Amherst

A police officer responding to a fallen utility pole in Amherst, New Hampshire, was injured when a passing truck hit fallen wires, knocking the pole into his legs.

Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead will not deliver the keynote speech at UMass Amherst’s graduation next week after dozens of protesters were arrested Tuesday. About 130 people were arrested at a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus. Whitehead spoke out Thursday against the arrests, and the school confirmed on its website that he had withdrawn. “I was looking forward to speaking next…

A student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is accused of assaulting a Jewish student and spitting on an Israeli flags last week after a demonstration on campus that called for the return of the hostages being held by Hamas, according to school officials.

A student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is accused of assaulting a Jewish student and spitting on an Israeli flags last week after a demonstration on campus that called for the return of the hostages being held by Hamas, according to school officials. The student approached the crowd on Friday and “aggressively” gave them the “middle finger,” wrote UMass…

A Massachusetts man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of possessing videos showing the sexual abuse of a child, federal authorities said. Bradley Driscoll, of Amherst, was due to appear in federal court in Springfield Wednesday on one charge each of distributing and possessing child pornography. The Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office said the 25-year-old shared child sexual abuse material showing...

The town of Amherst, Massachusetts is considering how and when to spend revenue on reparations for slavery. Two years ago, the college town established a reparations fund that will grow to $2 million over a decade as cannabis sales taxes come in, and then sustainably spend up to $100,000 a year to atone for how the town benefitted from slavery....

Amherst, Massachusetts is now under a public health warning after wastewater was discharged into the Connecticut River. Over 400,000 gallons of partially treated sanitary sewage was released from the Amherst Waste Water Treatment Plant on Thursday, according to WWLP reports. The town is now recommending that the public avoid swimming in the area Calvin Coolidge Bridge and the South Hadley…