowed to authorize medical marijuana use by patients under new rules proposed by Massachusetts health officials.Public hearings on that and other revisions to the medical marijuana program are...

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) — A round-the-clock state and federal manhunt is underway for an inmate who escaped from a Rhode Island detention center.The Wyatt Correctional Center warden says 35-year-old former Army reservist James Morales fled Saturday...

By James Mattone

BOSTON — Although Massachusetts’ opioid deaths are still on the rise, with the powerful drug fentanyl adding to the toll, facets of the Legislature’s anti-drug act are beginning to have an impact.Prescribers have doubled their use of a new online tool...

By JACK SUNTRUP

NORTHAMPTON — Kim Tremblay sipped free hot chocolate and talked New Year’s resolutions as her family made its way to another event during Northampton’s 32nd First Night celebration.“There are things like that that are just everywhere,” Tremblay,...

By KEN POWTAK

BOSTON — A fast start and another solid outing by goaltender Tuukka Rask made for a fairly easy afternoon for the Boston Bruins.Patrice Bergeron and Tim Schaller scored second-period goals Saturday to help the Bruins beat Buffalo 3-1 and complete a...

By Jack Suntrup@JackSuntrupNORTHAMPTON — It’s Dec. 31, that day after all the other days of the year. The last one.It can be surreal to hit that imaginary pause button and reflect on 2016. We pull out the takeaways and think about them — the good...

Amherst RegionalSage Bailin — CMass/WMass Division 1 outdoor 400 hurdles champ.Luca Brashear — WMass boys 1-meter diving champ.Joe Costello — Coached Amherst boys to state Division 1 ultimate championship.Sophia Jacobs-Townsley — Won the District F&G...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A state electric utility confirmed on Friday it had found on one of its laptops a malware code the U.S. government says is used by Russian hackers.The Burlington Electric Department said U.S. utilities were alerted by the...

By ANDY COSTILLO

DEERFIELD — There hasn’t been serious action taken to control mosquito populations in western Massachusetts since the early 1980s — until now.Deerfield is spearheading a regional partnership to “establish the Pioneer Valley Mosquito Control District”...