The Berkshire Eagle

Authorities are investigating a reported break-in and sexual assault at a Massachusetts college.

The former director of the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum in Massachusetts has been charged with stealing $31,000 from the nonprofit and using the money on travel, amusement park tickets, jewelry and other personal expenses.

A former student at an elite Massachusetts college convicted of raping a woman on campus has been sentenced to three years in prison. The Berkshire Eagle reports that 27-year-old Yoonsang Bae, of Boston, was sentenced Monday after he was convicted Friday of raping a then-19-year-old woman at a Williams College dorm room in July 2014.

Whoever dumped trash at the building made famous in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 Thanksgiving protest anthem “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” has a sense of humor. The director of what’s now the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts discovered Tuesday someone had filled the dumpster with garbage and left a grubby sofa nearby.

Residents are being warned to avoid a popular lake in western Massachusetts after health officials found possible evidence of harmful algae.

A woman’s body was been found in a rural area of Massachusetts and authorities are trying to determine whether it’s the body of a woman who went missing from her sister’s nearby home in May.

Another person has been charged with murder in the 2017 shooting death of the death of a 22-year-old Pittsfield woman, who police say was caught in the crossfire of a gunfight.

Another person has been charged with murder in the 2017 shooting death of the death of a 22-year-old Pittsfield woman, who police say was caught in the crossfire of a gunfight.

An estimated 20,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims are expected in the Berkshires this weekend to celebrate Mercy Sunday.

A Massachusetts family is mourning the death of their small horse that officials suspect was killed by a black bear. The Berkshire Eagle reports that Kathleen Tench Adams, of Hinsdale, posted on Facebook that the 400-pound horse was killed and pulled from its stall on Friday.

An architectural firm with extensive experience working on buildings of significance to African-American history has been chosen to oversee restoration of an historic church in Massachusetts.

Music mogul Kanye West was in Massachusetts on Thursday morning, where artist James Turrell gave him a tour of his artwork that is on display at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. “Kanye is an admirer of James Turrell and came to visit the exhibition, and got a tour of the whole place, and heard a little...

The trial of a New York man charged with luring women to Massachusetts and trafficking them for sex is expected to begin in the coming week.

A supporter of Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been charged with assaulting one of her challengers during a campaign event in Massachusetts.

A Trump administration cabinet member will be spending some time in the Berkshires.

A Massachusetts town at one end of the state has spread holiday cheer to a town at the other end that lost its entire snow-plowing fleet in a fire.

Garrison Keillor was reportedly spotted speaking with diners at a western Massachusetts restaurant just hours after he had been fired from Minnesota Public Radio following allegations of improper behavior at work.

A Massachusetts man is recovering after a fox attacked him while he was walking his dog and started “gnawing” on his ankle.

The contents of a time capsule placed in the cornerstone of a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, church 125 years ago are being revealed to the public.