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Laquaysia Anderson-Jenkins walked into the Boston Municipal Court in Roxbury on a recent fall day because a state agency was suing her over a $12,000 student loan.

On Dec. 4, Bridgette Wallace walked through the Victorian home at 43 Hutchings St. She made note of the various interior features that will remain unchanged when the property is transformed into a “state-of-the-art tech center” for 14 young Black, brown, and Indigenous women and non-binary people of color.

Gathered at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 17 training center in Dorchester, health care workers and community members voiced their concerns about the abrupt closure of Carney Hospital and offered solutions for what could come next for the shuttered facility during a neighborhood listening session last Thursday.

Since the December 6 arrest of District 7 City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson on federal corruption charges, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and five of her Council colleagues have called on her to step down.

Boston-based attorney Stephen Hall was recently hired as a trial partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.

The agency leading Brockton’s revitalization is struggling. Operations ceased this fall.

Minister Don Muhammad, the decades-long leader of the Nation of Islam’s Boston headquarters and a confidant of Minister Louis Farrakhan died Tuesday. He was 87.

This year, Massachusetts received $144 million in federal funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, which helps select households reduce the costs of heating their homes in the winter.

As evening fell on Dec. 5, over a hundred Boston teens packed into a warmly lit space down the block from Boston City Hall.

This Sunday, DeeDee’s Cry, a Boston-based organization dedicated to creating safe spaces for conversations about mental health, depression, and suicide prevention in communities of color, will host its annual toy giveaway for the fifth consecutive year in partnership with the Roxbury Unity Parade.

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson was arrested on federal charges Friday, accused of hiring a family member against city rules and then taking some of that family member’s bonus pay for herself.

On Nov. 19, a branch of Brockton’s School Committee published an accounting of last school year. Brockton spent $7.23 million less than the state minimum allows.