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Former Boston Red Sox executive Larry Lucchino has died, according to The Boston Globe and other media outlets. He was 78 years old.

Lucchino served as the team’s president and CEO for 14 years, from 2002 through 2015, a period during which the Red Sox won three World Series. He helped bring together the group led by John Henry and Tom Werner that purchased the team in 2001. He most recently served as chairman and principal owner of the Worcester Red Sox.

He also served as chairman of the Jimmy Fund, the philantropic arm of the Dana-Farber Cancer Insititute. He was a three-time cancer survivor.

Before joining the Red Sox, Lucchino served as president of the Baltimore Orioles from 1988-1993 and president and CEO of the San Diego Padres from 1995-2001.

According to the Red Sox website, Lucchino was born in Pittsburgh, where he was was an All-City League basketball player and second baseman on the Pittsburgh city championship baseball team. He graduated with honors from Princeton University and then graduated from Yale Law School. At Princeton, he was a member of two Ivy League championship basketball teams. He held nine honorary degrees from Suffolk University, Boston University, Bryant University, New England School of Law, Anna Maria College, Palomar College, the University of Massachusetts Boston, Bentley University, and Assumption University.

Lucchino was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in May 2012, the National Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame and the Taylor Allderdice High School Hall of Fame in November 2013, the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in May 2016, and the San Diego Padres Hall of Fame in July 2022.

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The Boston Planning and Development Agency is about to be retired, and a new agency is set to take its place.

Mayor Michelle Wu plans to sign an ordinance Tuesday to put the plan into motion.

Under Wu’s outlined plan, this new planning department will still perform some of the same roles the current Planning and Development Agency does now, but this new ordinance expands their responsibilities.

The new department will have four divisions: planning, design, development review and real estate. Each in their own way will be focused on affordability and equity to address “Boston’s urgent and long-term needs.”

Current employees will be transferred to the department, when the change takes place next fiscal year.

Despite passing at City Hall by an 8 to 3 vote last week, some members called the whole process contentious, saying the vote for this ordinance seemed rushed and undemocratic.

Wu will be joined by city leaders in the West End Tuesday morning to explain what can be expected from this new department.

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The police chief in Canton, Massachusetts, is addressing a case that she’s been involved in.

It’s not the Karen Read case, the controversial murder trial that has divided the town. The chief actually hit someone with her vehicle while driving in Wrentham back in February. But she’s only now making a public statement about it.

Canton Police Chief Helena Rafferty was cited at the time for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

Wrentham police released photos of Rafferty’s town-owned Ford Explorer that was involved in the pedestrian crash back on Feb. 16.

Rafferty said she was driving home at about 6:30 at night, attempting to make a left-hand turn from South Street onto Creek Street in Wrentham when her lights caught a man in a reflective vest in the crosswalk.

She said she hit the brakes immediately, but still struck 67-year-old Michael Barry, of Wrentham, who was walking with a cane.

Barry was knocked to the ground and suffered a cut to the head. A witness said Rafferty immediately got out of her SUV and assisted Barry until first responders arrived and transported him to the hospital.

Rafferty requested a breathalyzer test, which the police report and photos show registered a 0.0% blood alcohol content. She said she paid the civil citation for failure to yield, and the only damage to the SUV was a scuff mark.

The police chief did not publicly comment on the accident until Monday – more than six weeks after it happened, and after it had been brought to light by others.

Her statement said in part, “I immediately notified Canton officials as to what happened. This was an unfortunate accident. Upon further reflection and considering the amount of attention that has been focused on Canton, I should have issued a statement sooner.”

Rafferty also expressed her continued concern for how the man she hit is doing, but did not provide an update on his recovery.

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Lawyers representing migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard nearly two years ago by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can sue the charter flight company that transported them to the island off the Massachusetts coast, according to a ruling Monday by a federal judge in Boston.

The 50 Venezuelans were sent to Martha’s Vineyard from San Antonio, Texas, and had been promised work and housing opportunities.

Under Monday’s ruling, the migrants can proceed with their suit against Florida-based Vertol Systems Co., which had agreed to fly them to the island for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

An email to the company seeking comment after the afternoon release of the ruling was not immediately returned.

Also named in the suit is DeSantis, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for president before dropping out in January.

The U.S. District Court of Massachusetts said in its ruling that it does not have jurisdiction over DeSantis in this case.

The court, however, found that the facts of the case “taken together, support an inference that Vertol and the other Defendants specifically targeted Plaintiffs because they were Latinx immigrants.”

The DeSantis administration noted that the judges’ order dismissed the state defendants.

“As we’ve always stated, the flights were conducted lawfully and authorized by the Florida Legislature,” Julia Friedland, the deputy press secretary for DeSantis, said in a statement. “We look forward to Florida’s next illegal immigrant relocation flight, and we are glad to bring national attention to the crisis at the southern border.”

The court also said that “unlike ICE agents legitimately enforcing the country’s immigration laws … the Court sees no legitimate purpose for rounding up highly vulnerable individuals on false pretenses and publicly injecting them into a divisive national debate.”

Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, called the 77-page ruling a major victory in the Martha’s Vineyard case.

He said in a statement that the ruling sends the message that private companies can be held accountable for helping rogue state actors violate the rights of vulnerable immigrants through what it characterized as illegal and fraudulent schemes.

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Two people were shot in Brockton, Massachusetts, early Tuesday morning, according to authorities.

Officers responded to Ash Street at about 12:27 a.m. for reports of gunshots fired, Brockton police said.

When they arrived, officers found the victims at the scene, police said. Their names or conditions weren’t immediately released.

Behind the crime scene tape, video showed two pieces of luggage just at the edge of the driveway to the single-family home.

Brockton police and Massachusetts State Police are investigating the shooting. The Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office is taking the lead on the investigation.

No further information was made available.

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A massive fire broke out in a multi-family building in East Boston early Tuesday morning.

The fire occurred at about 5 a.m. on Meridian Street and traveled to the adjacent building, the Boston Fire Department said.

The heavy smoke filled the neighborhood as firefighters continued to battle the 6-alarm fire, officials said. All members were ordered to evacuate the building.

It’s unclear what started the fire or if anyone was injured.

This story is developing and will be updated once more information becomes available.

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