Man shot in back in critical condition

BOSTON

A 19-year-old man was found shot in the back about 1:30 a.m. yesterday on Brunswick Street in Roxbury, police said. The man was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he was in serious condition. Police said a security guard traded shots with a suspect who then fled the scene. No arrests have been made. Police are still investigating, said Officer Sharon Dottin, police spokeswoman.

The Bay State's Senate president, Therese Murray, is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. The endorsement was announced Friday by the Clinton campaign, which said the senator from New York has also been endorsed by a variety of other state and local officials. "I'm honored to have President Murray's support," Clinton said in a statement. "She has broken new ground in Massachusetts and has been instrumental in helping pass healthcare coverage for all Bay Staters."

RYE, N.H.

The car and home of a union boss in Rye were fired upon in a drive-by shooting Friday, police said. Several residents of Sagamore Road reported hearing the shots at about 4:30 a.m. Police said bullets shattered the glass of the back windows of a car and made a hole in the siding of the house of William Roach, a harbormaster in Portsmouth and president of the International Longshoremen's Association. Police said they have no suspects but were following several leads. (AP)

CONCORD, N.H.

The state is about to begin a series of hearings on recommendations to update and scale down its 10-Year Highway Improvement Plan. The purpose of the 33 hearings is to hear what the public has to say about the Transportation Department's proposal to cut projects all over the state. Transportation Commissioner Charles O'Leary said the state has made too many promises and does not have the money to complete the projects currently listed in the plan. (AP)

VERNON, Vt.

A tentative agreement was reached late Friday in a contract dispute involving the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and about 157 workers, averting -- for now -- the possibility of a strike, a plant spokesman said. Negotiators for the plant's owners and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers agreed to terms, and the union's rank-and-file workers will vote tomorrow, according to plant spokesman Larry Smith. Jim Farrell, a spokesman for Utility Workers Union of America Local 369 in Braintree, Mass., which had planned to gather with Vermont Yankee's union workers in a strategy session yesterday, said the session was called off because an agreement had been reached. George Clain, the union's business manager, could not immediately be reached for comment. (AP)

PORTLAND, Maine

A move to lower costs is prompting Citigroup Inc. to close two offices in Portland, resulting in a loss of 260 jobs. Those jobs will be moved elsewhere by next July. A spokeswoman for the financial services company, Nina Das, said the move does not reflect on the Portland workers' performance. The closures have to do with an overall move toward efficiency, Das said. The spokeswoman added that those employees have been offered jobs at Citigroup offices in other states. (AP)

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine

Even though President Bush wasn't in town, hundreds of antiwar protesters, including Cindy Sheehan, marched by the Bush family compound yesterday. "This is really energizing to be with people who want this war to end," Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, told the cheering crowd. "We can't put our signs away and sit on our couches. We have to press Congress to end this war." Activists from a number of states gathered at a school to begin a 2-mile march to the Bush summer home at Walker's Point. Police gave no official crowd count. (AP)

NEW BRITAIN, Conn.

Human bones discovered behind a shopping plaza last week were from two women and had been there for up to 10 years, according to police. Investigators had not determined the women's identities or causes of death as of Friday, but said the bodies had been behind the Hartford Road shopping plaza for more than four years. A man walking through the area discovered the bones Monday, prompting investigators to search the area and plan additional excavation of the wooded, steep terrain. (AP)