Tree-smashed car in Allston photographed by bradsearles

• Just what we always needed: a cheese sculpture of our independence. [Reuters]
• Got shingles? Too bad. A shingle clinics in Vermont are being canceled due to lack of the vaccine. [Globe]
• Thomas Howes of Chatham is among the people rescued in Colombia yesterday after being held hostage for five years. [WBZTV]
• Plymouth Rock Studios has purchased Plymouth Golf Course as the site of its new studio. [Globe]
• A surgeon operated on the wrong side of a patient this week. Good thing nobody has to pay for it--except maybe the surgeon, in penalties. [Globe]
• A man has given birth! A transman, that is. Think this will start a man-pregnancy pact? [NY Daily News]