Hampden News

Angel M. Rosario, center, appears with his lawyer, Perman Glenn III, in Springfield District Court Tuesday morning.

By BUFFY SPENCER bspencer@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - A Hampden Superior Court jury has found David Wilson innocent of illegal firearms charges.

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Ryan R. Bigos, 18, was handcuffed and led from a Hampden Superior Court courtroom today, to serve two years in jail for killing Robert J. Hull Jr.

A Monson teenager who continued driving to school after he struck and killed a man out walking his dogs has been sentenced to two years in jail.

Convicted earlier this year on 11 counts of possessing child pornography, former local teacher Edgar L. "Ned" Selavka was sentenced this afternoon to a year in jail and seven years of probation.

Unlike his predecessor Gov. W. Mitt Romney who viewed Springfield as a "problem child," Gov.

By DAVID BERGENGREN dbergengren@repub.com The rising costs of gasoline, groceries, home-heating oil and other necessities are driving up the number of veterans and surviving spouses of veterans seeking ...

By BUFFY SPENCER bspencer@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - Through an interpreter for deaf people, a young man told Hampden Superior Court Judge Constance M. Sweeney what it felt like to be held captive in a car and ...

By GEORGE GRAHAM ggraham@repub.com EAST LONGMEADOW - Isolated power outages remain and some side streets may still be impassable as work crews deal with the aftermath of a violent thunderstorm early this ...

The stormy weather from Monday came in with a vengeance, and then managed to give-way to a nice sunset.

The extent of tree damage inflicted by a violent thunderstorm in the Meadowbrook Lane area on Monday has some residents wondering whether they were hit by a microburst.

Eliel Vazquez, of Holyoke, had no prior record when he tried to rob his employer with a loaded semiautomatic handgun in a Springfield restaurant where the man paid employees of his temporary job agency.

The Diocese of Springfield will ordinate three men as its newest priests, the Rev.

Because selectmen were late for the meeting and a vote was taken one hour before their arrival, Holland will automatically remain a member of the Eastern Hampden County Veterans District, along with Wales, ...

A 21-year-old West Springfield man who was shot in the leg by a West Springfield police officer was found guilty earlier this month of assaulting the officer with a metal bar in a July 9, 2007, incident.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church on Fenn Street, a national parish for persons of Italian descent, opened in 1903.

Murder charges against 59-year-old Lee A. Wilkins were dropped this week after a Hampden County grand jury declined to indict him for the March 21 stabbing death of a man who broke into his room at a Seymour ...

They were once feared as terrible plagues that would ruin the great outdoors for the region's nature lovers.

By LORI STABILE lstabile@repub.com PALMER - Police are investigating vandalism to two cemeteries in town, where a total of 26 headstones were knocked down and flowers were thrown around.