Greg Welch

Waves crashed onto a road this morning in Marshfield. Forecasters are warning of coastal flooding Sunday, too.

By Michael Corcoran, Globe Correspondent

Bostonians can expect damp and windy conditions starting tonight and into Monday morning as the region braces for a northeaster that is expected to hit the east coast of Massachusetts early Sunday morning.

“We are expecting rain to spread over after midnight and expecting it to continue to throughout the day Sunday into early Monday," said Kim Buttrick, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service.

In addition, northeast winds are going to be increasing, because of the strengthening storm that is “going to spin off the South Jersey coast tonight and intensify into a nor’easter by early Sunday,” Buttrick said.

The storm will pass southeast of Nantucket Sunday night and slowly drift away, Buttrick said. “Sunday will be the brunt of it.”

Temperatures will be cool, with lows in the low-40s tonight and highs tomorrow in the mid-40s. On Monday, the temperature could rebound to about 50.

The weather service has also issued a coastal flood warning, for the east coast of Massachusetts in effect from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, according to the service’s website.

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The regatta is one part sporting event, one part spectacle.

By Emma Rose Johnson, Globe Correspondent

Thousands of athletes, their family members, and fans braved chilly temperatures today for an annual Boston rite of autumn, the Head of the Charles regatta.

Racers giving it their all

Myriad boats lined the parking lot off Soldiers Field Road in Boston near the staging area for the race, which is a colorful spectacle featuring crew teams gliding swiftly over the placid Charles River.

Bill and Lynn Heinz of Freeport, Maine have observed and participated in the regatta for years.

An amateur rower himself for the Maine Rowing Club, Bill said, "There's always someone we know racing."

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By Tracy Jan, Globe Staff

Harvard University's recent hiring of Boston Police Captain James Claiborne as a deputy chief -- the only African-American among the most senior staff in the school's 90-officer force -- may ease strained relations with segments of Harvard's black community who in the past have accused the predominantly white department of racial profiling.

Claiborne's appointment, along with that of Michael Giacoppo, a retired Cambridge officer, was the first step in a restructuring of the Harvard University Police Department meant to increase communication and develop mentoring opportunities for officers, according to university officials.

The changes come on the heels of a report, issued last spring by an independent committee headed by former Suffolk County District Attorney Ralph Martin, on how to improve the private police department's relationship with the diverse university community it patrols.

"The hiring of a black man to such a senior position will only help create an inherent realization in other individuals within the department that there's going to have to be more caution taken in their approach," said Ryan Williams, a Harvard senior and member of the Black Men's Forum who is concerned about police treatment of black students and faculty. "It's definitely a positive thing to have somebody who may bring a different perspective to the table, but don't think it's going to be utopia over night."

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The dove of peace made an appearance as demonstrators protested war in Afghanistan, Pakistan & Iraq.

By Jeannie Nuss, Globe Correspondent

Pink-wigged protesters and hundreds of others wielding posters calling for peace converged on Copley Square in an anti-war rally this afternoon.

The protesters in Boston -- sporting colorful and sometimes gruesome costumes -- were part of a nationwide protest against the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Sixty-eight-year-old Christina Abbey, drenched in hues of bubblegum, fuschia and rose from a curly wig to her sneakers, said the wars abroad have proven that conflict is not the solution.

Abbey said American support should go into "the lives of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, rather than going in with soldiers who are trained to kill."

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By Terri Schwartz, Globe Correspondent

A free flu shot clinic in Jamaica Plain offering both H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines was inundated today with about twice the expected number of patients.

Typically for such a free clinic, the Roslindale Pediatric Associates sees between 200 and 250 of its patients looking for the flu vaccine. Today, they saw 408.

"The state really should be running a vaccine administration program. On this kind of scale, we're not equipped to do it," said Dr. Elisabeth Keller, a pediatrician at the office.

The office went through almost their entire supply of vaccines during the course of the clinic, which ran 1 ½ hours beyond its allotted time. Parents and kids lined up two hours before the 9 a.m. clinic began.

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By Hannah McBride, Globe Correspondent

Only a handful of customers are still without electricity in the Medford Square area and their power will be restored this afternoon, a National Grid spokeswoman said.

Seven thousand customers had lost power Friday morning after an electrical fire erupted underground near the intersection of Main Street and Mystic Avenue.

All but 40 had their power restored as of noon today, said Debbie Drew, National Grid spokeswoman. The final group, who have been without power since 10:30 a.m. Friday, will have their electricity restored around 2 p.m.

The customers without power are on Main Street near the square. Drew said National Grid informed customers after the fire Friday they could be without power until sometime today.

Massachusetts, if one were to look at the state as a whole and look at how successful the lottery has been, you have a propensity among the residents to enjoy this form of entertainment.

-- Developer David H. Nunes

What is a particular concern is this is a short-term fix. It will be offset by long-term negative economic impacts to municipalities and to taxpayers.

-- Anti-casino activist Kathleen Conley Norbut

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Just planning a short ride? Consider walking instead.

By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

Ever find yourself standing on a downtown Boston subway platform wondering if you should just get out and walk? Maybe you should.

A number of the downtown stations are cheek-by-jowl to each other. Take Park Street and Downtown Crossing, on the Red Line. The Park Street kiosk and the Downtown Crossing station entrance are only about 600 feet apart down busy Winter Street. At about 240 paces, that's a walk of less than three minutes. And if you start from Park, it's downhill.

Or Park Street and Boylston on the Green Line. The Park Street kiosk is visible up Tremont Street steps away from the Boylston kiosk. They're 1,500 feet apart, a walk of less than six minutes. Pick a new song on your iPod and you're halfway there.

Even more reasons to walk?

-- You might be waiting on the station platform longer for that train than it would take you to walk.
-- If your destination is just short of the next station, the distance you'd walk is even shorter than you might think.
-- You want to get some exercise rather than simply shift your weight on the station platform.

