-- An 18-year-old man was shot dead early this morning in front of a residence near Healy Playground in Roslindale. A second victim, a 25-year-old, suffered non-life-threatening injuries. [BPDNews] -- Two men from Somerville and Cambridge were arrested early Saturday after they allegedly stabbed three people at a Brighton house party. [Somervielle Journal] -- A New Bedford youth baseball coach was indicted on charges of raping a 14-year-old girl. [WBZTV] -- Ervin Memushaj, a 26-year-old......

-- Boston cops responding this morning to reports of trespassing teens at English High School in Jamaica Plain nabbed one trespasser, a 17-year-old from Dorchester, with a gun in his napsack, according to authorities. Four others were arrested on lesser charges. [BPDNews] -- A man held up a store in Brighton with a sawed-off shotgun in Brighton yesterday. [BPDNews] -- A man was stabbed outside of the Dorchester Courthouse Monday morning, receiving a slash to......

-- Rob Finnerty, the 26-year-old Charlestown man accused of killing a pedestrian while driving drunk in Brighton this weekend, worked as an occasional fill-in at the WEEI sports radio station. [WBZTV] -- A convicted Massachusetts sex offender wanted on a number of warrants was captured in Tennessee. [Herald] -- Two women in their twenties were robbed at knifepoint in Cambridge. [Cambridge Chronicle] -- Elsewhere in Cambridge, a Dorchester man in a rental car was carjacked.......

-- 23-year-old Daniel Harris, one of four injured during last week's shooting on Dorchester's Elder Street was held without bail today in the murder of Alexandra Gomes. Gomes' and Harris' families co-own a moving company. Harris was injured after one of his alleged victims returned fire. Prosecutors have not advanced a motive in the killing. [Herald] -- Robert Finnerty, a 26-year-old Charlestown man, pleaded not guilty today to charges that he killed a man while......

-- Boston Police Superintendent Robert Dunford is the subject of a internal affairs investigation after he allegedly pressured the Police Academy to turn a blind eye while his buddy, a drill instructor, had an illicit affair with one of his recruits. No formal rule prohibits Boston cops from getting together with other Boston cops, but the drill instructor's position of authority would leave open charges of sexual harassment if the allegations are true. [Herald] --......

-- John Connolly, the former FBI agent who worked in cahoots with legendary Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, is now a convicted murderer. A jury in Miami convicted Connolly of second-degree murder for his role in the 1982 killing of World Jai-Alai president and would-be snitch John Callahan. Hit man John Martoarano, who fired the shot that killed Callahan, had testified that it was Connolly's tip that sent him on his fatal mission. [Herald] -- Cops......

-- Munir Alani, a 26-year-old Syrian national, was denied bail in his federal trial on charges that he tried to bring guns with him on a trip from Boston to Lebanon. Authorities claim that he had 11 guns in his luggage and that he intended to sell them in Syria. [Herald] -- A zealous smoker was arrested yesterday afternoon in an East Boston restaurant after she allegedly threatened to cut throats if she could not......

-- Keldrin Pena, a 20-year-old Jamaica Plain man, was shot to death Sunday morning while riding through Roxbury in the front passenger seat of a car. His companions, the driver and a second passenger, roll with the dreaded epithet "known to police," which might mean that the killing was gang-related. Boston police have suggested no motives, however, and no arrests have been made. [Globe; BPDNews] -- Albert Arroyo, the Boston firefighter who was dismissed from......

-- Police have identified the man who was shot dead outside of his home on Rossmore Road in Jamaica Plain Saturday afternoon. Garibaldis Pena, 27, of Jamaica Plain, was pronounced dead at Boston Medical Center. Neighbors reported hearing three gunshots, which disrupted a lazy Saturday afternoon in the Forest Hills neighborhood. No motive has been advanced, and police have arrested no suspects. [Globe, BPDNews] -- In Roxbury, Boston police arrested a 15-year-old after he allegedly......

Former WRKO radio host Reese Hopkins, who lost his job just last week, now faces child rape charges. The alleged rape happened four years ago, when the victim was 12 years old. [Herald] In other former news, former sportscaster Bob Gamere has been arrested on charges of child pornography. Gamere worked for channels 7 and 56 years ago and hosted "Candlepins for Cash." He now has an electronic monitoring bracelet and must avoid the......

