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- Springfield police: High Street body probe continues
Sunday - 01/13/2013 - 05:30 PMPolice have yet to determine if a body, believed to be a man in his 40's, found outside 40 High St. in the city's Metro Center neighborhood was a homicide or an accidental death.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Springfield police investigating possible homicide after body found on ground outside High Street building
Saturday - 01/12/2013 - 08:20 PMSpringfield police Capt. Cheryl Clapprood said the body of a man, who's believed to be in his 40's, was found outside 40 High St., a five-story building in Metro Center.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Springfield ranked as 2nd most LGBT friendly city in America by Advocate magazine
Friday - 01/11/2013 - 03:41 PMSpringfield, coming in just behind Tacoma, Wash., nearly topped the list based on it several factors including the amount of LGBT elected officials, embracing marriage equality and the existence of a roller derby league based in the city.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - American Career Institute's sudden closure to be probed by Massachusetts Attorney General's office
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 06:15 PMThe Springfield campus, located at 365 Caldwell Ave., offered courses in dental assisting, digital media, medical billing and coding, medical assisting and computer programming.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Charles Wilhite murder retrial hears witness say defendant is not as tall as man he saw leave Alberto Rodriguez' Springfield sho
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 05:30 PMWitness Tyrell Campbell said he got to the store a minute after the shooting and picked up a shell casing from the ground, which he tossed away a short distance away.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Auto vandalism spree in Springfield; 'Absurd number' of car windows shot out, police say
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 04:45 PMPolice received calls during the day from owners of 30 separate cars who were reporting damage.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Springfield police arrest 20-year-old Rafael Matias, suspected of stealing Oxycodone from abandoned apartment in South End
Wednesday - 06/08/2011 - 12:23 PMPolice said they spotted the suspect in the doorway of 175 Maple St.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Allis Mansion demolition at Mercy Medical Center planned with 'heavy heart,' Sisters of Providence says
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 10:00 AMCritics urged the health system to save the mansion given its his history and distincitive architecture.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Flu epidemic that has hit Bay State and other parts of country, shows no signs of abating, medical experts say
Wednesday - 01/09/2013 - 08:15 PMA public health emergency has been declared in Boston.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nathan Perez testifies he lied when he said he saw Charles Wilhite shoot Alberto Rodriguez outside Springfield market
Wednesday - 01/09/2013 - 06:22 PMGiselle Albello testified she lied about seeing the shooting.
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- Roman Catholic Diocese asks parents to stay committed to Cathedral High School as insurance dispute, rebuilding effort lingers
Sunday - 01/13/2013 - 05:00 AMCathedral High School has remained at a temporary school leased in Wilbraham since its building was seriously damaged in the tornado that struck June 1, 2011.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Documents trace Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse's consideration of casino gambling, Eric Suher's offers of downtown investment
Saturday - 01/12/2013 - 08:20 AMSuher's proposed investments as part of a casino deal including rehabilitation of the Holyoke Die Cut Card building and money for programs at Holyoke Community College and Dean Technical High School.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Gov. Deval Patrick seeks to eliminate local housing authorities, replace them with 6 regional agencies
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 08:00 PMWilliam Abrashkin, executive director of the Springfield Housing Authority. said Patrick is putting forward a proposal to modernize a system created “when manual typewriters and dial telephones were state of the art technology.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Roberta Cicora, formerly of Greenfield, gets more than 2 years for threatening former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, Attorney General Ma
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 06:45 PMDuring a court hearing in August when a magistrate judge had revoked Roberta Cicora's bail and prepared to jail her until sentencing, Cicora slashed her arm with a tiny razor she had hidden in her bra, according to federal officials.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - High School of Commerce teacher Stephen Ciollaro of Springfield released from hospital after car flips on Interstate 291
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 04:15 PMState police said they issued a citation for Ciollaro after the crash.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Springfield City Council to consider citywide casino ballot vote
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 03:45 PMA City Council committee met in several neighborhoods in recent months, asking voters if they wanted a citywide vote or ballot vote on casinos.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - State police to use sonar equipment today as divers search for man who jumped into Chicopee River from Ludlow bridge
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 09:53 AMAt least four witnesses saw the man jump from the Putts Bridge into the Chicopee River Tuesday afternoon.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Springfield Police Officer Eleni Mendez reportedly arrested following disturbance at her Somers, Conn. home
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 08:22 AMMendez and another police officer reportedly used a shovel to damage a woman's car
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Springfield teen Lamar Holly faces assault, weapons & drug charges following arrest
Wednesday - 01/09/2013 - 06:09 PMAn officer stationed outside the house watched Holly toss a handgun out the rear window as police were at his front door.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nathan Perez testifies he lied when he said he saw Charles Wilhite shoot Alberto Rodriguez outside Springfield market
Wednesday - 01/09/2013 - 06:22 PMGiselle Albello testified she lied about seeing the shooting.
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- Springfield City Council considers passing new qualfications for fire commissioner
Friday - 01/11/2013 - 06:53 PMMayor Domenic Sarno said he will make the promotion of Acting Fire Commissioner Joseph Conant a permanent promotion as soon as possible.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Charles Wilhite murder retrial witness challenged about his motives for testifying
Friday - 01/11/2013 - 05:45 PMAnthony Martinez testified he heard Angel Hernandez tell Wilhite he would pay him to kill someone.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Charles Wilhite murder retrial: Anthony Martinez testifies he saw Wilhite take a gun from Angel Hernandez
Friday - 01/11/2013 - 02:01 PMMartinez took the stand after a battle between prosecution and defense over whether he should be allowed to testify in the retrial of Wilhite for the 2008 murder of Alberto Rodriguez outside the Pine Street Market.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tyler Wimberly of Springfield, alleged drug dealer, discovered under kitchen sink in Agawam
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 05:45 PMA warrant for Wimberly's arrest was issued on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lorenzo Gaines, charged with setting Christmas Eve blaze, placed on indefinite leave from job with uAspire Springfield Promise P
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 04:00 PMErica Rose will serve as interim director of the uAspire Springfield Promise Program.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Springfield will hire education firm to help turn around 5 underperforming schools at risk of state takeover
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 03:06 PMThe Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard University will push for student achievement gains at the High School of Commerce, Chestnut, Kennedy and Kiley middle schools, and DeBerry Elementary.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - State police to use sonar equipment today as divers search for man who jumped into Chicopee River from Ludlow bridge
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 09:53 AMAt least four witnesses saw the man jump from the Putts Bridge into the Chicopee River Tuesday afternoon.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Flu epidemic that has hit Bay State and other parts of country, shows no signs of abating, medical experts say
Wednesday - 01/09/2013 - 08:15 PMA public health emergency has been declared in Boston.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Springfield teen Lamar Holly faces assault, weapons & drug charges following arrest
Wednesday - 01/09/2013 - 06:09 PMAn officer stationed outside the house watched Holly toss a handgun out the rear window as police were at his front door.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former Putnam Vocational Technical Academy secretary first of 2 to be arraigned on criminal charges linked to school scams
Wednesday - 01/09/2013 - 05:30 PMThe charges state that Sherry Suber, who was in charge of collecting daily proceeds from vocational services at the schools, pocketed a portion or all of the revenues on many days.
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