A no-brainer? Perhaps. But it's this kind of cool reflection that doesn't come easily in the shrieking, clanging, subterranean world of the subway.

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Road closures and other transportation advisories for the week of Oct. 18:

I-90 (MassPike) West in South Boston will be closed Sunday from 11:59 p.m. to 5 a.m. The onramp to I-90 West from D Street will be closed from 6 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. as well.

The I-90 (MassPike) East high-occupancy vehicle tunnel to Logan Airport will be closed Sunday from noon to 11:59 p.m.

Two to three lanes of Interstate 93 South will be closed approaching and through downtown Sunday through Thursday from 11:30 p.m. to 5 a.m.

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By Milton Valencia, Globe Staff

In a reversal of an earlier decision, the Federal Aviation Administration has declared that the majority of wind turbines proposed on the Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod would pose an air navigation hazard, effectively scaling back the once ambitious proposal to use alternative energy to power the military base.

A week after initially approving eight of the 17 wind turbines proposed by the Massachusetts Army National Guard, the FAA reversed its decision this week and declared that five more of those would pose a hazard. Now, only three of the proposed wind turbines for Camp Edwards meet FAA standards.

An FAA spokesman did not return a call for comment on the decision today.

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By Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent

Have flippers, will travel.

On an estimated 2,000-mile tour of the East Coast, a Florida manatee has seemed to be doing a lot of sightseeing since July. After spending some time off Cape Cod last month, the nearly 8-foot-long mammal has now turned up near New York City.

A mug shot of a typical manatee

Ilya relaxed today in Elizabeth, N.J. in a 70-degree-plus tributary heated by a discharge of warm water from a nearby oil refinery. Manatees are in danger of hypothermia in waters below 68 degrees.

The warm temperature “is what attracted the animal to begin with and that’s what’s keeping it there,” said Chuck Underwood, a spokesman for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which has officials supervising the animal.

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US Representative Michael Capuano began airing his second TV ad of his campaign for the US Senate today, a spot that focuses on his work helping a refugee from Sierra Leone reunite with her two young sons who she thought had died in the civil war.

"No one could do anything. No one could help until Mike Capuano make them give me back my boys. Mike cut the red tape. He cares about people," Sally Bah says in the ad.

Bah thought her children and husband had died during the country's civil war, the campaign said. She later learned that they were alive. She ran into bureaucratic roadblocks bringing them to America, the campaign said, even after her husband had died, leaving the children with no caretaker.

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By Milton Valencia, Globe Staff

A man was fatally shot in the face inside a home on Harvard Street in Mattapan this afternoon, police said.

The man was in his early 20s, Officer Eddy Chrispin, a police spokesman said.

The shooting occurred at 598 Harvard St., near the intersection of Harvard and Errol streets, about 3:45 p.m. Homicide investigators were at the scene this evening.

By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff

"There's no job I'd rather have right now."

That's Gerry Leone talking about being district attorney of Middlesex County. Usually, in politics, that kind of quote is code for "I'd leave this job in a second if a better one came up." But Leone, who had been considered one of the strongest potential candidates for attorney general next year, appears to actually mean what he says.

Leone told supporters Thursday night at a campaign event at Anthony's Pier 4 that he will not be a candidate for AG, telling them he loves his post and is staying put. He explained in an interview, “I wake up every morning with a passion for my job and the opportunity to help people."

So if Attorney General Martha Coakley manages to win the US Senate seat held by Edward M. Kennedy in the Jan. 19 special election, it looks like voters will have to look elsewhere.

Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter, meanwhile, he said he will run for the seat. Sutter, who has been DA since 2006, is hardly known outside of southeastern Massachusetts. But he was once a professional tennis player, according to his bio. Other prosecutors and lawyers eyeing a run include Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett; Norfolk County District Attorney William Keating; and former Lowell Mayor Eileen Donahue. Secretary of State William Galvin is another possible candidate.

They would have a high hurdle to clear: If Coakley wins, the Legislature would get to choose an interim successor, who would serve for nine months before facing a re-election campaign. That person, of course, would be able to run from the powerful position of incumbent.

By Matt Viser, Globe Staff

Candidates for US Senate released their first campaign finance filings on Thursday, and most of it was what you'd expect -- hefty hauls of campaign contributions, spending on consultants, the first TV advertising buys.

But there were a few interesting tidbits hidden in the data.

Celtics co-owner Stephen G. Pagliuca took in about a quarter of his fund-raising dollars ($51,025) from the business where he has spent much of his career, Bain Capital. But that didn’t stop City Year co-founder Alan Khazei from also going after employees of the firm, which has been a big supporter of the national service program. Khazei brought in $11,336 from Bain employees.

And while Pagliuca has NBA donors wrapped up, Khazei may be going after the NFL: He netted a $2,400 check from Joe Banner, the president of the Philadelphia Eagles. Khazei also collected maximum donations from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and J.J. Abrams, the producer of the TV show “Lost.”

The travel-in-style award goes to Attorney General Martha Coakley: She paid $217.94 to Carey Limousine for transportation in Washington D.C. on Sept. 18.

The thrifty spending award goes to Pagliuca: He reported making an 85-cent purchase at Staples on Sept. 24.

The clean teeth award goes to US Representative Michael Capuano: He took in $5,000 from the American Dental Political Action Committee.

By Meghan Irons, Globe Staff

First they were on the buses. Now cameras will help keep an eye out for crime on Green Line trolleys as part of an MBTA safety initiative that some civil libertarians say raises concerns.

The MBTA will begin testing cameras on trolleys as part of a pilot program that is funded with $500,000 in grant money from the Department of Homeland Security, said Chief Paul MacMillan of the MBTA Transit Police.

The two-phase project aims to increase security on the transit system by beaming images from inside the trolleys to the Transit Police's operations control center downtown in real time.

