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Assistant district attorney honored by bar associationNORTHAMPTON — Northwestern Assistant District Attorney Becky Michaels has been honored with the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Prosecutor Award, given to state or federal prosecutors for...

GREENFIELD — Opposing counsels on Friday agreed to a tentative June 6 rape trial date for the Bernardston man who in 2017 pleaded guilty in Greenfield District Court to strangulation, resulting in the taking of a DNA sample that matched that of a...

GREENFIELD — A 36-year-old Greenfield man will serve seven to eight years behind bars, followed by five years’ probation, after pleading guilty on Monday afternoon to child sexual abuse charges.Leonid Khotin appeared before Judge Francis Flannery in...

Franklin County jury finds Athol man guilty of rape charge  Okan Caliskan/via Pixabay Modified: 6/27/2021 3:49:25 PM GREENFIELD — A Franklin Superior Court jury Thursday found an Athol man guilty of a single count of rape and abuse of a child after a two-day trial involving 12 witnesses, according to a release from the Northwestern District Attorney’s office. The jury deliberated for four hours before finding Colby Hume, 20, guilty in connection with an assault upon a 14-year-old girl on...

GREENFIELD — A Franklin Superior Court jury Thursday found an Athol man guilty of a single count of rape and abuse of a child after a two-day trial involving 12 witnesses, according to a release from the Northwestern District Attorney’s office.The...

GREENFIELD — A Greenfield man accused of sexually assaulting a minor was granted his request to remove his electronic monitoring device on Friday.The attorney for Leonid Khotin, 36, had filed a motion in Franklin County Superior Court to amend the...