Two men were found with gunshot wounds in Roxbury yesterday, Boston police said. Police found the victims at 41 Walnut Park at about 3:50 a.m. A 41-year-old man was taken to Boston Medical Center with life-threatening wounds, while a 17-year-old male was taken to the hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, authorities said. Police said the shootings could have been connected to a large party that took place nearby.

Two Acton-Boxborough Regional High School students won the regionals for the Siemens Foundation competition in math, science, and technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday. Christine Lai and Diyang Tang, both seniors, were judged by doctors and professors and awarded $6,000 in scholarships. The two researched the protein Rabex-5 and its ability to help regulate endocytosis, a process that enables cells to internalize materials. The team was one of five finalists in the regionals, and will move on the national competition at New York University Dec. 6-8, where they will vie for a $100,000 scholarship, said Lauren Espin of the Siemens Foundation. This competition, aimed at supporting science, technology, math, and engineering education in the United States, is in its ninth year and attracted about 1,200 submissions, Espin said.

Police in Brazil broke down a door Friday and rescued two Dover, N.H., girls who had allegedly been kidnapped by their father. The girls had been missing since Aug. 25, after a visit with their father, Cloves Depianti. The girls were reunited with their mother, Roberta Lima, who had flown to Brazil to get them back. She has legal custody of the 7- and 8-year-old girls. (AP)

The University of New Hampshire has disbanded one of its oldest student organizations for bad behavior. The school says Freshman Camp, a student-run organization that welcomes incoming freshmen before classes start, was disbanded for "disorderly, lewd, and indecent conduct." UNH hasn't divulged what went on during the session in August, but said that in addition to the bad behavior, the group failed to consider student development, citizenship, and safety. Freshman Camp already was on probation from a 2004 incident in which some counselors invited incoming freshmen to an off-campus party where alcohol was served. (AP)

The wife of a New Hampshire scientist killed in Connecticut four years ago is "heartsick" that authorities dropped charges against the two suspects. Authorities in Connecticut dropped charges against the men charged with killing Eugene Mallove in 2004, saying there was not enough evidence. Mallove was discovered beaten to death on the lawn of his Norwich, Conn., home. Mallove lived in Pembroke, N.H., but he had returned to clean the house, which was being used as a rental property. Mallove's widow, Joanne, told the Concord Monitor her family is heartsick over the news. She said police had assured her they had the killers, and now the family wonders if it wasn't Gary McAvoy and Joseph Reilly, who could it have been? Police in Norwich say the investigation is continuing, but would not give specifics. (AP)

Officials with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington say they're unsure of the motive behind burglaries at two Franklin County churches and one in Graniteville in the past several months. On Monday night, someone broke into All Saints Church in Richford and tried to steal the tabernacle, where the Eucharist is kept. The next night the same thing happened at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in East Berkshire. The Rev. Karl Hahr of the Richford church said nothing was taken from either church. In July a tabernacle was stolen from a Graniteville church and about $8,000 in damage done. On Wednesday, Gethsemane Episcopal Church in Cavendish was burglarized. (AP)