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A Northampton man will remain in jail after the Massachusetts Appeals Court denied his appeal for a new trial.

GREENFIELD — Two men connected to a cocaine trafficking syndicate that partially operated out of a Greenfield barbershop changed their pleas in Franklin County Superior Court on Thursday.David Gallegos, 30, of Deerfield, admitted the prosecution has...

A Massachusetts judge has sentenced an illegal alien to 17 to 19 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to ...

Hehir, 49, was found dead of strangulation on Feb. 5, 2017, in her apartment at 8 Congress St.

NORTHAMPTON — Christopher Conley, the city man convicted in 2020 of trying to kill his daughter by injecting her medical device with a caustic chemical, was denied a new trial in a ruling this week by a Hampshire Superior Court judge.Appellate...

Maureen Regan Moriarty, whose father, John Regan, was murdered by John Stote in 1995, sits in her dining room in March. Stote, who was convicted of first degree murder two years later, is now 61 and was released on medical parole in January because he was hospitalized with COVID-19.Erin Clark/Globe Staff Two convicted killers who were granted compassionate release in January while hospitalized with COVID-19, and on ventilators, were sent back to prison Monday after recovering from the virus, ac...

Murderer John Stote back behind bars after temporary medical parole; ‘I feel like finally things are fair again,’ victim’s daughter says Updated Apr 13, 9:14 PM; Posted Apr 13, 7:05 PM John E. Stote talks with his attorney during a hearing Hampden Superior Court in Springfield in June 1997.The Republican file Facebook Share SPRINGFIELD — With the man who murdered her father nearly 30 years ago back behind bars, the world feels right again. John Stote, convicted in 1997 in the brutal s...

State medical parole law angers victims kin, prosecutors Follow Us Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Monday, March 15, 2021 BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts has released 21 convicted first-degree murderers under the state’s three-year-old medical parole law, most of them in the past year during the coronavirus pandemic, angering prosecutors and the families of their victims. Under state law, people conv...

Twenty-one first-degree murderers set free under state’s new compassionate release law Critics want legislation to bar first-degree murderers from being released By Shelley Murphy and Andrea Estes Globe Staff,Updated March 14, 2021, 5:49 p.m. Email to a Friend Maureen Regan Moriarty held a photo of her father, John Regan, while sitting in her living room.Erin Clark/Globe Staff John Stote was serving a mandatory life sentence for the 1995 murder of a Springfield restaurant owner when he was...

Medical parole of convicted murderer John Stote draws criticism from Sheriff Cocchi, Springfield Mayor Sarno Updated Feb 01, 2021; Posted Feb 01, 2021 John E. Stote talks with his attorney during a hearing Hampden Superior Court in Springfield in June 1997.The Republican file Facebook Share SPRINGFIELD — While prisoners’ rights activists applauded the release of murderer John Stote on medical parole, some local elected officials are seething. Stote, 61, received a rare medical parole on J...