Man shot, critically hurt in Roxbury

A man suffered life-threatening injuries when he was shot yesterday evening in Roxbury, Boston police said. The shooting occurred around 6 p.m. at Lattimore Court, said Officer James Kenneally, a police spokesman. Police said the man, whom they did not identify, is in his 40s and was transported to Boston Medical Center. No further information was available; police were still at the scene investigating. Early in the evening, police blocked off and searched a parking lot at a public housing development.

A 16-year-old female was charged yesterday with stabbing a woman outside a party early Sunday morning in Jamaica Plain, Boston police said. The Roxbury teenager turned herself in to police just before 7 p.m., and was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, said Officer James Kenneally, a police spokesman. The suspect was expected to be arraigned in West Roxbury District Court today, Kenneally said. Police believe she stabbed an 18-year-old Roslindale woman eight times in the face and upper torso outside a party on Gay Head Street in Jamaica Plain at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. The victim, who was taken to Boston Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, was in stable condition Sunday, but police did not have an update on her condition yesterday.

Senate President Therese Murray says a proposed $1 tax increase on a pack of cigarettes has strong support in the Senate. Murray says the extra revenue would help cover the higher than expected costs of Massachusetts' landmark healthcare law. House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi proposed the cigarette tax increase. Governor Deval Patrick said he wants to see the bill before deciding whether to sign it. The cost of the healthcare law is soaring in part because more people than expected have signed up for subsidized care. Republicans are planning a news conference today to oppose tax increases, including the cigarette tax increase. Murray, DiMasi, and Patrick are all Democrats. (AP)

A Cambridge teenager was killed Sunday night when the driver of the car she was riding in ran a stop sign at an Ohio intersection, Ohio State Police said. Maria Toledano, 19, was riding in a 2003 Toyota Corrola when the driver, Marcus Eagan, 18, of Detroit failed to yield at a stop sign at about 8:30 p.m. in Knox County, according to State Police. After running the stop sign, the car was struck by another vehicle, police said. Toledano died at the scene and Eagan was hospitalized in critical condition, State Police said. The driver of the other car was uninjured. Toledano and Eagan were students at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, according to The Advocate of Newark, Ohio. No charges have been filed.

A Beverly police officer has been sentenced to three years of supervised probation for the death of a 61-year-old woman who was killed when he crashed his cruiser into her parked car. Stuart Merry also must surrender his driver's license for 15 years and pay a $1,000 fine. The 41-year-old patrolman was convicted last week in Peabody District Court of one count of motor vehicle homicide by negligence in the January 2007 death of Bonnie Burns. She was sitting in her car outside her apartment building when she was struck. The defense said he likely had a seizure, but prosecutors said he had no prior medical history. (AP)

The wife of a prominent Dartmouth College computer researcher has been charged with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a California church. Lean Granger, 45, was arrested 11 days ago in Hanover, where she lives with her husband, Richard Granger Jr. California authorities charged her with forgery and theft from a church in Newport Beach, Calif., where she was the bookkeeper and office manager before the couple moved east. Newport Beach police spokesman Evan Sailor said yesterday that the church discovered after she left that roughly $300,000 was missing. Lean Granger is listed as Cheryl Lean Granger in court records in California, where she was returned during the weekend. Richard Granger, a former professor at the University of California, Irving, came to Dartmouth in 2006 as the first director of the Neukom Institute of Computational Science at the Ivy League school and a professor of psychological and brain sciences. (AP)