Holyoke

Police in Holyoke, Massachusetts, are asking for the public’s help finding a missing woman. Authorities say 55-year-old Carmen Feliciano of Holyoke was last seen Monday in the area of Maple Street and Jackson Street. Police did not give a physical description of Feliciano or say what she was wearing when she was last seen, but they did release a...

The head of a Massachusetts veterans’ home that was the center of a deadly coronavirus outbreak has resigned from his post, 10 days after his firing was overturned by a judge. Superintendent Bennett Walsh submitted his resignation to the board of trustees Friday. Walsh had been fired in June, but the move by Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration was invalidated last…

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is pressing criminal charges against two former officials of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home for allegedly making a “deadly decision” that led to the COVID-19 outbreak there that killed dozens of elderly veterans. Bennett Walsh, the former superintendent, and David Clinton, the former medial director, are facing felony charges related to their March 27 decision to…

A lawsuit has been filed connected to the COVID deaths of residents of a Holyoke veterans’ home.

The former superintendent and medical director of the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke have been indicted on criminal neglect charges for their roles in the deadly COVID-19 outbreak earlier this year, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has announced.

U.S. Rep. Richard Neal and his Democratic primary challenger, Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse, faced off in a debate Monday night as Morse tries to unseat the longtime incumbent.  The race has been marked by allegations of inappropriate sexual contact with students by Morse when he was an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  The 31-year-old Democratic mayor,...

A Massachusetts state university has hired a prominent Boston lawyer to conduct an independent review into allegations of inappropriate conduct by Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse, a former adjunct professor who is running for Congress. The University of Massachusetts Amherst said Friday that it has tapped Natashia Tidwell, a former federal prosecutor and Cambridge police officer who works for the firm…

Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday identified four high risk Massachusetts cities and towns that will be the focus of his new COVID Enforcement and Intervention Team. Chelsea, Everett, Lynn and Revere are included in the high risk category, meaning they have over eight cases per 100,000 residents. Twenty-nine other communities, including Auburn, Belchertown, Boston, Brockton, Charlton, Chicopee, Fall River, Framingham,…

Massachusetts released a map showing coronavirus hot spots across the state.

With a recent uptick in coronavirus cases, Gov. Charlie Baker is implementing new regulations starting Tuesday.

Amid rising coronavirus cases in Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker identifies four communities as “high risk” that will be the focus of increased enforcement of the mask mandate and crowd control.

The family of a soldier who died in the major coronavirus outbreak at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home is suing five officials who worked at the Massachusetts facility in federal court for alleged “deliberate indifference” in dealing with the spreading virus. Seventy-six veterans living at the home who tested positive for the virus have died since the beginning of March, sparking several…

An independent investigation into the deadly coronavirus outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home released Wednesday said the facility’s leadership team made “substantial errors” in responding to the outbreak that resulted in the deaths of at least 76 veterans and the infection of an additional 84 veterans and over 80 staff members. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker hired former federal prosecutor Mark…

Devastated family members are speaking out after a new report revealed horrifying conditions at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home.

A new report has been released in the investigation into a coronavirus outbreak that left 76 veterans dead at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke.

Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker addresses the COVID-19 report from the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home.

It was a visit more than three months in the making. Ninety-five-year-old George Desiderio, who lives at the Soldiers’ Home in Chelsea, Massachusetts, was allowed to visit with family for the first time since March. “It was a long time coming,” said daughter Karen Leffler. “It’s been a hundred days exactly today since the last time I had the...

Long-term care facilities have been hit hard by the pandemic, but for the first time in months, families could visit their loved ones in person at the Soldiers’ Home in Chelsea.

Desperate for information as coronavirus deaths mounted at the Massachusetts veterans home where her father lived, Susan Kenney drove there with her question written in big letters on her car window: “Is my dad alive?” He was. But not for long. Kenney’s father and 69 others who served their country have died after contracting the virus at the Holyoke Soldiers’…

Dozens of residents have died after a coronavirus outbreak at a Massachusetts nursing home for veterans, and a federal lawmaker is now speaking out. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., weighed in Monday on the situation at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, where 40 veterans have now died, 33 of whom tested positive for COVID-19. “This is an American challenge,” Neal said. “It’s an…