Chicopee News

Only three of the forty cats removed from a Chicopee home because of unsanitary conditions were able to be saved.

A police officer is supposed to be someone who protects the community and someone you can trust.

Western Massachusetts mayors are warning Governor Patrick that their communities will be financially crippled if voters eliminate the state income tax.

A state employee from Stoughton was distracted by his cellphone when he struck and killed a man with his car last weekend, in the latest fatal accident in Massachusetts involving text messaging, authorities ...

Mastery of the big yellow bus, of course, isn't measured by speed or the sheer number of school children hauled about.

People are nervous about the economy, but Gov. Deval L. Patrick heard today from Western Massachusetts municipal leaders that potential disaster looms on the November ballot.

Dr. Lauren E. Atkins from the Adoption center at the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, cuddles Pancakes, a 12-week-old short-hair kitten that was one of about 40 cats rescued from a ...

A special dedication of a new Central Baptist Church parking lot as well as a plaque-monument and bench to remember a former church will be held today .

Story By Dan Brown CHICOPEE, Mass. -- A Chicopee man is now Rock Paper Scissors champion of the United States and because of it is $50,000 richer and will be heading to The Olympics in August to compete for the ...

By PAMELA H. METAXAS pmetaxas@repub.com CHICOPEE - A 25-year-old city man remained hospitalized at Baystate Medical Center Monday after being stabbed in the chest over the weekend during an altercation which ...

Registrar of Voters Janina A. Surdyka said 2,000 notices are being mailed to voters who did not respond to the state's annual City Census.

A slide that was stolen from the Bowie Memorial School in Chicopee on Tuesday has been recovered.

By GEORGE GRAHAM ggraham@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - Undercover detectives arrested seven women during a prostitution sweep yesterday evening.

The Aldenville branch of the Chicopee Public Library had its last day of operation today.

Police recovered a 15-foot, $2,400 slide that had been stolen from a city school yesterday afternoon near empty military housing off Outer Drive, said Chicopee Police Detective Eric J. Watson.

Fire damaged a playground behind St. Stanislaus School, 534 Front St.,, here, late Sunday evening, July 6. The fire was deliberate and arson was suspected, according to Conventual Franciscan Father Michael ...

By PAMELA H. METAXAS pmetaxas@repub.com CHICOPEE - The man charged with beating his Trafton Street roommate to death with a baseball bat Tuesday was ordered held without right to bail today pending an Aug.

A 56-year-old Chicopee man is due to be arraigned on a murder charge today following the city's first homicide in more than two years.

Bowie School teachers want their slide back. Specifically their 15-foot, bright yellow, curved, Fiberglas slide that was unbolted from a play structure some time Sunday night and driven away.

Police are probing the death of a Chicopee man whose body was found in this home at 7 Trafton St.