The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld a man's conviction for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for kicking his young daughter in the chest hard enough to send her flying to the floor in a drugstore. Read more.

On the way back from picking the kidlet up at school in western Mass., we detoured a bit up to Brattleboro, VT - a very interesting place, a bit like Northampton, only with more Subarus, and a bridge that lets you walk into New Hampshire. And we noticed we weren't the only Bostonians to have ever visited. The Not Art guy had been up there at some point and left some of his handiwork. But as you can see, a Brattleboro burgher was having none of it.

The report released yesterday on Stanley Rosenberg and his now estranged husband left him little choice. His resignation letter.

Valerie Vande Panne checks in from Oklahoma, reports a sense of unease.

Meghan captured a hydrant shoveler at work in Medford today.

Meanwhile, Thor Olsen shows us just how deep the snow got in one of those snow bands out in Groton: Read more.

In 2014, UMass Amherst senior James Haidak made headlines with a lawsuit alleging the college sexually discriminated against him for expelling him in what he said was a he said/she said case involving a UMass student he'd been dating.

Yesterday, a federal judge in Boston threw out his suit, saying that while UMass made a mistake in its disciplinary proceedings by delaying them five months, in part because of summer break, Haidak deserved everything he got. Read more.

UMass Amherst students gathered on the plaza at the base of the high rises of Southwest quad last night for the traditional post-sportsball riot, which this year resulted in at least 12 people being taken to the hospital and six being arrested after campus, Amherst and State Police in riot gear and on horseback dispersed the crowd with the aid of at least one shot of PepperBall, the school reports. Read more.

The Telegram reports Worcester officials have proposed more than $500 million in tax breaks to entice Amazon to move to there, as well as a 20-year holiday from personal-property taxes. The city would also throw $1 million at Amazon to train workers.

Littleton Police report the death this afternoon of the bull that had been wandering the countryside for several days after it escaped a livestock auction. Read more.

When the heat gets too hot, Worcester and Needham Line trains have to go extra slow because, of course, the tracks weren't designed to handle regular-speed trains in the heat. Or as Goodband-C puts it when talking about what is normally 33-minute ride on the Needham Line:

Crawling into South Station a quick 80 minute trip from Hersey.