• Bookstore closing reflects retail trends
SPRINGFIELD - In January, Borders Group Inc. will close its Waldenbooks store in the Eastfield Mall, leaving Springfield without a store featuring new books.

• Celebrity boxing matches draw fans
SPRINGFIELD - Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed that there are no second acts in American lives, but Fitzgerald died without ever knowing there would one day be something called celebrity boxing.

• Conn. man admits robbing local banks
SPRINGFIELD - A Bridgeport, Conn., man pleaded guilty to committing multiple bank robberies over two years, including a heist in Chicopee and an attempt in Holyoke in 2008.

• Guns, drugs seized in raids
SPRINGFIELD - Two raids, conducted by undercover narcotics detectives Thursday night in Indian Orchard, yielded the arrest of three suspects on cocaine charges and the removal of two more guns from city streets.

• Hospital may lay off workers on Monday
NORTHAMPTON - Facing a $10 million revenue gap, Cooley Dickinson Hospital is preparing to lay off 20 to 25 employees on Monday.

• Soldiers Home planning 10 layoffs
BOSTON - The Holyoke Soldiers Home will have to lay off up to an additional 10 employees and close a medical clinic for outpatients, officials said.

• Springfield police investigate man's shooting
SPRINGFIELD - A male, hit at least twice by gunfire in front of 1 Allen St. Friday morning, was taken to Baystate Medical Center.

• TV house doctor answers questions
WEST SPRINGFIELD - Tom Silva, the resident general contractor of the television show "This Old House," barely walked into The Better Living Center Friday afternoon when the questions started.