Man struck, killed by van driven by teen

Guests and staff were evacuated from the Fairmont Copley Plaza yesterday, after the staff was alerted to a liquid Freon leak in the building’s air conditioning system. The leak was spotted about 1:30 p.m., setting off a level-3 hazardous materials alert and causing staff to evacuate the building. Both hazmat teams and a repair company were called to control the leak. The leak was stopped and the building was vented about 3 p.m. People were allowed back in the hotel about 6:30 p.m., said Steve MacDonald of the Boston Fire Department. A hotel maintenance worker was taken to a Boston hospital for observation after reporting lightheadedness, MacDonald said. The cause of the leak is under investigation.

A funeral Mass for New England mob underboss Gennaro “Jerry’’ Angiulo will be said at 10:45 a.m. Thursday at St. Leonard’s Church, at Prince and Hanover streets. The visitation will be held Wednesday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Boston Harborside Home of J.S. Waterman & Sons-Langone, at 580 Commercial St. Both services are open to the public. Angiulo, 90, who outlived most of his old gang and witnessed the decline of the local Mafia, died Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital of renal failure.

A Gloucester man was arrested Friday after allegedly pointing a gun at a woman while impersonating a peace officer Wednesday in Madison, Wis., Lieutenant David McCaw of Madison police said. Trevor L. Lucas, 21, recently had a dispute with the woman’s 17-year-old son over an online game. Lucas also asked the son to send him naked pictures in 2008, but no charges were filed, McCaw said. Lucas allegedly drove to Madison and knocked on the family’s door shortly before 9 p.m., claiming he was from “national security,’’ and demanding to see the woman’s son, McCaw said. She called police. Lucas retrieved a firearm from his car and pointed it at the woman, who slammed the door, McCaw said. Lucas then fled to Massachusetts, where State Police arrested him on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Weston about 4:40 p.m. Friday. (AP)

Child advocates are preparing a home where children can go for help after they are sexually assaulted or physically abused. The 5,000-square-foot house set to open in Foxborough in October is one of 11 child advocacy centers in Massachusetts and about 700 across the country. At the treatment centers, police, medical, and mental health professionals meet to try to ease the emotional stress for abused children. Instead of having to endure five or six interviews, children are interviewed once in a homelike setting. (AP)

A White House spokesman says President Obama has visited with the family of a Marine corporal from Yarmouth who died last month in Afghanistan. Obama met briefly with relatives of Marine Corporal Nicholas Xiarhos yesterday at Cape Cod Air Station before he returned to Washington as his vacation ended. Xiarhos, 21, died July 23 while serving with the Marine Expeditionary Brigade. He was a squad automatic weapon gunner and leader with the Second Battalion, Eighth Marine Weapons Company from Camp Lejeune, N.C. He had graduated in 2006 from Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School. (AP)