"We’ve been left behind as the healthcare system has evolved," Action Ambulance Service CEO Michael Woronka told The Edge. "Now we’re all battling to find out what our identity is. Are we part of a healthcare system? Are we a transportation entity? Are we a public support system?"
The cause and precise timing of the deaths of Karpinski, Wilbur and the children remain unclear, pending autopsy results from the state medical examiner's office in Boston and a final report from State Police, Berkshire County District Attorney Andrea Harrington has said.
"We gather because this week has been too much to bear. Regardless of the circumstances of these events both near and far, these horrors have left families, friends, and neighbors in our world stunned and in shock."
-- Rev. Erik Karas, of Christ Trinity Church
Authorities believe Luke Karpinski, 41, murdered his wife, Justine Wilbur, also 41, and their three children before setting their house on Home Road on fire and taking his own life.
Burke is charged with shooting David Green Jr. of Pittsfield in the neck while Green sat in a pickup truck near Spring and Willow streets in Pittsfield.
The president’s biggest beef seems to be that it’s been a public-relations nightmare. These are not the angry reactions of someone who’s morally outraged...
Like his mentor, Bowerman sought and held public offices including lieutenant governor, and “did not trouble himself” with the practice of law. So one might wonder: what compelled or enticed the 42-year-old Bowerman to represent Henry Pratt against the charge of murder at the court in Lenox in 1862?
The judge carefully explained the legal definitions of murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, and manslaughter. With that, he gave the case to the jury. Ninety minutes later, the jury returned.
The prosecution offered Pulero a deal if he would plead guilty and save the Commonwealth the cost of a trial: They would accept second-degree murder. He refused. He had a plan.
The fact is that in 1863 a hanging in Berkshire County was entertainment. People came to Gallows Hill in Lenox by the thousands. Fathers brought children; mothers brought picnic lunches.