Stephen Doran of Dorchester was stopped at 12:30 pm. Tuesday by State Police as he left the Match Charter Middle School, where he works as a tutor.

Police conducting an investigation had obtained a warrant to search a package sent to Doran but addressed to the school and police stopped him as he left the school and opened the package, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley’s office.

Police recovered two heat-sealed baggies containing 480 grams of a substance believed to be methamphetamine, the DA’s office reported Wednesday.

Authorities said that because the substance was sent to the school, Doran also faces charges on violating laws aimed at discouraging drugs in school zones.

State Police obtained a second warrant to search Doran’s Dorchester home and recovered 38 grams of the substance, $10,000 in cash, a digital scale and “other items consistent with drug distribution,” according to Conley’s office, which estimates the street value of the seized drugs at about $50,000.

According to his bio, Doran served in the House throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, including a stint as chairman of the House Ethics Committee. He attended Lexington High School, UMass-Amherst and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Doran’s attorneys, Vincent Murray Jr. and Joseph Eisenstadt, did not return phone calls.

After two hours of debate, the House voted 199-164 to kill a Senate bill that would allow 5,000 video slot machines and 150 table games at one facility. Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan had lobbied heavily for its passage, and supporters said New Hampshire needed money for higher education, highways and other programs.

New Hampshire has no personal income or general sales tax and many felt gambling was the best remaining way to raise money without a tax.

But opponents argued a casino wasn’t worth the possibility of more gambling addicts and a tarnished image of a state that caters to families and tourists.

Hassan had included $80 million from a casino licensing fee in her budget, but passage of a gambling bill seemed a long shot until recent weeks when the vote appeared to tighten. She did win over a majority of Democrats, but 107 Republicans and 92 Democrats teamed up to kill the bill.

Hassan said she was disappointed in the outcome and criticized the House for not debating any of as many as 20 possible amendments before voting it down. She said putting together a budget will be harder without the gambling money.

“The path will be more difficult, but the people of New Hampshire expect us to do difficult things,” she said in a statement.

Senate President Peter Bragdon, a Milford Republican, said the Senate was putting together its budget without assuming any gambling money. He said the House vote means the issue won’t resurface in budget negotiations next month.

The casino bill had allocated most of the state’s profits to highway improvements, higher education and economic development in the northern part of the state.

It is now up to each representative who voted against the bill “to tell us exactly how he or she intends to find the new, non-tax revenues we need to create jobs, fix our infrastructure and help the North Country,” three bill sponsors, Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Morse, Sen. Lou D’Allesandro and Sen. Jim Rausch, said in a statement. “The Senate has made it clear new taxes are totally unacceptable.”

The House had never approved a video slots bill and gambling supporters always said they had an uphill fight in the chamber even with Hassan’s lobbying for the bill.

Senate Republican leaders added pressure on the House by saying they would craft a budget that spent less than the House’s proposal rather than accept some of the House’s budget assumptions.

Both agree on a scheduled 10-cent increase in the tobacco tax, but the Senate is expected to kill a House bill adding another 20-cent increase to the tax. Senators are building their budget based on $62 million less from state taxes than the House and $107 million less in hospital taxes used to support hospital aid, among other spending.

Both sides agree it would be unlikely the state would get any revenue from gambling in the next two years besides the gambling license fee. The state would have had to write rules to regulate a casino, put applicants through criminal background checks and pick a winner who then would build the casino. That could take two years with revenue estimates ranging from little after considering social costs to $130 million annually.

The special House panel assigned to research the casino bill listened to presentations on 17 amendments but did not vote on any.

Some representatives argued Wednesday the amendments deserved a hearing by the House, but others said the real issue was whether to allow casino gambling in New Hampshire.

Rep. Frank Sapareto, a Derry Republican, said a casino was the only way to raise money that didn’t come from taxes.

“Our constituents don’t want an income tax. They don’t want a sales tax,” he said.

Rep. Gary Richardson, D-Hopkinton, disagreed.

“This is a tax bill,” he said. “It is a tax on gambling. The industry may be inviting that tax because they want to get something out of it. They want a large profit.”

Rep. David Campbell, a Nashua Democrat, argued New Hampshire would effectively be giving away its citizens’ gambling in three casinos being licensed in Massachusetts if it didn’t approve its own facility.