"Our hope is that the cameras will be able to be viewed in a police cruiser, so that an officer responding to a call will have real-time viewing of what is happening on the scene,'' MacMillan said.

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By Scott LaPierre, Globe Staff

When I first contacted the Ringling Bros. circus about shooting video of the Torres family, who perform as the Rebel Riders stunt motorcycle team, they explained that I wouldn't be allowed to actually go into the Globe of Steel (formerly known as the Globe of Death, but that's a long story).

Which sounded sensible enough. I mean, the sphere is only 16 feet wide, and during shows they cram seven riders in there, all moving at speeds of over 40 miles per hour.

But when I arrived in Manchester, N.H., for a demonstration with the Rebels, I asked again if I could go in. The PR handlers for the circus, which is at Boston's TD Garden through Sunday, looked on nervously as the seven Spanish-speaking family members huddled for a moment before agreeing that sure, I could come in.

A few ground rules about staying alive in the Globe, and we were off.

As I stood perfectly still in the center, I tried to ignore the rushing waves of engine oil smells and the loud buzzing that circled inches from my head, and before I could actually process the danger -- it was over.

By Michaela Stanelun, Globe Correspondent

An eight-minute power outage brought Logan International Airport to a brief standstill this morning, halting takeoffs and landings and causing long lines at security checkpoints.

Power went down at 9:10 a.m. and began coming back on eight minutes later, said Phil Orlandella, a spokesman for Massport, which operates the airport.

"It did affect security checkpoints, elevators, inbound and outbound flights, and check-in counters," Orlandella said. "But there was no danger at all and everything was under control.

Several flights were delayed or canceled this morning because of the power outage, but officials believe the delays will decrease as more power is restored. The lines at security have abated, Orlandella said.

The outage impacted the jetway ramps that link planes to the terminals, but the more serious problem was the security screening stations.

"There were people performing manual and physical searches when the equipment wasn't available," said George Naccara, Logan's security director for the Transportation Security Administration. "Some terminals had baggage check counters working, but about 80 percent did not."

A suggestion box at the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority sat idle on Thursday as the oft maligned agency held its last board meeting.

(David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)

Ted Gartland, a dayside photo editor at the Globe, has been taking pictures in Greater Boston since 1971. Each weekday, he highlights an outtake that did not appear in the morning paper. To view the work of more Globe photographers, click here. To watch Gartland's weekly segment on NECN, click here.

Len Lazure, Worcester Telegram

Early season snow coated grapes at the Charlton Orchard Farm and Winery on Old Worcester Road in Charlton this morning.

By Globe Staff

Yes, snow on Oct. 16.

Boston's northwestern suburbs and parts of the state got an early taste of winter this morning, as snow fell, gathering on car tops and yards.

The snow was expected to turn into rain, which has hit much of New England, the harbinger of what forecasters have said will be a wet, miserable, cold weekend. As it was, this morning's weather in the Greater Boston area -- with slight snowfalls reported from Newton to Fitchburg and north to Groton -- led to a slow commute on area roadways.

The worst time for wet weather, said National Weather Service meteorologist Charlie Foley, looks to be tomorrow night into Sunday.

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By David Abel, Globe Staff

State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill said today that the University of Massachusetts cannot afford to take over the private Southern New England School of Law to launch what would be the state’s first public law school.

A state with as many lawyers as Massachusetts, and with eight other private law schools, doesn’t need another school, especially given the dire economic times, he said.

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By Matt Viser, Globe Staff

Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen G. Pagliuca has already poured at least $1.8 million of his own fortune into his Democratic bid for the US Senate, according to new campaign finance reports.

Pagliuca, through September, had spent $1.4 million on the race, more than twice as much as the combined spending of his three major opponents in the Democratic primary.

The new finance reports, which all candidates for Senate were required to send to the Federal Election Commission by today, are the first detailed look at how the contenders are raising and spending money during the abbreviated campaign to fill the seat long held by Edward M. Kennedy, who died in August. A primary has been scheduled for Dec. 8; the final election is Jan. 19.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, who leads in the polls, spent less than $200,000 during the reporting period. City Year co-founder Alan Khazei has spent only $80,000 during the launch of his campaign, while US Representative Michael Capuano has spent nearly $380,000 so far.

State Senator Scott Brown, of Wrentham, the most prominent Republican candidate, reported spending about $19,350.

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Jonah waking up after surgery.

By Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent

Last month, Jonah was found abandoned at a Jamaica Plain supermarket, blind and scared. Weeks later, a debilitating brain disease emerged, threatening his life. But today, the puppy's bad luck ended.

Veterinarians at Angell Animal Medical Center completed successful brain surgery on the blind Chihuahua, saving its life.

“It went very, very well,” said surgeon Dr. Andrew Farabaugh . “Now how much improvement he gets from it, we’re waiting and seeing.”

The nearly three-hour operation placed a shunt in the 8-month-old puppy’s head to drain built-up fluid crushing its brain.

“The brain had compressed into a thin shell lining the skull. His head was filled with fluid,” said Brian Adams, spokesman for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “The pressure meant he would’ve certainly died without the surgery.”

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Outgoing Transportation Secretary James A. Aloisi Jr., who will be the last chairman of the Turnpike board, sat under a portrait of William F. Callahan, the first.

By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff

You didn't like it when you had to cough up the tolls. You took exception when the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority considered hiking them. But you liked the authority fine on those days when the road whisked you across the state or during snowstorms when the road was reliably scraped clean.

The sometimes-controversial authority held its last board meeting today after 57 years. The authority is being dissolved under a new state law reforming the state transportation system.

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By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

Grappling with a continuing decline in state revenues, Governor Deval Patrick today announced that he had directed his Cabinet to reduce spending by $600 million in the current fiscal year and warned that the reductions could result in the layoffs of 2,000 state workers.

