Police officer to face intimidation case

A 16-year-old Dorchester youth is facing charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and attempted murder after a stabbing Tuesday on an MBTA bus in Roxbury. The boy, arrested yesterday at his home, will be arraigned today in Juvenile Court, an MBTA spokesman said. The male victim was stabbed at about 6:20 p.m. on a Route 23 bus that had just left Ruggles station and was passing police headquarters on Tremont Street, said MBTA Transit Police Chief Paul MacMillan. The victim was in stable condition yesterday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, MacMillan said. T surveillance cameras captured pictures of the suspect.

Governor Deval Patrick says Representative Thomas Petrolati should cooperate with an investigation into patronage at the state Probation Department. The Ludlow Democrat is a top deputy to House Speaker Robert DeLeo. Petrolati’s wife, former aide, and several financial supporters have received jobs in the department. Petrolati has been fighting a subpoena ordering him to appear before an independent counsel investigating allegations of corrupt hiring practices. He argues that forcing legislators to testify could provoke a constitutional crisis. But Patrick told WTKK-FM yesterday that “it’s incumbent on everybody to cooperate with that investigation, because the public is owed an explanation about where their money is going.’’ (AP)

Three firefighters received minor injuries battling a three-alarm blaze at a house on Kimlo Road, a fire official in Wellesley said yesterday. The fire was reported at about 3:30 a.m., and it took firefighters two to three hours to bring it under control, said Deputy Fire Chief Jeffrey Peterson. “We don’t believe the fire was suspicious,’’ he said. Two Newton firefighters and one Wellesley firefighter suffered minor injuries, Peterson said.

An emergency order banning out-of-state firewood was signed yesterday by the director of the Maine Forest Service, as the state works to keep out invasive insects. In signing the order, Alec Giffen said infestations by the Asian longhorned beetle and emerald ash borer had struck neighboring states. Maine officials said that with 90 percent of the state covered by woodlands, the impact of an infestation locally would be significant. A three-day out-of-state firewood exchange at the northbound Kittery rest area on the Maine Turnpike has been scheduled for Labor Day weekend to allow people to dispose of any wood that might have been brought from outside the state.

Chelsea is getting nearly $2 million in federal stimulus money to reduce pollution from diesel exhaust and to improve public health. The US Environmental Protection Agency awarded more than $1.5 million yesterday to the New England Produce Market, one of the nation’s largest produce distribution centers, to provide electrical repowering units for stationary cold-storage trailers. The project will save nearly 500,000 gallons of diesel fuel and almost 400,000 pounds of nitrogen oxide emissions per year, for an annual savings of $500,000 in energy costs. A second grant of nearly $400,000 will go to retrofitting and upgrading diesel-burning vehicles owned by the city, as well as some businesses. (AP)