-- Scott Pereira, 30, of Dennis was arraigned today on charges that he kidnapped a 15-year-old girl from her home and raped her. Police say that Pereira entered the victim's room after midnight May 11th, as she slept, and abducted her by knifepoint. He faces charges of rape of a child with force, indecent assault, and armed burglary. [Globe] -- The Herald reports that Christopher McCowen, the convicted murderer of fashion writer Christa Worthington, was......

--People marched yesterday in memory of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Steven Odom, a 13-year-old who was shot and killed in random gunfire. [Boston Globe] --Michael P. Lewis, former head of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, was fired. He didn't retire. Yet he gets a pension of $72,578 a year. And people wonder why this state is broke? [Boston Globe] --Christopher McCowen, the man convicted for killing fashion writer Christa Worthington in Truro, will not......

--A truck making an illegal left turn near the BU East Green Line Stop hit a Green Line train yesterday morning. One Green Line passenger went to the hospital, and the truck driver has a date with the courts. [Boston Globe] --Speaking of bad drivers, some people never learn. [Boston Globe] --Laura Crimaldi into how the mortgage mess has hit the city, particularly Dorchester, where 33 percent of the city's foreclosures happened. [Boston Herald]......

--What is the mystery object pictured above? It was spotted off Willow Avenue in Somerville early Friday, and Big Fat Whale was there to capture the thing in motion. [Big Fat Whale] --Tensions among racial groups in the Fire Department and tensions between the firefighters' union and the panel that is supposed to overhaul the department have collided. After the firefighters' union demanded that its members resign from the panel, a black firefighter refused......