By Buffy Spencer, bspencer@repub.com Posted on August 31, 2017 SPRINGFIELD — Both the prosecutor and defense lawyer told jurors Thursday that cellphone video of a confrontation between David Guasp and Ricardo Valentin will help prove their arguments. Assistant District Attorney Matthew W. Green told jurors in his closing argument in Valentin’s murder trial that the video will show Valentin […]

Larry Green(Police Photo) By Buffy Spencer, bspencer@repub.com August 23, 2017 SPRINGFIELD — A Springfield man denied a dozen violent crimes Tuesday in Hampden Superior Court. Larry Green, 24, of 12 Ranney St., was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail after denying charges that included the shooting of a man on June 1 causing “serious bodily injury.” Green […]

  By George Graham , The Republican SPRINGFIELD — City, state and federal law enforcement personnel raided four city locations early Monday, arresting 10 men and seizing enough raw heroin to fill more than 450,000 bags. The six-plus kilos of raw heroin, once milled or processed and packaged for resale, would have a “conservative” street value […]

Derek Webb By Buffy Spencer, the Republican SPRINGFIELD — A Hampden Superior Court grand jury has indicted a 25-year-old Westfield resident on a manslaughter charge in connection with an April heroin overdose death. Derek Webb, of Southampton Road, was indicted Friday. He is also charged with heroin distribution. His superior court arraignment date has not been set. Webb is […]

By Patrick Johnson, The Republican Photos By Dave Roback, The Republican SPRINGFIELD – There have been six accidental infant deaths in Hampden County so far this year, including three in the last two months, prompting District Attorney Anthony Gulluni and Baystate Medical Center to warn parents of newborns about the danger of sharing their bed with […]

July 20, 2017 , By Buffy Spencer SPRINGFIELD — A Hampden Superior Court jury on Thursday found Jorge Concepcion-Pesquera guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal March 2016 Ludlow shooting of Larry Santiago Jr. outside a Ludlow bar. The jury began its work for the day at 9:20 a.m. Thursday and reached a verdict at 11:30 a.m. Watch as […]

BY PATRICK JOHNSON , Photos by: Pat johnson HOLYOKE – The last thing David McGarrigle was expecting when he went to the Holyoke Mall Thursday morning was to be the center of attention. McGarrigle of Holyoke read that a drop-off box was being set up at the mall. So he loaded some bags with unwanted medications that […]

By BUFFY SPENCER , The Republican Photo By: Dave Roback, The Republican SPRINGFIELD — A 19-year-old West Springfield man on Tuesday in Hampden Superior Court denied an involuntary manslaughter charge in connection with an April shooting death in that city. Roberto Santiago is accused of fatally shooting Delilah Santiago, 18, of Holyoke, on April 10 at his residence at […]

Fire officials are investigating at the scene of a fatal house fire in Westfield that claimed the lives of two people Saturday. (Jim Kinney) BY GEORGE GRAHAM, The Republican ggraham@repub.com WESTFIELD – The victims of a double-fatal fire that broke out in a Park Street home Saturday afternoon have been identified as Mary and Theresa Woodworth, […]

BY BUFFY SPENCER, The Republican Posted on June 1, 2017 at 2:05 PM SPRINGFIELD — Jimmy Roman was sentenced Thursday to 13 to 14 years in state prison for shooting and paralyzing a then-17-year-old youth in the parking lot of Dunkin’ Donuts on Main Street in the South End. Roman, 23, of Springfield, admitted firing the […]