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While Boston voted for Mayor Tom Menino again, cities and towns around Massachusetts voted incumbents out and elected a diverse array of new leaders. [Boston Globe] With thousands of auxiliary ballots left to count, City Council and School Committee candidates in Cambridge won't have official results until at least the end of the day Wednesday. [Cambridge Chronicle] A Georgetown woman wants the Bay State to require insurers to cover children’s hearing aids. [Boston Herald]

-- A 26-year old female Harvard employee was attacked yesterday night in Harvard Square by a man who tried to strangle her with a rope. The quick-thinking victim was able to crouch, push her male assailant away, and escape with little harm having come to her. No arrests have been made. [Herald]

-- Boston police report arresting a 21-year-old Roxbury man last night after he allegedly beat and tried to rob a patron of the thoughfuly named Boston Chinese Restaurant on Washington Street. Two other suspects remain at large. [BPDNews]

-- Boston's hospitals are dangerous places these days. A psychiatric patient at the Massachusetts General Hospital Bipolar Treatment Center was shot dead by an off-duty security guard this afternoon after the patient allegedly stabbed his doctor. The doctor, who was shuttled bleeding from her clinic and is listed in stable condition. [Herald]

President Barack Obama is in Boston today to tour MIT and to appear at a fund-raiser for Governor Deval Patrick at Westin Copley Place. (Expect traffic snarls on Huntington Avenue and elsewhere in the Back Bay.) He will be speaking to a select group of MIT faculty, students, and staff at 12:30 in MIT's Kresge Auditorium. We'd suggest shanking a student to get a ticket for the talk, but you probably won't be allowed past the doors with a shank or a stranger's blood on you. [Globe]

-- A Somerville man was stabbed repeatedly outside of the CVS on JFK Street in Harvard Square early Saturday morning before taking a cab to the emergency room. The man described three suspects to police, who have released little information about the incident. [Cambridge Chronicle]

-- After pleading guilty to charges of assault and battery, disorderly conduct and threats to commit a crime Thursday at Wareham District Court, Derek Lindsay, 36, of Taunton, has 72 criminal convictions on his record since 1990. Thursday's conviction stems from a June 4 incident, in which Lindsay spit at a woman in Middleboro. He faces a six-month sentence. Lindsay already faces charges in two other incidents. He's charged with assault and battery after an alleged incident at a Middleboro tattoo parlor. He's already in jail without bail on drug and weapons charges from another incident. He has scheduled court dates on October 27, November 3 and December 17. [WCVB, Bockton Enterprise]

Porter Exchange, located in Porter Square, is filled with Japanese food stalls and restaurants. Take your pick from noodles and rice bowls to pastries. Cafe Mami is just one of the small stalls where you can get great food for cheap.

• The T board is dead. Long live the T. [Boston Globe]

• President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. [New York Times]

• A Framingham man, Nathan Brooks, will pilot the Goodyear blimp tonight over the Red Sox-Angels playoff game in Anaheim. Only 146 people nationwide are certified to pilot a blimp. [Boston Globe]

-- Danielle Bremner, who writes graffiti as "UTAH," was sentenced to six months in prison by Boston Municipal Court after she pleaded guilty to tagging buildings in the Back Bay and trains in an MBTA yard in East Boston. Bremner, who lives in New York, had been a fugitive from prosecution for more than a year when she was arrested in Chicago in August 2008. She has also been convicted of vandalism charges in New York. [Herald]

-- Five robberies took place last nigh in Jamaica Plain near the Stony Brook T station. Two people were robbed by what they described as "two slim White Hispanic males in their late teens" in the early evening. Three people were robbed at gunpoint on Boylston Street within ten minutes of each other by a black female and males in their 20s. What, nobody in JP calls the cops? [Neighbors for Neighbors]

-- A drug dealer from Providence was arrested in Somerville last Thursday. The suspect had at least 53 grams of crack cocaine he tried to flush down the toilet. Cops also allegedly found additional drugs hidden in the suspect's car. Somerville Police tried to “ward off the demons of law enforcement” by using religious trinkets to protect his secret drug hiding place. He was charged with breaking and entering, trafficking in heroin, morphine or opium, trafficking in cocaine and drug violation near a school zone or park. [Somerville Journal]

Independently owned Harvard Book Store just announced that it will be getting an Espresso Book Machine, the newfangled device that allows you to print your own public domain books straight from Google Books. According to the bookstore, Espresso "can produce library-quality, perfect bound paperback editions from a virtually limitless inventory of digital titles in multiple languages, including rare and out-of-print public domain titles." According to Wired, we lucked out: there is only a handful of Espresso Book Machines in operation across the world. (The closest? Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont.) Harvard's Espresso will go live September 29, right across the street from Widener Library, which might just have to lower its privilege fee to compete.

