A seven-year veteran and member of the department’s Special Response Team will be on pretrial probation for a year and undergo evaluations.

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.

A plea has been entered by a man involved in three Cambridge and Somerville gunfire incidents, and sentencing of 8.5 years imposed by a judge.

The rapist tracked down in March after eluding police for more than 20 years has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to 10 to 12 years in state prison.

Roderick “Kito” Jackson, a lifelong Cantabrigian who died in a Dec. 6 deadly crash in Waltham, will live on through a memorial scholarship, his family announced at a Friday press conference, while a lawsuit seeks to guard against similar deaths in the future.

An attorney has asked a Cambridge District Court judge to impose sanctions on an assistant district attorney and on an unidentified state trooper.

Public meetings this week look at climate action, equity for low-income families and the potential local effect of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling about abortion rights, more housing on Broadway and more.

The fatal shooting of Arif Sayed Faisal on Jan. 4 was justified and does not constitute a criminal act, according to the results of a judge’s inquest released Thursday.

A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from drunken Shakespeare to stoned comedians, foraging walks to “Fungi and the Coming Pandemic,” Horror Movie Science and an artist-magician at the The MIT Museum.

Consultants told Cambridge police that the public should know preliminary information about officers involved in violence within 24 to 36 hours, as well as a time frame for the release of further information – and possibly officer names within days.