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In addition to banning the Pledge of Allegiance, Brookline's November 15 Town Meeting will consider fingerprinting ice cream truck drivers and banning the sale of tobacco at town drug stores. Should be a fun night. [Boston Globe] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. more ›

The Herald is finding traction in the Brookline Pledge of Allegiance non-controversy. It's currently optional in Brookline where some want it banned. Republicans want to keep it and Governor Deval Patrick wants to keep away from it. President Obama used some Pledge verbiage during last Thursday's jobs speech and the Herald seemed surprised that a former constitutional law professor was aware of the Pledge of Allegiance. We hope the Herald knows what we're sure the president knows: the phrase "under God" wasn't always in the Pledge. We're enjoying the paper's coverage of this, though. A peacenik reference is hard to pass up. We loved seeing the Herald try to connect Dick Cheney to this. more ›

Republican presidential candidates have finally found an important issue to campaign on, and its not the economy, jobs, social security, the national debt, or two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's the non-scandal involving the Pledge of Allegiance in Brookline. Yes, some town residents are mad about the recitation of the Pledge and wants it banned. It's currently optional. Perhaps Brookline Political Action for Peace isn't aware that means you don't have to recite it. more ›

A 61-year-old woman was allegedly attacked on the Esplanade this morning and thrown in the Charles River. The victim said she was struck on the back of the head around 3 a.m. and pushed into the river. She was reportedly not sexually assaulted. State police are investigating the incident as the Esplanade is under state police jurisdiction. [WCVB] more ›

President Barack Obama returns to Massachusetts today to get more money for the 2012 election because Bay Staters are quite generous to Democrats. Big surprise, right? more ›

Two area college students took tragic falls in the last two days, and only one survived. Emerson College film student Justin Amorratanasuchad, a junior from Seattle, died Sunday after falling five stories off a rooftop on Columbus Avenue. On Monday, a 22-year old Babson College student fell through a skylight, down five stories to the basement of a Brookline building. more ›

Someone loses their snake on the T, trashes the Brattle lobby, and gets fired due to an iPhone glitch. Probably not the same person but still hard to believe. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. more ›

Boston is raising fees for its parking meters at some point in the next month. We noticed other fees that are on the way up. more ›

Brookline hates veal and Michele McPhee hates satellite dishes. more ›

Brookline is still working on raising rates at metered parking places during Red Sox home games as the town’s Transportation Board passed the plan unanimously. The affected meters are on the Beacon Street median near the St. Mary’s MBTA stop. The Board of Selectmen also have to vote in favor of the measure. According to the Globe, a four-hour stay at the meters will cost $22 if rates are raised. [Globe] more ›

A Brookline man employed by Akamai Technologies Inc. of Cambridge is accused of trying to sell company secrets to a foreign government. Elliot Doxer, 42, of Brookline was held without bail on one count of wire fraud. The charge carries a $250,000 fine and 20 years in prison. According to the complaint, Doxer contacted an unnamed country referred to as "Country X" in 2006 in order to "help our homeland and our war against our enemies." He said he only knew about "invoices and customer contact information," but would give it to the country. The country and Akamai helped with the investigation. Cambridge must be used to foreign agents by now. [Boston Globe] more ›

A Brookline man was arrested for unarmed robbery on Friday after offering a woman an apple and breaking her umbrella when she refused. The incident took place on September 27 on Fairbanks Street. The suspect offered the apple and the victim refused. The victim left ad crossed the street only to have the suspect follow her. She was screaming as she ran and the suspect managed to grab her umbrella and break it in half. She kept running and the suspect stopped chasing her. She ran to her boyfriend’s home on Washington Street and he went to retrieve her phone. He allegedly saw the suspect spraying an apartment with an aerosol spray can. The victim identified the suspect to police on Friday. [Wicked Local Brookline] more ›

Have you been looking for a(nother) good kosher butcher in Brookline? A new one's coming to town, and it needs your help finding a name. Boston Meat Party? Carve & Parve? Once Upon a Brisket? The options are endless, just like our hunger for brisket. More details on the glatt-kosher establishment are scant, but our hopes are high. [Kosher Blog] more ›

For the second time in about a week, scooter safety became an issue on Bay State roads. A woman riding her Vespa was killed after a collision with a car in Newton. The Middlesex D.A.'s office confirmed the victim was female and is investigating the accident. Last week, a woman riding her Vespa was attacked in Brookline. Be careful, Vespa people. [Boston.com] more ›

-- A 23-year old female from Boston was charged with disturbing the peace after being refused a refund at the 28th Annual Scooper Bowl on Thursday. [BPDNews.com] -- A 19-year-old from New York faces weapons charges after carrying a loaded gun into South Station Wednesday morning. Drake Scott was sleeping on a station bench as an MBTA transit police officer approached him and woke him. The suspect admitted to having smoked marijuana despite not having any on his person. Police searched his backpack and found a loaded .380-caliber handgun inside of a red bandana. He pleaded not guilty on Thursday and is being held on $25,000 cash bail. [Globe, Herald] more ›

-- Boston police arrested 18-year-old Edgar Tejada in connection with the March 26 shooting at English High School in Jamaica Plain. Police say that Tejada matches eyewitness descriptions of the shooter and that they found the gun used in the crime during a search of his house. [BPDNews] more ›

The Biblical flooding across Boston has unfortunately not kept the crime rate low. Boston police report a spate of shootings—both fatal and non-life-threatening—from across the city. more ›

Photographer mkrigsman captured today's photo of the day with a beautifully lit shot of the Muddy River in Brookline. We like how the purplish grays and browns soften the sharp depth of field and how he plays with reflection. more ›

Sometimes a restaurant's decor can be misleading. We've all been to places that seem fancy but serve up mediocre food. In the case of Pizzeria Dante in Coolidge Corner, the exact opposite is true - it may look like any other brightly lit pizzeria, but the food choices prove that there's more going on in the kitchen. more ›

There are plenty of places around to grab a bagel sandwich, but you're often limited in choices or end up paying more than you'd like. At Kupel's (pronounced "couples") just outside Coolidge Corner, though, you have a whole slew of options and get a tasty sandwich for just a couple of bucks. more ›

This weekend saw two serious bicycle crashes, one of which ended in death. 22-year-old Tracy Milillo died Friday after suffering serious head trauma during an accident with a car near Coolidge Corner. Brookline police have not determined if the driver was at fault in the accident. Milillo had not been wearing a helmet. A second accident on Saturday found a BU student pinned under his bicycle after crossing in front of an oncoming B-Line trolley. Despite tramautizing b0st0n.livejournal, the cyclist sustained minor injuries. more ›

Boston.com reports that Brookline police have arrested a suspect in Monday morning's Coolidge Corner rape. Brookline police haven't announced the specifics and will be issuing a press release this afternoon. more ›

-- Brookline police say that two men grabbed a Brookline woman in the street this morning, strangled her, threw her into a pickup truck, and raped her. According to police, the pickup truck is a red, two-door Ford that was captured on video by a Brookline surveillance camera. [Brookline Tab] more ›

Animal New York found a graffiti artist who either can't spell Brooklyn or Brookline, or is perhaps named Brooklin. Any way you slice it, Brooklin is not to be fucked with. One question remains: what's Shepherd Fairey's stance on Brooklin? more ›

-- William O’Brien, a Framingham accountant, was arrested on charges that he bilked Harvard's Hillel chapter of $780,000. O'Brien worked for the Jewish campus group from 2003 until 2008. [Herald] more ›