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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...

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — Fifteen critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are warming up at the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital after being rescued from cold waters off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.The juvenile turtles have pneumonia as a result of...

By LINDSEY BAHR

Friends and family members gathered at the next-door homes of Debbie Reynolds and daughter Carrie Fisher on a gloomy Thursday in the Hollywood Hills for an intimate memorial to mourn the late actresses.The service was held at Fisher’s home and the...

By JACK SUNTRUP and AMANDA DRANE

HOLYOKE — Investigators said Wednesday an electrical problem was the cause of a New Year’s Day fire that killed three people and destroyed a five-story apartment building.“An electrical fault in the third- floor apartment ignited this tragic fire,”...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Amherst Democratic Sen. Stanley C. Rosenberg is pledging that the state Legislature will continue to make positive changes for residents of Massachusetts, addressing education funding, income inequality, energy needs and climate change, as well as the...

By JIMMY GOLEN

BOSTON — Milt Schmidt, the hockey hall of famer who led Boston to two Stanley Cup championships as the center of the “Kraut Line,” served Canada in World War II and returned to the NHL to win its MVP award and two more titles as the Bruins general...

By MATT VAUTOUR

FAIRFAX, Va. — There were a couple of moments late when UMass looked like it might produce a sequel to their wild 2014 come-from behind win at George Mason.But while the Minutemen had several good looks at a would-be game-changing 3-pointers, none of...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — There’s a new sheriff in town.At his swearing-in ceremony in Hampshire Superior Court on Wednesday, Patrick J. Cahillane, 58, took the oath of office, marking the beginning of his tenure as the chief administrator at the county jail and...

Staff reports

The team accomplishment came last year, when the Amherst Regional hockey program won a Western Massachusetts Division 3A title.An individual milestone came in 2017 for senior Jake Balderston.With three goals and an assist in a 7-0 win over Easthampton...

Staff reports

Tanner Finch earned Frontier Regional’s only pin but the Red Hawks’ wrestling team beat Smith Vocational, 54-21, Wednesday in Northampton.Finch pinned Smith Voke’s Jon Tennyson in 47 seconds at 133 pounds.Koby Ouimette (160), Stone Mitchell (285) and...

Staff Reports

Ryan Holder’s steal with a second left sealed a 68-67 win for the UMass women’s basketball team over Rhode Island Wednesday at the Mullins Center. Hailey Leidel scored a career-high 27 points, including four points that gave the Minutewomen (7-9, 1-2...

By MATT VAUTOUR

FAIRFAX, Va. — In an effort to shake up his team after Friday’s loss to St. Bonaventure, UMass coach Derek Kellogg changed his starting lineup Wednesday, replacing junior forward Seth Berger with freshman Brison Gresham, who made his first career...

By SARAH SKIDMORE SELL

Macy’s says it is eliminating more than 10,000 jobs and plans to move forward with 68 store closures after a disappointing holiday shopping season. The department store chain also lowered its full-year earnings forecast.The retailer said Wednesday...

Editor’s note: In a story Tuesday about former Bishop Thomas Dupre, The Associated Press reported erroneously that he was defrocked by the Vatican in 2006. The Diocese of Springfield says Dupre was not defrocked. A corrected version of the story is...

BOSTON (AP) — The state’s top political leaders are urging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to hold a public meeting about the safety of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth.A letter sent by the leaders Wednesday pointed to a leaked email...

NEW YORK (AP) — A packed Long Island Rail Road rush-hour train crashed at the end of a platform as it pulled into a major Brooklyn transportation hub on Wednesday, hurling passengers onto the floor and slamming them into each other.The front of the...

Pan Am Railways may be doing a terrific job hauling freight, but the company’s public relations performance leaves too many communities on a side track.Pan Am, which transports freight throughout New England and has a rail yard in East Deerfield,...

By AMANDA DRANE

HOLYOKE — Milton Galarza and his wife, who is seven months pregnant with their son, almost didn’t make it out of their fourth-floor apartment alive when a fire ravaged the building on New Year’s morning.He said his friend Trevor Wadleigh of...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The union representing Amherst firefighters is using social media to raise concerns that the Amherst Fire Department is already overwhelmed by emergency calls three days into 2017. On New Year’s Day, Amherst Firefighters Local 1764 wrote on...

By JACK SUNTRUP

HOLYOKE — Authorities on Tuesday had no word as to the cause of a New Year’s Day fire that claimed three lives in the Flats neighborhood of Holyoke.Hampden County District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni’s office did announce Tuesday, however, that Trevor...