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By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A local lawyer who is now director of the Student Legal Services Office at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been nominated to be a judge in Probate and Family Court.Gov. Maura Healey nominated Bernadette Stark and two other...

By DOMENIC POLI

The backlog plaguing courthouses across much of the state seems to have spared Franklin and Hampshire counties, where the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office reportedly put many cases to bed while in-person jury trials were suspended during the...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The Springfield man accused of shooting a man in Turners Falls during the summer and fleeing the scene can be released on $20,000 bail, a Franklin County Superior Court judge ruled this week.Gil Viera, 30, of Springfield, had previously...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Bernardston man was sentenced to five to seven years in prison on Thursday after a jury last month convicted him of witness intimidation and violating a restraining order.Antonio P. Candello, 53, will be transferred to the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Sonya Epstein was crystal clear before a Hampshire District Court judge Thursday afternoon when explaining why she took part in a protest outside the Northampton facility of defense contractor L3Harris that led to her arrest two months...

By DOMENIC POLI

SPRINGFIELD — With the world gripped by COVID-19 restrictions, George Miller III and Gayle Ball were treated to a surprise drive-by parade of guests after tying the knot in May 2020 in a socially distanced, seven-person wedding at Magic Wings...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Massachusetts Environmental Police arrested two brothers Saturday night after they allegedly shot a deer from their truck while in Colrain.Police arrested Colrain resident Seth Doull, 51, and Worthington resident Ira Doull, 46, on...

GREENFIELD — A Franklin County Superior Court judge sentenced Ethan Hatch, 20, of Northfield, on Tuesday to serve two years in state prison and three years of probation following his conviction on three counts of rape and one count of...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — An Athol man will remain free another week before serving time in county jail after pleading guilty to eight charges stemming from a domestic incident involving a firearm on April 30, 2022.Timothy Chandler, 37, had his sentence stayed...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Judge Timothy S. Hillman is taking under advisement a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the city that seeks to compensate two former homeowners who lost excess home equity after the sale of their properties for unpaid taxes.In a lawsuit...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Stoneleigh-Burnham School reports there is no indication of campus wrongdoing committed by a former employee who is facing up to 20 years in prison on child pornography charges in New York.Matthew Fisher, 50, of South Wales, New York, was...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SPRINGFIELD — A civil lawsuit filed in Hampden County Superior Court by a minority shareholder of Tree House Brewing Co. alleges the company’s two majority shareholders paid themselves “excessive” salaries, secretly invested in real estate and caused...

By DOMENIC POLI

WHATELY — The owner of Tea Guys in Whately is in hot water for not shipping products to paying customers and failing to respond to Franklin County Superior Court matters.Oliver Rich is being sued by Zest Tea LLC, a Baltimore company that alleges...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — A Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied a request to put a temporary hold on the Healey administration’s plan to cap the number of families in the state’s strained emergency shelter system.The decision followed an emergency court hearing...

By SAM DORAN

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey has unveiled an overhaul of the guidelines she will consider for pardon and commutation applications, which her office said “explicitly outline” for the first time how a governor will use executive clemency to “address...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — With climate change a present threat, Michael Pill and Carol Holzberg have been exploring installing a dual-use solar array on their farmland.The Shutesbury couple’s project, though, has run into a roadblock due to the Agricultural...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — City attorneys have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the city that seeks to compensate two former homeowners who lost excess home equity after the sale of their properties for unpaid taxes.In response, attorneys representing...

By DOMENIC POLI and JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — A 32-year-old man accused of causing a head-on crash on Route 2 that resulted in serious injuries to a Rhode Island family of four has had his pretrial conditions of release amended in regards to his right to drive.Massachusetts...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — An Ashfield man pleaded guilty in Franklin County Superior Court to drug and firearms charges on Wednesday, two years after his arrest in the Big Y Plaza parking lot.Justin R. Page, 30, changed his plea regarding one count of unlawful...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The New Hampshire man accused of impersonating a police officer in a decommissioned cruiser in June pleaded not guilty in Franklin County Superior Court on Wednesday after his charges were transferred from Greenfield District Court due to...