Assistant Metro Editor
Finucane, who has worked at the Globe for six years, previously worked in the Boston bureau of the Associated Press for 12 years.
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Tornado seen moving toward southwestern Mass.
By Lauren Dezenski, Haven Egresitz and Martin Finucane , Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff
A tornado was spotted near Copake, N.Y., and was expected to head into some Western Mass. towns, the National Weather Service said.
Gas main break snarls Kendall Square area; service disrupted on T
By Martin Finucane , Globe Staff
Buildings in busy Kendall Square are being evacuated due to a gas main break, authoritie said. Cambridge police say 5 Cambridge Center and surrounding buildings are affected. The break has led to road closures in the area of Ames, Main, and Broadway in the area, Cambridge police said in an official tweet.
WORCESTER
SJC rules that Worcester college student apartments are not ‘lodging houses’
By Martin Finucane , Globe Staff
The state’s highest court has rejected an attempt by the city of Worcester to declare that apartments rented to four college students fell under the state lodging house law.“While we recognize that the city seeks to protect student safety and apparently regards the apartments at issue here as being the equivalent of dormitories, such concerns are better addressed through enforcement of applicable zoning ordinances and provisions of the sanitary and fire safety codes,” the Supreme Judicial Court wrote in an opinion Wednesday.The court drew a distinction between tenants and lodgers in lodging houses.
State high court rules that Worcester college student apartments are not ‘lodging houses’
By Martin Finucane , Globe Staff
The state’s highest court has rejected an attempt by the city of Worcester to declare that apartments in two- and three-family homes rented out to four college students were “lodgings” and fell under the state lodging house law. “While we recognize that the city seeks to protect student safety, and apparently regards the apartments at issue here as being the equivalent of dormitories, such concerns are better addressed through enforcement of applicable zoning ordinances and provisions of the sanitary and fire safety codes,” the Supreme Judicial Court said.