A city man who was in pretrial custody for about one month because his GPS device ran out of a charge was ordered released Friday pending his trial.

A jury convicted 37-year-old Korey Laviscount of Pittsfield of charges he assaulted and strangled a person last year.

Former Mass MoCA director Joseph Thompson, facing a charge of motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation, took the stand Wednesday in his defense. He said that as he drove north on Church Street in North Adams one July night in 2018, he saw the single headlight of a motorcycle cross the center line and fully enter his lane. "When I first became aware of it, it was near the centerline of the road passing into my lane, and arcing up to my right."

The vehicular manslaughter retrial of the founding director of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art started Monday in a Pittsfield courtroom. 

After a mistrial in June, the vehicular manslaughter case is slated to move ahead Monday. The first attempt at a trial was derailed when a bus carrying jurors to the North Adams scene of the fatal collision at issue crashed in Pittsfield.

A judge found that there was probable cause that Luke Yeborh had a loaded, unserialized weapon in the car he was driving this month.

Christopher Vandesteene, who is charged with stealing a safe and official documents from the district courthouse, will see his case prosecuted in Berkshire Superior Court. 

A bus that was carrying jurors to visit the scene of a fatal 2018 collision was involved in a crash Monday, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial in the case against former Mass MoCA Director Joseph Thompson.

One of four suspects arrested in a recent unarmed robbery at a town bank used a forged passport to carry out the alleged crime, police said.