“There is no wall between New Hampshire and Massachusetts. If we do nothing today we will be constructing a giant funnel instead of a casino funneling billions of dollars to Massachusetts,” said Campbell.

But opponents argued New Hampshire would be creating a monopoly with most of the money flowing to an out-of-state casino owner.

“In the bill before us today, the state only gets 30 percent (of the profit). No less than 70 percent would go to an out-of -state company that has spent endless time and money to convince us this is a bargain,” said Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, a Manchester Republican.

Vaillancourt called the state’s take “a mere pittance.”

When he was about 6, his mother began challenging Sathwik and his older brother, Karthik, to her own version of hide-and-seek — using an atlas. The boys would comb through the book, trying to be the first to find a city or landmark.

The games paid off when Karthik, now 15, made the finals of the National Geographic Bee in 2011 and 2012. But it was 12-year-old Sathwik, of Plainville, Mass., who finished the job, calmly answering questions about obscure island chains, bodies of water, global trade and culture to win the 25th annual geography bee Wednesday.

The clinching question? “Because Earth bulges at the equator, the point that is farthest from Earth’s center is the summit of a peak in Ecuador. Name this peak.” Sathwik nailed it: Chimborazo.

Runner-up Conrad Oberhaus, 13, of Lincolnshire, Ill., knew the answer as well, but Sathwik got all five questions right in their one-on-one duel. Earlier, Conrad couldn’t name Baotou as the largest city in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which is home to one of the world’s largest deposits of rare-earth elements. While Conrad didn’t stumble again, Sathwik never relinquished the lead.

Sathwik and his brother said the victory was a team effort.

“It feels like I just finished something that he wanted to finish, so I sort of in a way completed his unfinished business,” said Sathwik, who stands 4-foot-11 and has the fuzzy outline of a mustache on his upper lip.

Said Karthik: “I’m kind of elated now. What we started so many years ago has finally paid off.”

Sathwik might have made it to the finals earlier if not for Karthik, who beat him twice in the Massachusetts state bee. But the younger brother triumphed at their school bee three years ago when he was in fourth grade and Karthik was in sixth, a moment Karthik described as “kind of a down point in my geography career.”

Is Sathwik smarter?

“In some ways he is, in some ways he isn’t,” Karthik said. “The questions this year that they asked were of his liking, and that’s the chief reason why he won.”

The boys’ mother, Rathma, and her husband, Vishwanath, who both work in the software industry, emigrated from near Mangalore, India, in 2002. Indian-American children have dominated both the National Geographic Bee and the Scripps National Spelling Bee in recent years. Vishwanath said the trend can be attributed to coming from a country of 1.2 billion people.

“That brought us the competitive spirit,” he said. “If we don’t work hard and put forth our best effort, we can’t succeed in this world.”

Ten participants made the finals, culled from a field of 54 state-level winners in Monday’s preliminary round. Sathwik led throughout the final round and was the last contestant to get a question wrong.

Participants earned between 1 and 5 points for each correct answer, with the harder questions worth more points, and the competitors with the lowest scores were eliminated at various points in the competition.

Sathwik won a $25,000 scholarship, a trip to the Galapagos Islands and a lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society. The finals will be televised Thursday night on the National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo WILD.

Sathwik, an aspiring doctor who also plays chess competitively, said he was nervous at first because he had never been on television before, but he became more comfortable as he rattled off a string of correct answers.

Conrad, the runner-up, won a $15,000 scholarship. Ricky Uppaluri of Roswell, Ga., at 11 the youngest of the finalists, was third and receives a $10,000 scholarship. Akhil Rekulapelli of Ashburn, Va., finished fourth and won $1,000 in cash.

Sathwik said he buckled down once he realized he had a chance to win, because he didn’t want to return to the bee next year. Children can compete from fourth to eighth grade, but winners are ineligible to defend their title.

“I didn’t want to go back because it’s just a lot of preparation and a lot of nervousness,” he said. “I wanted to finish it this time.”

“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek, who has moderated the bee finals since the inaugural competition in 1989, is stepping down after this year and will be replaced by broadcast journalist Soledad O’Brien.

During a commercial break, Trebek warned the audience at Washington’s National Theatre not to blurt out or silently mouth the answers.

