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A rift has developed between trustees for the Massachusetts veterans care center where nearly 80 residents died after contracting the coronavirus and state officials over plans to replace the facility. Holyoke Soldiers’ Home trustees at a meeting Wednesday pushed for a larger new facility, while state officials warned that any delays in the plans for a smaller one could sink…

More than a dozen communities in Massachusetts will have to revert back to step one of phase three of the reopening plan.

There are now 121 cities and towns in the red zone on Massachusetts’ latest coronavirus risk map.

More than a dozen communities in Massachusetts will have to revert back to step one of phase three of the reopening plan.

With COVID-19 cases spiking in Massachusetts, some cities and towns are taking a step back in the reopening process.

With COVID-19 cases on the rise in Massachusetts, some cities and towns are taking a step back in their reopening processes.

After three sustained weeks of high-risk status, a dozen communities will have to rollback reopening.

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…