By Brian Ballou and John R. Ellement, Globe Staff

BROCKTON -- A man charged with committing a murder here Tuesday afternoon would have been behind bars, but he was free because his drug dealing conviction had been tossed out after it was discovered that disgraced state chemist Annie Dookhan handled the evidence and testified at his trial, officials said today. Donta Hood, 22, appeared today in Brockton District Court, where he pleaded not guilty to charges he fatally shot 45-year-old Charles Evans on Belmont Street Tuesday in one of six homicides in the city so far this year.

By Todd Feathers, Globe Correspondent

State Police have opened one lane of traffic on Interstate 128 near Dedham after a five-car crash paralyzed the southbound highway, according to the official State Police Twitter account.

The drivers of the tractor trailer, dump truck, and three cars involved in the crash were not injured, the Tweets said, warning drivers to expect a “extensive traffic delay” and seek alternate routes.

By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff

Catherine E. Greig was properly sentenced to eight years in federal prison for helping her long-time love James “Whitey’’ Bulger remain on the run from racketeering and murder charges for 16 years, a federal court ruled today.“On June 22, 2011, Greig’s many years of harboring Bulger came to an end,’’ Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel. “Our consideration of her claimed errors has similarly reached its conclusion...Greig’s sentence stands.’’

By Maria Cramer, Globe Staff

Two officials say Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left behind a note in the boat where he was captured after a massive manhunt. Praising Allah, he said he would be joining his brother soon and identified himself as one of the bombers, two officials with knowledge of the note said.

By Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff

Lawyers for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect want to be able to take pictures of the 19-year-old now and over time to show evidence of his injuries and his “evolving mental and physical state,” according to a filing in federal court in Boston. As the defense team for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev argues against the death penalty, it would use the photo evidence to challenge whether he was fit enough to voluntarily provide statements to investigators just after his arrest, according to the filing.

By Todd Feathers, Globe Correspondent

Powerball lottery tickets are generating the kind of gravitational pull that only unprecedented fortunes can, as the jackpot soared slightly above $600 million, setting a new record.

The astronomical odds for the prize, 1 in 175 million, are not scaring away buyers, who are flocking to stores across Massachusetts. Just before noon Friday, state lottery spokeswoman Beth Bresnahan sais she was watching “mesmerized” as proceeds from Powerball tickets ticked up past $911,000 for the day, at a rate of more than $6,000 per minute.

By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff

In a major medical milestone, Transit Police Officer Richard “Dic” Donohue has now moved to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, 28 days after he was rushed, nearly lifeless, to Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. Donohue was shot in Watertown on April 19 as he and other police officers faced off against Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The showdown ended with Tamerlan mortally wounded when shot by police and run over by his brother as he fled the scene in a car.

By Shelley Murphy and John R. Ellement, Globe Staff

Attorneys for James “Whitey” Bulger today said they do not want federal prosecutors conducting criminal history checks on prospective jurors in Bulger’s upcoming racketeering and murder trial in US District Court in Boston. In court papers filed today, attorneys J.W. Carney Jr. and Henry Brennan said the request made Thursday by US Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s office is a waste of court resources. Moreover, they wrote, the existence of a criminal record, by itself, should not be a bar to jury service.

By Haven Orecchio-Egresitz, Globe Correspondent

Approximately 4,400 homes lost power in the Houghs Neck and Germantown neighborhoods in Quincy when a vehicle crashed into a utility pole on Sea Street Thursday night, according to National Grid Spokeswoman, Jackie Barry.

National Grid was working to restore power to 800 homes during the night, but the remainder would remain without electricity until repairs could be made, she said.

By Peter DeMarco, Globe Correspondent

Sean Collier had many loves in life, from hiking to police work, the Patriots to country music. And, as friends attest, he was forever fond of a good beer. That is why, nearly a month after the MIT police officer’s tragic death, allegedly at the hands of the Boston Marathon bombers, news that Cambridge Brewing Company in Kendall Square is creating a beer in Collier’s honor -- “Collier Stout”-- is giving those who loved him reason to smile.