Governor Deval Patrick

Patrick said that tax revenues for the first quarter of the 2010 fiscal year were $212 million lower than had been expected.

"That means we have to act immediately to bring state spending in line," he said. "Painful as it is, we have to adjust."

Patrick said his goal was to achieve savings without harming essential services, but there were "no quick fixes, no easy choices, and no low-hanging fruit."

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Surveillance cameras caught Buonomo stealing money from copy machines at the Registry of Deeds.

By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

Former Middlesex County Register of Probate John R. Buonomo, who was captured on camera stealing money from copy machines at the Registry of Deeds, has pleaded guilty to two separate schemes in which he stole thousands of dollars from the machines and more than $100,000 in campaign funds, authorities said today.

John R. Buonomo

Buonomo, 57, of Newton pleaded guilty in Woburn Superior Court to charges in separate cases brought by the attorney general and the Middlesex district attorney.

"It is troubling that this elected official would violate the trust bestowed in him by committing these brazen thefts -- crimes that he has now admitted to with today's plea," said District Attorney Gerry Leone.

Buonomo pleaded guilty to charges brought by the district attorney of breaking and entering into a depository with intent to commit a larceny, theft of public property by a county officer, and larceny under $250.

He also pleaded guilty to charges brought by the attorney general of larceny over $250, personal use of campaign funds, and willfully misleading investigators.

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By Matt Viser and Andrea Estes, Globe Staff

Attorney General Martha Coakley has gained one of the most sought-after union endorsements in the race for US Senate, winning key backing from the Service Employees International Union local council.

The council, which represents five unions and 60,000 workers, voted on the endorsement last night. It is the first time the council decided as a group to back one candidate.

"This was a big endorsement," Coakley said this afternoon in an interview. "SEIU, I believe, is a modern and progressive union. They look at the future, they have modern organizing methods, and I think they represent workers who look forward with technology, particularly in health care."

She continued, "I think people are pretty competitive about getting these endorsements, both because they represent a group of active people who get involved in elections, but also because they serve as kind of a shorthand for who is going to work for labor unions and who is going to work on behalf of those workers."

Because the special election season is so abbreviated, endorsements from powerful, politically active organizations that can turn out volunteers quickly could play a particularly big role. The Democratic primary is Dec. 8; the special election is Jan. 19.

The Globe reported last week that Coakley and US Representative Michael Capuano have been racing furiously to lock up labor union endorsements. The other Democrats running in the primary, Stephen Pagliuca and Alan Khazei, have not been a factor in the tussle for labor backing.

Here are the other union endorsements that have been announced by the campaigns:

CAPUANO
Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts (12,000 members)
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, five local chapters (8,000 members)
Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen Union Local 3 (3,000 members)
Unite Here New England Joint Board (6,000 members)
United Food and Commercial Workers (40,000 members)

COAKLEY
Teamsters, nine local chapters (21,800 members)
Unite Here, Local 26 (6,300 members)
New England Regional Council of Carpenters (10,785 members)
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 103 (6,000 members)
Office & Professional Employees, Local 6 (5,400 members)

By Michaela Stanelun, Globe Correspondent

Attention, Bay Staters: Brace yourselves for a rainy, cold, windy, and otherwise miserable weekend. Snow may even fall in some areas at higher elevations.

The storm is expected to begin late Thursday afternoon, and continue on and off until Sunday. The worst time for wet weather, said National Weather Service meteorologist Charlie Foley says, looks to be Saturday night into Sunday.

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By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff

The state's highest court ruled today that prosecutors improperly obtained tape-recorded jailhouse conversations of a teenager who is being held without bail while awaiting trial for the slaying of a classmate at Lincoln-Sudbury High School.

John Odgren

The Supreme Judical Court said prosecutors were required to get judicial approval before they subpoenaed the tapes, but the "procedural misstep" does not itself mean that prosecutors should be barred from presenting the tapes of John Odgren at his upcoming trial for the January 2007 stabbing of fellow student James Alenson.

The court overturned a Superior Court judge's decision that suppressed the tapes based on the error, but ordered the judge to hold further hearings on whether Odgren, 19, who was a juvenile at the time of the slaying, has constitutional protections that would prohibit prosecutors from using the tapes at trial.

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By Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent

A Boston police lieutenant was injured in an accident involving his vehicle and a Green Line trolley, police said.

The police vehicle “made contact with the Green Line trolley” at about 12:30 p.m., near the Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue, said MBTA spokeswoman Lydia Rivera.

The officer was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton, police said.

MBTA Transit Police are investigating.

By Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent

A pit bull ran down and bit the sneaker of a 12-year-old girl waiting for her school bus Wednesday morning in Dorchester, according to police.

The girl attempted to run away but the dog pursued her and "latched onto her foot,” police said in a press release. “Individuals who witnessed the incident stated the dog’s owner did nothing to stop the dog and was seen laughing.”

A man riding by on a motorcycle stopped and freed the girl’s foot from the dog’s bite, police said. A school nurse determined the girl was uninjured as the bite did not pierce through the shoe, police said.

When Boston police officers went to the dog owner’s Talbot Avenue address, she did not answer the door, police said. The incident is now under investigation by the city Animal Control Office.

By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff

LAWRENCE – With a series of small pops and then a wave of explosions, two towering brick smokestacks were demolished today in a controlled explosion to make way for $50 million in new development.

The demolition was done by Advanced Explosives Demolition of Idaho. Owner Lisa Kelly said the explosives were positioned to first destroy the building underneath the stacks, and then allow the stacks to collapse into the newly created space below.

“Just like if you were cutting a tree down, it’s exactly the same theory,’’ she said afterward.

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At the final meeting of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Board today, member Mary Connaughton showed off her poetic talents by reading an ode describing the history of the authority.

