Matthew Bent and Denver Jarvis, both 15, and Jesus Mendez, 16, along with two others, are accused of pouring rubbing alcohol over Brewer and setting him alight in an apartment complex in Deerfield Beach, Florida on Oct. 12.

“Good” emperor’s place of knowledge thought to be found during subway excavation

The student body president at the University of Massachusetts Boston was arrested and charged as a repeat drug dealer last week after the Boston Police Drug Control Unit raided his Dorchester apartment.
Terral Ainooson, 25, was arrested along with roommate, Ryan Oshima, 23, on November 11, when police found more than a dozen plastic bags of [...]

Fourteen schools in Boston need to shape up or ship out.
Superintendent Carol R. Johnson unveiled a five-year strategic plan for the Boston Public Schools, outlining new direction and priorities for “closing access and achievement gaps and graduating all BPS students from high school>”
“The days of business as usual are over,” said Johnson. “If we intend [...]

An East Boston teen was charged with armed carjacking after allegedly robbing a Revere pizza delivery man of cash and his car Friday, County District Attorney Daniel Conley said today.

Medford nonprofit helps developmentally disabled through creativity

BRISBANE, Australia — An Australian Special Forces Explosives Detection Dog named Sabi has been found alive and well almost 14 months after being declared missing in action in Afghanistan.
The black Labrador retriever, who was trained to detect improvised explosive devices in the Oruzgan province, was recovered by a US soldier at an isolated patrol [...]

One hundred five people including 91 Colby-Sawyer College students were arrested at an illegal party in New London, N.H. Friday night, according to WMUR-TV.
Police told the television station that, of youths arrested, 55 were charged with alcohol possession after the blew above .02 percent blood-alcohol content. Others were released to their parents.
The party’s hosts, three [...]

Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who allegedly went on a deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, has been charged by a military court with 13 counts of premeditated murder, capital offenses under military law.
The Army Criminal Investigation Command told reporters Thursday that additional charges may be pending.
Hasan is now officially the defendant in [...]

Whether it’s fair or not, Brazil is best known for beautiful women, skimpy bikinis, the wildness of Carnaval, and the Brazillian wax. But despite the sexy generalizations, the entire country has erupted in debate over a little red dress.

CNN reported Geisy Arruda, a 20-year-old student at the Bandeirante University (also known as Uniban), was escorted [...]

The University of Massachusetts Amherst student newspaper reported that former United Freedom Front leader Raymond Luc Levasseur said he was denied permission to travel to the University of Massachusetts for the event by the U.S. Parole Board.
Here is a statement released by organizers of the event that Levasseur was scheduled to speak at:
The U.S. Parole [...]

The union representing the UMASS Amherst campus police announced Wednesday that officers who work overtime details required for security if/when Ray Luc Levasseur speaks on campus November 12 will donate all of their pay from that day to a memorial fund set up for a New Jersey state trooper killed in a wave of violence [...]

John Allen Muhammad, the sniper who led a wave of terror in the Washington D.C. area for three weeks in October 2002, was executed Tuesday night in a Virginia prison, the Associated Press reported.
Muhammad and his teenage accomplice shot people, leaving a trail of 10 dead, as they purchased gasoline, went shopping, and mowed their [...]

Studio cuts ties with $550 million financier

According to the US Army, 43 soldiers and civilians were injured in the November 5 shooting rampage at Ft. Hood Texas.
Of those, 34 were injured from gunshot wounds. Fifteen remained in the hospital today, and 19 have been released. Three are still in intensive care. Twelve are in recovery rooms.

Pilot Pen will drop its sponsorship of the annual New Haven professional tennis event, the New Haven Register reported, putting one of the only professional sporting events in Connecticut’s second largest city in jeopardy.
The event will go on next year, August 20-28, but the pen company will drop its sponsorship when its contract is up [...]

The US Army Criminal Investigation Command announced Monday night that it was looking for any military of civilian personnel or any vehicles that may have left the scene of the Building 42003 massacre scene at Fort Hood, Texas.
CID would not speculate but said it was looking for anyone who “may have inadvertently left the scene” [...]

Here is the US Army’s list of victims of the shooting rampage November 5.
Twelve soldiers and one civilian employee were killed.
Lt. Col. Juanita L. Warman, 55, of Havre De Grace, Md. She was assigned to the 1908th Medical Company, Independence, Mo.
Maj. Libardo Caraveo, 52, of Woodbridge, Va. He was assigned to the 467th Medical Detachment, [...]

Emerson College theatre studies student Matthew Starring was only a few credits short of earning his hard-fought degree. A degree he battled to earn even while fighting leukemia for the past two years.
Jackie Liebergott, Emerson’s president, in a campus-wide e-mail, reported that Starring died this week.
“He was a bright and talented young man, earning Dean’s [...]

With only a lone Republican crossing the line and nearly 40 Democrats going turncoat, the House of Representatives still voted, 220-215, tonight to pass a historic health care reform.
Locally, Representative Edward J. Markey (D), issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed a historic bill to reform the health care system Saturday night:
“This [...]

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