Springfield News

A massive blaze destroyed two houses and damaged at least three others on Franklin Street late last night, leaving at least three families homeless.

Police have identified the victim of the city's 10th homicide as Noah D. Borders, 23, of 56 Campechi St.

Most city councilors were opposed to a meals tax increase Monday, urging there be public input before the increase was instituted.

Collections are ongoing to aid the Bay Street family that lost two brothers and had four others hospitalized in a Saturday morning fire, said the family minister.

The Memorial Bridge will be closed to all traffic - vehicular and pedestrian - Friday at 11 p.m. to allow workers to set up the Star Spangled Springfield fireworks display.

Dogs, dogs and more dogs from small and elegant looking Yorkshire terriers to family- friends English cocker spaniels to big, hardworking Bernese mountain dogs will turn the grounds of the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield this weekend into "dog city." The "cluster" dog shows they will be competing in begin today with the Holyoke Kennel ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Saturday's Bay Street fire that left two boys dead has fire officials urging people to use smoke detectors.

A jury has convicted one Springfield police officer and acquitted another of charges they stole $2,000 during a traffic stop last year.

Undercover narcotics detectives arrested a 45-year-old city man on heroin and cocaine charges in the North End Tuesday afternoon.

A former Holyoke elementary school teacher who ran off with one of her students has pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated rape and abuse and three counts of statutory rape.

By GEORGE GRAHAM ggraham@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - Springfield police arrested a 23-year-old city man Monday night on ammunition and marijuana charges.

This is the day that the Springfield Mayor Dom Sarno has waited for. The Governor will be in town todya to formally dissolve the Control Board and hand the powers of government back to the city.

A Worcester man accused in the fatal beating of his 7-year-old son on Father's Day was scheduled for arraignment Tuesday on a murder charge, the district attorney's office announced.

First came the elimination of the most blatant abuses of the public pension system.

There was a sense of sadness looming on 671 Bay Street, after a fire on Saturday ripped through the single family home.

Marshall Wood Jr., 17, and 4-year-old Malik Bell died in the blaze that also injured four other family members.

Like many Springfield residents, Vera O'Connor wasn't about to roll out the welcome mat for a state-controlled board that had been sent to manage the affairs of the debt-ridden, scandal-plagued city.

A male teen and a young boy have been killed in a fire in Springfield. State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said a 17-year-old and a 4-year-old died at the fire at 671 Bay St., which reported at about 8:30 a.m. on Saturday.

By BUFFY SPENCER bspencer@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - An Assistant District Attorney told jurors Wednesday that they will hear how three men returning home from work in the tobacco fields cashed their pay checks and then had their money stolen by two Springfield police officers.

By GEORGE GRAHAM ggraham@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - A 39-year-old Springfield man, charged with fatally stabbing a man during a fight at Woodside Terrace Thursday night, was ordered held without bail Friday during his arraignment in District Court.