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By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

DEERFIELD — Montague Police Officer Shawna Williams faces eight charges in Greenfield District Court after she allegedly assaulted her friend in Deerfield.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

SPRINGFIELD — A 79-year-old Turners Falls man was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday to three years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possessing 340,000 files of child sexual abuse material.

By GRACE CHAI

BOSTON — A veteran of the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office and longtime appellate attorney has been nominated to become a Superior Court judge by Gov. Maura Healey.

By DOMENIC POLI

Criminal defense lawyers in Franklin County are sounding the alarm on a problem that is reportedly brewing as a result of inadequate compensation from the state.

ATHOL — An Athol resident was sentenced Thursday to six to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to 14 drug and firearm charges in Franklin County Superior Court.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — A Worcester man who struck Warwick’s police chief with a vehicle while fleeing a traffic stop last year will spend the next 2½ years in jail for charges related to the crime.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Brenda Bialecki, 60, formerly of South Deerfield, was sentenced to two years probation and must pay $13,600 in restitution after she pleaded guilty in Franklin County Superior Court on Tuesday afternoon to single counts of Medicaid false claims, larceny over $1,200 and Medicaid kickbacks.

By DOMENIC POLI

SPRINGFIELD — A U.S. Marine Corps veteran was sentenced on Tuesday to 24 months of supervised release for stealing benefit payments from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and submitting a false Purple Heart application through his congressional representative.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — An Orange man is being held without bail after allegedly confessing to stabbing his girlfriend during an argument.

GREENFIELD — State Police detectives and Greenfield Police with the Northwestern District Attorney’s Anti-Crime Task Force made two drug- and weapons-related arrests while conducting traffic stops this month.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The Northwestern District Attorney’s Office dropped a charge of impersonating a police officer against the New Hampshire man who on Friday was sentenced to three years of probation for two gun-related charges.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A New Hampshire man was sentenced on Wednesday to two to three years in state prison for stalking and threatening a front-line child protection worker over several years.

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — The citizens group that formed in 2023 in opposition to a since-withdrawn proposal for a battery storage facility has filed a motion asking the Land Court to overturn the state Attorney General’s rejection of the group’s proposed bylaw.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The suspect accused of a home invasion and barricading himself in a home on Elm Street for six hours last Friday was held without bail Thursday morning after video and audio recordings of the alleged standoff were shown to Judge William Mazanec III.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The man accused of barricading himself in an Elm Street home on Friday morning, resulting in a six-hour standoff with police, pleaded not guilty to home invasion and assault charges in Greenfield District Court on Monday.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A former Leyden police chief must pay $10,950 in restitution after having been found in possession of town-owned equipment received through a program that transfers excess military equipment to nonmilitary law enforcement agencies.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — An Athol man will spend the next five to seven years in state prison after being found guilty of charges related to child abuse.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

GREENFIELD — The Franklin County Justice Center celebrated the future of law by welcoming middle and high school students from across the county for an inside look at the judicial system on Thursday morning.

By SAM DRYSDALE

Gov. Maura Healey nominated two new Superior Court judges last week, both of whom her office pointed out live in western Massachusetts, after a group of 20 lawmakers called on the governor to fill several vacant seats in the area.

By DOMENIC POLI and CHRIS LARABEE

SPRINGFIELD — A Turners Falls man has pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of child sexual abuse material and is scheduled to be sentenced on July 30.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Two men who were involved in a 2023 incident in which a man was stabbed in Orange before the assailants led police on a high-speed chase that ended in Belchertown were sentenced on Friday.