The suit argues that Read's acquittal last June revealed “an embedded culture of bigotry, misogyny, systemic failures, and institutional rot at the very core of both organizations.”

Tyler Brown appeared in in Cambridge District Court on Thursday, three days after prosecutors say he left two people with life-threatening injuries in a shooting incident on Memorial Drive.

The gunman was shot by a Massachusetts State Police officer and a former Marine, and was in a Boston hospital on Monday evening.

MBTA General Manager Phil Eng said transit police responded “promptly and quickly.”

LaMar Cook, 45, of Springfield, has been fired from his state job effective immediately, the governor's office said.

A woman who experienced postpartum psychosis wanted to have another child. Her husband had a valid fear: “What if you kill the kids?”

“We could take them away,” the president said of games in the city that he said were already sold out.

The sentencing wraps up a 9-month saga that began when Fernandes Anderson was arrested last December.

Fernandes Anderson, who represents Roxbury, Dorchester, Fenway and part of the South End, was indicted in December on fraud charges.