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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Five people were arrested and over two kilograms of fentanyl, two kilograms of cocaine, 11 firearms, and approximately $12,000 was seized after a long investigation into drug trafficking in the area. According to Hampden District Attorney spokesman Jim Leydon, on December 5, members of the District Attorney’s Hampden County Narcotics Task Force executed a search warrant of 29-year-old Julian Delgado’s home at 26 Columbia Terrace in Springfield for his alleged involvement in the distribution of cocaine. A prior motor vehicle stop led to the arrest of Delgado and yielded one kilogram of cocaine. After detectives searched...

Ryan Donovan knows what everyone else with a daily commute out of Springfield knows well. If you're just a few minutes behind schedule, you might as well not even try the South End bridge. The way traffic jams from Columbus Ave onto the bridge and moves slowly off to Route 5 or the Agawam rotary, you're much better off heading to the Memorial Ave bridge and taking your chances there. That is, unless an F-3 tornado is barreling down that stretch of Route 5 and heading directly for the bridge. Donovan, a 25-year-old chemist from Westfield, learned that lesson the...

SPRINGFIELD - Every morning since she began working at Springfield Gulf, day manager Debra A. Correggio has started her shift by displaying nine American flags on the grassy strip in front of the Congress Street gas station. But Tuesday, an agent from the city's Office of Code Enforcement told her to take the down the flags and several advertising signs and leave them down or face a $100 fine. "He told me to take down the flags. They can't be out there," Correggio said. "I never heard of such a thing." Neither has the Office of Code Enforcement. "We have...