Arlington police have arrested a homeless man on charges he assaulted a town officer during an altercation in Mugar Woods, just outside Cambridge. Police said the has outstanding warrants out of Cambridge District Court.

The hyper complicated Alexandria Real Estate Equities zoning petition that passed in 2020 brought together recreational land the city has wanted for three decades and made room for an entire Eversource electrical substation. But one player says it was left out, and is suing.

Isaias Plaza, 20, of Boston, a longtime suspect in the 2018 death of Richelle Robinson, pleaded guilty last week to manslaughter in connection with that death.

A judge has sided with a developer that claimed Cambridge wanted to charge almost three times what was owed under the city’s incentive payment ordinance. The city is appealing the decision, which might set a precedent that could affect payments from developers of commercial properties.

The loss Cambridge had in court last week, which means paying $3.7 million for the Vail Court land-taking near Central Square even as the payee sues to get the property back, is part of a pattern for our Law Department.

The 0.65-acre property at 139 Bishop Allen Drive was taken in September 2016 by eminent domain after a decade of inaction on the vacant property. But the affordable, senior or transitional housing the city wants to build as a replacement continues to be slowed in court.

A man convicted of a string of home burglaries in Cambridge and Brookline in 2012 should get a second chance to suppress results of a search stemming from police entering his apartment unlawfully, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday.

A head start for minority-owned sellers of recreational marijuana will no longer be fought in court by the Revolutionary Clinics medical marijuana dispensary, according to a Thursday press release from the company.

We said it nearly three years ago: The City Council needs its own legal representation. Really, not much has changed since then. Maybe just that on Monday the council saw as much as $68 million for affordable housing slip away.

Any resident could reasonably wonder why the council is being asked to set aside nearly a half-million dollars in additional funds for a 13-person law department already budgeted for around $3 million. The city’s bad judgment means some of the money is going to frivolous purposes.