A 14-year-old was arrested this weekend for allegedly shooting a man in Worcester, Massachusetts, police said.

The teenage boy was arrested Saturday on charges including armed assault to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, Worcester police said Monday.

The shooting took place about 6:20 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 23, police said — officers were alerted by the city’s ShotSpotter system and went to Mt. Vernon Street, and were later told that a wounded 25-year-old man went to a local hospital.

Police haven’t shared more information about the incident, including what condition the gunshot victim was in, and they didn’t name the 14-year-old who is now facing charges — police typically don’t identify youths who will be tried in juvenile court.

At times, some Massachusetts laws seem a bit crazy. Antiquated rules surrounding facial hair, sleeping nude, and even how you’re allowed to sing the national anthem are still on the books in Massachusetts. However, as overbearing as they might seem, many of the laws in Massachusetts are in place to help protect people and keep its residents safe.

The newest strange thing I’ve noticed in Massachusetts isn’t a law per say, but it is a great new method to help keep folks safe. It involves a sticker and a mailbox. Yup, that’s it.

Let’s back up a little bit. One of the most important parts of everyday life is receiving your mail. We rely on letter carriers to get us our mail every day and it’s likely one of the most thankless jobs in Massachusetts. We all know the expression, rain, sleet, snow, the mail must go. I can’t imagine it’s the most glamorous job, especially on inclement days. However, bad weather isn’t the only thing that poses a threat to men and women delivering the mail.

Last year in the United States, over 5,800 dog bite injuries were reported to postal workers. In Massachusetts alone, there were well over 100. Knowing the postal service needs to keep their people safe, they developed a relatively simple system to try and keep letter carriers safe from dog attacks.

This is What an Orange or Yellow Paw Print Sticker Means on Your Mailbox

A few years ago, a system involving yellow and orange paw print stickers was developed by the United States Postal Service used to have a program called Paws that placed dog paw stickers on mailboxes to alert mail carriers to the presence of dogs.

An orange sticker on a mailbox means a dog lives at the address, and a yellow sticker means a dog lives at the next address. While the program is technically no longer active, stickers remain on Massachusetts mailboxes. 

The game of volleyball, invented in Massachusetts, was intended as an alternative to basketball, which is also rooted in Massachusetts.

Olympics.com says, “History has it that William G. Morgan, who invented the game of volleyball in 1895, came up with the idea so that people who found basketball’s ‘bumping’ or ‘jolting’ too strenuous could have an alternative physical activity to fall back on.”

Morgan, who served as the physical director at the Young Men’s Christian Association in Holyoke, Massachusetts, “introduced the sport – called mintonette, the original name of volleyball – at the YMCA Physical Director’s Conference a year later at Springfield College, Massachusetts.”

Volleyball “traced its origins” to basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball can be found in the game of volleyball, says Olympic.com. Over 800 million people play volleyball worldwide.

In 2014, the Massachusetts Senate voted to make volleyball the state’s official “recreational and team sport.”

Volleyball is not without controversy these days over the inclusion of trans athletes in the NCAA women’s volleyball program.

Fox Sports reported on a “mass exodus” of players from the San Jose State University women’s program after a “controversy-ridden season involving a trans athlete on the team.”

Basketball was invented in 1891 at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Canadien-American James Naismith, a physical educator, physician, Christian Chaplin, and sports coach.

Basketball was named the official state sport of Massachusetts in August of 2006.

Massachusetts is home to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield and the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke.