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$4M Lottery Winner: Western Mass Man Has Big Plans For Payday $4M Lottery Winner: Western Mass Man Has Big Plans For Payday
$4M Lottery Winner: Western Mass Man Has Big Plans For Payday A Franklin County man knows how he will spend some of his new-found fortune after winning a $4 million lottery jackpot.  Jeremy Bouchard, of Erving, won the massive payday playing the “$4,000,000 Jumbo Cash” $10 scratch-off game. He said he hadn't played that ticket in a long time and was shocked with the result.  Bouchard elected to take the lump sum payment of $2.6M (before taxes) rather than the annuity. His partner Victoria Gibson joined him when he collected the check.  Bouchard said he plans to buy a home and car with the money.  He bought the ticket at …

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Man Cops To Dumping Western Mass Woman's Body After She OD'd In His Car: DA Man Cops To Dumping Western Mass Woman's Body After She OD'd In His Car: DA
Man Cops To Dumping Western Mass Woman's Body After She OD'd In His Car: DA A 59-year-old Western Massachusetts man admitted to leaving a woman's body on the side of a Westford road in 2019 after she overdosed in his car, authorities announced on Monday, May 8. He will spend the next seven to eight years behind bars.  Daniel Perras, of Easthampton, pled guilty to destruction of evidence and improper disposal of a body after he left Melissa Mestre in Westford and got rid of her things to avoid being any link to her death, the Middlesex District Attorney's Office said.  Perras picked up Mestre on Jan. 31, 2019, from her home in Springfield and dro…

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