CRIME & SAFETY

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Holyoke crews responded to a fire on Taylor Street on Sunday afternoon. According to Fire Capt. Dave Rex, firefighters were at the scene for reports of a structure fire. Officials confirmed the are no injuries reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation at this...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - The Springfield Police Youth Aide Bureau is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing teenage boy. According to Springfield Police, 16-year-old Eziekiel Torres ran away Friday and could possibly be in the Holyoke area. If you see him or have any information about...

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - A dangerousness hearing was held for the suspect in the Holyoke Unicorn Bar shooting on Thursday. 35-year-old John Brown Jr. of Springfield was committed without bail and will be held without the right to bail pending dangerousness decision. This shooting on December 17, 2022, took place...

Westfield police are investigating near the train tracks around the areas of Elm and Pochassic Street in downtown Westfield Thursday night.

 Four men convicted last week for the murder of a Holyoke man in 2019 were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Wednesday, May 24, authorities said. Luis Cotto, Keith Cotto, Isaiah Fraticelli, all of Springfield, and Victor Espinosa, of Chicopee, were also conv…

22News has learned that an arrest warrant is pending from an ongoing investigation by the Springfield Police Department. The warrant is pertaining to reports of abuse to disabled students on a bus.

WESTFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - One person is dead following a train accident lates Thursday in Westfield. According to Westfield Police, a train struck the person around 9 p.m. in the area of 61 Pochassic Street. Several streets were closed during an investigation. More information is expected to be released later...

A Holyoke man has been charged with the murder of a Chicopee man following a shooting on Lyman Street.

The motorcycle operator that died in a crash on I-91 in West Springfield Tuesday has been identified.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Springfield crews responded to a car striking a two pedestrians on Dickinson Street Friday afternoon. According to Springfield Fire Capt. Drew Piemonte, officers were on scene at around 5 p.m for reports of two pedestrians struck by a vehicle. Officials confirmed the people struck have minor...

ENFIELD, Conn. (WFSB) - Enfield police are investigating after a person was stabbed Friday afternoon. Police said the incident occurred at the Red Roof Inn on Hazard Avenue at around 2 p.m. Police originally responded to the area for a report of a woman bleeding from a wound to her...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - We’re learning new information on the seven suspects busted in a widespread string of catalytic converter thefts across Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Two of the suspects have now pleaded guilty in a federal courthouse in Boston. We’re getting answers on what charges these two men...

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Fire crews responded to a large fire on Exposition Avenue in West Springfield Saturday morning. Western Mass News spoke with neighbors who said the scene was surreal. But the nine people displaced were offered support from the American Red Cross to get back on their feet.

Jemyliana Vargas, 21, was a passenger in a 2007 Volkswagen Rabbit that crashed into the back of a 2019 Dodge Ram truck just before 3 a.m. on May 7 in Longmeadow just past the Enfield, Connecticut, border, Massachusetts State Police said. The impact ejected Vargas onto the northbound lane, where...

Four Springfield men were sentenced to life in prison without parole in Hampden County District Court on Wednesday for the 2019 murder of Gabriel Irizarry, according to the Hampden District Attorney’s Office. Luis Cotto, Keith Cotto, Isaiah Fraticelli and Victor Espinosa, of Chicopee, were convicted of first-degree murder on...

The Springfield, Massachusetts, Roman Catholic Diocese announced Friday it has settled a lawsuit alleging clergy abuse by the late Bishop Christopher Weldon — and a coverup by church officials decades later. The case was brought by a Chicopee man who alleges, as an altar boy in the 1960s, he...

PALMER, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Crews in Palmer responded to the Shell gas station on Thorndike Street Sunday morning for reports of a car fire. According to the Palmer Fire Department, the incident took place around 7:17 a.m. Officials said that crews arriving on scene found a single vehicle with fire...

A suspect wanted in connection with a homicide 21 years ago in New York City was arrested at Red Roof Inn in Mansfield Thursday.

Holyoke school officials making efforts with DESE to end state receivership. Holyoke Superintendent of Schools Anthony Soto was called before state education leaders Tuesday to provide an update on efforts to get the city’s public school system out from under state receivership, which they have been under since 2015.

A Hartford man is sentenced to spend a decade in federal prison for his role in multiple violent robberies of A-T-and-T stores in Connecticut and Massachusetts, including one in West Springfield. Alex Josephs was one of several men who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in merchandise in the robberies...