By Evan Allen, Globe Correspondent

Tortured for years by memories of the sexual abuse he allegedly suffered at the hands of a close family friend, 17-year-old Marco Tulio Flores finally snapped after finding a photograph of his young nephew in the man’s apartment. In what prosecutors said was a case of vigilante justice, Flores went to Jaime Galdamez’s East Boston apartment on May 22, 2011, armed with a knife and a dog chain, interrogated Galdamez, and got him to admit on camera what he had done. Then he killed him and burned down his home.

By Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff

A federal jury in Boston today began deliberating in the case of John M. Analetto, the Massachusetts State Police trooper charged with two counts of extortion. The 12-member jury began deliberating just before noon today, after the testimony of three witnesses over two days. Analetto, 49, of Belmont, a trooper for more than 20 years, is charged with extorting payments from a bookmaker whom Analetto had loaned $24,000, by threatening to beat him, and, in one case, kill him.

By Travis Andersen and Maria Cramer, Globe Staff

The seven people who were allegedly trespassing at the Quabbin ­Reservoir in Ware early Tuesday are not tied to any other criminal activity, State Police said today. In a statement, spokesman David Procopio said the five men and two women found inside the reservoir were cleared after a “thorough investigation.”

By Todd Feathers, Globe Correspondent

A Roxbury woman who allegedly threatened to press charges against a lawyer who brushed her with his car unless he gave her $7,000 for breast enhancement surgery has been arraigned on extortion charges, prosecutors said. A not-guilty plea was entered on behalf of 24-year-old Deborah Yi in South Boston District Court on one count of extortion by false claim, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office said in a statement.

By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff

Federal prosecutors asked a judge today to grant them permission to conduct criminal background checks of jurors at the upcoming trial of gangster James “Whitey” Bulger. In its motion, prosecutors noted that in another high-profile federal case in Boston, a federal judge set aside a jury’s verdict recommending the death penalty for convicted carjacker and killer Gary Lee Sampson after it was discovered that a juror failed to disclose information during jury selection.

By Lauren Dezenski, Globe Correspondent

Two people who bought lottery tickets in Massachusetts are millionaires, but who they are is still a mystery. Though no one won last night’s Powerball jackpot, two individuals who purchased Powerball tickets at Pittsfield and Andover convenience stores have won the game’s second-tier prize of $1 million, the Massachusetts Lottery said. A horde of other hopefuls nationwide were not so lucky, but the surge in ticket sales boosted the jackpot for this weekend’s drawing to $550 million, up from $360 million last night.

By Todd Feathers, Globe Correspondent

Fishermen are famous for telling good stories. Now, one of New England’s most prestigious fishing tournaments is instituting a strict policy intended to distinguish what’s factual from what’s fishy: Anglers must submit to a polygraph test to claim their prizes. The Winni Derby, held May 17 to 19 on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, offers more than $50,000 in total winnings and a grand prize of $12,500, according to the tournament’s website.

By Lauren Dezenski, Globe Correspondent

Today’s warm temperatures and high winds may feel nice, but they’ve also created conditions for fires to start and spread. Thanks to gusty winds between 30 and 40 miles per hour and low humidities, the National Weather Service issued a hazardous weather outlook for the entire state, warning of fire weather conditions lasting through tonight.

By Todd Feathers, Globe Correspondent

A high-ranking IRS official embroiled in a burgeoning scandal surrounding the agency’s targeting of conservative organizations has canceled her appearance as the keynote speaker at the Western New England University School of Law’s commencement ceremony, school officials said. Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS’s tax-exempt organizations division, notified the school of her decision Wednesday, five days after she publicly acknowledged that her agency had wrongly singled out groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their name for additional scrutiny.

By Brian MacQuarrie and Brian Ballou, Globe Staff

On the one-month anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, the scene for much of today at the site of the first explosion could have passed as a Boylston Street tableau on any typical weekday. Business people and tourists, students and residents, strolled or hurried past the place where a shrapnel-filled pressure cooker created carnage only steps from the finish line. Few stopped at the spot, and few hints of its significance could be found there.

By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

The state’s highest court has ordered a new trial in a lawsuit brought against two property owners by a man who was paralyzed when he jumped from a trampoline into a backyard wading pool in Framingham. Cleber Coleta Dos Santos had unsuccessfully sued Maria A. and Jose T. Coleta, who owned the Framingham home and set up the trampoline next to the pool.

