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Members of the Belchertown Police Department, which was awarded certification by the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission this week, pose with Belchertown Select Board Chairman Nick O’Connor and Northampton Police Chief and MPAC board member Jody Kasper at a ceremony held in Dover on Tuesday.

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Belchertown PD on the road to accreditation

by Jacquelyn Voghel Staff WriterFebruary 28, 2019

Jasmine Grace Marino, of Nashua, N.H., a former massage parlor prostitute, stands for a photograph, in Somerville, Mass., Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. Marino says she was forced to work at sites in Connecticut and Maine for five years by her then-boyfriend as she struggled with drugs and alcohol in her 20s. She's since written a book about her experience and runs Bags of Hope, a Boston-based nonprofit that helps women who have been trafficked or dealing with addiction and homelessness. (AP...

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New solutions for the old problem of illegal massage parlors

by Philip Marcelo Associated PressFebruary 28, 2019

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, is sworn in to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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‘Racist,’ ‘con man’: Cohen rips Trump before Congress

by Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press, Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Michael R. Sisak Associated PressFebruary 28, 2019

Gov. Charlie Baker unveils his state budget proposal Jan. 23 at the Statehouse, in Boston.

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Baker rejects opioid injection sites

by Steve LeBlanc Associated PressFebruary 28, 2019

Siblings Zulaika and Jorge Rodriguez talk with Assistant Northwestern District Attorney Matt Thomas, right, in Hampshire Superior Court in Northampton, Wednesday, after Soknang Chham, 35, of New Salem pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the October 2016 shooting death of their brother, Jose M. “Joselito” Rodriguez, 31, of Amherst.

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Man gets 22 to 25 years for 2016 Rodriguez killing in Amherst

by Bera Dunau Staff WriterFebruary 28, 2019

Faith leaders from the region pray for local undocumented immigrant Lucio Perez, who has lived in sanctuary in First Congregational Church for nearly 17 months to avoid deportation and separation from his family.

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Together in prayer: Religious leaders show support for undocumented immigrants in sanctuary

by Dusty Christensen Staff WriterFebruary 28, 2019

Activists, many of them young students, stand outside the U.S. District Court building in Springfield, where U.S. Rep. Richard Neal has his office, Tuesday. The group was asking him to co-sponsor the Green New Deal.

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‘We’re terrified’: Youth activists push Neal to co-sponsor Green New Deal

by Greta Jochem Staff WriterFebruary 28, 2019

High winds caused havoc for a man using an umbrella as rain pelted Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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Stormwater floods California towns only reachable by boat

by Haven Daley Associated Press, and Olga R. Rodriguez Associated PressFebruary 27, 2019

People wave flags of North Korea, U.S. and Vietnam as motorcade of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is driven past them in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump are meeting for a second day in Hanoi for their second summit. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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Trump, Kim open talks one-on-one

by Deb Riechmann Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire Associated Press, and Foster Klug Associated PressFebruary 27, 2019

This still image taken from video circulated by Pakistan’s military shows a man who identified himself as the pilot of an Indian military aircraft that was shot down Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, over a part of the mountainous Kashmir region controlled by Pakistan. (Pakistan Armed Forces via AP)

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Tit-for-tat escalates in Kashmir

by Roshan Mughal Associated Press, and Aijaz Hussain Associated PressFebruary 27, 2019