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Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order which will dispatch National Guard members to New York state prisons where corrections officers are holding unauthorized strikes. This executive order will guarantee "public order and protection of public property" at all facilities plus will allow for corrections officers who are showing up to work to receive overtime compensation and direct the state corrections department to bring in an independent mediator to help resolve the strike.

Michael Cook of North Adams, Massachusetts was sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty in connection with the death of his estranged wife, Charli Cook.

One of the jobs that some Massachusetts inmates once provided for state government and/or the public was to press license plates. Do they still? As a child I was obsessed with license plates. That sounds weird, right? What I really meant is that I found out of state plates, (any other state besides Massachusetts), fascinating...

After being found guilty on all counts last Friday in Berkshire Superior Court, a Pittsfield man received his sentencing yesterday.

Last Thursday, a Western Massachusetts man received a prison sentence for playing a role in a very large-scale heroin trafficking operation.

A Pittsfield resident that was severely beaten over a year ago finally gets to see some justice served on their behalf. The suspect pleaded guilty on Wednesday.

Sentencing took place this afternoon in Berkshire Superior Court for Luis Delvalle-Rodriguez, who was found guilty on Friday in the 2018 October Mountain State Forest shooting of Nick Carnevale.

Yesterday, March 14, in Springfield, a Pittsfield man was sentenced in federal court to three years in prison for not doing one...simple...thing.

Last week in Boston, Judge Nathaniel Gorton sentenced a Pittsfield man to over a decade in prison for his role in a massive drug trafficking conspiracy.

It's jail time for Josh Duggar, you have to wonder what his wife, mom, and dad are thinking about guilty charges against their son. This whole drama started back two years ago.