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By KYLE HIGHTOWER

BOSTON — The Chicago Bulls talked often during the regular season about believing they had the personnel to play as a physically imposing team.Their output has caught up to those desires so far during the postseason.Jimmy Butler scored 22 points,...

Compiled by Debra Scherban. Please send items to dscherban@gazettenet.comYMCA plans ‘Healthy Kids Day’Hampshire Regional YMCA on Prospect Street, Northamtpon invites kids to “charge into summer” at its annual Healthy Kids Day® event April 29. The idea...

By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH

BOSTON — A new exhibition of Sandro Botticelli’s paintings, including some never seen in the U.S., will give museumgoers a glimpse into the artist’s own search for sanctity.The show, “Botticelli and the Search for the Divine,” opens Saturday at...

By SHANNON GOLDEN

BOSTON — Massachusetts already has one of the highest-performing economies in America according to recent surveys, along with the best unemployment rate in 16 years. So how can things get better? The emergence of a new industry, experts say — one...

By STEVE PFARRER

Reading is generally a solitary pursuit. But at the Easthampton BookFest, organizers are finding new ways of making it a group activity.For the third straight year, the city has prepared an all-day celebration of the written word — and more — in...

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS

JACKSON, Miss. — The arrest of a black man on a charge of burning a black Mississippi church that was spray-painted with the words “Vote Trump” has sparked bickering online and consternation in the community surrounding the church.Andrew McClinton,...

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and RICHARD LARDNER

WASHINGTON — Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden remains in contact with Russian intelligence services, according to a bipartisan congressional report released at a time when Russia is considered a top national security...

THIS CAUGHT MY EYE ... So. It’s winter. A time of howling winds and falling snow (and let’s face it, ice, sleet and freezing rain, because we ARE in New England). Yay? If you’re a winter-weather sissy like me, it’s a perfect time to head indoors to...

By DAVID CRARY

NEW YORK — The largest-ever survey of transgender Americans paints a grim picture of pervasive discrimination and harassment, to the point that many of them attempt suicide at some point.Released on Thursday by the National Center for Transgender...

By JACK SUNTRUP

NORTHAMPTON — Charlotte “Bunny” Trudeau grew up in a big family on a farm outside of Salisbury, Vermont, and got her nickname from being born on Easter Sunday in 1930, her children said. Her family didn’t have a lot of money, but they were close.At...

At Hope & FeathersThe sixth annual “Small Works” show at Hope and Feathers Framing, 319 Main St. in Amherst, will be up through Jan. 14. The show features dozens of works by local artists in all mediums, including photography, paintings, illustration...

By Caitlin Ashworth and Jack Suntrup

Radio personality Monte Belmonte’s fight against hunger took a giant step forward Tuesday when his two-day, 43-mile march from Springfield to Greenfield raised a record $183,299 and counting.“I felt like I had the wind knocked out of me for the last...

By STEVE PFARRER

In an election season that included anti-immigrant rhetoric, misogyny, racism and a regular level of vulgarity, it seems a fitting exhibit.But “The Hate Project,” currently on view at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, speaks to a broader...

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN

HAVANA — For a while Saul Berenthal and Horace Clemmons were the seventy-something poster boys of U.S.-Cuba detente.The retired software entrepreneurs made worldwide headlines by winning Obama administration permission to build the first U.S. factory...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — A cacophony of gasps and sharp exhales from both sides of the courtroom broke the silence Friday afternoon when the jury announced its guilty verdict in the third murder trial of Cara Rintala.The Hampshire Superior Court jury of five...

By SARAH CROSBY

EASTHAMPTON — Decades of graffiti trickled down Mount Tom on Sunday, dissolving under the force of a pressure washer. The rock underneath remained, seemingly untouched.The charge was led by Naima Workman, a yoga studio owner with a passion for outdoor...

I’ve always had a thing for creepy crawlies. I was the kid who always caught the wasp stuck in the classroom to let it out the window. I’ll still crouch to move a worm from the sidewalk into the grass.So when a colleague of mine, Sara Eddy, started...

Behind the scenes at the Academy of Music: Northampton theater celebrates 125-year history- By AUDREY DONOHUEBehind the triple doors at the front of the Academy of Music in Northampton, beyond the plush, deep-maroon walls of the foyer and into the peach-hued theater "house,” lies a rich, textured 125-year-old theatrical history.From the...

By AMANDA DRANE andSTEPHANIE McFEETERS

Restaurant report under fire in Northampton- NORTHAMPTON — A report released earlier this week criticizing working conditions in Northampton restaurants continues to draw fire. But advocates say the problem runs even deeper than their current data suggests. Massachusetts Restaurant Association...