Plus, Harvard University historian Jill Lepore is back with the third season of her podcast, "The Last Archive," this time exploring solutions to the problems of online misinformation.

It took more than a year and a half to bring charges against a Natick Police officer who is accused of indecent assault on a police dispatcher. Along the way, complaints of police dragging their feet on the investigation, and refusing to turn over records from within the department.

One solution involves a high school classroom in Cambridge.

In the first installment of our new music series, "Sample This," Boston Music Award-winner DJ Real P gives us a crash course on sampling, teaching us how artists use one song to make another.

We learn about some local legends and spooky places to visit this Halloween weekend with Jeff Belanger, author of Weird Massachusetts and co-host of the podcast, New England Legends.

Plus, ahead of the Halloween weekend, we explore some of the region's spookier places to visit.

We speak with Massachusetts State Representative Liz Miranda, and Reverend Kevin Peterson about the community response.

In part two of Radio Boston going to the grave this week, we speak with journalist and author Greg Melville about his new book, "Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries."

A new program called Pathways to Scale aims to help minority-owned businesses make it in the long term. They do this by training those owners to focus on leadership, alongside the day to day operations of running their companies. We take a look at the program.

Plus, we learn about other municipalities where the state is housing people in hotels and motels without warning.