Hampden News

MA CHURCH ALARM CHALLENGE SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - A Springfield church has filed suit against the city over a fire detection system installed in the church's cultural center that violates city laws.

There would be no decision coming from the hearing, but the sentiment was clear: There are a lot of citizens opposed to a biomass plant proposed for East Springfield.

The Uzi machine gun jammed twice and was inspected by a 15-year-old before 8-year-old Christopher K. Bizilj attempted to fire it a third time and was met with a lethal recoil during a gun exposition in Westfield a year ago.

Despite that rutting moon burning bright in clear, cold skies this week, it's been slow going on the Pioneer Valley archery-deer-harvest front.

The trial of a former Massachusetts police chief and three other defendants charged in connection with the death of an 8-year-old boy at a gun show last year has been postponed.

Xiuli Li, of Springfield, right, is lead away by a Hampden County Court officer following her arraignment in Springfield District Court Thursday on prostitution-related charges.

From Colombia to New Zealand and California to New York, a classified ad in which a mother purportedly offers her 3-year-old daughter for adoption has been making the rounds of the Internet for months.

A former School Committee member from Southwick who served more than a decade in state prison for raping a young boy, is back in jail and prosecutors are weighing a request to put him behind bars for life.

The taint created by embattled Holyoke police detective Paul C. Barkyoumb has begun to seep into the Hampden County district attorney's office, as two drug prosecutions hinging on his credibility shriveled this week.

A coyote fatally injured a four-month-old bassett hound puppy early Tuesday afternoon in a yard on Oak Knoll Drive.

Towns earn praise for educated vote I would like to sincerely thank all of the residents of Wilbraham and Hampden who voted for building of a new Minnechaug High School.

Matching state money was cut sharply for 65 communities that have approved a law for buying open space, marking the second year in a row of declining state contributions for the program.

Forty-nine-year-old Kanchan Patel was shot to death more than four years ago in the Summit Package Store that he owned with his brother.

A proposed $82.7 million new Minnechaug Regional High School got the green light from voters in Wilbraham and Hampden on Tuesday.

Voters here and in Hampden will cast ballots Tuesday to decide a debt exclusion override question which will determine the fate of the proposed new Minnechaug Regional High School.

Police are investigating vandalism reported Saturday morning by residents in the Tanglewood, Lenox, Woodbridge, Windy Brook Lane, Pioneer Circle and Longview neighborhoods.

Francesco Rovelli was sentenced to a 2½-year jail term Thursday for his role in the firebombing of an Audubon Street home last year.

The Minnechaug Regional High School building in Wilbraham would be replaced by an $82.7 million new building if voters in Hampden and Wilbraham approve debt exclusion overrides on Oct.

Two men have pleaded innocent in Hampden Superior Court in separate cases on charges they evaded state excise taxes by illegally selling unstamped cigarettes, collectively defrauding the state more than $300,000. Jin Zheng, 30, formerly of East Longmeadow, faces charges of possession with intent to sell unstamped cigarettes, evasion of cigarette ...

Residents in two local towns came out in force to vote on whether to fund the construction of a new high school.