DA: Escaped Prisoner Shoots 2 Officers In Springfield
A State Trooper and a Springfield police officer were both shot today when a gun battle erupted during a traffic stop.
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A State Trooper and a Springfield police officer were both shot today when a gun battle erupted during a traffic stop.
A jury has convicted a man in what prosecutors say was the racially motivated burning of a predominantly black church hours after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008.
It's a tough job market out there, but at least two vacancies are up for grabs in Massachusetts, provided candidates have the right qualifications to be federal judges
Chaos broke out in a Springfield courtroom Tuesday, after a judge ordered a drug suspect's bail to be revoked.
Plans to bring broadband internet access to western Massachusetts are being unveiled Monday.
police have taken a bite out of crime by arresting a man who allegedly stole another man's gold teeth. Police got a call from the alleged victim just after 7 p.m. on Thursday. He said while he was outside a city liquor store another man had hit him across the face with a gun and demanded he hand over his ornamental gold teeth, watch and a gold chain.
More than 1,400 Springfield public school teachers have been overpaid by a combined $1.2 million since the beginning of the school year and will have to pay the money back.
A Springfield mother pled guilty to felony animal cruelty charges today that she neglected her dogs and puppies to the point of starvation. Her son will stand trial in late May on similar charges.
Firefighters responding to a roof collapse at a Springfield home found the resident still asleep in his second-floor bedroom.
Reports of roof collapses and unsafe structures piled up Wednesday as accumulated, melting and frozen snow was made heavier by freezing rain. State officials had 30 such reports by late afternoon.
A former Massachusetts school teacher who ran off with a male student and pleaded guilty to statutory rape charges was given probation Wednesday by a judge who said he does not see her as a sexual predator.
A juror has been dismissed for undisclosed reasons in the manslaughter trial of a former police chief charged in the death of an 8-year-old boy who shot himself with an Uzi submachine gun at a 2008 Massachusetts gun fair.
Jury selection has been continued until after the new year in the manslaughter trial of a former western Massachusetts police chief in the death of an 8-year-old Connecticut boy who shot himself with an Uzi at a gun show.
- A historic document that details the original rules of basketball has been sold for more than $4 million at a New York City auction. Sotheby's offered the Naismith Rules on Friday as part of a sale of historic documents.
It's been one of the most heart breaking aspects of this recession - so many people losing their homes.
