New England in brief
BOSTON
A teenager was killed and a young woman injured yesterday in an early-morning shooting on Maywood Street in Roxbury, police said. Officers responded to the area about 3:20 a.m. and found the two victims, the 17-year-old male and a 20-year-old woman, suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Both were taken to Boston Medical Center, where the teenager later died. The female is being treated for injuries that were not life-threatening. This is the 12th homicide in Boston this year, the same number as this time last year. In a separate case, a 30-year-old man was found shot multiple times on Bowdoin Street in Dorchester about 1:40 a.m. yesterday. The victim was taken to Boston Medical Center, said Officer Eddy Chrispin, a police spokesman. The identities of the victims were not released. No arrests have been made in either shooting.CAMBRIDGE
Environmental activists stage a ‘sleep-out’
About a hundred students and activists participated in a “sleep-out’’ on the Cambridge Common last night to raise awareness of clean energy issues in Massachusetts, an organizer said. The Leadership Campaign, formed by Students for a Just and Stable Future and other groups, planned the gathering of activists and students from 20 to 30 Massachusetts schools. The group is pushing legislation that would bind the state to create an energy task force and formulate a plan within 6 months to have Massachusetts running on clean energy by 2020. The groups hope the bill will be passed by Earth Day, April 22.Once-barred Muslim scholar to speak
A Muslim scholar previously denied a visa and barred from speaking engagements in the United States is to speak this week at Harvard Law School. Adam Habib of the University of Johannesburg in South Africa is slated to speak Wednesday about ideological exclusion in an event cosponsored by the ACLU of Massachusetts. In January, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signed orders enabling the reentry of Habib and Tariq Ramadan of Oxford University in England. The order was signed after American rights groups filed lawsuits on their behalf challenging the scholars’ exclusion. Habib has been a vocal critic of the war in Iraq and some US terrorism-related policies. (AP)NORTHAMPTON
DA to give findings on student’s suicide
At 11 a.m. today, Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth D. Scheibel will provide an update on her office’s investigation into the death of Phoebe Prince, the South Hadley High School freshman who authorities believe hanged herself in January because of bullying at the school and online. The news conference scheduled at Scheibel’s office in Northampton is expected to disclose the results of the district attorney’s probe, according to the Springfield Republican newspaper.DANVERS
WWII artillery shell removed from home
The State Police bomb squad removed a World War II artillery shell from a home on Saturday, a spokesman said. Sergeant Matthew Murray said the squad responded to a house on Hobart Street shortly before 1:30 p.m. at the request of police. He said the squad moved the device to a safe location and detonated it with a smaller amount of explosives. He could not say how large the projectile was.LOWELL
Book tour to promote late monk’s poetry
Organizers behind the publication of a poetry collection by a late Lowell Cambodian monk are scheduled to launch a nationwide tour promoting the book. The Light of Cambodian Children and Cambodian Expressions will release the book by Ly Van Aggadipo on Thursday at Middlesex Community College in Lowell. The book describes the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime through the eyes of Ly Van, who died in January 2008. Following the Lowell event are stops in Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Paul, and Long Beach, Calif. Tour stops will feature readings and accompanying musical performances by two Cambodian artists. (AP)
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