Tonight's "Beat the Press" is scheduled to discuss the Amanda Knox verdict:

After being convicted of murder, much of the reporting by the US media sided with Knox, questioning the fairness of the Italian justice system. Was it similar to the British coverage of the Louise Woodward verdict?

Hey, here's an idea for this Boston-based show: How about examining why the US media seems more fascinated with some woman 5,000 miles away than with dramatic cases closer to home? The same day Knox was convicted, a Suffolk County jury convicted Demetrius Wardsworth of murdering a man at a Roxbury housing project simply because he and his buddy felt like killing somebody. They didn't even know the guy they shot to death. The Globe had a longish story on Knox; a short brief on Wardsworth. What is it about pretty young white women?

An MBTA bus was traveling at a low rate of speed down Huntington Avenue shortly after midnight. when it hit a man now in the ICU, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.

State Police homicide investigators have joined MBTA Transit Police in trying to figure out what happened on Huntington Avenue near the Prudential Center because there is a possibility the victim, identified only as a 54-year-old man, could die, the DA's office say.

According to a statement:

Preliminary findings suggest that the bus was travelling at a low rate of speed at the time of the collision. Civilian witnesses told investigators that the victim was seen running toward the bus as the bus was turning onto Ring Road. The operator of the bus told investigators that he felt an impact and immediately stopped the bus.

The bus driver, 50, will undergo routine drug and alcohol testing, although investigators did not find any preliminary evidence he was impaired, according to the DA's office.

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that teachers who chaperone ski trips shouldn't have to worry about medical bills if they suffer their own ski injuries while monitoring slaloming students.

The ruling comes in the case of a Peabody math teacher injured during a 2004 ski trip - whose medical bills the city of Peabody had refused to pay.

Karen Sikorski, a math teacher at Peabody High School, suffered a shoulder injury that required two operations and physical therapy on Jan. 24, 2004. The city which is self insured, argued she was skiing "recreationally" at the time and refused to reimburse her for her treatment.

But the justices ruled ruled that even though Sikorski volunteered to chaparone the annual student trip, at the time she fell she was performing a work duty: Supervising the students (she was even carrying a school walkie-talkie at the time to call for help if a student was injured):

First, it was customary for teachers to serve as chaperones for the ski club's trips and to perform many of their functions as teachers while they did. The chaperones were responsible for supervising student behavior, enforcing school rules, and monitoring student safety. These supervisory responsibilities are essentially the same ones teachers must exercise while working in the school building during school hours. In order to fulfil these responsibilities while the students were skiing, the chaperones were expected to ski with the students. Indeed, accompanying the students on the ski slopes was the only effective way to monitor the students while they skied. Furthermore, at the time of the employee's injury, she was skiing with the students she was charged with monitoring, rather than skiing recreationally on her own.

Complete decision.

The MBTA reports "record low levels" of subway speed restrictions due to track problems - only eight minutes and 42 seconds last month, down from a high of 135 minutes in 2003. No word if all that time is lost again in delays caused by switching problems, though.