A special prosecutor has determined there were no chargeable offenses in the infamous 2008 allegation of illegal entry to DA’s Hadley offices, officials say. NORTHAMPTON – Allegations of criminal activity in “Pottygate” – a 2008 incident involving charges of a “break-in” at district attorney offices in the Juvenile Court building in Hadley – have officially [...]

Newly sworn-in DA Dave Sullivan fulfills a pledge by hiring his campaign media coordinator, former reporter Mary Carey, to handle office communications and assist with community outreach. NORTHAMPTON – Mary Carey, a former local reporter who ran the media campaign for newly elected Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan’s campaign last year, has been appointed as Sullivan’s [...]

Former Hampden County ADA Brett Vottero, sworn in as a special prosecutor on Dec. 16, has taken over the Tony Baye arson-murder case. NORTHAMPTON – A veteran arson prosecutor who racked up more than 100 arson convictions in Hampden County and served as a statewide arson prosecutor for then-Attorney General Scott Harshbarger in 1996-98 has [...]

NORTHAMPTON – Assistant Northwestern District Attorney Michael A. Cahillane, who lost his bid to become DA here in a September Democratic Party primary, has landed a new job as a superior court prosecutor with Bristol County DA C. Samuel Sutter. A spokeswoman for Sutter’s office confirmed to Northampton Media that Cahillane has been hired, and [...]

  NORTHAMPTON – Incoming Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan has named Thomas Townsend of Longmeadow to be his new Chief of Appeals starting next month. For the past 12 years, Townsend has been an assistant Hampden County DA working in that office’s Appeals Division. According to a Friday press release from Sullivan’s transition team, Townsend [...]

With the hiring of Leominster native Steve Gagne, incoming Northwestern DA Dave Sullivan completes his leadership team of outsiders. NORTHAMPTON – Once again, DA-Elect David Sullivan has reached across jurisdictions and picked an outsider to fill a key position in his administration. Sullivan, who will be sworn in here as the next Northwestern District Attorney [...]

DA-Elect Dave Sullivan hires Ware native Yvonne Pesce, a former newspaper reporter, to supervise juvenile cases in Hampshire and Franklin Counties. NORTHAMPTON – Yvonne G. Pesce, who currently supervises juvenile courts for the Hampden County District Attorney’s office in Springfield, has been picked by incoming Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan to perform the same duties [...]

DA-Elect David Sullivan has picked Rosemary Tarantino, deputy chief of the AG’s Western Regional Office, to a top post. That makes three outsiders, all longtime law enforcement professionals and all women, named to Sullivan’s leadership team in recent days. NORTHAMPTON – DA-elect David Sullivan has added another high-powered name to the list of new faces [...]

Interviews with current DA office prosecutors and staff – all of whom serve at the will of the boss and were asked by David Sullivan to re-apply for their jobs – will continue today in Northampton and Greenfield. NORTHAMPTON – DA-elect David Sullivan, who today will continue interviewing current prosecutors and staff, has picked three women to [...]

After losing big in the Democratic Primary, former prosecutor Michael Cahillane has roped his old job back — Northwestern DA Betsy Scheibel rehired him this week. Will he stay or hit the trail when Dave Sullivan, the new DA, rides into town in January? * NORTHAMPTON – Michael Cahillane, the former assistant Northwestern District Attorney [...]

During their campaign for Northwestern District Attorney, Dave Sullivan and Mike Cahillane raised a combined $260,000. They spent about $52,000 on ads in the last month. NORTHAMPTON – The two candidates for Northwestern District Attorney raised a combined $12,346 and spent a total of $44,326 during the last two weeks of the campaign, according to [...]

In Northampton,  30 percent of eligible voters went to the polls in Tuesday’s primary election. Overall, the turnout was 18.4 percent. Ware was a shameful 7 percent. NORTHAMPTON – Turnout is always a prickly issue in party primaries. Highly motivated citizens get to the polling places – often with the help from a candidate’s campaign – [...]

NORTHAMPTON – With only a few days left before the Sept. 14 Democratic Primary election for Northwestern District Attorney, the two candidates – Register of Probate David E. Sullivan and former longtime assistant DA Michael A. Cahillane – have been busy making live appearances and touting their endorsements. Sullivan’s most important statement of support came [...]

The two DA candidates together raised about $24,000 and shelled out $48,000 over the past two weeks. Much of their 11th hour spending is on radio and print ads. NORTHAMPTON – With two weeks left in the race for Northwestern District Attorney, candidate David E. Sullivan has once again asserted his money-raising prowess, turning the [...]

NORTHAMPTON – Northwestern District attorney hopeful Michael A. Cahillane confronted one of the most troublesome issues facing his candidacy last night, admitting to a debate crowd that he was wrong to sign a 2005 ballot petition that, had the Legislature not nixed it, would have gutted gay marriages in the commonwealth. “It was a mistake,” [...]