Springfield News

Needy families in the Pioneer Valley are singing the praises of a young man from Springfield who turned a service project into a life long mission.

Rodney King says boxing is helping him stay sober. King, whose 1991 beating by Los Angeles police was captured on videotape and helped spark riots a year later, is among a group of D-list celebrities appearing around the country as part of the Celebrity Boxing Federation.

The city's decision to move the School Department's Central Office operations to the former federal building on Main Street generated harsh criticism at Thursday night's School Committee meeting.

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Law enforcement officials say a series of raids on western Massachusetts massage parlors has resulted in prositution and immigration charges against owners and employees.

Ward 8 City Council candidate John Lysak With yesterday's municipal elections now behind us, Springfield stands on the threshold of a new era in city government.

Domenic Sarno won another term as mayor in Springfield. This will be his second consecutive term in office.

Mayor Domenic J. Sarno won re-election last night by a wide margin, saying he takes it as a mandate from the voters to continue his war on crime and to promote jobs and economic development.

Window and door manufacturer Harvey Building Products has announced plans to close its Springfield facility and move about 100 jobs to other locations in New England.

Whether the only person to serve as the city's mayor will continue to serve, or make way for a successor, is the key decision facing voters here Tuesday.

Nearly two dozen incumbent mayors are facing challenges on Election Day in Massachusetts.

Police arrested two city men and charged them with trafficking cocaine at Main and Union streets Thursday night.

A Springfield Catholic church that was supposed to close by the end of this month has been given a seven-month reprieve.

A fire has burned down Children's Corner Day Care at 238-240 Walnut St., said Fire Department spokesman Dennis G. Leger.

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - A Brockton man who allegedly carved out a modest crime wave for himself last weekend here in western Massachusetts is under arrest.

Max is a Shetland sheepdog, a miniature collie with a thick fur coat, but the staples and tubes sticking out of his shaved neck and the chewed-up right ear make him resemble a kind of canine monster.

After a heated debate between former Agawam Mayor Richard Cohen and his opponent Derek Benton, another candidate is demanding that Benton withdraw from the race.

Authorities say a Massachusetts man fired several shots through the front window of a neighboring home, killing an 18-year-old woman, because he thought someone living there had stolen his TV.

Combustibles left too close to a stove pipe caused some $10,000 to $15,000 in damage to a detached garage in the Brightwood neighborhood Wednesday night.

Alex Valle's past caught up with him this week when his prior crimes meant his new conviction on gun charges landed him a mandatory 15-year state prison sentence.