By Martine Powers, Globe Staff

A junior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was found dead in his dorm room Monday, the university said in a statement. Brian G. Anderson, 21, was discovered by campus police in his room in the Next House dormitory at 500 Memorial Drive around noon Monday. A cause of death has not yet been determined, but Chancellor Eric Grimson said officials do not believe it was suicide, which claimed the lives of two other undergraduates earlier this school year. “Questions will naturally arise about the circumstances of this death … I encourage everyone to refrain from speculation,” Grimson said in a statement. “At this early stage, there is no strong indication that Brian’s death was the result of suicide.”

By Alli Knothe, Globe Correspondent

A bouncer at the Sportsway Café in Norton was arraigned today in Attleboro District Court on charges that he raped a Wheaton College student while he was working at the bar early this month, Norton police said. A Wheaton student called police Feb. 10 to report that she was sexually assaulted by an employee while at the bar with friends about a week earlier, police said. Following an investigation, Norton police detectives charged Paul Panaikas, 38, of Taunton with rape and indecent assault and battery of a person over the age of 14.

By Maria Cramer and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

The testimony of a key prosecution witness today in a 2010 quadruple slaying in Mattapan was interrupted when a spectator in the courtroom hissed that he was a “rat” and a “snitch.” The man struggled as court officers removed him from the tense, crowded room and then yelled with an expletive that Kimani Washington, 36, was a “rat bastard.” Washington, a career criminal, is under cross-examination today in Suffolk Superior Court. He is testifying in the trial of two other men charged with the slayings, his cousin, Edward Washington, and Dwayne Moore, 32.

By Peter Schworm and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

Amy Bishop was “very calm” when she was brought to the Braintree police station after she fatally shot her brother, Seth, in 1986, a retired deputy police chief testified in a 2010 inquest. James R. Sullivan said he had already written down “murder” and other charges on a booking sheet when Bishop was brought in, according to transcripts of his testimony in the inquest. He said he began to interview Bishop, but her mother arrived and intervened. Bishop was never booked on the charges and just 20 minutes later, she was released, according to other inquest witnesses. The death would later be officially ruled an accident, a finding that would stand for the next 24 years.

By Alli Knothe and Martin Finucane, Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff

There’s still no hope for those backyard skating rinks. It will be unusually warm again in Southern New England, with temperatures rising about 10 degrees above normal to the upper 40s to the low 50s today, forecasters said. The National Weather Service says a round of showers will arrive tonight, followed by a period of clearing Thursday. “Thursday’s another delightful day with highs in the mid-50s,” said weather service meteorologist Alan Dunham.

By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff

Boston College is now fighting a federal judge’s order that it hand over some of the transcripts from The Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, to British law enforcement investigating the 1972 disappearance of a suspected British informant.

By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff

Milton Deputy Police Chief Charles Paris said at the scene that the victim, whose age he did not know, was shot in the leg in the area of 143 Blue Hill Ave. at about 11 p.m. She was taken to a local hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening, Paris said. Police were interviewing a person with a firearm who had been seen fleeing the scene.

By Travis Andersen and Peter Schworm, Globe Staff

Court documents released yesterday provide a first-hand account of how the parents of Amy Bishop defended their daughter during testimony in a closed-door inquest two years ago, insisting it was an accident when the murder suspect fatally shot her brother in the family’s Braintree home in 1986. Amy Bishop, then 21, had been traumatized the year before by a burglary in the house, her father testified, and he maintained her fear contributed to events that day.

By Brian MacQuarrie, Globe Staff

In the end, the giant claw of an oversize backhoe needed only hours to do what 18 years of litigation, hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, and a bottomless well of angst and acrimony had been unable to accomplish before today. Beginning about 7:15 a.m., by court order, Wayne Johnson’s 5,000-square-foot, million-dollar house overlooking Marblehead Harbor finally came tumbling down. Johnson, a financial adviser in his 70s, is moving to a rental apartment in Salem.

