--King Downing, the ACLU coordinator for the Campaign Against Racial Profiling, won his case against the Massachusetts Port Authority and the State Police. He sued because he felt that he was illegally detained at Logan Airport in 2003, and a jury agreed with him. [Boston Herald, WCVB]

--City officials in Everett plan to develop an emergency plan to improve response to disasters following last week's tanker explosion. [WBZ]

--The Boston Society of Film Critics gathered to give out its awards for best of the year. No Country for Old Men was best picture, Julian Schnabel was best director for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Frank Langella was best actor in Starting Out in the Evening, and Marion Cotillard was best actress for La Vie en Rose. [Boston Globe]