Recently in Battery / Assault in Boston:

Early Saturday, Agawam police accidentally shot a 21-year-old woman while responding to a 911 call about a break-in and domestic assault at an apartment building, The Associated Press reports.

According to authorities, police heard shouting and the sound of breaking glass coming from inside the apartment.

The Bruins-Capitals game 7 of the NHL playoffs came upon the city and in a historically tight series the Boston Bruins lost. No doubt many Bostonians are angry or feeling jilted.

And wherever there is intense emotion, in any city, the likelihood of people doing wild things like falling off traffic lights, or destroying property, or hurting one another, becomes more probable.

Sometimes it feels like the painful and cringe-worthy stories about alleged priest abuse of children in Boston will never come to an end.

The latest bit of unpleasant news features Reverend Bradley M. Schaeffer stepping down from the Boston College board of trustees because he failed to act to stop a predatory priest in the 1990s, reports The Boston Globe.

Jewish residents discovered swastikas in Brighton in a case of what is being termed anti-Semitic vandalism, reports The Boston Globe.

The swastikas -- the symbol of Nazism -- were carved into three vehicles in Brighton on Thursday or Friday. That means they were carved in around the same time as when the Jewish holiday of Passover began.

Although the neighborhood has a high concentration of Jewish residents, none of the vehicles actually belonged to Jews. Though, obviously, that doesn't mitigate the impact of the hate crime in Brighton.

It would seem that the producers of the infamous reality show, Jersey Shore, are bringing out a new reality show and it will be coming to South Boston, to be called, Southie Pride, reports The Boston Globe.

The show, Southie Pride, will apparently try to take advantage of the "faith, hard work, and family that make this blue-collar enclave Beantown's beating heart," say the producers of 495 Productions.

Instead of having a male-centric focus, it will look almost entirely at women, focusing on five South Boston women and their families. The show will premiere this fall and be on TLC.

The killing of Florida youth Trayvon Martin has put a lot of focus on the so-called "stand your ground" laws that ostensibly allow you to use deadly force to protect yourself from great harm without having to retreat, even in public spaces.

Massachusetts law, while allowing for deadly force to resist intruders at home, does not currently allow for such a right in public places. But there is a proposal that does seek to expand that right, and now city councilors from Boston want the proposed Massachusetts stand your ground style law to be opposed, reports The Boston Globe.

A former teacher from Newton, David Ettlinger, pled not guilty to the charge of sexually assaulting two girls, reports The Boston Globe. He previously taught at Underwood Elementary School.

The accusations against David Ettlinger are that he undressed two girls while they slept and videotaped them. One incident occurred at the home of the girl.

He also faces federal charges for child pornography.

A Boston University hockey player pleaded not guilty to allegations of rape, reports The Boston Globe.

Max Nicastro, of Thousand Oaks, California, is the name of the player implicated in the allegation. The alleged sexual assault occurred shortly after the BU game against UMass-Lowell. During the arraignment, no details about Max Nicastro's case were presented.

A former Boston area religious leader, Rabbi Stanley Z. Levitt, will likely plea guilty to sex abuse charges stemming from his alleged molestation of three boys in the 1970's, reports the Boston Globe.

Rabbi Stanley Z. Levitt's sex abuse allegations come from former students at the exclusive orthodox day-school Maimonides School in Brookline, reported the Jewish Exponent.

A Harvard student, Bradley J. Spencer, was charged for assault on a woman on the Red Line, reports the Boston Globe.

Spencer was arraigned on one count of indecent assault and battery after a woman from Cambridge alleged that a man assaulted her below the waist and then got off the train at Park Street. On Monday, he plead not guilty to the charges.