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Police investigate home breaks, robbery
01-03-2017 11:49 PM
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Break-ins atthree homes, all reported Saturday afternoon, are being investigated by Amherst Police.Police are also investigating an armed robbery in which two men allegedly showed aknife, while stealing $10 in cash and a cellphone from a...
Tuesday’s high schools: Nate Piorier beats buzzer as South Hadley edges Easthampton
01-03-2017 11:02 PM
Staff reports
The South Hadley and Easthampton boys basketball teams were locked in a back-and-forth game until the buzzer.Just when the Eagles thought they earned their second win, Nate Poirier and the Tigers snatched it away.Poirier’s fade-away jumper from just...
Cuomo calls for free tuition at NY public colleges
01-03-2017 10:52 PM
By CAROLYN THOMPSON
Hundreds of thousands of New York students would be able to attend college for free under a proposal announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to make state universities tuition-free for residents earning $125,000 or less.The Democrat unveiled his plan Tuesday...
Patrick weighs in against Sessions
01-03-2017 10:50 PM
By STEVE LeBLANC
BOSTON — Former Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is urging U.S. senators to reject President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions.In 1985, Patrick was part of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund team...
Joshua Mintzer: Concerns about changes to marijuana measure
01-03-2017 10:15 PM
Concerns about changes to marijuana measure I am finding it increasingly difficult to have faith that our politicians will respect the will of the people with regards to the proper execution of Question 4.In the beginning, I certainly had a...
Beantown as Shoetown: Sneaker makers stake claim in Boston
01-03-2017 8:08 PM
By PHILIP MARCELO
BOSTON — Shoe makers are racing to the Boston area as they compete for millennial talent.Reebok picked the city’s rapidly growing Seaport District for its new global headquarters in December, following in the footsteps of New Balance and Converse,...
Managing cancer pain in the throes of the opioid crisis
01-03-2017 6:16 PM
By Dr. Wilson Mertens
Last month, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released a report on the substance addiction crisis. Similar to the 1964 version that raised the alarm on tobacco, it too did not reveal much new research but rather serves as a compilation of previous...
Defrocked bishop Dupre dies at 83
01-02-2017 11:29 PM
SPRINGFIELD (AP) — Former Bishop Thomas Dupre, the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States to be indicted on a sexual-abuse claim during the flood of abuse accusations against church officials, has died. He was 83.Dupre died Friday, the...
New rules floated for certifying medical marijuana
01-02-2017 10:40 PM
BOSTON (AP) — Certified nurse practitioners would be allowed to authorize medical marijuana use by patients under new rules proposed by Massachusetts health officials.Public hearings on that and other revisions to the medical marijuana program are...
Federal manhunt underway for escaped inmate
01-02-2017 10:40 PM
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) — A round-the-clock state and federal manhunt is underway for an inmate who escaped from a Rhode Island detention center.The Wyatt Correctional Center warden says 35-year-old former Army reservist James Morales fled Saturday...
New laws show signs of helping slow opioid epidemic
01-02-2017 9:47 PM
By James Mattone
BOSTON — Although Massachusetts’ opioid deaths are still on the rise, with the powerful drug fentanyl adding to the toll, facets of the Legislature’s anti-drug act are beginning to have an impact.Prescribers have doubled their use of a new online tool...
Stage, streets and skylight up on First Night
01-01-2017 11:23 PM
By JACK SUNTRUP
NORTHAMPTON — Kim Tremblay sipped free hot chocolate and talked New Year’s resolutions as her family made its way to another event during Northampton’s 32nd First Night celebration.“There are things like that that are just everywhere,” Tremblay,...
Bruins beat Sabres thanks to fast start
01-01-2017 5:57 PM
By KEN POWTAK
BOSTON — A fast start and another solid outing by goaltender Tuukka Rask made for a fairly easy afternoon for the Boston Bruins.Patrice Bergeron and Tim Schaller scored second-period goals Saturday to help the Bruins beat Buffalo 3-1 and complete a...
Resolved: Revelers hope 2017 will be healthy, organized, connected and, well, less weird than 2016
12-31-2016 10:32 PM
By Jack Suntrup@JackSuntrupNORTHAMPTON — It’s Dec. 31, that day after all the other days of the year. The last one.It can be surreal to hit that imaginarypause button and reflect on 2016.We pull out the takeawaysand think about them— the good...
Remembering the names of 2016
12-31-2016 12:07 AM
Amherst RegionalSage Bailin — CMass/WMass Division 1 outdoor 400 hurdles champ.Luca Brashear — WMass boys 1-meter diving champ.Joe Costello — Coached Amherst boys to state Division 1 ultimate championship.Sophia Jacobs-Townsley — Won the District F&G...
Vermont utility finds malware code attributed to Russians
12-30-2016 11:43 PM
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A state electric utility confirmed on Friday it had found on one of its laptops a malware code the U.S. government says is used by Russian hackers.The Burlington Electric Department said U.S. utilities were alerted by the...
Deerfield takes lead in mosquito control with $35,000 state grant
12-30-2016 10:53 PM
By ANDY COSTILLO
DEERFIELD — There hasn’t been serious action taken to control mosquito populations in western Massachusetts since the early 1980s — until now.Deerfield is spearheading a regional partnership to “establish the Pioneer Valley Mosquito Control District”...
Skakel murder conviction reinstated
12-30-2016 10:52 PM
By MATTHEW KAUFFMAN
HARTFORD, Conn. — A divided Connecticut Supreme Court Friday reinstated the murder conviction of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, rejecting a Superior Court judge’s finding that Skakel’s trial was tainted by ineffective lawyering and setting the...
Search suspended for plane missing over Lake Erie
12-30-2016 10:45 PM
By MARK GILLISPIE
CLEVELAND — The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday suspended its search for an airplane that was carrying a beverage distribution company executive and five other people when it vanished over Lake Erie shortly after takeoff from the city’s lakeshore...
Program trains officers to spot drug use
12-30-2016 10:40 PM
By ORIANA DURAND
In the debate leading up to November’s vote legalizing marijuana, law enforcement officials warned that traffic cops had no equivalent to a Breathalyzer to prove drug impairment in drivers.“With marijuana, it’s much more difficult to make the arrest...
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