SPRINGFIELD – Strength, discipline, communication, resilience, and accountability.Those are just five variables that can help separate a good team from being a great and maybe even special team. Luckily for the No. 1 Longmeadow boys hockey team, they have shown progress in each of those...
Nearly 15,000 jackpots were won on slot machines and table games at the same Massachusetts casino in January.Overall, $40,699,671.04 was paid out across 14,895 total jackpots at Encore Boston Harbor casino, located in Everett. Of those, 14,740 jackpots worth $37,914,459.34 were from slot machines. There...
A father who violently beat and killed his 18-year-old son with a gas tank and hammer was denied parole after asking for a reconsideration from the Massachusetts Parole Board. In August, Richard Seymour went in front of the parole board for the seventh time —...
As overnight snowfall finishes up throughout the state, mild, seasonable weather is set to move in Wednesday.Some communities got as much as 6 inches of snow overnight, but the National Weather Service forecasts dry, sunny conditions the rest of the day.Boston will hit a high...
FORT MYERS, Fla. — At the beginning of spring training in 2025, the Red Sox approached unsettled situations at second base and third base with a pretty good hunch of how things would turn out. Craig Breslow, Alex Cora and the club’s other decision-makers pretty...
The regular season is officially in the books, as Western Massachusetts boys basketball teams are now in postseason/non-playoff contests over the next two weeks before the state tournament begins on Feb. 23.League title races have been set, and a few squads are scrambling to punch...
WESTFIELD — After being arraigned in connection with four counts of sexual assault, a Level 3 sexual offender was ordered held in custody without the possibility of bail after being found dangerous during a hearing Tuesday in Westfield District Court, according to court records.Angelo DiPaolo...
Previous Rankings: Preseason, First Week, Second Week, Third Week, Fourth Week, Fifth Week, Sixth Week1. Milton (16-1-1, +50 GD) (Last week 1)2. Braintree (9-3-3, +17 GD) (2)3. Brookline (8-6-2, +18 GD) (3)4. Natick (10-7-2, +11 GD) (6)5. Framingham (7-7-4, +2 GD) (4)6. Newton North (5-10-2,...
WESTFIELD — After a public hearing and recommendation by the Planning Board, the City Council held a second public hearing on the moratorium for battery energy storage systems on Feb. 5, followed by a unanimous vote to approve the interim restriction on projects through Sept....
SOUTHWICK — Representatives of the town’s Lake Management Committee submitted a draft to the Select Board last week of how town officials might respond to a report of an algae bloom in the ponds of Congamond Lakes. The draft comes after a board member acknowledged...
