Boston

Evans praises quick inter-state cooperation

Police Commissioner William B. Evans saluted the quick action of detectives who helped identify a 14-year-old boy in Port Huron, Mich., who wrote a comment on Patriots’ star Julian Edelman’s Instagram account saying that he planned to “shoot my school up.’’ Edelman contacted Shannen Moen, his assistant in Boston, and asked her to contact authorities. Evans said Moen walked into the South Boston police station to report the threatening post. “Our detectives were able to help track down the suspect back to Port Huron. Then we notified the police in Michigan who further investigated the threat and the boy was taken into custody,’’ Evans said. “Great work by our detectives taking any school threat seriously.’’

Boston

State tax collections fell slightly in March

March tax collections in Massachusetts fell slightly compared to the same month last year, but were still ahead of expectations for the month by about 8.5 percent. Revenue Commissioner Christopher Harding said Wednesday that the state collected $2.24 billion last month, which was $176 million above predictions for March. Harding said state revenue officials had anticipated that corporate and business taxpayers would take advantage of a recent change in the corporate filing schedule that shifted the March reporting deadline to April. He said despite the change, a higher than expected number of corporate taxpayers still filed in March. He said income and sales tax revenues remained solid. Year-to-date revenue collections through the first nine months of the 2018 fiscal year are now $892 million ahead of predictions. (AP)

Scituate

Closed Catholic church property sold to church

The property of the former St. Francis X. Cabrini parish that Catholics occupied for nearly 12 years following its closing in 2004 has been sold to a Coptic Orthodox Church in Marshfield, the Archdiocese of Boston said Wednesday. The transaction includes the 10,560 square-foot church building, its 10,438 square-foot hall, and 16.26 acres of land sold to St. Mary & St. George Coptic Orthodox Church for $2.45 million, the archdiocese said. “While always challenging to part with a church property, St. Mary & St. George Coptic Orthodox Church will be wonderful and active members of the community,’’ John E. Straub, the archdiocese’s chancellor, said in a statement. “We wish them well in their new church home.’’ The statement emphasized that “ecumenical relationships have grown very strong’’ between the archdiocese and local Coptic Orthodox churches.

CELEBRATING IMMIGRANTS — Shugri Elmi and and Mariam Cheick listened to a speaker during Immigrants’ Day at the State House, which is an annual event that celebrates the progress and contributions immigrants make to the state. Both immigrated from for Somaliaand became citizens.