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A woman who claims Backpage.com allowed her to be sold for sex as a minor will be able to sue the website despite arguments that federal law and recent precedent should bar her case, according to a Massachusetts federal judge.The 18-year-old woman, who says she was sold for sex “in Massachusetts and Florida through various means, including Backpage.com,” can continue her suit against the company because she alleged that it changed the content of an ad she was listed in — a claim that, if true, could render the website vulnerable.

The city added a second ambulance to East Boston after wait times for top-priority calls there spiked to 8 minutes, a full 2 minutes more than the department’s target for critical emergencies.Boston EMS chief Jim Hooley said the new ambulance has been staffed day and evenings since March 12.Call times in East Boston for reports of heart attacks, difficulty breathing, “man down” or other critical incidents had jumped to 8 minutes, while the goal for the top-priority incidents is 6 minutes, Hooley said.

A 24-year-old New Hampshire man is being hailed as a hero after pulling a baby and a toddler from a burning apartment early yesterday morning, fire officials said.Devin Isaacs was among the tenants of a four-unit building at The Village at Crafts Hill Apartments in West Lebanon, N.H., who fled the blaze that was first reported about 1:55 a.m., Lebanon fire Chief Chris Christopoulos said. But before evacuating the building, Christopoulos said Isaacs rescued two little girls, ages 18 months and 3, from the first-floor apartment where the fire broke out.

A husband and wife from Texas will be held without bail for four months as authorities continue to investigate why they had an arsenal including an AK-47, an AR-15 with a grenade launcher, a large-capacity shotgun, a bump stock and numerous rounds of ammunition in their Tewksbury hotel room.Francho S. Bradley, 59, and his common-law wife, Adrianne Jennings, 40, both of Frisco, Texas, were ordered held after a dangerousness hearing in Lowell District Court, six days after the weaponry was found in their room.

Thousands of Boston-area anime fans are expected to swarm the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center this weekend for the eighth annual Anime Boston convention.The event, which runs through tomorrow, will draw a massive crowd of anime fans, many of whom will be outfitted as their favorite character from the world of Japanese animation.

The secret payroll for state cops at Logan International Airport has been cracked open revealing eight troopers took home $1 million or more since 2014, a stunning haul one fiscal watchdog said left him feeling disgusted.“I have a very emotional reaction to this,” said Greg Sullivan, the state’s former inspector general. “A monopoly at Troop F has ended up making millionaires out of a few state troopers.”The 140-member squad took home $32.5 million in pay last year — with about $9.5 million going to overtime, records show.

Two men were shot — one of them fatally — a block apart in Dorchester yesterday morning, police said.Minutes after 9 a.m., a ShotSpotter gunshot detection and location service detecting five to six rounds led officers to Wayland Street, where they found a 35-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest, police Commissioner William B. Evans said.The officers began chest compressions on the victim until an ambulance arrived and rushed him to Boston Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, Evans said.

One state trooper pulled down more than $351,000 last year working at Logan Airport and another pocketed $309,000, new payroll figures released today show.The troopers, and many more, had their pay hidden from public view due to an old payroll arrangement with Massport and the Troop F squad. 

Two men were shot — one of them fatally — a block apart in Dorchester this morning, police said.Shortly after 9 a.m., a ShotSpotter gunshot detection and location service detecting five to six rounds led officers to Wayland Street, where they found a 35-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest, Police Commissioner William B. Evans said.The officers began chest compressions on the victim until an ambulance arrived and rushed him to Boston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, Evans said.

PITTSFIELD — A former employee of a now-closed western Massachusetts school for boys with autism and behavioral disorders has been sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to assaulting a student.The Berkshire Eagle reports that 57-year-old James Swift is the first of nearly 20 former employees of the Eagleton School in Great Barrington to be sent to jail in the case.Prosecutors say in January 2016, Swift punched a 19-year-old autistic student in the face after the student became upset.