Man held in roommate's fatal stabbing

Police arrested a Jamaica Plain man last night in connection with the fatal stabbing of his roommate. When police arrived at the Gartland Street apartment building at 6:53 p.m. yesterday, they found the male victim who had been stabbed multiple times and was suffering life-threatening injuries, police said in a press release. The victim was taken by ambulance to Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The victim's roommate was arrested at the scene and will be "charged appropriately," police said. The Boston Police Homicide Unit will continue to investigate the crime.

The Utility Workers Union of America Local 369 will vote on a possible strike authorization against the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, owned by Entergy, on Wednesday. The workers' contract expires on Thursday, and leaders of the union, representing approximately 300 members, are negotiating for better wages, healthcare, and safety conditions. David Leonardi, a senior operation instructor at Pilgrim and vice president of the union, said that, if a vote for the strike is approved, action could begin as early as midnight Thursday. "Any labor action would not be a winning situation for any party," said David Tarantino, spokesman for Pilgrim.

The body of a Whitman man was pulled out of a pond yesterday morning, ending a search that started Saturday night. The body of Sean Condon, 42, was pulled from Hobart's Pond in Whitman at 10:05 a.m. yesterday, according to Whitman police. Condon was last seen swimming in the middle of the pond by a Park Avenue resident. After the resident telephoned for help and went back outside, Condon was not visible in the pond. Police and the Whitman Fire Department responded to the call around 7 p.m. and searched the perimeter of the pond. They suspended the search at midight and resumed it at 8 a.m. yesterday. The search was assisted by the Plymouth County Technical Rescue Dive Team and the State Police Air Wing. Whitman and State Police are investigating the death.

More than 500 people became US citizens this weekend during the largest naturalization ceremony ever held in New Hampshire. The state has seen a sharp rise in the number of new citizens, from 971 in fiscal year 2005 to about 3,500 in 2007. The latest group, which combined applicants from Massachusetts and New Hampshire, took the oath of allegiance Saturday at the New Hampshire National Guard Armory. The Dominican Republic delivered more than half of the ceremony's 504 new citizens. Specialists say immigrants from that country typically settle first in New York or Boston then move farther north for affordable housing and safety. (AP)

News that a convicted child killer moved into the city has prompted the mayor to create a committee to study tightening restrictions on where sex offenders can live. Douglas Simmons lived briefly in Derry in January, but moved back to Connecticut after the community rallied against him. Last week, he moved to Manchester and registered as a child offender. Mayor Frank Guinta says he thinks the city should take another look at preventing sex offenders from living near schools, parks, or other places where children gather. Simmons served 22 years in prison for killing a 6-year-old girl in Norwich, Conn. Authorities said he also admitted molesting the girl, but was not charged with that crime. (AP)

Eight years after botched surgery left a Manchester man dead, both the patient's widow and the surgeon involved are speaking out against the New Hampshire Board of Medicine. Dr. John Wolf, a plastic surgeon, died in May 2000 after undergoing gallbladder surgery performed by Dr. Frank Warren. Linda Wolf says it took almost six years for her complaint against Warren to make its way through the board. Warren eventually settled a lawsuit filed by Wolf, as well as another suit over a teenage girl who died, and surrendered his license to practice medicine. Tomorrow, a legislative hearing will scrutinize the board, which was severely criticized in a recent audit outlining problems in the board's ethics, money management, openness, and processing of complaints. Among other things, the audit found the board did not investigate all complaints against doctors. (AP)