Namu Sampath

| SPRINGFIELD — After a four-day trial, a Springfield man was found guilty of sexually assaulting a minor, according to the Hampden County District Attorney's Office.

| SPRINGFIELD — Cheryl Coakley-Rivera, a Democrat who is nearing the end of her first term as Hampden County Register of Deeds, is facing a challenger in Bob Collamore, who is running as an independent.

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| HOLYOKE — When Ryan Specht overdosed for the first time in 2017, it took seven applications of naloxone to revive him.

Due to fire damage at a polling location in Ward 8, city officials are requesting an official change ahead of Nov. 5.

Chester “Chet” Szetela bid his goodbye to his colleagues and his at-large position, in which he served for over two decades, in a letter he wrote to Marcus Ware, superintendent of the Chicopee Public Schools, on Oct. 9. Szetela was in the middle of a four-year term.

| BOSTON — On Friday, a Chicopee man was sentenced to prison for robbing and assaulting a confidential informant, according to the U.S.

The owner of the company will have to pay close to half a million dollars in restitution and penalties.

As of Thursday, the day before the early voting closed in Massachusetts, Springfield City Clerk Gladys Oyola-Lopez told a reporter that 3,159 people voted early in-person and about 12,000 others already had mailed in their ballots.

About two weeks ago, the Chicopee Housing Authority signed a consent order agreeing to better conditions for tenants going forward.