Search Results

Keyword search: court

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The local sheriff and the U.S. magistrate judge assigned to Springfield served as panelists Monday morning for a discussion about the justice system and the “workings of government” before dozens of local students and the public....

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Four of six North Quabbin residents who are facing charges of kidnapping and other crimes stemming from an alleged Feb. 1 incident were arraigned Monday afternoon in Franklin County Superior Court, where their cases have been transferred...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A Supreme Judicial Court ruling that alcohol tests given with a certain type of breathalyzer were invalid evidence in drunken-driving prosecutions between 2011 and 2019 will not affect area prosecutors’ approach to such cases.The Boston...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — Criminal proceedings can proceed against two former Holyoke Soldiers’ Home officials accused of negligence that led to the deaths of dozens of veterans early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday.In a 5-2 decision...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Three of a dozen people arrested in 2021 in connection with a cocaine trafficking syndicate operating out of a Greenfield barbershop changed their pleas Tuesday regarding their involvement in the operation and another had her case...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A personal care attendant accused of stabbing the 82-year-old husband of a woman she was caring for in Montague pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to three charges stemming from the April 15 incident.Kady J. Flanagan, 28, of Deerfield,...

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 DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The state opted Monday to drop its case against a Level 3 sex offender and former fugitive to spare the named victim the trauma of taking the witness stand in a trial.Jeffrey Cancel-Muniz, 42, formerly of western Massachusetts, has been...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — A Franklin County Superior Court judge deemed an abutter had standing to appeal the special permit for three proposed solar arrays on Pine Meadow Road in Northfield, setting up a future trial.In a flurry of decisions, Judge Karen Goodwin...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — A Tennessee man who allegedly led the Greenfield Police Department on a 12.5-minute, 8-mile pursuit into Deerfield last week faces 11 charges after being arraigned.Sujay Mooss, 48, of Knoxville, Tennessee, is facing several felony and...

By DOMENIC POLI

A Manhattan grand jury voted last week to indict former President Donald Trump on 34 counts of business fraud and, much like those of the Mueller special counsel investigation into election interference or the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol,...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The case of a New Salem Police Officer facing a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol has been continued without a finding until next year after the defendant admitted the prosecution has sufficient facts to prove his...

GREENFIELD — A Northfield man facing criminal charges for allegedly threatening gun violence upon his town’s elementary school last week was deemed too dangerous to release on bail and will be held for up to 120 days as the legal process...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — A district court judge ruled Tuesday that the state had met its burden in arguing that no amount of bail would ensure public safety in the case of three men who were arrested after allegedly stabbing a man they know on North Main Street...

By DOMENIC POLI

ATHOL — A Lynn woman was ordered held on $5,000 bail this week after a traffic stop led to her arrest on drug trafficking charges.Demetrius Daily, 41, pleaded not guilty in Orange District Court to two counts of possession of a Class B substance with...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Northfield man faces criminal charges for allegedly threatening gun violence upon Northfield Elementary School and causing a shelter-in-place order there on Friday.Theodore R. Sweeney Jr., 46, of Millers Falls Road, pleaded not guilty...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Three men have been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a man they know on North Main Street on Monday before leading police on a high-speed chase that ended in Belchertown.Ali Ayala, 22, of Springfield, Alex Santana, 31,...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — An Athol man pleaded not guilty Friday to 11 charges in connection to several alleged incidents of domestic violence and sexual assault in 2021 and 2022.Christopher C. Mundell, 36, of Sanders Street, was arraigned in Orange District Court on...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A resident doctor who lives part-time in Amherst and practices at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield was arrested Tuesday following the FBI’s recent seizure of about 80 devices containing images and videos believed to be child...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — The driver involved in a head-on crash on Route 2 that resulted in serious injuries to four Rhode Island residents, including two children, Sunday afternoon allegedly admitted to police officers he had used drugs prior to the...