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By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Two more people connected with an alleged cocaine trafficking ring operating out of a Greenfield barbershop pleaded not guilty in Franklin County Superior Court on Monday after their cases were transferred from Greenfield District Court...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — It was in March 2020 when the western world was starting to feel the squeeze of COVID-19 and one of Laurie MacLeod’s family members suggested a Zoom pizza party.“And I said, ‘What’s Zoom?” she recalled Tuesday. MacLeod, like millions of...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Franklin County Superior Court on Friday afternoon saw nine pleas of not guilty entered in connection with an alleged cocaine trafficking syndicate that had been operating out of a Greenfield barbershop.Jason Nadeau, 40, of Ludlow, and...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Five of the 12 people arrested in December in connection with an alleged cocaine trafficking syndicate operating out of a Greenfield barbershop pleaded not guilty in Franklin County Superior Court on Thursday afternoon after their cases...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — Gill resident Rufus Thomas, 40, is facing charges in both Greenfield District Court and Franklin County Superior Court resulting from his alleged trafficking of various drugs, including about 730 bags of fentanyl. Thomas, who had a...

GREENFIELD — After a seven-month investigation involving more than a dozen law enforcement organizations, police last week broke up an alleged cocaine trafficking syndicate that investigators believe distributed between 100 and 200 grams of cocaine a...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Franklin County Superior Court jury on Friday awarded a $10 million verdict, the largest in county history, to a sexual assault survivor.Jampa Gonpo, a former Tibetan monk now in his early 50s, was employed by the victim’s father as a...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Greenfield woman is being held on $5,000 bail after allegedly abusing her baby to the point of causing injuries that include a skull fracture, bite marks, a jaw fracture and a brain bleed.Alexis C. McClure, 24, of School Street, pleaded...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A photographer best known for his pictures of nude adolescents was sentenced to three years’ probation after pleading guilty in Franklin County Superior Court to an unnatural and lascivious act with a child under 16 when he was a dorm...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The former Buckland police chief facing a sexual assault charge in Northampton District Court pleaded not guilty in Greenfield District Court on Friday to three additional counts of the same charge, indecent assault and battery on a...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Springfield man formerly of Athol was arraigned in Franklin County Superior Court on Wednesday on more than two dozen charges related to the alleged sexual assault of two children.Jose Oquendo, 49, pleaded not guilty to seven counts...

By DOM POLI

GREENFIELD — A Turners Falls man who was arrested after allegedly beating a man for five hours while interrogating him over alleged stolen marijuana pleaded not guilty Thursday and is being held without the right to bail pending an Aug. 6...

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

SHELBURNE FALLS — A year before shocking charges of child molestation were levied against Richard Lavigne in 1991, I had two chances to meet with the then-admired priest of St. Joseph’s Parish.First, a parish member recommended I see him for...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Judge Mark D. Mason accepted guilty pleas and a joint recommendation in Franklin County Superior Court on Tuesday, sentencing a pair of Athol residents to two years’ probation for drug crimes.Mariah K. LaFountain, 26, and Bryce M. Cass,...

By DOMENIC POLI

HARTFORD, Conn. — A Greenfield man has been arrested and accused of a Jan. 29 murder in Connecticut’s capital. Jordan Register, 21, of Chapman Street, was taken into custody in Springfield by the Massachusetts State Police Fugitive Unit and...

By DOMENIC POLI

BERNARDSTON — Three Vermonters face charges following their arrests while traveling on Interstate 91 early Monday morning with suspected narcotics in the vehicle they were in.Benjamin Kendall, 31, of Vershire, Vt., Brooke Rowell, 37, of Concord, Vt.,...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Vermont woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and could go to jail if she violates the conditions imposed by Judge Francis Flannery.Melissa Burnor, 29, of Colchester, Vt., appeared in Franklin...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Opposing attorneys agreed to work together on a statement of facts so Judge Richard Carey can analyze the argument behind a motion to dismiss in the case of a man accused of raping a 14-year-old Northfield Mount Hermon School student when...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The former Greenfield police sergeant convicted in January of vehicular homicide stemming from a 2017 incident has been released from prison early.James B. Rode, 50, was sentenced on Jan. 27 to two years behind bars, with 15 months of...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — An Orange man facing 18 charges related to inappropriate sexual behavior is being held without bail at the Franklin County House of Correction.Donald Grenier, 80, has pleaded not guilty to nine counts of indecent assault and battery on a...