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Ballou is a Metro reporter with The Boston Globe, covering primarily crime and courts. Ballou is a graduate of Columbia University and started his journalism career in Los Angeles.
Two children who were allegedly kidnapped from a Braintree foster home Monday night by their father were recovered in Connecticut.
Boston Police commissioner Edward Davis, who gave the commencement address, was also awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.
Keith Luke, 22, a self-described neo Nazi, is facing a sentence of life in prison.
A man charged in a Brockton killing was freed from prison because of evidence tainted by former state drug lab chemist Annie Dookhan.