Here is her masterpiece,"Ode to the Pilgrim Hat"

Bill Callahan was a man of large style.
Building a road he did with a smile.
He sold them on tolls,
And made many foes,
Relax, for a while it's just how it goes.

As years slowly passed, other chairs took the reign,
To get tolls even quicker, they offered Fast Lane,
And tolls they sure stayed,
Beacon Hill had it made.
Plow fast, they said, toll worries will fade.

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By Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent

A man accused of driving while under the influence of a narcotic Wednesday night hit a parked State Police cruiser on Route 128 in Burlington and injured a trooper, police said.

State trooper Daniel Carideo Jr., 36, was filling out paperwork inside the cruiser near Exit 33B just before 11 p.m. The cruiser had its emergency lights flashing as it sat parked in the left southbound lane after responding to a single-car crash, said David Procopio, a State Police spokesman.

“He was then struck from behind by a Ford pickup truck," Procopio said.

Carideo cut his head and was taken by ambulance to the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, where he was treated and released.

The truck was driven by Raymond Andrews, 54, of Billerica, who is accused of slamming into the back of the parked cruiser while traveling in the left lane, which was closed because of the crash, Procopio said.

“It’s believed he did not move out of that lane,” Procopio said. “After striking the cruiser, the pickup careened into the lane to its right … and it hit a Nissan Versa.”

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Rosa Carson, program coordinator for WalkBoston, will chat with Boston.com readers today at noon. WalkBoston is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving walking conditions in cities and towns across Massachusetts.

A recent Globe story chronicled the challenges of walking in Boston, which has launched a campaign to improve crosswalks and intersections to make them safer.

By Michaela Stanelun, Globe Correspondent

A Peabody man suffered a fatal heart attack at the Kelly Clarkson concert at Boston University on Tuesday night, Boston University officials said today.

BU spokesman Colin Riley said the 38-year-old man, who was not identified, collapsed during the pop singer's show at Agganis Arena shortly before 10 p.m.

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Law is a missing piece of the UMass curriculum. This would fill in that gap and provide an affordable public law school option for students.

Jean MacCormack, chancellor of UMass Dartmouth

I don't know how or why anyone would want to be taking on the cost and responsibility of the creation of a public law school when we're trying our hardest to make ends meet with the higher education systems and institutions that we currently have.

Richard Doherty, president and CEO of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts

By Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent

When Susan Brown allegedly fell asleep at the wheel on Monday and crashed into an MBTA bus, it was not immediately clear what had happened. But as they have in many other incidents involving motorists, passengers, and suspects in crimes over the past two years, cameras on the bus captured footage of the incident.

"The video has changed the way we conduct investigations and has vastly improved our ability to identify suspects and solve crimes," said Paul MacMillan, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Transit Police chief.

In a video released today by the MBTA, Brown's Chevy Malibu can be seen crossing the median line before slamming head-on into an MBTA bus in Holbrook.

It's compelling footage. But transit police also see it as an important tool.

"I'll tell you, there isn't a day that goes by that we don't use them," said Transit Police Sergeant Ken Sprague, of the cameras.

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By Abbie Ruzicka, Globe Correspondent

One person was killed and another seriously injured in a car crash on Interstate 195 East in Dartmouth this afternoon, said Trooper David Mahan, a state police spokesman.

The accident happened at approximately 4:45 p.m. before Exit 13 near Route 140 and involved two cars, he said.

Traffic is being diverted at Exit 12.

By Tracy Jan, Globe Staff

Massachusetts, one of six states without a public law school, edged a step closer to getting one as UMass officials revived a plan to acquire the private Southern New England School of Law, four years after the state Board of Higher Education rejected a similar, controversial move.

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By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff

Boston mayoral candidate Michael F. Flaherty Jr. and his campaign sidekick, Sam Yoon, text each other most mornings to coordinate their wardrobes. Needless to say, it was not always thus on the rumpled road to City Hall.

"Mel King and I never heard that problem when we were running for mayor of Boston," former Mayor Raymond L. Flynn told reporters this morning, as he spoke at a news conference at which he and King, who ran against each other in 1983, jointly endorsed Flaherty. Flynn, an Irish-American politician from South Boston, glanced over at King, an African-American activist from the South End, and joked, "As a matter of fact, I was almost tempted one time to wear a dashiki to one of my events."

As Flaherty's supporters laughed, Flynn suggested that perhaps King had done something to try match Flynn's look for Wednesday's endorsement. "You notice," Flynn said, pointing to something folded in King's pocket, "that Mel has the Irish scally cap."

(Photo at right, by Pat Greenhouse/Globe staff, shows Ray Flynn, Mel King, and the scally cap outside Boston City Hall this morning.)

Joe and Sharon Tatulli

The turtle wasn't too lethargic to flap its flippers when Adam Kennedy of the New England Aquarium and James Nielsen of the Audubon Society loaded it into a pickup truck.

By Michaela Stanelun, Globe Correspondent

A large sea turtle is recovering in the water tank at New England Aquarium this morning, after being rescued from a salt marsh in Cape Cod where it was stranded and in danger of dying of hypothermia.

New England Aquarium spokesman Tony LaCasse said the 175-pound adult female loggerhead sea turtle was discovered inside the Drummer Cove Pond salt marsh in Wellfleet by a Rhode Island man Sunday evening. The man contacted officials at the Massachusetts Audubon sanctuary, which decided to wait and see if the turtle would move itself into the waters. The turtle stayed put.

New England Aquarium biologists, contacted by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, traveled to the marsh Monday morning to examine the turtle, which they have named Acadia. The turtle had a body temperature of 54.8 degrees and was deemed hypothermic.

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Massachusetts remains at the head of the pack in terms of student test scores on a national mathematics test at the fourth- and eighth-grade levels.

