At-large Councilor Ayanna Pressley, who attended Boston University in the early 1990s, released a statement today, in advance of a hearing on sexual violence she is holding with follow first-term Councilor Felix Arroyo:

I am a survivor of sexual assault while in college. Mine is a truth shared by 17 million women, and like 90% of other rape survivors, I knew my attacker. Although I have been frank about surviving childhood sexual abuse and adult sexual assault throughout my campaign and first term in office, I want to make it clear that speaking about these episodes is never easy. But living with the mental and emotional scars is even harder. Like all survivors, I have been forced to deal with the feelings of shame, the below-the-surface emotional trauma and the memory of the social isolation in the aftermath of my sexual assault. However, I feel it is my responsibility to speak up about this issue and give voice to the millions who suffer in silence.

Well, three of the four parakeets survived, at any rate, Lee reports.

Boston Police report arresting a cab driver who, they say, played a game of cat and mouse with officers trying to pull him over after they spotted him running a red light at Chelsea Street and Neptune Road in East Boston on Tuesday afternoon.

When the officers pulled behind the cab, the cab would stop and then move up by about 20 feet. The operator of the cab did this three separate times before finally coming to a complete stop. When asked to provide his license and registration, the operator refused to obey the officer's legal instructions. As the suspect verbally disparaged and disrespected the officer, the officers asked him again to produce his license and registration. When he refused again, the suspect was placed under arrest.

Tufts Daily reports on a dorm-room standoff over whether a light should be kept on around 3 a.m. on March 16:

Following the intervention of two TUPD officers, the roommate agreed to turn the light off.