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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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — More than two months after police found the body of Christopher Hairston, 35, of Pittsfield, decomposing inside 42-year-old Taaniel Herberger-Brown’s Chapman Street apartment, the suspect will be arraigned in Greenfield District Court on...

By DOMENIC POLI

DEERFIELD — A Turners Falls man faces various charges, including his third OUI offense, after allegedly driving a vehicle into a River Road house last weekend.Jason E. Tyler, 50, pleaded not guilty in Greenfield District Court on Monday to charges of...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Needham man was sentenced to nine months in jail on Monday after pleading guilty to a charge of vehicular homicide by negligent operation in connection with a crash that killed an Athol woman on Route 2 in Gill last year.Benoit Marande,...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A former Buckland police chief’s court case on charges of indecent assault and battery has been dismissed by a judge one year after it was continued without a finding.James T. Hicks, 57, last May admitted the prosecution had sufficient...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Former Leyden Police Chief Daniel Galvis was in Greenfield District Court on Monday to answer to larceny charges involving town-owned police equipment.Galvis pleaded not guilty to two counts of larceny of a motor vehicle, two counts of...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Only one of the four defendants facing charges for allegedly breaking into a home on West Street on April 4 and assaulting the property owner is eligible for immediate bail following a detention hearing in Greenfield District Court on...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — A dangerousness hearing for the three men and one woman charged with breaking into a man’s house at 36 West St. Thursday morning and taking turns beating him is set for Tuesday, April 9, in Greenfield District Court.Defendants Michael...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Turners Falls man faces nine charges after allegedly trying to hit a Greenfield Police cruiser before leading authorities on a high-speed chase to Sunderland which ended in Greenfield.Jason B. Griswold, 40, pleaded not guilty in...

GREENFIELD — Two men were arrested on drug and firearm charges after the Northwestern District Anti-Crime Task Force, the Greenfield Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police STOP Team executed a search warrant at 83 Hope St. on Friday...

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...

By DOMENIC POLI

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...

By DOMENIC POLI

The backlog plaguing courthouses across much of the state seems to have spared Franklin and Hampshire counties, where the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office reportedly put many cases to bed while in-person jury trials were suspended during the...