Two jailed for gun sales (Berkshire Eagle)
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:24:26 GMT
PITTSFIELD - Two separate criminal cases came to an end this week after a pair of Pittsfield men were sent to state prison for admitting to selling guns to an undercover police officer and a police informant.
No oath, no conviction (The Jamaica Observer)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:13:23 GMT
ANN ARBOR, Michigan (AP) -- A Michigan man sent to prison for 15 years is getting a new trial after the judge failed to do a routine procedure -- ask the jury to take an oath.
’Honest services’ before the court (Berkshire Eagle)
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:39:26 GMT
Last Monday the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the last of three cases it accepted for review which involved the controversial federal mail and wire fraud law which criminalizes a "scheme" to deprive someone of "honest services."
2Day in the SCV: March 6, 2010 (The Signal)
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:43:38 GMT
Welcome to The-Signal.com's "2day in the SCV," a compendium of today's events and a quick journey through the past, present and future.
Pre-dawn raids key to busts (Berkshire Eagle)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:39:49 GMT
PITTSFIELD -- Their wake-up calls were loud knocks at the door, deep shouting and steel battering rams.
Pre-dawn raids net marijuana, cocaine and painkillers (North Adams Transcript)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:00:03 GMT
Friday March 5, 2010 Berkshire Eagle Staff PITTSFIELD - The sleeping suspects awoke to knocking and shouting, or the sound of steel battering rams busting down doors. Those scenarios played out across the Berkshires on Wednesday, when law enforcement officials carried out a series of pre-dawn raids in Pittsfield, Richmond and Adams that led to multiple arrests and the seizure of large
Washington deputy saves escaped inmate from drowning in Moses Lake (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:52:19 GMT
MOSES LAKE, Wash. - A handcuffed man who escaped from a chain line of other inmates at Grant County District Court managed to steal a truck and jump into Moses Lake where deputies had to rescue him.
Prison for man in fatal crash (Berkshire Eagle)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:54:26 GMT
Thursday March 4, 2010 PITTSFIELD -- A Great Barrington man with a criminal history will spend up to a decade behind bars for homicide and other charges linked to a Sheffield car crash that claimed the life of a nurse last year.
Drug raids net 8 arrests (Berkshire Eagle)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:54:38 GMT
Thursday March 4, 2010 PITTSFIELD -- Several county residents were taken into custody Wednesday during a series of drug raids in Pittsfield, Richmond and Adams, part of a sweeping investigation that s expected to lead to more arrests, according to District Attorney David F. Capeless.
A lights-out win for Wildcats (Berkshire Eagle)
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:09:47 GMT
AMHERST -- The Lee girls basketball team shot the lights out at the Curry Hicks Cage Tuesday night. No, the Wildcats literally shot the lights out.
