BOSTON (WHDH) – Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Sunday declared a snow emergency starting at 8 a.m. Sunday and announced that Boston Public Schools will be closed on Monday.
Residents are advised that a snow emergency/parking ban will take effect starting at 8 a.m. tomorrow. Once the snow emergency goes into effect, vehicles parked on major roads and main arteries will be towed. The City is urging residents to abide by snow regulations and encouraging all drivers to use caution if traveling. Residents are also encouraged to sign up for emergency notifications through AlertBoston and to call 311 for non-emergency related issues. For any emergency, residents should call 911.
Boston City Hall and other municipal buildings will be closed on Sunday and Monday.
All Boston Public Schools and central offices will be closed Monday due to snow. All BPS extracurricular activities, sports, and programs on Sunday and Monday will also be canceled.
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“Boston is preparing for the snow, and we need everyone to help stay safe and check on your neighbors, family, and friends,” said Mayor Michelle Wu. “Our city workers will be working around the clock throughout the storm, and we ask everyone to make plans to stay inside and stay off the roads wherever possible to give our crews the space to clear the roads and respond to emergencies.”
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A Weymouth man was arrested on several drug trafficking charges Sunday following the culmination of a multi-agency investigation.
Edgar Baez-De La Rosa, 38, faces two counts each of trafficking in a Class A controlled substance and Class B controlled substance, according to Boston Police.
The BPD Drug Control United, the Norfolk County Police Anti-Crime Task Force, and the Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force executed the warrant at an apartment on Kerwin St. in Dorchester.
When officers entered the apartment, they located Baez-De La Rosa and took him into custody without incident, BPD said in a statement.
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Police recovered more than 340 grams of fentanyl (including over 1,700 pills), 800 grams of cocaine, and almost 500 grams of methamphetamine, totaling about 1,600 pills, BPD said.
In addition to the drugs, officers said they discovered a “large amount” of cash in U.S. dollars at the apartment as well as digital scales, multiple cell phones, IDs, and drug packing materials.
Baez-De La Rosa is expected to be arraigned in Dorchester District Court.
Incident Summary
BPD responded to 170 incidents in the 24-hour period ending at 10 a.m. Monday, according to the department’s incident log. Those included one robbery, six aggravated assaults, two commercial burglaries, one residential burglary, one larceny from a vehicle, 14 miscellaneous larcenies, and two auto thefts.
Arrests
All of the below-named defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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— Colin O’Brien, no address listed. Assault and battery on a family/household member.
— Erik Scanlan, no address listed. Felony breaking and entering at nighttime.
Other graduate programs in Sargent College, School of Law, and School of Public Health also score high in rankings
Boston University’s Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences retained U.S. News & World Report’s nod as the best occupational therapy program in the United States, while other BU schools boast programs that are among the top 10 in their fields. Photo by Above Summit for Boston University Photography.
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Other graduate programs in Sargent College, School of Law, and School of Public Health also score high in rankings
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Boston University’s Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences retained its nation-topping ranking for occupational therapy instruction in U.S. News & World Report’s2026 evaluation of graduate school programs. It’s the fifth consecutive year that the program has claimed the first spot in the magazine’s rankings.
A half-dozen other BU programs cracked the top 10 in their respective disciplines:
The School of Law’s health law program ranked second-best in the country.
Sargent’s speech-language pathology program clocked in at sixth best.
The School of Public Health had four programs in the top 10: epidemiology (seventh), biostatistics (eighth), public health (ninth), and social behavior (also ninth).
“Sargent has a long history of having top-ranked programs,” says Gloria Waters, BU provost, chief academic officer, and former dean of Sargent. “It is rewarding to see the occupational therapy program at the top of the rankings again. This recognition reflects the program’s faculty, support staff, and the college’s commitment to creating impactful educational experiences that translate into real-world outcomes.”
Of the high rankings for the other University programs, Waters says, “Faculty and staff are creating exceptional educational experiences across BU’s schools and colleges every day. Their efforts are not only reflected in national rankings like these, but in the quality of the students that go on to lead in their chosen fields.”
Faculty and staff are creating exceptional educational experiences across BU’s schools and colleges every day.
Depending on the discipline it is evaluating, U.S. News uses different assessment methodologies. For rankings of programs in sciences, social sciences, humanities, and health, the magazine relies on peer assessment surveys.
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By contrast, for schools of business, education, engineering, law, medicine, and nursing, the rankings are based on two types of data, U.S. News says: “expert opinion about program excellence, and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school’s academic productivity and postgraduate outcomes.” Last fall and early this year, the magazine sent schools the statistical surveys and sent peer assessments to academics and professionals in the fields being evaluated.
The peer assessments asked deans, program directors, and senior faculty to rank the academic quality of programs in their disciplines, from 5 (outstanding) to 1 (marginal). U.S. News buttressed those evaluations with surveys of professionals hiring or working with recent graduates in certain fields.
It’s been a dry, breezy start to the week here in the Boston area. As we continue moving through this afternoon, the sun will be in and out of the clouds, but it should remain dry through the evening.
Winds will gust up to 25-30 mph at times. Highs should reach the low 50s today. Tonight, low temperatures will be in the low to mid 30s.
As Tuesday rolls in, a weak disturbance will push into the area, giving way to a rain/snow mix. Yes, a little snow!
Areas along and north of the Massachusetts Turnpike will have the best chance of seeing a few passing snowflakes and flurries Tuesday morning. But a few flakes will drift south of the Pike from time to time as well. Some snow could also mix with rain later in the evening as the system wraps up and moves away from our region.
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A light coating of snow is possible tomorrow, especially along and north of the Pike and across Worcester Hills and the higher terrain, mainly on grassy and elevated surfaces. But we don’t expect major problems as our temperatures climb from the 30s into the 40s and 50s by afternoon. In other words, the snow won’t stick around. Otherwise, we’ll see mostly cloudy skies Tuesday.
Wednesday will be the coolest day of the week. In fact, it will feel like winter all over again Wednesday morning! Temps will start the day in the mid to upper 20s. Highs will reach the upper 40s by afternoon under mostly sunny skies. Our high temperatures rebound into the 50s and 60s by Thursday and Friday with sunshine. A few showers are possible on Saturday.