Today the Herald wrote about Taser use in Massachusetts, citing some scary statistics. According to the Herald, taser use in Massachusetts quadrupled from 2006 to 2007, when the weapons were used 200 times. Amnesty International reports that 320 people have died after being hit with Tasers since 2001, and also says the weapons are now being used to "get compliance" rather than avoid lethal force. Our Ist friends have covered traumatic Taser incidents in the......

-- Bus route 23, which runs from Ashmont in Dorchester to Ruggles in Roxbury, is no stranger to violence. Still, when Steven Phillips, a 32-year-old from Dorchester, allegedly stabbed two girls to whom he had allegedly and previously exposed himself, it might have set a new low. The latest on the case: The Suffolk County DA reports that Phillips is undergoing 20 days of psychiatric evaluation. [Globe] -- A 19-year-old man from Roxbury was charged......

The City of Boston has entered a hiring freeze. Reacting to Governor Deval Patrick's announced $1 billion cut in state spending, Mayor Menino has freezed hiring and has urged a citywide spending audit. (WBZTV) Meanwhile, Boston police have thrown up a wall of platitudes against the dire budgetary news.......

-- A pair of young louts in tight, black jeans were arrested on Medford St. in Somerville Friday morning, after a drunken car break-in, police say. The alleged booty: a $300 iPod, Arcade Fire and ironic 90s dance music presumably included. [Somerville Journal] -- A 43-year-old Somerville man was beaten to a pulp by gang members when he refused to sell drugs for them. Three of the four suspects, reputed members of the Mara 18......

-- Benjamin L. Makinen stabbed a stranger to death yesterday in Worcester, according to police. The 23-year-old Worcester man, whom his attorneys claim suffers from mental illness, walked into a triple decker, knocked on a second floor door and allegedly stabbed Shelleigh Wilcox to death before calling 911 to turn himself in. [Worcester Telegram Gazette] -- The Herald is leading the charge to capture Massachusetts's most wanted sex offenders. [Herald] -- Woburn, already the by-word......

A Boston College psychologist says McCain is blinking too much to win. [MetroWest Daily News] Gloucester High is hoping students will make a pact to use birth control. [Boston Globe] Boston firefighters don't want to accept drug testing, and they don't want anyone decide on it. [Boston Herald] A man who was exonerated after 19 years in prison may be deported before he can sue the Boston Police Dept. [Boston Globe] Whoever stole a......

-- Two men were found shot last night in Dorchester, one fatally. The dead man was found slumped over a steering wheel; the other victim was found outside the car, with a gunshot wound to the head that sent him to Boston Medical Center, where he remains in critical condition. Both victims were in their 40s. [BPDNews, Globe] -- In an unrelated incident, police found two men, also in their 40s, suffering from multiple gunshot......

-- Underage drinking and marijuana consumption occurred at college parties. You don't say. [BPDNews] -- And high school students bought a lot of liquor. [WCVB] -- A Lowell pizza joint became a "slaughterhouse" when a man was beaten to death there over the weekend. A suspect has been arrested. [Herald, WBZTV] -- Pervs are on the run. Arrests for subway sexual assault have doubled compared to the same time last year since the transit police......

-- Graffiti artist Danielle Bremner, allegedly known by the nom de tag "Idaho" was arrested on outstanding charges that she vandalized property in the Back Bay. Bremner, whose rap sheet is international, faces 33 counts of vandalism. Her bail was set at $10,000. [Herald] -- Michael Joseph Brown, a 34-year-old from Limerick, Ireland, faces charges of open and gross lewdness after allegedly revealing his wee Blarney Stone to passersby at the Symphony MBTA station. When......

-- Christian Morgenson, a 61-year-old man, shot and killed his wife Sunday night before calling the police and killing himself, according to authorities. In a chilling twist, Morgenson posted a notice of the couple's deaths on his website prior to carrying out the apparent murder-suicide. [Globe] -- A man was arrested outside of the Jackson Square T station in Jamaica Plain Sunday night after he allegedly pulled a knife on a passerby and tried to......

