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Montague Police officer faces assault charges
06-26-2025 5:24 PM

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.

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Worcester man sentenced for striking Warwick’s police chief with vehicle in 2024
06-18-2025 5:58 PM

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.


Marine vet gets 24 months of supervised release in stolen valor case, must pay nearly $300K in restitution
06-17-2025 5:37 PM

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.


Orange man arraigned in alleged stabbing
06-16-2025 7:11 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

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


Two men face weapons, drug charges after Greenfield traffic stops
06-13-2025 3:30 PM

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.


Greenfield home invasion suspect held without bail
05-22-2025 3:59 PM

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.


Greenfield man faces home invasion, assault charges in Elm Street standoff
05-19-2025 3:32 PM

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.


Former Leyden police chief must pay nearly $11K in larceny case
05-15-2025 5:08 PM

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.


Turners Falls man pleads guilty to child porn charges
04-25-2025 4:16 PM

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.


Orange Police arrest two men on gun charges
03-24-2025 3:23 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Two men were arrested Sunday afternoon after gunshots were fired as a result of “severe recklessness,” according to the Orange Police Department.


Turners Falls robbery suspect reportedly broke officer’s fibula, faces 5 charges
01-03-2025 5:31 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Turners Falls man accused of breaking a Montague police officer’s fibula during his arrest pleaded not guilty to five charges this week.Brenden C. Jacobs, 34, was arraigned in Greenfield District Court on Thursday, when he answered to...


Vt. woman arrested for OUI, drug charges in Bernardston
01-03-2025 7:58 AM

By DOMENIC POLI

BERNARDSTON — A Vermont woman believed to be under the influence of drugs is facing six charges after allegedly slamming into a sign at the Interstate 91 southbound on-ramp and continuing to the South Merrifield Road area on New Year’s Eve.Sara Grace,...


Changing Lives Though Literature program aims to reduce recidivism
12-02-2024 4:39 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Changing Lives Though Literature, an alternative sentencing option that offers those on probation reduced sentences upon completion of a 10-week literature program, is inspiring many of its graduates to pursue higher education.The program...


Benjamin Simanski unopposed for Franklin County clerk of courts
10-29-2024 3:40 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A new Franklin County clerk of courts will take the oath of office in January and barring some miraculous write-in campaign, that person will be Benjamin Simanski.The first assistant clerk magistrate for the past 11 years, Simanski is...


Greenfield man faces 7 charges in hit and run that left two women injured
10-21-2024 5:50 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Judge Tina Cafaro set bail at $1,000 for the man accused of driving off after allegedly hitting two women with his vehicle and fleeing the scene on Country Club Road on Friday.Greenfield Police arrested Vladimir Sinigur, 55, of...


Greenfield murder suspect Taaniel Herberger-Brown indicted, arraignment set for Oct. 21
10-01-2024 2:20 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Taaniel Herberger-Brown, the city man accused of murdering Christopher Hairston of Pittsfield earlier this year, has been indicted on a charge of murder by a grand jury and will be arraigned in Franklin County Superior Court on Oct. 21,...


2 arrested following Greenfield foot pursuit
09-16-2024 2:44 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Two suspects have been arrested after allegedly engaging in a foot pursuit that caused staff and students at the Discovery School at Four Corners to temporarily shelter-in-place on Friday afternoon.Following a roughly three-hour foot...


Greenfield woman faces charges for alleged assault at protest
09-05-2024 3:43 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — A 30-year-old Greenfield woman accused of physically assaulting an elderly woman at a pro-Israel rally on the Greenfield Common in May turned herself into the police last week, according to Police Chief Todd Dodge.The defendant, whose...


North Adams woman sentenced in 2023 crash that killed Colrain man
07-30-2024 6:10 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A North Adams woman will spend at least nine months in jail after pleading guilty in Greenfield District Court on Tuesday to a charge of motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation in connection with a crash that killed a 66-year-old...


Two men held in alleged assault, hate crime at Sunderland liquor store
07-25-2024 6:01 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Two men accused of beating and seriously injuring a liquor store clerk and one other person in Sunderland were ordered held without bail at a dangerousness hearing Thursday in Greenfield District Court.Warren Martinez, 30, of Northampton,...


Greenfield murder suspect pleads not guilty, held without bail
07-09-2024 12:06 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Taaniel Herberger-Brown, the Greenfield man accused of murdering Christopher Hairston, of Pittsfield, and leaving his body at his Chapman Street apartment, was held without the right to bail after he pleaded not guilty at his arraignment...

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