--Governor Deval Patrick scored a book deal worth $1.35 million for his autobiography. [Boston Globe, background: Bostonist]

--A frightening time in Chicopee yesterday. A gasoline tanker truck exploded after rolling over, killing the driver and "sending a fireball 60 feet in the air." The accident began when the tanker driver tried to avoid an accident in front of him. The driver worked for the same company that owned the truck in the Everett tanker explosion. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald]

--The trial of a man who allegedly killed his wife by adding antifreeze to her Gatorade, prompting her to die a slow death over a few months in 2004, will start Tuesday in Middlesex Superior Court. [WCVB, and thanks to Chris for catching the missing subject in the sentence--we got caught up in the details of the antifreeze in the Gatorade.]

--Free daily The Metro claimed it had surpassed the Herald in circulation, but Adam Reilly says that's hardly the case. Complete with cute image of a guy staring into a microscope. [Boston Phoenix Don't Quote Me]

--Better scan your signs for typos because the self-described Typo Hunt Across America is on tour. [Boston Globe]

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