Saturday, March 6, 2010
NORTHAMPTON - An Amherst woman with a rare and potentially deadly autoimmune disease is seeking a court's help in making her health insurance carrier pay for treatment.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
AMHERST - Harold "Hal" Rauch's notable career in genetics research, teaching and administration was gratifying for him, while having a profound positive impact on others.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
AMHERST - Lawrence Dana Pinkham, a professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst who helped establish English-language journalism programs at major academic institutions in China, died Feb. 28 at Cooley Dickinson Hospital following a heart attack. He was 83 and lived in Amherst.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
· Peter Hampton Gray, 25, of Lenoir, N.C., was arrested Friday at 1:54 a.m. on South Pleasant Street on charges of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license and failure to stay within marked lanes, police said.
Friday, March 5, 2010
AMHERST - University of Massachusetts officials say they mishandled a case in which a student who confessed to sexually assaulting a woman on campus last fall was given a deferred suspension. The incident is still under investigation by campus police and charges could still be brought, but a university spokesman acknowledged that "the system did not work the way it should have worked."
--At Thursday forum, women attest to sex crimes on UMass campus
Friday, March 5, 2010
AMHERST - At a meeting intended to quell growing concern following a recently publicized report of a past sexual assault on campus, school officials heard from several outraged students Thursday, some of whom shared their own stories of rape and the red tape that kept the alleged perpetrator from being punished.
