NEWTON

Missing BC student is found safe

A 23-year-old Boston College student who was reported missing after she did not show up for her graduation was found safe hours later, officials said. Dana Morrissey, a Winchester native, was located shortly before 5:30 p.m. behind the western conservation area at Hammond Pond, said Lieutenant Bruce Apotheker of the Newton police. Morrissey was last seen at about 7:30 a.m. being dropped off by an Uber driver near the Chestnut Hill Mall, Apotheker had said. Her family reported her missing after she did not attend commencement, which started at 10 a.m., Apotheker said.

BRAINTREE

Pair arrested after bank robbery

Two men who allegedly robbed a bank in Braintree were arrested on Monday after leading police on a high-speed car chase that ended with one of the suspects found hiding in a dumpster, officials said. Corey Robinson, 35, of Dorchester, brandished a gun and demanded money from a teller at a Bank of America on Tremont Street before he fled in a black Toyota Camry driven by Cheval Johnson, 46, of Brockton, according to David Procopio, State Police spokesman. At about 1:15 p.m., Braintree police notified State Police of the robbery, and troopers followed the car on Interstate 93 in Randolph, where the suspects refused to stop, State Police said in a statement. Johnson and Robinson reached speeds up to 90 miles per hour and traveled toward Brockton, where the chase ended, police said.

NORWOOD

Officials prepare for hurricane threats

With an eye toward reducing the vulnerability of the state’s infrastructure, the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency later this week will host its 2016 Massachusetts Hurricane Preparedness Conference to prepare local communities for the upcoming season. The free conference — held Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Norwood — “will focus on identifying and mitigating critical infrastructure vulnerabilities to hurricanes’’ and will bring together more than 350 state and local officials, according to MEMA. (State House News Service)

EAST GREENWICH, R.I.

Police officer among two dead in crash

A police officer is among two people killed in a wrong-way crash involving a Massachusetts man on Interstate 95 in Rhode Island. Jamestown patrolman Ryan J. Bourque was killed in the crash, which happened at approximately 12:07 a.m. Monday on I-95 south in East Greenwich, Rhode Island State Police said. The 24-year-old patrolman was heading home to Coventry after finishing up his 3 to 11 p.m. shift when his Dodge Charger was hit head-on in the high-speed lane by a Toyota Camry being driven the wrong way by Dejae T. Pizarro, 23, of Bedford, Mass., State Police said. Pizarro was also killed. (AP)

DUDLEY

Bid on Islam cemetery meets resistance

Town Meeting members voted Monday night to take steps toward allowing the town to buy 56 acres of farmland being sought by the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester for a Muslim cemetery, but the fate of the project remained uncertain. Town Meeting attendees passed a measure to allow officials to put a ballot question before Dudley voters asking them to decide whether to authorize borrowing funds to buy the land on Corbin Road, which would block the proposal. The vote was largely symbolic, since it did not include a set amount of funds that voters would be asked to allow the town to borrow, as required.

MONTPELIER

Insurers required to cover vasectomies

Vermont is poised to become the first state to require public and private health insurance to cover vasectomies without copays and deductibles. That is one of several types of birth control covered in a bill Governor Peter Shumlin signed Monday. It allows women to get oral contraceptives for 12 months without repeated doctor’s office visits. (AP)