-- A 23-year-old man was shot in broad daylight yesterday on Mystic Ave. in Somerville. He suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and no arrests have been made. [Somerville Journal] -- John Hinds, a 66-year-old Cambridge man who was convicted in 2000 of killing two relatives, lost again at trial. His previous conviction had been overturned by the Supreme Judicial Court. [Globe] -- A man was held up delivering Chinese food last night in Jamaica Plain. The assailant's......

-- Boston police arrested a 30-year-old Dorchester man yesterday for the afternoon shooting of a man in the South End. The victim suffered life-threatening injuries. [BPDNews] -- A New Hampshire man was beaten to a bloody pulp by alleged friends in Somerville, authorities say. [Somerville Journal] -- A pair of teenage robbers pulled off a nighttime robbery at a gas station using a stun gun, according to police. One teen, a 19-year-old from Somerville, has......

-- A naked man was arrested on two counts of breaking and entering and two counts of indecent exposure after two alleged South End break-ins Saturday morning. According to police, "when asked if it was his birthday, the suspect stated, 'No.'" [BPDNews] -- A kidnapping in Dorchester was reported early Monday morning and quickly solved with the help of K-9 units, according to authorities. [BPDNews] -- A Dorchester man was linked to the 2006 murder......

-- A 25-year-old man man was shot dead yesterday afternoon on King St. in Dorchester, the victim of multiple gunshot wounds, according to Boston police. The victim has not been identified and no arrests have been made. [BPDNews] -- Whitey Bulger's hit man says he would have popped Whitey, had he known that the mob boss was also an FBI informant. John Martorano, who has been convicted of 20 gangland killings, gave candid testimony yesterday......

-- Early this morning, a woman was sexually assaulted in Egleston Square, Jamaica Plain by a man she said was a police officer, who might have been the same man police later nabbed in Roxbury, dressed like police and attempting to assault a second victim. [BPDNews] -- A Boston firefighter was arrested last night after allegedly assaulting a 62-year-old man inside Hyde Park's Polish American Club. The victim suffered a heart attack after the alleged......

-- A 17-year-old boy was shot dead last night on Parker St. in Jamaica Plain. The shooting happened around 9:13 p.m. and was detected by police in the area, who spotted a man fleeing the scene. Minutes later, on Notre Dame St. in Roxbury, police arrested a 19-year-old Dorchester man, whom they suspect as being the fugitive. The man was charged on marijuana possession and guns charges but does not yet face charges in connection......

-- This morning, a 17-year-old was shot outside of the Ashmont MBTA station in Dorchester, which capped a series of three shootings in which five were injured. Police say that this shooting, and the others, was not random. [BPDNews] -- The second shooting happened last night in Mattapan when a 19-year-old was shot in the chest while riding his bike. Relatives say that the victim, identified as Chris Pounds, had been on a mission to......

-- Charles Cherry, the 66-year-old Roxbury man who was arrested in connection with Friday's murder of a 56-year-old neighbor is a disabled man who suffers from a neurological disorder that keeps him from walking unaided. Police, who originally believed that he had stabbed Elvia McField to death, now say that he shot her with a high-powered rifle after a dispute in his apartment over money. Cherry pleaded not guilty to the charge. [Herald] -- The......

-- Elvia McField, 56, was found stabbed to death in her home on Amory St., near the boundary between Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. Police arrested 66-year-old Charles Cherry and charged him with the murder. [WCVB; BPDNews] -- A 25-year-old woman was raped at gunpoint at the Back Bay Orange Line station yesterday evening, and police have arrested a 48-year-old parolee for committing the crime. The woman was approached by her assailant while on the subway......

-- Early Sunday morning, police arrested a man in connection with a quadruple stabbing in the North End. The four teenage victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries. [BPDNews] -- A day earlier, on Saturday morning, an unrelated quadruple stabbing sent a quartet of East Boston teens to the hospital, two with life-threatening injuries. Police say that the victims were sitting on a stoop at 85 Trenton St. when they got into a shouting match with a group......