Nation IN BRIEF : MASSACHUSETTS : Officials Fire Driver Involved in Crash

Transportation officials said they have fired a driver whose blood-alcohol level tested above the legal limit after the trolley he was operating rammed into another rail car in Boston last week, injuring 33 people. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority also will start testing employees at random for alcohol and drugs in the wake of Friday’s accident, MBTA officials said. Two dispatchers who allegedly were slow to react to a passenger’s warning about the driver’s behavior that morning have been reassigned, they said. “We dropped the ball,” said Thomas P. Glynn, the MBTA’s general manager. “We did not act in time to avert this accident.”