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By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Heath man was sentenced to five years in jail on Tuesday for trying to “hunt down” two of his friends in the woods while intoxicated in October 2020.Olin D. Schwenger-Sartz, 39, will serve consecutive 2½-year sentences at the Franklin...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Bernardston man who earlier this month pleaded not guilty in Franklin County Superior Court to witness intimidation and violating a restraining order aimed at protecting a family member he previously pleaded guilty to strangling has...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A local man has been ordered held without the right to bail after pleading not guilty in Franklin County Superior Court on Friday afternoon to 15 charges stemming from two alleged crimes in 2022.In relation to a shooting at Greenfield’s...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Franklin County Superior Court judge has taken under advisement two motions to dismiss filed by the defense attorney representing a former Bernardston and Buckland police officer who faces 10 child pornography charges.Judge Jane...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD – A Bernardston man pleaded not guilty in Franklin County Superior Court on Monday to witness intimidation and violating a restraining order aimed at protecting a family member he previously pleaded guilty to strangling.Antonio P. Candello,...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Northampton man was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to three charges related to the 2021 hit-and-run death of Shelburne Falls resident Rhonda Thompson.Peter Toomey, 53, appeared in Franklin County...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Turners Falls man was sentenced Thursday to 12 to 14 years in prison for aggravated rape and abuse of a child.Jeffery Fleury, 55, was found guilty by a Franklin County Superior Court jury last month and Judge Michael Callan issued the...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The attorney for one of the 18 people charged in connection with an alleged cocaine trafficking syndicate that had been operating out of a Greenfield barbershop has filed a motion to impound purportedly compromising photos of his client...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Rhode Island man accused of hospitalizing seven motorcyclists while driving under the influence of drugs on Route 10 in Northfield last spring is still being held on $100,000 bail, Judge Michael Callan reaffirmed on Monday.Ryan T....

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — An Athol man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Wednesday, roughly an hour after 12 deliberating jurors found him guilty of killing 26-year-old Kelsey Clifford in 2019.Keith D. Hamel, 25, was convicted of...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The doctor who conducted the autopsy of Kelsey Clifford, the 26-year-old woman found bludgeoned to death outside the Athol Wastewater Treatment Plant in 2019, testified on Tuesday that the victim’s injuries are consistent with a claw...

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GREENFIELD — The boyfriend of the 26-year-old Leominster woman who was beaten to death in November 2019 took the witness stand Monday morning in the trial of the Athol man who is accused of her murder.Kevin McGann spent a couple of hours in Franklin...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The man who allegedly lied to police about his girlfriend being shot during an Orange home invasion has a new lawyer.Conan J. Gentile, 50, will now be represented by Jonah Goldsmith, who was covered in Franklin County Superior Court on...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A former part-time officer with the Bernardston and Buckland Police departments was arraigned in Franklin County Superior Court on Tuesday on 10 child pornography charges after his case was transferred from Greenfield District Court due...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD – A 20-year-old man could spend the rest of his life behind bars after changing his plea in Franklin County Superior Court on Tuesday to charges stemming from a 2020 attack in which he stabbed his uncle to death and seriously wounded his...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — An Athol man has been sentenced to six to eight years in prison on child rape charges, three weeks after his plea hearing was suspended in progress to allow him more time to consult with his attorney regarding the essential facts laid out...

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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...

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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...