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By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — An Orange man who lied about how his girlfriend got shot in their bedroom will spend the next 3½ to 5½ years in state prison after changing his plea in Franklin County Superior Court on Monday afternoon.Conan J. Gentile, 52, pleaded...

By COLIN A. YOUNG

Shannon O’Brien, the former state treasurer and Democratic nominee for governor, has filed a lawsuit accusing Treasurer Deborah Goldberg of unlawfully removing her as chair of the Cannabis Control Commission.The lawsuit, filed in Suffolk County...

By JAMES PENTLAND

HOLYOKE — A Greenfield man facing eight criminal counts in relation to an alleged hit-and-run in which he dragged a state trooper was ordered held on $100,000 bail at his arraignment Wednesday in Holyoke District Court.Michael J. Williams, 45, is...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HOLYOKE — A Greenfield man is facing eight charges related to an alleged hit-and-run last Friday that injured a Massachusetts State Police trooper and led to a extensive search with K-9s throughout nearby woods after the suspect escaped on...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The Springfield man accused of shooting a man in Turners Falls and fleeing the scene last month has been denied a reduced bail and will remain held as dangerous until around Dec. 25, when his $100,000 bail will go into effect.Gil Viera,...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — The felony charges against a Tennessee man who allegedly led Greenfield police on a pursuit in March have been dropped at the request of the state.The state asked for the felony charges of vandalism of property and two counts of assault...

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — Three proposed solar arrays on Pine Meadow Road could soon proceed, as all parties have agreed in Franklin County Superior Court to dismiss an appeal of the project.The dismissal of the appeal came less than a week after the final...

By JAMES PENTLAND

SPRINGFIELD — A Greenfield man was arrested Thursday on four charges related to his alleged participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to the FBI.Christopher H. Keniley was taken into custody without incident and...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The Florida man who was the subject of an hours-long search on Tuesday after allegedly shooting a Turners Falls man in the thigh was arrested as a vehicle passenger in Holyoke later that day and arraigned in Greenfield District Court on...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A North Adams woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two charges stemming from a crash that killed a 66-year-old Colrain motorcyclist on Route 2 in Charlemont on April 12.Melissa C. Repka, 38, was charged in Greenfield District Court with...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Due to the case’s severity, the personal care attendant accused of stabbing the 82-year-old husband of a woman she was caring for in Montague had her charges and conditions of release transferred to Franklin County Superior Court on...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — A Land Court lawsuit contending that Shutesbury’s zoning bylaw is overly restrictive and may doom plans to develop five large solar projects on 190 acres of mostly wooded land remains active, though the town’s attorney is seeking to have...

By DOMENIC POLI

WHATELY — The two Connecticut men facing charges following a vehicle pursuit near Interstate 91’s Exit 35 off-ramp on Sunday also pleaded not guilty to kidnapping after allegedly coercing a man to drive them away from the area where they crashed the...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A man who served nearly 10 years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter, motor vehicle homicide and drunken driving in 2011 has been granted a new trial, with the judge who sentenced him now deciding the defendant was deprived of...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Tea Guys had two bank accounts frozen this week when a Franklin County Superior Court judge granted a pair of motions filed on behalf of a Baltimore tea company that is suing the Whately business.Judge David Hodge put a freeze on accounts...

By MAX BOWEN

SPRINGFIELD — A Royalston man has been sentenced in federal court on charges of distributing child pornography using the Wi-Fi at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center.Kevin A. Divoll, 51, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni to...

By DOMENIC POLI

BOSTON — The state’s highest court upheld on Monday the 2007 conviction of a Greenfield man serving two consecutive life sentences in prison for the strangulation death of Brandy Waryasz and her unborn son in April 2005.The Massachusetts Supreme...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Franklin County Superior Court judge on Thursday declined to adjust the bail of one of the Holyoke men facing drug and gun charges after allegedly leading police on a vehicle chase and foot pursuit in January 2022.Judge David Hodge...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD –- A Franklin County Superior Court judge has set a tentative August date for a rescheduled bail hearing for the Bernardston man who has pleaded not guilty to witness intimidation and violating a restraining order aimed at protecting a...

By BILL NEWMAN

Here we go again. Last June the Supreme Court overruled a half-century of precedent and repealed the right to abortion. This June, the court again jettisoned a half-century of precedent, this time to gut affirmative action.Let’s be clear. This is not...