-- The beatdown of a hapless man who was standing outside of the Kells nightclub on Brighton Avenue turned into a 12-to-15 person melee that spilled into the Allston streets early Sunday morning. Boston cops learned that something was amiss when reports came of a man walking down Brighton Ave spilling blood from his chest. He was a stab victim. When police arrived on the scene, the fight was still happening, and police eventually broke it up, arresting two. When one cop was disarming one of the suspects, the crowd descended upon him, sending him to the hospital along with many of the injured fighters. [Allston-Brighton TAB]

-- Somerville soccer fields must be in short supply these days. A 33-year-old man was arrested after allegedly practicing his soccer kick on the back of a teenage boy who refused to give up the soccer field at the Capuano School on Glen Street. [Somerville Journal]

-- A community party designed to keep teens off the streets turned bloody Saturday night when 19-year-old Aaron Brown was shot to death. His body was found inside the YMCA, and officials believe that he was shot just before the last dance. Police do not believe that the killing was random. The dance was a part of a weekly series of events designed as a safe alternative to late night Boston streets. The Dorchester Y will not host any further events pending an investigation and possible policy recommendations. [Globe, Herald]

-- Two days of bloodshed rocked Dorchester. A man was shot and killed Monday night on Glenarm Street, and two people were shot last night on Norwell Street. One of the victims, a woman, died of her wounds, and the second was taken to Boston Medical Center with life threatening injuries. Police have released little information about the crimes, which they have not suggested are linked, and no arrests have been made. [BPDNews, BPDNews]

-- What began as your run-of-the-mill New Bedford fistfight ended in a smashed truck and death. A fight broke out early Wednesday morning between James Donnelly and, 20 of New Bedford, and Michael Raposo, 26 of Dartmouth, outside of a New Bedford Chinese joint. Raposo allegedly attacked Donnelly with a crowbar during the altercation, which did little good against the presumably gifted pugilist, who absconded with Raposo's keys and his pickup truck. Not to be outdone, Raposo allegedly leaped into the back of the truck, crowbar flying, as Donnelly sped away. Raposo's crowbar attack proved to be a suicidally fatal distraction when Donnelly lost control of the pickup, which flipped over, throwing Raposo to the pavement and killing him.

According to the Boston Herald, Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley has had eight citizen complaints filed against him since joining the Cambridge Police Department in 1998. Crowley arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr. on July 16 for disorderly conduct, a charge that was later dropped. According to Police Commissioner Robert Haas, those eight complaints represent "less than 1 percent" of Crowley's contact with citizens, which includes 422 arrests, 800 investigations, and 1,866 motor vehicle citations. Two complaints were filed by black men. Crowley was cleared of any wrongdoing in every case.WCVB reported Crowley is on vacation and not worried about the records being made public.

The Cambridge Chronicle reports that Cambridge police are looking for a man with an alleged taste for feet. The fetishist reportedly accosted a woman outside of Whole Foods who was sporting a delicious pair of pumps before taking matters into his own hands—or at least his own tongue—and getting an unconsented to taste of instep. The man remains at large. He seems to have fancy tastes in feet, but Bostonist suspects that it won't be long before he succumbs to the fecal matter on the feet of a woman wearing flip flops. [Cambridge Chronicle]

-- 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]

Today may be the hottest day of the summer. How are Bay Staters reacting to it? Well, earlier today, Bostonist happily wrote about city pools staying open so we can beat the heat. Mayor Thomas Menino knows how to keep voters residents happy duuring a heat emergency. Everyone is not as lucky. After Cambridge struggled to keep Veterans Memorial Pool at Magazine Beach open longer, the pool was closed today after a chlorine spill. Across the state, 21 of 27 pools run by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation are closed for the summer due a lifeguard shortage.

-- State Police, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office arrested nine suspects Wednesday night and Thursday after a six-month investigation into alleged cocaine trafficking. Cops seized at least 13 guns, ammunition, 200+ grams of cocaine and at least $45,000. Operation Lightning Bolt is still ongoing. [Herald]

photo of the Longfellow House, tagged "Bostonist" by Flickr user AntyDiluvian

-- Malden police shot and killed a man after a traffic stop went sour last night. The man, 29-year-old Alexander Nesom, allegedly rammed a stolen car into a pair of police officers, who shot him. He died of his injuries today. Two other men were arrested during the incident and face charges of receiving a stolen vehicle and drug possession. [Globe]

The Cambridge Chronicle reports on "CPD," the new track by Cambridge rap duo NBS, which takes shots at both Sergeant James Crowley and his wrongfully arrested victim, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. It's no surprise that the track slams Crowley—the group says "Crowley has a reputation on the street as being unreasonable"—but the lines about Gates might surprise you. "I ain't never seen Skip in the hood ... I think you might have needed a taste of what jail's like." [Cambridge Chronicle]

Mr. Bartley's burgers in Harvard Square has just introduced a "Sgt. Crowley" burger to its menu. Since the burger joint has offered the Skip Gates burger for 10 years now, it's probably the only place in the United States where you can reenact the thrilling truncation of civil rights and acrimonious weeks-long fallout of Gatesgate entirely with fast food.

The Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest saga won't stop. Local and national media have gone into full feeding frenzy mode. At one point today, the Herald's website was unavailable. It's back up. The Latest:

Sergeant James Crowley, the Cambridge police officer who arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr., actually appeared on WEEI's Dennis & Callahan show this morning to give his version of the events. Crowley reportedly was asked about president Barack Obama's comments on the arrest of Gates last week, and was given a chance to apologize. He didn't exactly criticize Obama directly. He did say it was "regrettable" that someone would comment on this incident "without knowing the whole story". Crowley appeared to speak in a very calm, rational manner during his call-in appearance. It's his right to choose to explain or not explain himself in any forum he wishes. Given Dennis & Callahan's history, their show might not be the right choice. Look, Ed Harding is an ex-sports reporter, too. But, he is not controversial.