“As if that’s likely to happen,” he said to laughter. “Most of you can’t even find Detroit.”

As his former colleagues listened on and showed little in the way of reaction, House Clerk Steven James read a short communication from Fresolo formally announcing his resignation at about 1:40 p.m. during a House session.

“I am currently unable to effectively serve my district and regretfully submit my resignation, effective immediately, hoping that a prompt special election will be held to fill the balance of my term,” Fresolo, a Democrat, wrote in his one-sentence letter to House Speaker Robert DeLeo without any explanation for the reasons behind his resignation.

The committee, chaired by Rep. Martin Walsh of Dorchester, has been holding lengthy meetings in recent days, taking hours of testimony last Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and again on Monday as court officers lined the first floor hearing room with velvet ropes to keep visitors away. Rep. Jason Lewis, a Winchester Democrat who shared an office suite with Fresolo, told the News Service last week that he had offered testimony to the 11-member panel. Fresolo attended those committee meetings with legal representatives.

According to rules, a majority of the Ethics Committee can vote to recommend a reprimand, censure, removal from a chairmanship or other position of authority or expulsion of another member for ethical violations and refer the matter to the full House.

In that case, a report on the allegations would be filed with the House clerk and made public. If the committee finds insufficient evidence of wrongdoing, no public disclosure must be made. Fresolo’s resignation obviates the need for his colleagues to act on a committee recommendation, if one were made.

As he has in recent days, Walsh, citing confidentiality rules, declined to comment to the News Service when approached Wednesday about the committee’s investigation and findings, but House leaders were said to be consulting with their legal teams to find out what, if anything, could be disclosed publicly.

DeLeo in March confirmed that his office had conducted a preliminary review of “serious allegations” brought against a member of the House by an employee and had asked the committee to conduct an investigation. The House voted in April to grant the committee temporary subpoena power to compel witness testimony.

Though there has been rampant speculation as to the nature of the allegations brought by a legislative staffer against a member of the House, several sources have indicated at least part of the inquiry relates to Fresolo’s per diem travel expenses. Another source indicated the committee was exploring possible ethical breaches on multiple fronts.

House Minority Leader Brad Jones called on the Ethics Committee to “forward any information or findings from their investigation to the appropriate agencies and entities for further consideration.”

“The necessary but overdue resignation of Representative Fresolo is an appropriate course of action given the circumstances. The residents of the Sixteenth Worcester District and the taxpayers of Massachusetts deserve representatives and a governing body that is held to the highest ethical standard,” Jones said in a statement.

It remains unclear whether the Ethics Committee found sufficient evidence to warrant a reprimand or more severe disciplinary action, and whether any information will be released publicly now that Fresolo has resigned.

Confronted about the allegations and rumors that he was planning to resign, Fresolo told the News Service in March, “I’m going to be state rep for a long time,” but declined further comment on advice of counsel.

Fresolo was a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Joint Committee on Housing and the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development.

Fresolo’s departure means the House will need to schedule a fifth special election to fill a vacant seat.

Former Rep. Stephen Smith of Everett resigned at the start of the session in connection with his guilty plea in an absentee voting fraud case. A special election was held to fill the seat held by former Rep. Joyce Spiliotis, who died from a battle with cancer and after winning re-election last November. Special elections are also underway to fill seats held by former Rep. Martha Walz of Boston, who left the House for a job at Planned Parenthood, and former Rep. David Sullivan, who stepped down for a job at the Fall River Housing Authority.

Matt Murphy contributed reporting

Testing by the Department of Environmental Protection was done to determine if the turbine noise is more than 10 decibels higher than ambient noise at homes where residents have complained about the turbines.

DEP Deputy Commissioner Martin Suuberg told the Fairhaven Board of Health on Tuesday that preliminary results indicate the noise exceeded state regulations in five of the 24 testing periods.

The Standard-Times reports that some turbine opponents immediately demanded that the town shut down the turbines. But a planning board member warned the health board against taking action before consulting with the town attorney.

Turbine developer Gordon Dean disputed some of the DEP’s methodology but said he’d work with public officials to mitigate the problem.

