Federal prosecutors have filed kidnapping charges that carry the death penalty against Michael Jacques whose 12-year-old niece Brooke Bennett was found dead near his Vermont home yesterday after she'd been ...

Former Springfield police officer and union president Robert C. Jacobson was found dead at his home Wednesday night, officials said.

James Brueno, 19, was acquitted yesterday by Hampden Superior Court Judge Tina S. Page of serious assault charges in a West Springfield incident, with Page blasting a West Springfield police sergeant for ...