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By GARRETT COTE

Jamila Wideman has added another chapter to an already illustrious basketball career, as the WNBA’s Washington Mystics announced Wideman as the organization’s general manager late last month.

By GARRETT COTE

Saturday was one of the those games that the UMass men’s basketball team had to win – regardless of by how much or how pretty it looked.The biggest Mullins Center crowd (7,016) since 2015 was on hand as were a ton of alumni sitting courtside. The...

By STEVE PFARRER

In the United States, the early 20th century has often been portrayed as a time of hope and excitement, in which the nation’s growing industrial power, improvements in mass communications, and advances in technology and science heralded a new era of...

By DOMENIC POLI

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Athol man who was previously found guilty of felony and misdemeanor charges related to his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol will spend the next 5½ years in federal prison.Vincent J. Gillespie, 61, was...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

You know it’s been a good season of basketball when everything comes down to the final game of the regular season. The No. 1 seed at the Atlantic 10 tournament is still up for grabs, something UMass women’s basketball fans should be grateful. The...

PETA’s campaigns targeting individual scientists are both shameful and dangerous. Imagine opening the paper one day to see a full-page ad that targets you personally by name. Now imagine spotting that ad after months and months of harassment by a...

By BERA DUNAU

NORTHAMPTON — G. Djata Bumpus, who trained in former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier’s gym in Philadelphia and taught boxing for more than 30 years in the Pioneer Valley, died on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., after a short battle with cancer. He was...

By ERIC TUCKER and ERICA WERNER

WASHINGTON — Former FBI Director James Comey asserted Thursday that President Donald Trump fired him to interfere with his investigation of Russia’s role in the 2016 election and its ties to the Trump campaign.“It’s my judgment that I was fired...