Massachusetts led all the other states on the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics, with scores of 252 on the fourth-grade test and 299 on the eighth-grade test.

The state had also been the leader in the 2007 and 2005 tests at both grade levels.

The test was given to nationally representative samples of more than 168,000 fourth-graders and 161,000 eighth-graders. Students' knowledge and abilities were tested across five areas: number properties and operations; measurement; geometry; data analysis, statistics, and probability; and algebra, the US Education Department said.

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By Jonathan Saltzman and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff

A federal jury in Boston found today that a retired Boston police detective violated the civil rights of Shawn Drumgold, causing him to be wrongfully convicted for the notorious 1988 slaying of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore.

Shawn Drumgold

The jury did not award monetary damages, but the case is expected to continue in US District Court on Monday. The 11-member jury deliberated five days before it concluded that retired detective Timothy Callahan violated Drumgold’s rights by concealing that he had housed Ricky Evans, a key prosecution witness, at a Howard Johnson, fed him repeatedly, and paid him $20, according to one of Drumgold’s lawyers, Rosemary Scapicchio.

"This is the first time somebody has said that Callahan was wrong, what he did with Ricky Evans was wrong, and that Shawn spent 15 years in jail as a result of it," she said. "It's a huge victory for us to get recognition."

The jury rejected Drumgold's allegation that Callahan intentionally or recklessly obtained false statements or manufactured evidence regarding Evans's testimony. It also rejected Drumgold's claim that Callahan deliberately withheld evidence from prosecutors or that police promised Evans favorable treatment on criminal cases that were pending against him.

In April 2008, another federal jury found that Callahan violated Drumgold’s civil rights by withholding evidence about Evans but was unable to agree on whether it resulted in Drumgold’s wrongful conviction. Judge Nancy Gertner, who is presiding over the current trial, declared a mistrial in the first one.

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At the news conference in front of Boston City Hall, former Mayor Ray Flynn watched as Mel King spoke and Sam Yoon and candidate City Councilor Michael F. Flaherty looked on.

By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff

Former Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn and his 1983 challenger, long-time activist Mel King, this morning threw their support behind mayoral candidate Michael F. Flaherty Jr. and his would-be deputy mayor, Sam Yoon.

The two former rivals, hailed for running civil, principled campaigns for mayor when the city was racially divided in 1983, said Flaherty and Yoon would unite Boston as Flynn and King did 26 years ago.

“We see that same kind of leadership and that same kind of courage and the determination to move the city forward,” said Flynn, who stood with King, Yoon, and Flaherty before a bank of television cameras and supporters holding Flaherty/Yoon signs on City Hall Plaza.

Mayor Thomas M. Menino's reelection campaign dismissed the value of the endorsements. A spokesman, Nick Martin, said that Flynn had previously backed a Republican, George W. Bush, for president, and that King had endorsed a Green Party candidate, Ralph Nader, in 1996, in that year's presidential campaign. The mayoral race in Boston is non-partisan, but the city is overwhelmingly Democratic.

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By Brian Benson, Globe Correspondent

The arraignment of an elderly Peabody man accused of crashing his car into a Danvers Wal-Mart, injuring a mother and her baby, was postponed Wednesday after the defendant and his attorney did not receive a summons.

Louis Vesprini, 93, faces one count of negligent operation of a motor vehicle stemming from the June 2 incident.

“When I receive a summons and my client receives a summons we will appear in court,” said Paul F. Markham, a Melrose lawyer representing Vesprini, in a telephone interview.

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By David Abel, Globe Staff

A $332 million state Medicaid program that oversees home health care services provided to about 16,000 elderly and disabled residents is rife with fraud and employs personal care attendants who have committed felonies, including manslaughter, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and threatening to commit murder, according to a report released today by the Office of the State Auditor.

The report also found that the Massachusetts program -- which has tripled in size over the past decade -- is one of only four out of 238 programs nationwide without any job requirements for personal care attendants. The state now pays more than 23,000 attendants -- more than twice the number of a decade ago -- who allow the needy to remain in their homes by helping them take medication, bathe, dress, prepare meals, and shop, among other things.

In the audit, State Auditor Joe DeNucci urged state officials to establish job requirements for attendants, including criminal background checks, training, and education. Nearly every other program in the country requires background checks or special training.

“What we have found is that there are serious problems in the program,” DeNucci said in a telephone interview today. “We have to strengthen protections for vulnerable people. I think it’s very important.”

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A 40-year-old Dorchester man was sentenced today to six years in prison for voluntary manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of a 26-year-old Revere man during a brawl at a South Boston bar in 2007.

Bernard Piscopo was charged with second-degree murder for killing Adam Rich at the 6 House on West Broadway on June 17, 2007. But a jury found Piscopo guilty Tuesday of the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter.

Prosecutors said they had recommended a 14-to-16-year sentence to Suffolk Superior Court Judge Linda Giles.

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By Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent

The Coast Guard this morning called off the search for a lobsterman who went overboard Tuesday off Gloucester’s Eastern Point, an official said.

Jaime Ortiz, 43, originally of Honduras, was on the stern of the Gloucester-based lobster vessel Dominatrix when he fell overboard about three miles south of Eastern Point at about 2 p.m. He was not wearing a lifejacket or survival suit.

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By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff, and Michaela Stanelun, Globe Correspondent

A body found early this morning in the Charles River belongs to a 24-year-old man who went missing last week after leaving a Boston Bruins game at the TD Garden, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F.Conley said today.

The body of William Hurley was spotted at 2 a.m. and recovered from the river near the Nashua Street Jail, not far from the sports arena. His death is under investigation by State Police assigned to the district attorney's office because his body was discovered in a state waterway.

Conley told reporters today that the circumstances of Hurley's death are being probed, but he said there was no immediate sign the 24-year-old died a violent death. He said the Office of Chief Medical Examiner is expected to conduct an autopsy today.

