■Democratic attorney John M. Callahan of South Hadley unseated Republican incumbent District Attorney Oscar Grife of Northampton, outpolling the incumbent 35,437 to 25,233 in the two-county district. Callahan’s victory began in Northampton where his total topped the incumbent 5,777 to 4,381 by taking 13 of the city’s 14 precincts.
■Jonathan “Jay” Healy of Charlemont, 25-year-old son of retiring state Rep. Winston Healy, won the seat being vacated by his father in a controversial 1st Franklin District race in yesterday’s election. Young Healy, teacher and soccer coach at Williams College, was challenged not only by the Democratic nominee, F. James Genshiemer Jr. of South Deerfield, but by fellow Republican George E. Bell Jr. of Deerfield, who waged a vigorous sticker campaign.
■The reason to celebrate came early, just days before Nancy Fabian turned 80. She had won $100,000. Fabian, of High Street in Florence, had the lucky five numbers to last week’s Tuesday drawing of the Mass Cash lottery game.
■The proposed Domestic Partnership Ordinance and a new federal law that allows easier access to voter registration have increased the number of names on the rolls this year, an official says. “This is like a presidential election year. It’s overwhelming,” Registrar of Voters Patricia Shaughnessy told the City Council last night.
■Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick bucked the anti-incumbent, pro-Republican trend and won a second term Tuesday with the help of some of the political advisers who hope to do the same in two years for his friend President Barack Obama. Patrick, a black Democrat with a gold-plated resume similar to Obama’s, defeated Republican Charles Baker.
■A resounding 61 percent of registered voters in Northampton turned out to vote Tuesday, and nearly 60 percent of them agreed to raise their property taxes to help fund part of the $17.6 million, the estimate cost of building a new police station and accompanying two-level parking garage.