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  Area preps as 1st winter storm approaches

  ALBERT STUMM, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cities in the Northeast prepared for a messy mix of rain, snow and sleet that...

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  Analysts expect state budget woes to continue

  BOSTON (AP) — Fiscal problems that have triggered a shortfall in the state’s current budget are likely to spill over to the...

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  State gains jobs, unemployment rate falls

  BOB SALSBERG, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts gained nearly 11,000 jobs and its unemployment rate dropped three-tenths of a percentage point...

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  Ice safety event at Amelia Park tonight

  WESTFIELD – Amelia Park Ice Arena and the Westfield Fire Department are partnering together to give the community an alternative to skating...

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  Police Log, Jan. 20, 2015

  WESTFIELD Emergency response and crime report Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 8:21 a.m.: breaking and entering, Riverbend Condos, 555 Russell Road, a caller...

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  Police Log, Jan. 19, 2015

  WESTFIELD Emergency response and crime report Monday, Jan. 19, 2015 1:54 a.m.: suspicious activity, Greif Way, a patrol officer reports that a...

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  Court Log, Jan. 21, 2015

  Westfield District Court Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015 Jesus M. Torres, 28, of 46 Brown Ave., Holyoke, submitted to facts sufficient to warrant...

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  Westfield Newsroom

  Healey, others sworn in

  STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Democrat Maura Healey was sworn in yesterday as Massachusetts’ 55th attorney general and pledged afterward...

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  Rosenberg names leadership team

  BOB SALSBERG, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — State Sen. Karen Spilka was named yesterday to chair the powerful Senate Ways and Means...

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  Veteran prosecutor named to Cabinet

  BOSTON (AP) — Rounding out his Cabinet, Gov. Charlie Baker yesterday named veteran prosecutor Daniel Bennett to serve as the state public...

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  ISO-NE gives briefing on state of power grid

  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — New England’s power system is increasingly shifting from aging oil- and coal-fired plants and to natural gas that...

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  Arts Beat

  The First Ever Twain On Stage Festival Mark Twain, the famous American author and humorist, best known for his books “Tom Sawyer”...