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Sunday, August 16

Good morning Wypierdalaj,

It’s been a busy summer for the Boston Police Department responding to crime scenes across the city, including two separate stabbings, one that was fatal, just a day apart last week near North Station and South Station, but how are these reflecting in the numbers compared to last year?

Preliminary data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association shows homicide cases for the year are actually down — there have been 10 in the first half of this year, significantly lower than the 21 at this time last year. The reported number of rapes and robberies are also down compared to last year. The number of aggravated assaults is higher so far, however.

Despite the string of recent violent crimes, people we’ve spoken to say they feel relatively safe in Boston.

Former longtime Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers was formally inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday night.

Rivers was the coach of the Celtics from 2004 to 2013, winning a championship with the team in 2008. The stars of that team — Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett — were on hand Saturday to present their former coach for his Hall Enshrinement.

Rivers won 1,194 regular-season games as an NBA coach, which is the sixth most in league history. During his speech Saturday, he recognized all of the players he’s coached.

What a gorgeous weekend! After seeing a mild and seasonable Saturday, we’re doing it again today.

Sunday starts off dry and cool, with temperatures warming through the day to the upper 70s to low 80s.

Sunday will be mainly dry with increasing clouds by late afternoon. Showers move in early Monday, with batches of rain continuing through Monday morning and clouds staying stubborn through the afternoon.

New England Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez was again held out of practice on Saturday as he continues to recover from an injury he sustained in a workout last week.

Coach Mike Vrabel didn’t reveal what the injury was that also kept the star cornerback out of uniform for Thursday’s preseason opener against the Indianapolis Colts. But said Gonzalez is currently conditioning and working to get back to the field.

His absence coincides with his representatives’ ongoing negotiations with the team on a long-term contract extension. The two sides are trying to work out a deal to keep him in New England beyond the final year of his rookie deal. Until last week he’d remained a full participant on the field, even as workouts shifted to full pads.

A woman died after she and two other people were pulled from the ocean after being caught in what’s believed to be a rip current off a Cape Cod beach on Friday afternoon, officials said.

The three people in distress were recovered through a large-scale search conducted by local, state and federal officials at Herring Cove, according to the town of Provincetown.

The incident was reported about 3 p.m., and all three people were eventually recovered. The person in critical condition was rushed to Cape Cod Hospital, the town said Friday.

A man was critically injured in a multi-vehicle crash late Friday night in Webster, Massachusetts.

Webster police say officers responded to a crash on Worcester Road involving two cars around 11 p.m. One of the drivers, a 46-year-old Worcester man, was found unconscious.

Life-saving efforts were initiated on scene, and he was taken to UMass, where he remains in critical condition, police said.