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By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — An Easthampton man will spend 4 to 5½ years in state prisonafter he admitted to beating and terrorizing his former girlfriend in the spring of 2015.Kevin Pardee, 30, of Easthampton, who has been on house arrest since June 2016, pleaded...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — The attorney for one of the three men accused in carrying out a South Hadley home invasion last November in which one person was shot in the stomach told a judge on Friday that his client didn’t know one of his alleged co-assailants was...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Soknang Chham, the New Salem man prosecutors say shot and killed a 31-year-old Amherst man in October, pleaded not guilty Friday to a slew of charges he is now facing in Hampshire Superior Court.Police say Chham, 33, and his brother,...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Moments before the two little girls faced their abuser for the last time, the bikers gathered around them — a wall of black leather vests — as they walked into the courthouse. They had nothing to fear, the bikers assured the girls.The...

ORANGE — A Franklin Superior Court grand jury has indicted Joshua Hart, 24, and Brittany Smith, 27, on murder and other charges in connection with the Oct. 5 home invasion and killing of Thomas Harty and attempted murder of his wife, Joanna...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Two alleged human trafficking operations with ties to Northampton and Hadley have been disbanded, state Attorney General Maura Healey’s office announced Tuesday evening.The operation netted four arrests and helped identify 10 victims who...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — A grand jury handed up a vehicular homicide charge for a South Hadley man police said caused a fatal, two-vehicle crash in May that claimed the life of Thomas Flanagan, a 29-year-old Westfield man and father of two who was delivering...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — The college student accused in a drug-related home invasion two months ago now faces nearly a dozen charges in Superior Court, after being indicted by a grand jury last week.Patrick Bemben, 25, is slated to be arraigned early next year....

By EMILY CUTTS

BELCHERTOWN — A South Hadley man is reported to be in stable condition after he was shot thrice in the abdomen Saturday at his Amherst Road apartment, an incident that has led to the arrest of three men.Friends took the 29-year-old victim to Holyoke...

By EMILY CUTTSNORTHAMPTON —  Former South Hadley funeral director William W. Ryder pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $400,000 in prepaid funeral arrangements in Hampshire Superior Court Friday morning and was sentenced to jail, two-and-half years...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — The morning after the votes were cast and the markets were sent into a frenzy and Donald Trump addressed a stunned electorate, a distraught city man wept inside a Wal-Mart.“How do I explain to my daughter that we have a sexist bully as...

By EMILY CUTTS

BELCHERTOWN — A University of Massachusetts Amherst student pleaded not guilty Oct. 21 in Eastern Hampshire District Court to numerous assault charges.Dan Idhenga, 19, was charged with indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, three charges of...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Moments before she was sentenced Wednesday to spend the rest of her life in prison for murdering her wife, Cara Rintala trudged to a seat beside her attorneys.The shackles around her ankles clanked and dragged along the wooden floor as...

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...