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Live coverage: Day 1 of jury selection in trial of Caleb Womack, 4th UMass rape defendant
Womack traveled to UMass in October of 2012 from Pittsfield with Adam Liccardi, Justin King and Emmanuel Bile. The victim, who has testified at three trials already, said that the four raped her in various places while she phased in and out of consciousness after a night of drinking and pot smoking. Liccardi, Bile and King, all 21, were each convicted and sentenced to serve at least eight years… → Read More
As he continues to fly Confederate flag, Williamsburg property owner awaits decision on permitting appeal for his business
A few years ago, Snow butted heads with the Hodgkins family, which owns land on the other side of his property. The Hodgkins and their friends were using the land to fire guns. They said they were exercising their long-held property rights. Snow said the shooting was putting him and others in danger. → Read More
New indictments handed down against former Ryder Funeral Home owner in South Hadley
On Monday, a Hampshire Superior Court judge granted a default judgment to former employee Thomas Pascucci of $191,497 for wages Ryder did not pay and damages. → Read More
Jury finds Justin King guilty in 2nd UMass gang rape trial
King, 21, was one of four Pittsfield men charged with gang-raping a University of Massachusetts freshman in Pierpont dormitory in October 2012. → Read More
Judge allows accused murderer Cara Rintala to attend her daughter's birthday in Rhode Island
Rintala, 48, is accused of murdering her wife, Annamarie Cochrane Rintala, in their Granby home by strangling her to death in 2010. → Read More
Parking report recommends raising the hourly rate on Main Street meters in Northampton
Some 35 people gathered at the Senior Center for a public forum on the hire hire Walker Parking Consultants report issued recently by the city. → Read More
OPAL's Peter Picknelly: Northampton luxury apartment project at former Clarke School 'full speed ahead'
OPAL Real Estate president Peter Picknelly said Wednesday that his company's Round Hill Summit project in Northampton is a go. → Read More
Northampton poor and elderly balk at water and sewer increases
Mayor David J. Narkewicz is asking for a 2.87 increase in water bills for a projected $6.8 million water enterprise funds. The sewer rate would go up 2.88 percent for a total of $6.2 million. → Read More
Montague police advise the public to handle hypodermic needles carefully
As the number of drug users continues to grow police here are receiving calls every week from residents to pick up needles found in parks, among trash along the road, near gas stations and in public restrooms. → Read More
8th civil suit filed against Ryder Funeral Home by South Hadley man who lost new wife to cancer
According to Weiss, he married the former Debra Kelly on Feb. 27, 2014. Debra Weise died of cancer in an Amherst hospice on May 22 of that year. → Read More
Northampton pledges to put $1.8 million into potholes
The money, which consists of state funding and $500,000 from the city's own coffers, is part of a five-year, $2.75 million street resurfacing plan. → Read More
Greenfield tries to give away money, fails
Because the city had $3.2 million in one-time payments and revenues, Mayor William Martin wanted to distribute some of it in a way that would satisfy the public, so he offered each of Greenfield's 13 city councilors $10,000 to do what he or she pleased in their precincts. → Read More
Northampton woman pleads guilty to assault, avoids home invasion charge
A <a href="http://topics.masslive.com/tag/florence/posts.html" target="_blank">Florence</a> woman pleaded guilty to assault and battery Wednesday but escaped a lengthy home invasion sentence as part of the plea agreement. → Read More
Emmanuel Bile sentenced in UMass gang rape case
Bile was convicted Monday on two counts of aggravated rape. → Read More
Jury: Emmanuel Bile guilty on two counts in UMass gang rape trial
The trial in Hampshire Superior Court lasted one week. → Read More
Emmanuel Bile, defendant in UMass gang rape trial, takes the witness stand
Defense lawyer David Pixley told Hampshire Superior Court Judge C. Jeffrey Kinder on Wednesday that he intended to call his client to the stand. → Read More
Prosecution rests in UMass gang rape case after reported victim breaks down on stand
Bile, 21, is the first of four Pittsfield men to stand trial in connection with the October 13, 2012 incident in Pierpont dormitory at UMass Amherst. → Read More
Former UMass student who says she was gang raped breaks down on witness stand
The 21-year-old woman began crying before she took the stand and became more distraught the closer the questioning came to the moment she said she was gang-raped. → Read More
Recovered texts tell of alleged UMass rape victim's demand for hush money
Massachusetts State Police trooper Gary Darling, who is with the detective until attached to the Northwestern District Attorney's Office, testified that he was able to retrieve text messages, some of them deleted, from the cell phones of the four defendants. → Read More
Judge reverses her own ruling on Nancy Whitley, putting Easthampton gay condo larceny case back in court
Nancy and Heather Whitley, who were once married and now divorced, planned to develop a condominium project called Paradise One for elderly gay people in Easthampton. → Read More