--Police have arrested a teenager who was only 14 years old when he killed 41-year-old Michael Hansbury on Monson Street in June of this year. The DA's Office writes, "Officers spoke with witnesses who stated that they observed an individual step up to the victim and assault him. Witnesses further stated the victim subsequently fell to the ground, hitting his head on the sidewalk." Hansbury died of the head injury. When the incident happened, the......

A few weeks ago, a sex scandal in Arlington boiled over. Stavroula Bouris, the principal of Ottoson Middle School, and teacher Chuck Coughlin had been exchanging sexy e-mails. An anonymous individual gained access to those e-mails and turned them into Arlington school superintendent Nate Levenson. Levenson had tried to fire Bouris before - and now, two weeks before school starts in Arlington, he's done it. Bouris and Coughlin, who had already been fired, hired a......

Grace Metalious would be proud. Arlington always seemed kind of quiet and calm, but there's something bubbling under the surface. But principal Stavroula Bouris and teacher Chuck Coughlin at Ottoson Middle School are accused of turning the school into a hotbed of moral turpitude with their steamy e-mails. The Globe reports that the principal and teacher exchanged "sexually inappropriate e-mails" while at work. The Arlington Advocate reported that one of the e-mails from Coughlin to......

UPDATE: The Orange Line is running again according to an MBTA rep. We're running the blotter early because Ruggles is shut down following a shooting on a train. WBZ reports that a 19-year-old went to Boston Medical Center. WCVB had more – the man was hit in the leg, it happened on the last car, and two black men ran off after the shooting. MBTA says the following on its site: Substitute bus service will......

Something funny happened on the way to yesterday's anticpated Red Sox slaughter of the Yankees. Funny-odd, that it, not funny-ha-ha. Two batters into the game, Yankees starter Jeff Karstens left the game injured after being whacked with a Julio Lugo line drive. Eight innings of the Yankee bullpen? Final score's gonna be 24-1, right? Um, no. Kei Igawa, who was slated to be sent down to Scranton, if not Coney Island, came on in relief......

--A man blew up himself and his estranged girlfriend in an elevator in Lynn. It was a terrible, senseless act. The woman took out a restraining order, but then she had it lifted. But, given this guy's extreme behavior, who knows if it would have made a difference? The AP reports through the Daily Item: "Court records showed a restraining order had been issued against Echevairria [the alleged attacker] on Jan. 8 after his girlfriend,......

The MBTA takes its share of slings and arrows, but at least one employee is a bona fide hero. At Davis Square on Monday night, MBTA officer Danny Vieira stopped a suicidal man from touching the third rail and pulled him out of the way of an oncoming train. BadTransit describes Vieira's heroism best: "It’s our view that the majority of folks who work for this agency are sincere, hard working, and caring people. By......

It’s not Santa Claus, but Snoop Dogg, that will be comin’ to town this week to stop the spread of violence that has recently been plaguing the city of Boston, which has reached a 10-year high for murder rates. Okay, it’s actually Snoop-aloop’s mom, Beverly Broadus Green, an evangelist minister, who will be speaking at the independently run Dorchester Epiphany Middle School tomorrow. She’s helping to kick off a national campaign to combat violence and......

When Bostonist thinks about Somerville (as we so often do), the first two-word phrase that comes to mind is "hip hop." OK, not really. We know of plenty of MCs from Boston and environs, but none from the Cambridge of Medford. Nevertheless, Union Square will play host this Saturday to the Hip Hop History Jam, sponsored by the Library of Vinyl Experience and the Somerville Arts Council as part of its ArtsUnion project. From......