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GREENFIELD — A Vermont man responsible for vehicle and house break-ins in Bernardston and Northfield last year has been sentenced to five years in jail after pleading guilty to criminal charges involving 11 victims.Schuyler D. Gibson, 40, of...

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GREENFIELD — One of the five North Quabbin residents facing charges of kidnapping and other crimes stemming from an alleged incident last February has had nine of her charges dismissed while other charges, and all those of her co-defendants, remain in...

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GREENFIELD — Two men are being held without bail following a dangerous hearing stemming from an alleged near-fatal incident in Millers Falls.Brendon Collette, 25, of Turners Falls, and Xavier Z. Chadwell, 21, of Greenfield, have pleaded not guilty to...

WHATELY — State Police arrested a Springfield man Tuesday night on charges of trafficking fentanyl and illegal possession of a firearm after a traffic stop on Interstate 91.Mathew Lopez, 21, was arrested on the evening of Jan. 2 after State Police...

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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...

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GREENFIELD — A man who served nearly 10 years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter, motor vehicle homicide and drunken driving in 2011 has been granted a new trial, with the judge who sentenced him now deciding the defendant was deprived of...

GREENFIELD — A Greenfield man was arrested on drug trafficking charges Monday night following a joint investigation by the Greenfield Police Department, the Northwestern District Anti-Crime Task Force and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s...

GREENFIELD — A Connecticut man facing a charge of attempted sexual assault was arrested on Route 2 last week after a state trooper learned the vehicle he was riding in was unregistered.Carlos Davila, 20, of New London, Connecticut, pleaded not guilty...

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GREENFIELD — A Northampton man was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to three charges related to the 2021 hit-and-run death of Shelburne Falls resident Rhonda Thompson.Peter Toomey, 53, appeared in Franklin County...

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GREENFIELD — A Turners Falls man was sentenced Thursday to 12 to 14 years in prison for aggravated rape and abuse of a child.Jeffery Fleury, 55, was found guilty by a Franklin County Superior Court jury last month and Judge Michael Callan issued the...

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GREENFIELD — The attorney for one of the 18 people charged in connection with an alleged cocaine trafficking syndicate that had been operating out of a Greenfield barbershop has filed a motion to impound purportedly compromising photos of his client...

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GREENFIELD — A Rhode Island man accused of hospitalizing seven motorcyclists while driving under the influence of drugs on Route 10 in Northfield last spring is still being held on $100,000 bail, Judge Michael Callan reaffirmed on Monday.Ryan T....

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GREENFIELD — A Bernardston man released from prison earlier this month was arraigned after allegedly violating a restraining order aimed at protecting a family member, whom he previously pleaded guilty to strangling.Antonio P. Candello, 52, pleaded...

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ORANGE — An Athol man recently pleaded not guilty to three sexual assault charges stemming from alleged incidents involving a young girl that occurred prior to the summer of 2013.William T. McBride, 59, of Brattle Street, was arraigned in Orange...

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GREENFIELD — An Athol man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Wednesday, roughly an hour after 12 deliberating jurors found him guilty of killing 26-year-old Kelsey Clifford in 2019.Keith D. Hamel, 25, was convicted of...

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GREENFIELD — The doctor who conducted the autopsy of Kelsey Clifford, the 26-year-old woman found bludgeoned to death outside the Athol Wastewater Treatment Plant in 2019, testified on Tuesday that the victim’s injuries are consistent with a claw...

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GREENFIELD — The boyfriend of the 26-year-old Leominster woman who was beaten to death in November 2019 took the witness stand Monday morning in the trial of the Athol man who is accused of her murder.Kevin McGann spent a couple of hours in Franklin...

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NORTHAMPTON — An employee of the Edward P. Boland Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds was arrested on Thursday and is being charged with uploading and downloading child pornography via the facility’s free public Wi-Fi.Kevin Divoll, 51, of...

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BUCKLAND — A former U.S. Marine is apologizing to his fellow veterans and the community at large after it was discovered he has embellished his military service and received medals and money he had not earned.Investigations by the Upper Pioneer Valley...

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GREENFIELD — Police are on the lookout for a man they say fired at least 12 rounds into the front door of a Greenfield Gardens apartment on Monday afternoon before fleeing in a black Honda Accord with New York license plates.According to the...