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By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — Just call her “Detective Goldie.” That’s the name 7-year-old Dreya Sawka has picked for herself. She has dreams of becoming a police officer, dreams that the Northampton Police Department’s new trading card program has helped...

By NYSSA KRUSE

State officials are advising consumers to use cash instead of debit and credit cards when buying gas after a state investigation found skimmers attached to pumps at two Hampshire County gas stations last month. The state’s consumer watchdog agency...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — Police received another report of a naked man touching himself on the streets of Northampton early Tuesday.The report described a naked man, just after 12:10 a.m., lying on top of short brick wall in front of Bacon & Wilson attorneys’...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

EASTHAMPTON — A glass door to the F.L. Roberts gas station was shattered and the inside ransacked. Some $300 was missing from the cash register, and several cartons of cigarettes and cigars had been taken.Alarms were ringing. A fresh footprint marked...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTHAMPTON — Officers seized three misused handicap placards last week in an effort to crack down on those who illegally park in handicap spaces.Lt. Ian Illingsworth said the department typically checks for placards of cars parked in handicapped...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — A 78-year-old Florence man was hit by a car and killed while riding his bike Monday afternoon.Alan H. Porter was taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield where he was later pronounced dead, according to the Northwestern district...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — An Easthampton man is suing the Northampton Police Department for $15 million, alleging that he was roughed up outside a bar in April 2014 Gregory S. Stevens claims he suffered numerous physical and mental injuries in the altercation,...

By JACK SUNTRUP

NORTHAMPTON — More than two months after the cancellation of High-Five Friday rattled Northampton, the school district announced Monday a permanent police liaison to its elementary schools.The four district elementary schools have lacked a steady law...

By EMILY CUTTS

BELCHERTOWN — A Belchertown man has been arrested and charged with possessing child pornography after he allegedly attempted to entice a boy via Facebook Messenger.Douglas Wallace, 28, of 145 River St., pleaded not guilty in Eastern Hampshire District...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A resident well-known for raising awareness about climate change and other progressive issues died Wednesday, two days after suffering critical injuries in a motorcycle crash on Kellogg Avenue.Emergency responders identified Marc Osten, 55,...

By GAZETTE STAFF

NORTHAMPTON — City police successfully located the owner of what likely is a mixed-breed dog found wandering the area Thursday afternoon.Officials said the dog, probably a partial Pomeranian, was picked up on Prospect Street. Though it had no...

By JACK SUNTRUP

FLORENCE — Jim’s Variety Store in Florence was robbed Wednesday night, the second time the convenience store’s cash register has been plundered since January.Northampton Police Department Capt. John Cartledge said in a news release that a male suspect...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Six teenagers are being summoned to court for being minors in possession of alcohol after officers from Amherst and the University of Massachusetts police departments monitored a gathering in North Amherst Tuesday afternoon.With...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — Police said a woman dropped off a “pink pouch” she believed contained cremated ashes just before 7 p.m. on Monday.The woman found the pouch near the intersection of West and Green streets, according to authorities.Capt. John Cartledge...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — As the city slept, the deer ran free.At some point Thursday evening, police said, a tree at Look Park fell and left an escape route open in one of the enclosures that hold two deer. On Friday morning, when park staff realized the deer...

By Bob Dunn

CLARKSBURG — The husband of a missing Clarksburg woman with ties to Easthampton was found dead Friday in what investigators are calling an apparent suicide.A family member of 42-year-old Charles “Chad” Reidy had asked police to conduct a well-being...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — The embattled Pine Spa in Florence, one of several area massage businesses embroiled in an ongoing human trafficking investigation, was condemned by the Board of Health and forced to close Friday until further notice after officials said...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Police charged a Springfield man in connection with a string of reports, all in the same day, involving the passing of several counterfeit $100 bills.Robert M. Walter, 45, faces three counts each of uttering a counterfeit note and...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — The previous 48 hours were fraught, with a heroin overdose, a bald eagle rescue and a man with a gun. These events, Northampton Police Chief Jody Kasper said during opening remarks at a police department ceremony, exemplify the different...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — After a three-month hiatus, a Florence massage business at the center of a human trafficking investigation has reopened after fixing the health violations that led the city’s Board of Health to condemn the space.On Tuesday, the neon...