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Thousands of protesters are marching from Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Roxbury to the Common today in a student-led march to end gun violence.The March For Our Lives, which will coincide with dozens of other demonstrations nationwide, is in response to a horrific school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month that claimed the lives of 17 people.“We’re not backing off until there’s zero gun deaths,” said Vikiana Petit-Homme, a student at Boston Latin Academy and one of the organizers of the march.

BOSTON — Students and families are marching in communities across Massachusetts as part of a global day of rallies against gun violence and mass shootings.The "March For Our Lives" rally in Boston sets off from Madison Vocational High School in the Roxbury neighborhood on Saturday morning and ends downtown at the Boston Common in the afternoon.

BOSTON — More than 250 exhibitors and 100 experts are descending on Boston this weekend to discuss the country's burgeoning marijuana industry.The New England Cannabis Convention is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at the Hynes Convention CenterThe programming will cover medical marijuana, cannabis business strategies, innovation in growing and marketing, and more.

Following the Parkland tragedy, students across the country joined to create a gun-reform movement. Gun violence, sadly, has existed far longer and people have been protesting for years, especially communities of color.Now that we, as youth, have national attention and people are listening to us, it is imperative that we lift the voices of the people that have been left behind. I march today to represent those who are not alive to speak for themselves. I march for my classmates. I march for my little cousins. I march for my life.

A man who used false papers to collect welfare benefits stayed in character when he was arraigned yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court and signed paperwork using the identity of one of his victims, prosecutors said.Clei Sandoval-Arias, 29, was identified with the help of the U.S. Inspector General’s Office, which used contacts within the government of the Dominican Republic to verify his identity.Sandoval-Arias, however, insisted on signing probation forms and other paperwork yesterday using the name of one of his victims, prosecutors said.

A Dorchester woman who threatened on Thursday night to bite off a transit police officer’s ear was arraigned yesterday in Boston Municipal Court for allegedly threatening a bus line employee with a knife.Sheila Lynch, 29, was charged with carrying a dangerous weapon and assault with a dangerous weapon after refusing an evaluation by a court clinician yesterday, Suffolk County District Attorney spokesman Jake Wark said.

Nine of the 19 active state troopers accused of running a traffic enforcement program as an overtime fraud scheme retired before facing a duty status hearing yesterday.Three of the troopers retired following Tuesday’s announcement by Col. Kerry Gilpin of an agencywide audit and further investigation for criminal liability by Attorney General Maura Healey’s office, state police spokesman David Procopio said in a statement. Another six troopers retired yesterday.

As an offshoot of the “March for Our Lives” rally against gun violence takes place in Boston today, there will be another protest in the shadow of the State House made up of people who oppose gun regulations.“We already think that the gun laws in this state are strict as they are, and we don’t want them going any further,” said Mike Moura, spokesman for the Boston-based Resist Marxism group. “We want common sense solutions, and we want to have a conversation about it.”

This essay was co-written by Anika Nayak, Amalia Hochman, both 16, and Elias Kern, 15, of Somerville High School.Young people have had enough. Students will be marching today for the seven children that are needlessly murdered daily in their schools, streets and homes.Students will no longer stay silent while their peers are being killed. It is time for students to fight back and show this country what they are capable of accomplishing.

Parents and teens — still grieving after one of the worst school shootings in the nation’s history — passed around a Super Bowl ring and took out their cellphones to take photos of the row of seats where New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady sits when the team goes on road trips.