Federal judge grants injunction in Boston redistricting case: ‘The ball is back in the City Council’s court’ bostonglobe.com/2023/05/08/met… via The Boston Globe

Boston city councilors struggled with redistricting the first time. Now they have to do it again. bostonglobe.com/2023/05/09/met… via The Boston Globe

A Boston police officer has been sentenced to two months in jail after being found guilty of intentionally buying hundreds of dollars worth of Home Depot gift cards from an employee allegedly running a theft-and-return scheme bostonglobe.com/2023/05/09/met…

Welcome to the Edgewater Food Forest in Mattapan, a converted vacant lot that where people can come for a walk or to pick berries, figs or more: bostonglobe.com/2023/05/13/met…

At the current pace of hiring and retention, it will take the MBTA 10+ years to meet its staffing goal for next fiscal year (starts July 1). bostonglobe.com/2023/05/12/met…

Authorities on Monday recovered the body of 4-year-old Mohamed Abou Fofana on the shoreline of Spectacle Island, bringing a tragic end to an intensive law enforcement search that started Sunday night when the boy went missing from Castle Island bostonglobe.com/2023/05/15/met…

Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office says it’s investigating the Boston Police Department’s gang unit and gang database after it received allegations of racially biased policing bostonglobe.com/2023/05/15/met…

Rachael Rollins to step down as US Attorney for Massachusetts following ethics probe bostonglobe.com/2023/05/16/met…

Dispatcher and call-taker staffing levels plunged during the pandemic and have been slow to rebound, leading to a vicious cycle, workers say, of overwork and burnout for a key part of the public safety apparatus around the state: bostonglobe.com/2023/05/26/met…

The 4 sexual-assault charges against Matthew Nilo from 2007 and 2008 are a culmination of two new initiatives: forensic genetic genealogy & Boston Police’s revisiting of old rape kits — the latter of which has led to six men charged in years-old assaults: bostonglobe.com/2023/06/04/met…

Variety of Boston public-safety union negotiation news: The state has moved to take jurisdiction of the patrolmen and fire negotiations, bringing them toward arbitration; the superior officers have filed for arbitration to do the same; EMS has a contract: bostonglobe.com/2023/06/13/met…

Boston city council passes $4.2 billion operating budget that would cut BPD by $31 million bostonglobe.com/2023/06/14/met… via The Boston Globe

A tip from the ex of an alleged dealer of human body parts in Central Pennsylvania was the first pull on the string that unraveled what authorities say was conspiracy to steal and sell cadavers from the Harvard Medical School morgue, per Dugan Arnett & me: bostonglobe.com/2023/06/17/met…

Judge keeps Jack Jones’ bail at $30k, which he posted over the weekend. No conditions of release because he doesn’t have a passport.

New England Patriots cornerback Jack Jones, who was arrested last week on suspicion of attempting to bring guns through airport security, was released on bail Tuesday after pleading not guilty in East Boston Municipal Court to multiple weapons charges bostonglobe.com/2023/06/20/met…

NEW: The state’s shelter system has become so overburdened that Governor Maura Healey is preparing to take action as early as this week in the form of an emergency declaration, which some shelter directors say is much needed. w/ Sean Cotter bostonglobe.com/2023/08/07/met…

Among the complaints were an ex-Beverly officer who posed “in a Hitler salute,” a college officer who inappropriately touched a dispatcher, and a Worcester officer who made comments about Barack Obama + a bomb during ’14 visit bostonglobe.com/2023/08/22/met… w/ Sean Cotter @MissRyley