Boston Metro reports the School Committee voted unanimously tonight to make free condoms available to all BPS high-school students "as long as they sit through a few minutes of counseling about safe sex."

Students at 19 high schools with on-site health centers were already able to obtain condoms; the vote extends distribution to the rest of the city's 32 public high schools.

Boston Police report a man was shot repeatedly as he sat in a car outside 212 Norwell St. Tuesday evening with a woman and a child.

The man was taken to Boston Medical Center and is expected to survive, police say.

According to the woman, who, like the child, was unhurt, a black SUV pulled up beside them around 7 p.m. and somebody in that vehicle opened fire.

The day before, a man and a woman sitting in a car at Devon Street and Vaughan Avenue were both shot in the leg as an infant sat in a car seat behind them.

Scammed. Map via BPD.

Boston Police report more than three dozen small businesses in the Boston area have been scammed out of thousands of dollars in recent months by callers claiming to be from NStar or National Grid and threatening to shut off their electricity or gas unless the business owners immediately buy prepaid payment cards.

What makes the ruse believable, police say, is that the callers often know the exact amount the businesses actually do owe on their NStar or National Grid accounts in the current billing cycle, even if they are not overdue.

Patrick Barry was arraigned today for the second of two assault/stabbing cases on Mission Hill, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

A spokesman adds, "Investigators are reviewing other open sexual assaults for potential links, but no other charges have been sought at this point."

On June 1, three women were jumped on or near Phillips Street on Beacon Hill, . Police say this video possibly shows the attacker in that case - whom one victim described as being in his late 20s or early 30s, however.

A forum on Thursday will give the dozen people running for mayor another shot at explaining their plans for education in Boston.

The forum starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Rabb Lecture Hall at the BPL main branch in Copley Square. Sponsors are EdVestors, Teach Plus, MassINC, the Boston Foundation and Massachusetts 2020.

Splash, which recently reopened after a burst water pipe caused major interior damage several months ago, has had enough with the water theme and is changing its name to Bliss.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to allow the name change for the Kneeland Street club. Nobody spoke in opposition at a hearing this morning.

Splash's attorney, William Ferullo, told the board this morningthat no major changes were made or planned, except for new furniture and paint required as part of the recovery from the flood.

NorthEndWaterfront.com has the scoop and a copy of a Superior Court judge's denial of a request by the city's only Segway tour company for a preliminary injunction against a city ordinance restricting where his vehicles can go.

Heading home after lunch with my inamorato, I was caught in the afternoon rainstorm. I boarded the CT1 bus at the corner of Huntington Ave and Massachusetts Ave. The CT1 is the "Express" version of the #1 bus that runs all the way from Harvard Square, Cambridge down Mass Ave to Dudley Square in Roxbury. It has fewer stops than the regular #1 bus.

Me (boarding): "Does this bus stop at Tremont Street?"
Driver: "Hmm ... Well ..."
Me: "Not sure?"
Driver: "Not sure."
Me: "Let's see what happens?"
Driver: "Let's see what happens."

It may not have been his regular route.

FYI: It does!

Boston Ward 4 Dems snapped the latest BU Bridge/Grand Junction casualty: A truck whose driver apparently and rather suddenly lost the ability to read, right in the middle of the evening rush hour today. On the eastbound side, at least.