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By MICHAEL CONNORS
NORTHAMPTON — Two and a half years after Daniel Cruz was fatally shot at Meadowbrook Apartments and his body set ablaze in a field in Hatfield, his killer, Nerkin Omar Morales, was sentenced to 15 to 20 years in state prison Tuesday.Morales, 24,...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
NORTHAMPTON — A Florence man was ordered held without bail last week on an attempted murder charge after he allegedly strangled a family member who ended up in a hospital trauma unit.Cody M. Malone, 25, was charged with attempted murder, strangulation...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
HOLYOKE — City police arrested three people and seized two handguns after responding to a Tuesday afternoon shooting in South Holyoke during which gunfire went through the windows of three apartments.Police responded to the area of Hamilton and...
By BOB DUNN
PITTSFIELD — A North Adams man was sentenced to up to life in prison Thursday for the brutal 2018 killing of his wife at the couple’s home.Mark Steele-Knudslien, 49, pleaded guilty in Berkshire Superior Court to a charge of second-degree murder in the...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
SPRINGFIELD — The lawyer for a city man accused of stabbing another man to death in Holyoke last July is saying his client acted in self-defense after he pleaded not guilty in Hampden Superior Court to the murder on Thursday.Samuel Rosario-Calderon,...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
HOLYOKE — After a months-long investigation into a large-scale heroin distribution operation, police and federal authorities raided two addresses and arrested a city teenager on drug and firearm-related charges Wednesday. Luis Garcia-Figueroa, 19, was...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
HOLYOKE — After a sixth reported shooting in Holyoke in less than a week, police arrested a city woman on unlawful gun charges and another man who was with her on Tuesday night.Leshmarie Marin-Viera, 20, of Holyoke was arrested on charges of...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
HOLYOKE — The man accused of fatally shooting 21-year-old Jesus Otero Marrero of Holyoke near South Bridge Street last Thursday pleaded not guilty to murder at his arraignment Tuesday morning.Jean Carlos Rivera, 30, of Holyoke was ordered held without...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
HOLYOKE — A city man was deemed dangerous by a judge Wednesday after authorities say he fired a gun on two separate occasions in one day at a man he believed was having an affair with his wife, allegedly telling police after his arrest that he wanted...
By DAVID McLELLAN
GREENFIELD — Isaiah Buckner would be 16 years old today.Nearly six years after the 10-year-old boy from Athol died July 10, 2013, due to severe injuries to his abdomen and internal organs, Christopher Vinsant, 33, pleaded guilty to involuntary...
By PHILIP MARCELO
BOSTON — They’re nestled amid bustling downtowns and tucked into nondescript strip malls across quiet suburbs. Brothels posing as massage parlors and Asian spas have been part of the American landscape for decades, hidden in plain sight.But the...
By BERA DUNAU
NORTHAMPTON — Family and friends of Jose “Joselito” Rodriguez packed the courtroom as his killer, Soknang Chham, pleaded guilty Wednesday to manslaughter and related charges before being sentenced to 22 to 25 years in prison.The small confines of...
By BERA DUNAU
NORTHAMPTON — Chelsea Rodriguez, the final defendant to be arraigned in connection with the March 10 killing of Daniel Cruz, had her bail set at $100,000 cash or surety on Monday.Rodriguez, 22, of Northampton, was extradited to Massachusetts from...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A University of Massachusetts fraternity suspended under the student code of conduct over hazing allegations and facing four grand jury indictments is being suspended by its parent organization.The Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity,...
By DENISE LAVOIE
BOSTON — After the U.S. Supreme Court and the highest court in Massachusetts found that mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional for juveniles, the state began holding parole hearings for 63 people who had...
By Nicole Winfield
By NICOLE WINFIELDVATICAN CITY — Vatican prosecutors have indicted the former president and the ex-treasurer of the Vatican’s children’s hospital for allegedly diverting money from the hospital’s fundraising foundation to pay for an extensive...
By Justine McDaniel, Laura McCrystal and Joseph A. Slobodzian
PHILADELPHIA — Investigators on Wednesday found human remains buried deep on a sprawling Bucks County property and said they believed the dead included at least one of the four men whose disappearance last week set in motion the biggest search in...
WENDELL – Police this morning are investigating a fatal shooting in town overnight.A 48-year-old woman was fatally shot shortly after midnight, according to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, which is heading the investigation.A DA spokesman...
By DOMENIC POLI
GREENFIELD — A hearing on a motion to suppress information has been scheduled in the case of an Athol couple accused of a double homicide in Orange last year.The hearing is scheduled to start Sept. 25, and the trial is slated for April 2018.Joshua...
By BOB DUNN
By BOB DUNNbdunn@berkshireeagle.comPITTSFIELD — “Laura Reilly had nothing to do with the disappearance of Jo Ringer.” That was the contention of Reilly’s attorney, Jesse Adams, in Berkshire Superior Court on Monday.While Reilly, 42, of Easthampton,...
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