• Related: Falmouth Votes To Keep Turbines

According to the U.S. Justice Department, Edward MacKenzie Jr., 54, of Weymouth, is accused of using fraud, deceit, extortion, theft and bribery as director of operations for the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Church, a position he has held since 2003.

Federal prosecutors also allege that MacKenzie intimidated and threatened church employees by providing them with signed copies of his autobiography, “Street Soldier,” in which he admitted to a “lengthy criminal history.”

The Department of Justice further charges MacKenzie and co-conspirators with voting to provide themselves with vehicles, cash awards for family members, and tuition grants for family members, as well as soliciting bribes and kickbacks from commercial vendors.

On May 2, special IRS and FBI agents were on location at the Swedenborgian Church on the Hill, moving in and out of the property.

Federal prosecutors say Edward MacKenzie Jr. was arrested at his Weymouth home Wednesday after being indicted on charges including racketeering and extortion.

The 54-year-old MacKenzie was the director of operations at the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Church, which is affiliated with the Swedenborgian denomination.

Federal authorities say he was appointed to the salaried position in 2003 and “began to systematically loot the church of its considerable financial assets through a combination of fraud, deceit, extortion, theft and bribery.” He also allegedly threatened other members.

A message could not be left on MacKenzie’s home voice mail. It’s not clear if he has a lawyer.

The families of the four people killed in the April 15 bombings and the ensuing manhunt, as well as the more than 260 who suffered physical injuries, have until June 15 to complete their applications, One Fund administrator Kenneth Feinberg said.

After that, they’re not eligible.

“You would be amazed at how people in grief, with all sorts of uncertainty about their lives, don’t file,” Feinberg told the Boston Herald.

More than $31 million in corporate and private donations had been pledged to the One Fund as of Wednesday.

Feinberg saw similar procrastination while serving as special master of the 9/11 Victims’ Compensation Fund, as well as other compensation funds he has overseen.

The application process has been made as simple as possible, he said. All that’s needed is a one-page statement from the hospital where a victim was treated and a completed and notarized One Fund form.

The Massachusetts Bar Association is even providing free legal advice to people who need help filling out the three-page form.

Brittany Loring, whose skull was fractured in the blasts, said filling out paperwork may be difficult for some.

“The application itself seems really simple, but given that many of the survivors have longstanding injuries, these simple tasks may take a little bit longer,” she said, adding that she has not filed her claim yet.

Feinberg has said that the families of those killed as well as victims who lost two limbs are likely to get about $1 million each, with other victims getting varying amounts based on the extent of their injuries and the length of their hospital stays. People who suffered psychologically are not eligible.

The funds will be distributed by June 30.

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• One Fund Timeline Calls For Tough Tradeoffs

• Final Guidelines For Marathon Relief Fund Released

Murray, 44, was once considered a leading contender to succeed Gov. Deval Patrick. But in January he announced that he would not seek the top office.

The lieutenant governor faced poor polling numbers and considerable political baggage: a mysterious car crash in 2011 and ties to disgraced former Chelsea housing chief Michael McLaughlin.

McLaughlin pleaded guilty earlier this year to concealing his outsize $360,000 salary from regulators.

The former housing director, who will be sentenced June 14, has agreed to cooperate with authorities. Attorney General Martha Coakley is investigating McLaughlin’s alleged illegal fundraising on Murray’s behalf.

The lieutenant governor denied, in January, that the McLaughlin entanglement had anything to do with his decision to forgo the governor’s race.

And he insisted, on Wednesday, that the case had nothing to do with his decision to resign and take the job at the chamber of commerce.

“It had nothing to do with this decision,” he said at a State House press conference. “This is a unique opportunity, a special opportunity.”

Murray, who has a strong relationship with the governor, had a broader portfolio than many of the lieutenant governors who preceded him. He played a lead role on veterans issues, substance abuse, domestic violence and economic development.

A former Worcester mayor, he also worked as the governor’s liaison to local elected officials.

“Tim Murray has been a trusted partner and a — just a great friend,” said Patrick, standing at Murray’s side. “So this is no small loss — for our team, or for me.”

Murray said he was not seeking an early exit. And when the chamber approached him in late March, he initially dismissed the idea.

But Murray said he came around in time, recognizing the job as an opportunity to continue working on some of the issues that occupied him in office.