"There was no obvious signs of trauma to Mr. Hurley's body," Conley said. "We are not prepared to say at this moment exactly what caused his death, whether foul play was involved.''

Conley, however, downplayed robbery as a possible motive, saying that Hurley's keys, cash and wallet were still on him when his body was found in the Charles River. "It does not look like a robbery or anything like that,'' he said.

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By Tracy Jan, Globe Staff

A Suffolk County Probate Court judge has denied Brandeis University's motion to dismiss a lawsuit to prevent the college from closing the Rose Art Museum and selling its artwork, said Edward Terry Dangel, attorney for the plaintiffs.

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The temperature dipped below freezing for this first time this season early this morning at the Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center in Milton.

According to a special report issued by chief weather observer Robert Skilling, the mercury hit 32 degrees at exactly 6:18 a.m. "Frost was observed on grassy and wood surfaces while the wind was averaging 10 MPH from the west-northwest under a clear sky," Skilling wrote in the bulletin.

Goodbye, flowers. Hello, windshield scrapers.

The freeze did not reach the coast, where the temperature bottomed out at 38 degrees this morning at Logan International Airport.

In the opposite direction, however, the temperature dipped deeper. Bedford hit 29 degrees. Norwood dropped to 26 degrees. In Woburn, a layer of frost had to be scraped off windshields, according to Charlie Foley, meteorologist for the National Weather Service, whose car needed scraping before his commute to Taunton.

By Andrea Estes and Matt Viser, Globe Staff

Federal prosecutors today added new allegations to the indictment against former House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, charging that he had a secret interest in a real estate firm that managed one of the state's signature office buildings.

Former House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi

According to the 38-page superseding indictment, DiMasi had a hidden stake in Genesis Management LLC, a property management company formed in January 2006 by DiMasi's friend and former accountant Richard Vitale and two other partners. The indictment alleges that the partners agreed to pay DiMasi a share of the profits because he "could help Genesis get business."

The new allegations, included in an indictment handed up today in US District Court in Boston, add further intrigue to a political corruption saga that has gripped Beacon Hill for months. DiMasi, for years one of the most powerful politicians in Massachusetts, was reelected in January before resigning weeks later. He was indicted in June and has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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The message in the final green was 15 feet high.

By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff

The US Secret Service and the FBI are investigating a vandalism incident at a Lakeville golf course, where a swastika was carved into the 18th green above President Obama's last name.

Around 6:30 Monday morning, workers at the Lakeville Country Club discovered the message, which read "I," the Nazi Party symbol, and "Obama," with a long line underneath. They immediately notified authorities, who are treating the incident as a potential threat.

"We investigate these cases thoroughly," said Steven Ricciardi, special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Boston office, which has joined local police on the case. He declined further comment.

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A fishing boat crewman fell overboard about three miles south of Gloucester's Eastern Point this afternoon, the Coast Guard said.

The crewman was on the stern of the 39-foot Gloucester-based Dominatrix when he fell at about 2 p.m. He was not wearing a lifejacket or survival suit.

A 25-foot boat and a 47-foot boat from Station Gloucester are searching the area, as well as a jet and a helicopter from Air Station Cape Cod, the Coast Guard said this afternoon in statement.

The name of the man, who was about 40 years old, has not been released.

By Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent

Police have arrested a Falmouth man for allegedly stabbing his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend and her father early today, seriously injuring the father, police said.

About 1:45 a.m., George Manuel Silva Jr., 24, allegedly stabbed the teenager and her father during an altercation outside the victims’ Palmer Avenue apartment in Falmouth, according to police. Several hours later, Falmouth Police arrested Silva and his alleged getaway driver, Derrick J. Degrace, 42, of Mashpee.

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MALDEN -- A 38-year-old carpenter from Somerville pleaded not guilty today to fatally stabbing a former girlfriend who, prosecutors say, had spurned his attempts to rekindle the romance for nearly a year.

Antonio “Marcos’’ Ferreira is accused of stabbing Sheila dos Santos 33 times and leaving her to die at her Everett doorstep on the morning of Oct. 2 as she returned from Club Alex, a Stoughton strip club where she worked as a dancer.

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A Harvard biostatistics professor was among the four people who were killed in a fiery car accident in Peterborough, N.H., on Monday, university officials said today.

Stephen Lagakos

Stephen Lagakos, 63, of Wellesley, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, died Monday after the SUV he was driving crossed the median and hit another car. Lagakos's wife, Regina, 61, and mother, Helen, 94, were also killed in the crash, as was the driver of the other car, Stephen Krause, 52, of Keene, N.H.

In his biography on Harvard's website, the university says Lagakos's current research "involves a variety of statistical issues arising in clinical trials and other longitudinal studies with particular emphasis on statistical methods and analyses relating to HIV and other infectious diseases."

Harvard Dean for Academic Affairs David Hunter said in a statement that the death of Lagakos was "a terrible and shocking loss to our community." Lagakos joined the Harvard faculty more than 30 years ago.

"Steve educated several generations of biostatistics students, and his many postdoctoral fellows were devoted to him as a kind and compassionate teacher and mentor," Hunter said. "Steve was always generous with his time -- both in statistical matters, and also as a citizen of Harvard, having served with good cheer and much wisdom on many committees and given sage advice to many."

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Jody Reilly at the controls of a helicopter in 2001.

By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff

The first female helicopter pilot in the Massachusetts State Police testified today that the commander of the prestigious Air Wing unit retaliated against her because she rejected his sexual advances.

Taking the stand in federal court on the first day of her sexual discrimination suit against the State Police, Sergeant Jody Reilly said her skills as a pilot were never challenged until she refused to socialize after work with then-Lieutenant Michael Barry, commander of the Air Wing.

"He began a campaign to ruin my reputation and my career at the Air Wing," said Reilly, who was transferred out of the Air Wing in 2004 and is currently assigned to the Middleborough barracks.

