Michaela is the seven-year-old daughter of Dianna Sacco Solimini, a former superbly talented dancer at Beverly Richards’ East Boston studio, and Joe Solimine. She has an older brother, Matthew, 12.

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkin was charged with extortion involving the purchase of an equity interest in a Boston-based cannabis company by federal authorities last week.

Japan’s surrender was preceded the week before by the dropping of two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9). Both of those bombs, which fell on targets of ...