The new job will pay some $200,000 — more than the last chamber president earned and more than the roughly $125,000 Murray earns in the lieutenant governor’s office.

But Murray said the decision was not about money. He could earn more, he suggested, as a lobbyist or lawyer.

Lou DiNatale, a Democratic operative based just outside Worcester, suggested Murray’s rise and subsequent troubles have to be viewed through the prism of geography.

“It’s always tough for somebody outside the greater Boston area to play major league ball in Boston,” he said. “You’re at such a disadvantage, in terms of vote totals, as well as available resources, fundraising resources and media attention.”

In that context, DiNatale said, Murray’s ascension to the lieutenant governor’s chair was a “Cinderella story.”

But ultimately, the operative said, the former Worcester mayor was “undercapitalized” — partially explaining his association with an unsavory character like McLaughlin.

Murray himself expressed some frustration with the Boston-centric focus of the State House at the Wednesday press conference.

And he suggested that part of his job, at the chamber, will be winning more attention for Worcester and central Massachusetts.

“People in this building, too often, focus…in the area…immediately around this building,” he said. “And if we were to be serious about long-term economic development growth, we need to focus on different regions of the state.”

Shifting the orientation of policymakers will be no small task. But Murray, well-liked on Beacon Hill, may be better positioned than most to take a crack.

Murray seems unlikely to run for office in the near future. But he would not rule out another campaign down the line. “There’s all these comeback stories,” he said at the press conference. “Read the news.”

Murray may have been referencing disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s announcement late Tuesday that he will run for mayor of New York City.

For now, Murray’s departure leaves a hole in the administration.

The state constitution does not provide a mechanism for replacing the lieutenant governor. And Patrick, whatever his legal authority, has no plans to appoint a replacement before the end of his term in January 2015, a senior administration official said.

Secretary of State William Galvin is next in line to the governor’s office and will serve as acting governor when Patrick is out of the state.

– Here’s more from WBUR’s Fred Bever:

WBUR’s Deborah Becker spoke with WBUR’s Sacha Pfeiffer about the incident Wednesday.

Sacha Pfeiffer: What do we know about the man who was killed?

Deborah Becker: He’s identified as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, a Chechen immigrant living near Universal Studios in Orlando.

The FBI is saying very little about him or why they were questioning him. But several media outlets are reporting that Todashev was being questioned about a 2011 triple murder in Waltham. Questions have been raised about that murder since the death of suspected marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev because Tsarnaev was friends with one of the men killed; he knew him through mixed martial arts fighting.

The Waltham case was a grisly murder in which the three men had their throats slit and marijuana was sprinkled over the bodies. It also occurred on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

What do Massachusetts officials say about the possible link to the unsolved Waltham murder?

Very little. The Middlesex County district attorney’s office is not commenting on the Florida questioning but has said the 2011 Waltham triple murder remains an active investigation.

State Police confirm that two Massachusetts state troopers were involved in the questioning in Florida, as well as an FBI agent from the Boston field office. This is the first time that we’ve heard that state troopers are involved in this investigation.

What else do we know about Todashev’s time in Massachusetts?

Much of what we know about him is from a man who identified himself as another Chechen immigrant in Florida who was a friend of Todashev. His name is Khusen Taramov and he told reporters in Florida that Todashev knew Tsarnaev through mixed martial arts. He said Todashev spoke with Tsarnaev about a month ago, shortly before the April 15 bombings.

In an interview with WESH-TV, Taramov said he was also interviewed by the FBI:

I was interviewed last night when that happened. I was talking to one of the agents. Just like he was talking to the three of them inside. I was outside. They want to keep us separate. I was talking for three hours.

Question: What kind of questions were they asking you?

Different questions. “What do you think about the bombings, did you know these guys?” Lotta stuff.

Taramov said Todashev lived in Massachusetts until about a year ago. The South Boston gym where Tsarnaev trained has not heard of Todashev and the Allston gym where he worked out has not commented. Taramov also said that Todashev was a Muslim but local Muslims say they do not recognize his name. Local Chechen groups also say they do not know him.

What about the law enforcement officials doing the questioning?

The FBI says the Boston special agent was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. The bureau also says an FBI team was dispatched from Washington to Florida to review the shooting. That’s a standard step in such cases.

This post was updated with the All Things Considered interview.