By Matt Rocheleau, Globe Correspondent

Between 300 and 400 Bridgewater State University students, along with faculty and administrators, marched through campus today in support of free speech and in solidarity with a student journalist who said she was assaulted over a column she wrote in support of same-sex marriage. The rally, organized through social media, was peaceful and civil, said campus spokesman Bryan Baldwin.

By Maria Cramer, Globe Staff

A man who admits playing a role in the Mattapan massacre in 2010 but has cut a deal with prosecutors has begun testifying in Suffolk Superior Court today where two men are on trial for allegedly murdering four people, including a two-year-old boy. Kimani Washington is the star witness in the first-degree murder trial of Edward Washington and Dwayne Moore, who are each charged with four counts of murder.

By Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff

A standout Boston University hockey player was released on $10,000 cash bail this afternoon, several hours after pleading not-guilty to two counts of rape on the Riverside campus. Max Nicastro, 21, a junior from Thousand Oaks, Calif., is no longer enrolled at the university, a school spokesman said today.

By Colin A. Young, Globe Correspondent

A Lowell man suspected in several break-ins at the Museum of Science parking garage was arrested – and briefly hospitalized – after leading State Police troopers on a chase and then suffering from symptoms of an apparent drug overdose. Ryan T. Parrott, 24, will be charged with disorderly conduct and charges stemming from two outstanding warrants, State Police said. The parking garage break-ins remain under investigation.

By Alli Knothe, Globe Correspondent

Two people were shot on Norton Street in Dorchester this morning, and one suffered life-threatening injuries, police said today. Both victims were taken to Boston Medical Center. No arrests have been made, according to the Boston police department, and no further information was immediately available.

By Colin A. Young, Globe Correspondent

Firefighters are battling a four-alarm blaze at 135 East Main St. in Westborough. A fire department dispatcher said the fire was initially reported shortly before 11 a.m. According to the State Fire Marshal’s office, an investigator was dispatched to the scene. Three people -- two firefighters and one civilian -- were transported to a local hospital to be treated for injuries, the Westborough Fire Department said.

By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff

The state’s highest court ruled today that teenagers who host underage drinking parties but don’t supply the alcohol can’t be held liable in a civil lawsuit if a partygoer is injured. The decision stems from a lawsuit filed by the family of Rachel Juliano, who was left permanently brain damaged when the car being driven by her then-boyfriend crashed in 2007. The boyfriend, court records show, had attended a party at the home of a 19-year-old. But that teen did not supply alcohol to the driver.

By Alli Knothe, Globe Correspondent

Though it’s been a warm winter, tomorrow temperatures in Boston could come close to 60 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Today will be mostly sunny with some clouds moving in this afternoon. Highs will be in the mid- to upper 40s across the state.

By Globe Staff

A 70-year-old woman was stabbed to death inside a Dorchester home early today and Boston police said a young child was home at the time of brutal attack. Police said they have arrested 28-year-old Tu Nguyen of Dorchester. He is scheduled to be arraigned in Dorchester Municipal Court today. A motive for the attack was not immediately clear. Police said they were called to 45 Codman Hill Ave. to investigate a break-in at 1:43 a.m.

By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff

The young woman who was shot on Sunday night in Mattapan succumbed to her injuries today, making her the second person to die from gunfire in the city over the holiday weekend, police said. Keisha Gilmore, 25, of Boston, was shot at about 9 p.m. Sunday on Alabama Street in Mattapan as she sat in an older-model Cadillac sedan, according to Boston police. Her relatives could not immediately be reached for comment last night.

By Alli Knothe, Globe Correspondent

A 13-year-old boy and five firefighters were sent to the hospital this morning after suffering injuries in a large fire at a Dorchester house, said Steve MacDonald, Boston Fire spokesman. The fire began on the second floor porch of the Harvard Avenue home at about 5:45 a.m. and spread to the third floor. MacDonald said that when the porches of the building collapsed, the debris struck a nearby minivan, which also ignited.