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  Ex-nurse pleads guilty to stealing drugs from hospital

  SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A former nurse at a Massachusetts hospital has pleaded guilty to stealing powerful prescription painkillers meant for patients...

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  Police Log, January 5, 2016

  WESTFIELD Major crime and incident report Tuesday, January 5, 2016 8:35 a.m.: accident, 52 Vadnais St., no injuries, no tows; 2:18 p.m.:...

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  Police Log, January 4, 2016

  WESTFIELD Major crime and incident report Monday, January 4, 2016 9:10 a.m.: property found, Sackett Road, party brought to police department a...

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  Police Log, January 3, 2016

  WESTFIELD Major crime and incident report Sunday, January 3, 2016 1:40 a.m.: assault, Maple Leaf Inn, 11 Arnold St., caller reported seeing...

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  Police Log, January 2, 2016

  WESTFIELD Major crime and incident report Saturday, January 2, 2016 12:54 p.m.: shoplifting, Radio Shack, 261 E. Main St., employee reported that...

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  Police Log, January 1, 2016

  WESTFIELD Major crime and incident report Friday, January 1, 2016 8:07 a.m.: threat to commit crime, Oaks Trailer Park, 404 Southwick Road,...

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  Radio Shack speaker robber sought

  WESTFIELD – The Westfield Police Department is attempting to identify a suspect in a recent larceny at Radio Shack where a man...

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  Lack of state commitment to serve veterans brought leadership change at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home

  When Paul Barabani, a retired colonel from the Massachusetts Army National Guard, became superintendent of the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke in 2011,...

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  Dec. 2015 was warmest recorded in Northeast

  AMHERST – Official observers reported this week that all the Northeast states just saw their warmest December on record, with average air...

• Health

  Springfield gets $85k annual anti-drug grant

  BOSTON – Governor Charlie Baker and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) today awarded $6.8 million in grants to support Strategic...

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  Around Town

  28 registered for HiSET

  WESTFIELD – Registration night for HiSET classes took place on January 5 in the Lang Auditorium at the Westfield Athenaeum.  Ann D. Lentini,...

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  Health

  State launches comprehensive digital health initiative

  BOSTON – Governor Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Speaker Robert A. DeLeo and executives from the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership (MACP)...