A woman who has been held in institutions since she was arrested in 2019 on charges she repeatedly stabbed a Boston EMT as she was being taken to Mass. General has a hearing scheduled next month to determine whether she should be allowed to walk out of the residential substance-abuse program at Shattuck Hospital where she now lives. Read more.

UPDATE: The Suffolk County DA's office reports she was ordered held without bail and to undergo a mental-health evaluation at her arraignment on single counts of assault with intent to murder and assault on a public employee and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous chemical. Read more.

The BPDA has begun looking at selling the development rights to a Sullivan Square lot now used by Boston EMS - but with the proviso that anything built there include a new and two-bay ambulance garage that would let the city provide extra ambulance service in the growing neighborhood from a facility better designed to survive being in a flood plain. Read more.

WFXT takes a look, includes the story of a two-year-old in seizures for nearly 20 minutes until an ambulance arrived in East Boston - which has just one BEMS ambulance serving it.