But during opening statements to the jury today, Assistant Attorney General Charles Wyzanski, who represents the State Police, credited Barry, who is now a major, with restoring morale and standards to the Air Wing after Reilly had an affair with his predecessor and was shown preferential treatment because of it.

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Workers from the Boston Water and Sewer Commission worked on the broken water main at Tremont and Cunard. One bystander had a front row seat.

By Globe Staff

A 12-inch water main ruptured early this morning in Roxbury and caused a car-sized sinkhole that forced the closure of a busy section of Tremont Street, police said.

The water main broke at about 4 a.m. near the intersection of Tremont and Cunard streets. Police closed Tremont Street between Melnea Cass Boulevard and Coventry Street and urged motorists to avoid the area.

Several buildings in the neighborhood lost water service because of the break, according to Thomas Bagley, spokesman for the Boston Water and Sewer Commission. Service was restored by about 12:15 p.m., but the road won't be patched and reopened until 8 or 9 p.m., he said.

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The state appeals court today threw out a drug dealing case against a teenager in the town of Marblehead, saying that police shouldn't have cut open a locked bank bag the boy had hidden under his sweatshirt that contained packets of marijuana and a digital scale.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court said the bag was cut open during an inventory search that police made at the station. Such searches are made to protect the property of a person who is arrested and to protect officers from claims that the property was damaged, the court said.

"We have found no case that would permit an officer to break into or damage a locked container in order to conduct an inventory search," the three-judge panel said in an opinion written by Judge Gabrielle R. Wolohojian. "There is no suggestion that the bag presented an immediate danger that required that it be opened immediately to protect public safety."

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A 40-year-old Dorchester man has been convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of a 26-year-old Revere man at a South Boston bar in 2007.

Bernard Piscopo(Globe File Photo)

Bernard Piscopo was charged with second-degree murder for killing Adam Rich at the 6 House on West Broadway on June 17, 2007. But a jury found Piscopo guilty today of the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter, the Suffolk County district attorney's office said.

Piscopo faces sentencing at 10 a.m. Wednesday before Suffolk Superior Court Judge Linda Giles.

On Friday, the jurors, in their third full day of deliberations had indicated they reached an impasse. The judge urged them to try again to reach a unanimous verdict. The jury took the long weekend off and returned to the court today.

By Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent

More than 1,000 students were held in a Danvers High School gymnasium for more than two hours this morning after police locked down the school in response to threatening messages found on a bathroom wall, police and school officials said.

The school was dismissed without incident at 1 p.m., nearly an hour early and more than two hours after classroom evacuations began.

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BROOKLINE -- Former governor Michael S. Dukakis wore one of his trademark sweaters to a house party Monday hosted by the Brookline Democratic Town Committee that drew Senate candidates Michael Capuano, Martha Coakley, Steve Pagliuca, and Alan Khazei. Dukakis became famous for his sweaters as governor at news conferences during the Blizzard of '78.

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By Michaela Stanelun, Globe Correspondent

A truck rolled over in Boxford and forced the brief closure of a ramp off northbound Interstate 95, state police said.

The crash at 7:50 a.m. occurred at Exit 51 and caused what police described as minor injuries. The ramp reopened before 9 a.m.

By Maria Chutchian, Globe Correspondent

An MIT graduate student died Saturday after collapsing during the Baltimore Marathon, college officials said today.

The victim, Peter Curtin, graduated from Princeton University in 2008 and was currently a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A memorial service will be held at the Princeton University Chapel on Oct. 25. MIT and Princeton representatives could not give any other details this evening.

"Obviously, this is a tragedy," MIT spokeswoman Patty Richards said.

By Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent

It may be time to break out the earmuffs -- and the umbrellas.

High winds and cooler temperatures look to make it a cold four-day work week, according to the National Weather Service, which reported today that temperatures will drop each day, culminating in a possibly rainy, 40-degree Friday.

“Temperatures are going to be averaging around 10 degrees below normal for this time of year,” said weather service meteorologist Neal Strauss in Taunton.

The mercury won’t reach the normal mid-October high of 60 degrees this week, reaching only 55 degrees tomorrow, 50 on Wednesday, and the mid- to upper-40s on Thursday and Friday, Strauss said.

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Somerville police are searching for a man who robbed and beat a woman in a supermarket parking lot Sunday morning.

Just after 11:30 a.m., a man wielding a “large kitchen-style knife” approached a car as it pulled into a parking space at Market Basket on Somerville Avenue, said Deputy Police Chief Paul Upton.

After the 45-year-old female driver declined the man’s request for a ride to the hospital, he ran to the passenger’s side door and hopped into the vehicle, police said. The woman wrestled her purse from the suspect and exited the car, but the man caught up to her.

“He punched her in the head and kicked her in the back,” Upton said.

The suspect then ran with the woman’s purse toward Union Square in Somerville.

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By Michaela Stanelun, Globe Correspondent

A fire Sunday night in Shrewsbury destroyed a century-old building on an island on Lake Quinsigamond. Through the years, the building had housed several nightclubs, fire officials said.

Shrewsbury Fire Captain Seth Colby said firefighters were called by neighbors shortly after 7:30 p.m., saying the building at 234 S. Quinsigamond Ave. was on fire. The building is accessible only by a 30-foot-long bridge from the mainland, which gave firefighters an extra battle.

"All the hoses had to be hand-stretched from the shore across the bridge," Colby said. "It was a labor-intensive fire."

Colby said the roughly 4,400-square-foot building was a complete loss.

"By the time we had arrived on scene several minutes after the 911 call, the building was actually starting to collapse," Colby said.

The building was constructed in 1910, Colby said. He believes it had been abandoned for 20 years. The fire is under investigation by the state fire marshal's office and Shrewsbury police.