By Todd Feathers, Globe Correspondent

A Lynn pastor accused of sexually assaulting five children over several years was released after posting $25,000 cash bail following his arraignment in Lynn District Court, prosecutors said. An automatic not-guilty plea was entered Tuesday on behalf of Daniel Lopez, 62, on seven counts of indecent assault and battery of a child under 14 and one count of rape of a child, said Carrie Kimball-Monahan, a spokeswoman for the Essex County district attorney’s office.

By Mark Arsenault and Todd Wallack, Globe Staff

Payments from The One Fund Boston charity will go to Marathon bombing victims treated as hospital outpatients, in addition to those seriously injured and the families of those killed, according to final rules issued Wednesday for the distribution of the compensation fund. The addition of those treated then released is the principal change to the proposed distribution formula unveiled last week by the fund’s administrator, lawyer Kenneth Feinberg. The One Fund charity has raised more than $30 million so far from individuals and corporations.

By Todd Feathers, Globe Correspondent

A Suffolk County grand jury handed up a 53-count bribery indictment of five Massachusetts Port Authority employees who allegedly accepted bribes from cab drivers in exchange for better spaces in line at the Boston Logan International Airport taxi queue, prosecutors said today. Kenneth Clement, 67, of Attleboro; Michael Garvey, 51, of Melrose; Vadim Mkrtychev, 38, of West Roxbury; James Mulrey, 45, of Canton; and Donald Potis, 47, of Medford face charges.

By Evan Allen, Globe Staff

Climate change activists say protesters in a little white lobster boat flying an American flag blocked a coal delivery today at the Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset, getting in the way of a freighter nearly 700 feet long. “The climate crisis is real, and it’s staring us in the face and we’re not doing anything,” said Marla Marcum, 38, a spokeswoman for the protesters aboard the boat, who said she plans to bail them out of jail later this afternoon.

By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

The state’s highest court has rejected an attempt by the city of Worcester to declare that apartments in two- and three-family homes rented out to four college students were “lodgings” and fell under the state lodging house law. “While we recognize that the city seeks to protect student safety, and apparently regards the apartments at issue here as being the equivalent of dormitories, such concerns are better addressed through enforcement of applicable zoning ordinances and provisions of the sanitary and fire safety codes,” the Supreme Judicial Court said.

By Todd Feathers, Globe Correspondent

Two bottlenose dolphins that were rescued after becoming stranded on a Dennis beach earlier this week have died after beaching again in Yarmouth. The International Fund for Animal Welfare examined and released the dolphins, a male and female, into open water after finding the two animals beached on Crowes Pasture Beach in Dennis around 4 p.m. Monday, IFAW spokeswoman Kerry Branon said.

By James Vaznis, Globe Staff

A Worcester charter school is facing probation less than four years after it opened because of weak academic results, declining enrollment, and unstable finances. The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will decide whether to place the Spirit of Knowledge Charter School on probation at its monthly meeting next Tuesday. The move could eventually lead to the school’s closure if it fails to fix its problems. Paula Bailey, the school’s executive director, said it already is taking steps to address the concerns.

By Lauren Dezenski, Globe Correspondent

It’s not clear what led to a Brockton man being fatally shot in the chest late Tuesday afternoon, officials said. Brockton police responded just after 4 p.m. to reports of multiple gunshots and a man shot, lying in the driveway on Belmont Street, Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz and Brockton Police Chief Emmanuel Gomes said.

By Lauren Dezenski, Globe Correspondent

Police are hoping the public can help identify a man suspected of robbing five customers in separate incidents at a Lowell bank ATM since January, Lowell police said. The suspect has surprised customers using the ATM at the Washington Street Savings Bank on Middlesex and Central streets, Lowell Police Department Deputy Superintendent Arthur Ryan said. “Our concern is that the robberies seem to escalate in violence,” Ryan said.

By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

Boston police are looking for four suspects in an armed home invasion this morning in Roxbury that led to a 16-year-old girl being briefly kidnapped. A female caller reported at about 1:25 a.m. that four masked male suspects wearing hooded sweatshirts had forced their way into her home on New Whitney Street, kidnapped her daughter, and stolen a TV, a Sony Playstation, and her white Toyota Sienna van.

By Winston Wiley, Telegram & Gazette Staff

A busy night for firefighters — beginning with a string of trash bin fires — culminated with a three-alarm blaze that destroyed a Sunderland Road farm building. The fire, reported at 10:30 last night, destroyed Gibson’s Dairy Farm’s warehouse and distribution building at 50 Sunderland Road in Worcester, and damaged three delivery trucks. District Chief John J. Horan said the building was 50 to 60 percent ablaze when firefighters arrived. Firefighters who entered the building to attack the flames were soon told to evacuate.

By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

The head of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority says there’s no evidence of any contamination at the Quabbin Reservoir after seven people were found allegedly trespassing there early Tuesday morning. “We did thorough testing yesterday for a zillion things,” said Fred Laskey, executive director of the MWRA. “All those results are in. All the tests passed.”

By Lauren Dezenski, Globe Correspondent

After another chilly morning, a warm front is on its way, bringing showers this afternoon and highs approaching 80 Thursday, the National Weather Service said. This morning’s lows made it feel more like mid-February than May. Worthington and Springfield bottomed out at 28 degrees, flanked by Orange at 29 degrees, Bedford at 31, and Beverly at 34, meteorologist Bill Simpson said.

By Lauren Dezenski, Globe Correspondent

Expect an active hurricane season this year, with more major hurricanes and tropical storms than usual along the Atlantic coast, AccuWeather.com meteorologists said. Eight hurricanes are forecast and half of them are expected to be major storms, with three of them making landfall in the United States, long-range forecasters from the private company said. Six hurricanes are typical each season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says.

By Todd Feathers, Globe Correspondent

For 64 years, the 12-foot-tall statue of St. Joseph watched from beneath the ground as the city of Salem bustled and grew above it. Local lore had it that the stone colossus was buried somewhere beneath the site of the old St. Joseph Church on Lafayette Street — but the people who said they knew exactly where it was were wrong, said Lisa Alberghini, who runs a Catholic nonprofit that is building a housing and retail development on the plot where the church used to stand. “We had people who saw it buried tell us the area, but even then they told us two or three different general areas,” said Alberghini, president of the Boston-based Planning Office for Urban Affairs.

By Brian Ballou, Globe Staff

After solemnly paying his respects at the memorial dedicated to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, British Prime Minister David Cameron traveled this morning to MIT’s storied Media Lab, where he shared laughs with budding inventors and entrepeneurs. “So how many different bits are there to the media lab?” Cameron asked as he stepped into the robotics laboratory and shook hands with professor Cynthia Breazeal. “How many different different bits? ... How many different groups?’’ Breazeal asked, apparently trying to figure out if Cameron meant bits in the computer sense or in the sense of “parts.”

By Meghan E. Irons, Globe Staff

Like many low-income parents, Hamideh Nilchi can’t afford to go to the museum. She took her 5-year-old daughter to a free event one evening at the Boston Children’s Museum, and the experience had them hooked. Since then, they have not been back. Regular admission costs too much. “I tried to get a library pass, but it always gone,’’ said Nilchi. The Highland Street Foundation, a Newton nonprofit, announced Tuesday that it will give people the chance to walk the Freedom Trail, go scavenger hunting at Tanglewood, or explore aquatic habitats at the Ocean Explorium — for free.

By Todd Wallack, Globe Staff

The One Fund Boston Inc., which has raised more than $30 million to benefit victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, has officially become a tax-exempt nonprofit, according to Dot Joyce, a spokeswoman for Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino. The IRS approval clears the way for the fund to collect millions of dollars in pledges that were contingent on the fund becoming a 501(c)3 nonprofit. The fund has received more than $12 million from individuals and more than $17 million in pledges from corporations.

By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff

A former Brockton man who was allegedly armed when he was shot by the State Police in 2006 was improperly called a “street thug” in a prosecutor’s closing argument, the state’s highest court ruled today as it ordered a new trial for the defendant. In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Judicial Court said trial prosecutor Robert W. Nelson “improperly disparaged the defendant and counsel, and invited the jury to decide the case irrationally and on general terms.’’

By Todd Feathers, Globe Correspondent

Police have captured a state prison inmate who allegedly walked away from his work release job this morning, the Department of Correction said. Freddie Deya, 25, who was a prisoner at the medium-security Northeast Correction Facility, was declared missing at 11:10 a.m., Department of Corrections spokeswoman Cara Savelli said in an e-mail. He was serving 5 to 6 years at the prison for a 2009 assault and battery conviction in Worcester Superior Court, she said.

By Lauren Dezenski, Globe Correspondent

Police do not suspect foul play in the death of a 48-year-old woman whose body was pulled from an Upton pond Monday afternoon, Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said today. Sheryl Mayo’s body was found in Pratt Pond behind her home on Kiwanis Beach Road a short time after she was reported missing Monday afternoon, Early said in a statement. The state medical examiner’s office has not yet determined Mayo’s cause and manner of death.

By Lauren Dezenski, Globe Correspondent

What if you could win both? Two lottery jackpots are up for grabs this week. The prizes add up to more than half a billion dollars, the Massachusetts Lottery says. Someone could win $170 million in the Mega Millions drawing tonight at 11 p.m., while a $350 million prize awaits the winner of the Powerball drawing at 10:59 p.m Wednesday.

By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

British Prime Minister David Cameron said today during a visit to the Boston Marathon bombings memorial on Boylston Street that law enforcement is not the only answer to preventing future terrorist attacks — that efforts must also be made to stop young minds from turning to extremism. “There’s also a side, as I said, of challenging the narrative of violence, of extremism, that we have to get right, to stop young minds being poisoned by this dreadful, radical, extremist narrative. And there’s always more work to do on that.”

By Lauren Dezenski, Globe Correspondent

Now that this morning’s frigid start is behind us, things will only warm up this week. A weak system created more clouds than anticipated overnight, helping to insulate the region from an unwanted freeze. Most of the region — except for Bedford where the temperature dropped to 32 degrees — escaped an overnight freeze that would have been tough on people’s gardens, National Weather Service meteorologist Alan Dunham said today. Worcester reached 39 degrees, thanks to clouds and a light wind, while Boston bottomed out at 44 degrees, he said.

By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff

A Medford woman and a Woburn man have been arrested on charges of running a large-scale human sex trafficking ring out of several massage parlors in communities north of Boston, law enforcement officials said today. Xiu J. Chen, 32, and Ronald Keplin, 57, recruited the women from various locales on the Eastern seaboard, including New York, and held them against their will in “deplorable conditions,” Attorney General Martha Coakley said during a news conference at Wilmington police headquarters.

By Kathy McCabe, Globe Staff

SALEM -- Family, friends, fellow officers, and college officials and students all gathered under a brilliant blue sky on Monday to remember Sean A. Collier, the MIT police officer allegedly gunned down by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, as a smart and loyal alumnus of Salem State University and a fun-loving friend. “Sean’s life is an inspiration to others in our major,” Kristen Kuehnle, chairwoman of the Criminal Justice Department, who also taught Collier, told those attending the ceremony. “He is a role model for others to emulate.”

By Todd Feathers, Globe Correspondent

After pitching in for the Archdiocese of Boston’s annual Parish Service Week today, Cardinal Sean O’Malley visited the class of a Roxbury boy who was killed in a car crash last week. O’Malley and other church officials had already planned to spend the day landscaping, cleaning, and helping with general repairs at St. Patrick Parish in Roxbury before one of the students at St. Patrick School, 12-year-old Barrington “Barry” Brinson, was struck and killed by a van in Allston Thursday, said Terry Donilon, a spokesman for the Archdiocese.

By Globe Staff

A 41-year-old Jamaica Plain man is charged with reckless endangerment of a child as well as drug possession after his baby was allegedly found waiting alone in the car while he was in a Roxbury house that police considered a “known drug location,” police said. Carlos Maldonado was arrested after officers responded to a call at 5:55 p.m. Sunday reporting the child unattended in the car on Greenville Street, Boston police said in a statement.

By Todd Feathers, Globe Correspondent

The Coast Guard helped to rescue four Canadian sailors after their boat lost its mast 350 miles southeast of Cape Cod, a spokeswoman said. The Coast Guard command center in Boston received a distress call around 5:30 p.m. Sunday from Le Romarin II, a Canadian boat en route to Quebec from the Carribbean, said Myeonghi Clegg, the spokeswoman. It was not immediately clear what had caused the boat to lose its mast, she said.