PITTSFIELD - Police are investigating several armed robberies. The most recent one took place at the Palmer's Variety Store on Elm Street.

It happened around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday. Police say a woman walked in wearing a black mask, with a black hoodie. Police say she also had a handgun.

She escaped in a dark green SUV, in an unknown direction.

Police say this is the third armed robbery by a woman fitting the description in the past two weeks.

ADAMS, Mass. (AP) - A Roman Catholic church in Adams that was occupied by protesting parishioners for more than three years has reopened for regular worship.          

Protesters occupied St. Stanislaus Kostka to reopen since it shut in December 2008. It was merged into the new Blessed John Paul the Great Parish.          

The Republican reports that Father Daniel Boyle, the parish's pastor, told the congregation Saturday the diocese approved a plan to reopen St. Stanislaus Church as a "chapel-mission" of the parish. His plan follows a Vatican decision to keep the church in religious use.          

NORTH ADAMS - A makeshift memorial with flowers and balloons, marked the spot where 28-year-old Cristopher Stanley of Clarksburg and 31-year-old Chad Miller of North Adams lost their lives.

"It's a shame. That's tragic," said a person who visited the scene Sunday.

Police said the tragic accident happened around 2:45 Snday morning when the pick up truck the victims were in -- went off canal road in North Adams -- breaking through a protective fence and dropping down forty feet into the flood chute with the car landing on its roof.

A road crew was there to temporarily repair the fence.

A steady stream of family and friends came by to pay respects -- many of them in tears and shock as they try to make sense of what happened.