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Red Cross Sending Local Volunteer to Oklahoma

May 21st, 2013
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) -- The Red Cross here in Western Mass. is deploying to Oklahoma tomorrow morning to help with the disaster relief efforts. Registered nurse and Warren resident, Donna McKinney is going to Oklahoma on behalf of the Red...

Senate Panel Approves Immigration Bill

May 21st, 2013
(Photo Courtesy MGN Online) WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved far-reaching immigration legislation that gives a...

Hampden County DA Recognizes Local Teens

May 21st, 2013
SPRINGFEILD, Mass. (WGGB) --Facebook and Twitter users are getting younger and younger. That's exactly why students like Agawam High School...

Springfield Ranks #1 Most Segregated City

May 21st, 2013
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) -- When City Councilor and lifelong Springfield resident Bud Williams found out that his city was the most segregated in...

PVTA Bus Involved in Accident Near Armory Street

May 21st, 2013
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) -- Several people are hurt following an accident involving a PVTA bus Monday afternoon. State Police assigned to the Springfield barracks says that the call came in around 4:30 p.m. at the top off the off-ramp from...

Construction Sites Pose Challenge to Drivers

May 21st, 2013
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) -- With the Memorial Day Holiday Weekend approaching, people will be heading out on the highways...but driver beware. There is a lot of construction going on and that can frustrate drivers. "The roads do need...

Neighbors Mourn Loss of 7-Year-Old Struck and Killed by Dump Truck

May 21st, 2013
WESTFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) -- A good boy who loved construction equipment. Those are the words used to describe the 7-year-old hit and killed by a dump truck in Westfield Monday. This a close neighborhood here in Westfield. The street...

Natl. Weather Service: Oklahoma Twister a Top-of-the-Scale EF-5

May 21st, 2013
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph. Spokeswoman Keli Pirtle said Tuesday the agency upgraded the tornado from an...

Crews Race to Find Survivors of Oklahoma Twister

May 21st, 2013
(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) By NOMAAN MERCHANT and SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Emergency crews searched the broken remnants of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday for survivors of a massive tornado that flattened homes and...

Police Release Photos from Tucson Shooting Rampage

May 21st, 2013
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Authorities released nearly 600 photos that investigators took in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others. The photos showed the...

How to Help the Victims of the Okla. Tornadoes

May 21st, 2013
(AP Photo/Steve Gooch) (WGGB) -- The cleanup is only just beginning for areas of the Midwest hardest hit by this week's wicked storms. Nearly two dozen people were killed and over 200 more were injured when a tornado ripped through Moore,...

Hearing for Marathon Bombing Suspect Postponed

May 21st, 2013
(Photo: FBI via AP) BOSTON (AP) -- A judge has agreed to postpone a probable cause hearing for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler on Tuesday granted a joint request from prosecutors and...

Tornado Strike on Okla. Schools Brings Back Memories of Cathedral H.S.

May 21st, 2013
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) -- Seeing the images of the destruction of the Oklahoma schools is stirring memories of what happened nearly two years ago here in western Massachusetts. When a tornado raced through our area in 2011, it struck...

Former IRS Chief: Can’t Say How Targeting Happened

May 21st, 2013
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER and ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt...

Official: No Drugs, Alcohol Found in Conn. Gunman

May 21st, 2013
Adam Lanza (AP Photo) By DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- An official says toxicology tests on the Newtown school shooter's body did not turn up any alcohol, illegal drugs or prescription medication. Twenty-year-old...

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