Braintree Man Charged With Embezzling Veterans Funds, Free Fun Fridays

1. A 48-year-old Braintree man has been charged with embezzling $68,000 from the Boston Veterans Administration Research Institute, according to the Boston Globe.

"According to the indictment filed Tuesday, D’Orsainville, originally from Haiti, was an employee of a temporary staffing agency, and was placed at the Boston Veterans Affairs Research Institute Inc. in August 2011 as an executive assistant.

"Among his duties, D’Orsainville was charged to handle and deposit checks the Institute received and record them in a spreadsheet."

Read the full Globe Story here.

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4. Should be sunny today with a high near 79 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. CLear tonight, dipping to 62.

5. The second and last person to die from being hit by a baseball in an MLB game was Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians, who was hit in the head on this day in 1920 and died the next day. Babe Ruth passed away on this day in 1948, at age 53. In 1954, Sports Illustrated was published for the first time.