Peter Simon, 54, of Woodsville, New Hampshire, was indicted on two counts of second-degree murder and other charges in connection with fatally striking Jackson, a 36-year-old National Grid employee, and Waltham police officer Paul Tracey, 58.
An Appeals Court decision came the same day Cambridge’s City Council asked the city to include money in the next city budget for legal representation for any lower-income tenant threatened with eviction in Housing Court.
Any lower-income Cambridge tenant who wants legal help fighting an eviction should get it for free, and money should be allocated in the next municipal budget to make that happen, city councillors told the city manager Monday.
Middlesex Superior Court Judge Maureen B. Hogan ruled for the City of Cambridge and dismissed a second lawsuit against the city that had argued bicycle lanes were an improper use of taxpayer funds and broke the law.
A dispute sparked by a noncompete agreement among landlords of businesses along a popular block of Massachusetts Avenue, including the Plough & Stars bar and restaurant and the Mass Ave Diner, has ended up in court after two lost sales.
A judge has dismissed a domestic violence charge against the Boston man who was injured in a Thanksgiving Day shooting in Central Square that killed 27-year-old Danasia Greene of Cambridge. He faces more charges.
Given the topic, attention being given to a case of brothels and sex work isn’t surprising. But the timing and selection of details released by prosecutors have led to a blurring of some aspects – aided by Boston media – that may play differently to a judge or jury.
Materials from an inquest into the death of Arif Sayed Faisal show a young man feeling “anxious, tense and scared” and worrying family, friends and strangers, and whose behavior at the end of his life unsettled and disturbed police and EMTs.