Ludlow News

Christian D. Barbee was sentenced to 2½ years in jail on Wednesday in Palmer District Court after he was found guilty of charges stemming from a break-in at his ex-girlfriend's Hampden house in November.

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

The Community Builders Incorporated have been cited by the Environmental Protection Agency for not disclosing the possible presence of lead paint to renters.

Remember to tip your caddy The folks at Quabaug Corp. in North Brookfield, the sole - if you will - manufacturer of Vibram boot and shoe soles in North America, are not ones to become complacent.

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 man who fled a vehicular homicide charge 14 years ago for a fatal accident on the Chicopee curve of Interstate 91 admitted to the crime yesterday during a court session in which he told the judge he had named ...

Raquel Blodgett strikes a pose Saturday at Mortensen Riverfront Plaza as she dances to music by Memphis Soul Spectacular, with singer Rob 'Mr. Big Stuff' Jockel.

Western Massachusetts children from families of modest means often have no choice but to go swimming in areas considered dangerous.

A jury took more than three days to convict two city men of drug charges, but the sentencing was swift.

Douglas M. Hagopian, vice president and treasurer for Hoppe Tool Inc of Chicopee, holds one of the camera housing pieces his company makes as employees, Nelson Saraiva of Ludlow, center and Robert A. LaRiviere ...

A 46-year-old Ludlow woman, who lost control of her vehicle on East Street Sunday night and plunged some 100-feet down a steep ravine, was listed in good condition this morning at Baystate Medical Center in ...

A formal Phase 2 kickoff of a $2 million "Building Our Future" fund-raising campaign for the city's Boys and Girls Club is expected by the fall.

When Roman Rodriguez was sentenced in 2001 to five years in jail for indecent assault and battery on a child, he was also sentenced to 15 years of probation.

Northeast Utilities, which has announced plans to install a high-voltage transmission line between Bloomfield and Ludlow, Mass., as part of the ongoing effort to enhance the New England power grid, will be detailing the projects to the public in the coming week.

The proposed 345-kilovolt service would pass through Suffield and Granby. There is also an alternate route under consideration that would have the line travel through Enfield.

The project would involve installation of the high voltage service and some upgrading of the existing 115-kilovolts service, the company said. The projected cost of the project is about $714 million.

Matthew Pasterczyk, of Enfield, was sentenced yesterday to 2½ years in the Hampden County Correctional Center in Ludlow for attacking a man asleep in his bed in an act of revenge.

By BUFFY SPENCER bspencer@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - 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 ...

A prisoner who was being readied for transport to the Hampden County Correctional Center after failing to make bail on a drug possession charge escaped from a van in the Springfield District Court parking ...

Republican staff photo by MIEKE ZUIDERWEG Katie Collins, fiscal manager of Springfield's Department of Elder Affairs, hands out cold water to Ruth McCants, left, and Mary E. Talley, both city residents, today ...

A tractor trailer fire on the Mass. Pike between exits 6 & 7 eastbound is causing a major traffic backup.

The former Cascades Diamond facility in the Thorndike section has been chosen for a reuse design competition sponsored by the Valley Development Council, part of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission.