Two conduct findings in one week, two very different endings. What each judge was found to have done, why an agreed resignation ends an investigation, and why the strongest ordinary sanction in Massachusetts leaves a judge on the bench.
An hour of public comment, signs reading "homelessness is not a crime," and a one-week delay. Why an ordinance that conditions enforcement on a shelter offer turns the bed count into an enforcement precondition.
Paid leave leaves an officer his badge and his gun. A POST suspension does not. What Case No. 2026-051 does, why the firearm question could not wait, and how the criminal case, the internal investigation and the certification proceeding can reach three different answers.
Probable cause is not guilt, a closed hearing produced a public case, and a Brockton matter is now a Hingham one. What G.L. c. 218, § 35A allows, why prosecutors hand off cases involving officials, and what happens on September 28.
A universal newborn home visit, a doctor support line, and a screening regulation. None of it touches criminal law. The gap between the policy response and the all-or-nothing verdict structure that produced a hung jury.
A routine continuance, an unusual defendant. Why prosecutors agreed, why first-offender OUI law rewards early treatment, and the unanswered question of whether an open internal investigation tolls a suspension held in abeyance.
He said she came at him with a closed fist. He admitted the headbutt. The domestic assault statute, the witness intimidation felony, the six-hour hold, the 209A firearm consequence, and how a lieutenant's job and certification survive a criminal case, or do not.
The camera saw the approach, the kick and the blows. It did not hear the slur. What the released footage does for each charge, why police put it out, and what the defense can do with it.
The eighteenth documented Massachusetts community to leave Flock, and the clearest statement yet that the vendor's data handling, not the cameras' usefulness, is the reason.
Data centers are an unprotected industrial use, which means a two-thirds town meeting vote can exclude them. The order, the moratorium case, the grandfathering rule, and the middle path most towns will choose.
