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By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — A new police staffing study recommends hiring five police officers to fill gaps in patrol coverage caused by a growing amount of specialty services and administrative work, but town officials will wait to make any decisions on public...
By EMILEE KLEIN
GRANBY — Closure for Matthew Dale meant giving his mother her name back — and he did just that on Thursday in a quiet ceremony at the West Street Cemetery.In 1978, Dale’s mother went missing when he was 5 years old. His family reported her...
By ALEXA LEWIS
NORTHAMPTON — A young Northampton man was struck and killed Monday evening on Interstate 91 near Exit 25, authorities have confirmed.At roughly 9:40 p.m. on Monday, State Police say the crash was reported, drawing State Police detectives attached to...
By ALEXA LEWIS
EASTHAMPTON — An award of $16,204.87 from the state’s Law Enforcement Body-Worn Camera Program will allow the city Police Department to expand its existing body-worn camera supply and related infrastructure, which will enable it to outfit all officers...
By ALEXA LEWIS
SOUTHAMPTON — The Southampton Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying two individuals suspected of credit card fraud. The department posted photos from a store security camera to Facebook on Wednesday afternoon that depict...
By EMILEE KLEIN
BELCHERTOWN — Before police officers began their patrols last Friday, each officer clipped on one of the 23 fully charged body cameras sitting on a docking station, officially launching the department’s body-worn camera program that aims to improve...
By ALEXA LEWIS
EASTHAMPTON — After 24 years on the police force, Police Chief Robert Alberti has tendered his resignation and is set to retire in November at the conclusion of his current medical leave period.In a July 15 resignation letter to the city, Alberti...
BELCHERTOWN — Authorities are investigating a single-car crash that took the life of a 51-year-old Belchertown resident on Sunday night, the third fatal motor vehicle crash in Hampshire County in a 72-hour period.Police responded to Sunday’s crash at...
HOLYOKE — A man who police say was involved in a shooting Thursday afternoon that damaged the City Hall Annex building faces a raft of weapons and drug charges following his arrest soon after the shooting.Hector Rivera, no age given, of Holyoke was...
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HOLYOKE — One man is in custody, and another has been identified but was at large in the wake of a shootout Thursday at 1:45 p.m. near High Street and Worcester Place, the mayor’s office reported.Police said five shots were fired in the exchange. Two...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
HADLEY — A high-speed chase in Hadley on Wednesday night ended with a car crash that closed part of Bay Road after an unmarked police vehicle collided with the pursued vehicle just outside the Hampton Inn.The incident occurred shortly after 7 p.m....
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
A section of King Street in Northampton was shut down to fix a downed telephone pole, the second time such an incident has occurred on the busy thoroughfare this year.The pole, located in front of the Lia Toyota dealership, was leaning towards the...
By DOMENIC POLI
DEERFIELD — A Turners Falls man faces various charges, including his third OUI offense, after allegedly driving a vehicle into a River Road house last weekend.Jason E. Tyler, 50, pleaded not guilty in Greenfield District Court on Monday to charges of...
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — The Police Department is fundraising $10,000 to recruit a new member with four paws, a tail and lots of fur.After Amherst, Greenfield and Belchertown reported the “transformative” impact of the police departments’ comfort dog program,...
Staff Report
The state’s 911 dispatch system went offline for two hours Tuesday afternoon, forcing residents to call their local police department’s administrative numbers for emergencies during the dispatch system outage. Notification of the system’s failure...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — A civil lawsuit brought against the city by a former Northampton man who claims he was illegally arrested and defamed when he was detained while protesting in 2017 is set for trial in October.Eric Matlock filed suit in 2020, claiming two...
By EMILEE KLEIN
NORTHAMPTON — From 1978 to 1989, Northampton’s lesbian bookstore Womonfyre did more than sell books.Like many lesbian bookstores in the 1970s and ’80s, the store on Masonic Street offered newspapers and periodicals associated with the second-wave...
By CHRIS LARABEE
SUNDERLAND — Police responded to the area of Bull Hill Road and Route 116 Tuesday morning for a report of a moose struck by a vehicle. Upon arrival shortly after 7 a.m., though, there were more questions than answers, as first responders found an...
By Alexa Lewis
SOUTHAMPTON — Standing against the gleaming red backdrop of Engine 3, Richard Fasoli was sworn in as the Southampton Fire Department’s new fire chief in a brief ceremony on Wednesday. “I couldn’t do it without all of your help,” Fasoli said to those...
AMHERST — A near-unanimous Town Council this week confirmed Police Capt. Gabriel Ting as Amherst’s next police chief.Six days after Town Manager Paul Bockelman said he would name Ting, a 27-year veteran and interim police chief since last May, to the...
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