This time in Franklin this morning, MBTA Transit Police tweet. NECN reports the man, in his 40s, was struck at the Fisher Street crossing. Train 1028, outbound.

Rick Sawyer reports he was on the inbound Orange Line platform at North Station last night when a woman fell on the tracks - just as a train was approaching:

... It was like a movie. The train stopped inches away from the woman's unstirring body, the frontmost part actually hanging over her. For a nauseating moment, we thought she had been killed—by the train or by the third rail. The conductor burst out of the front train compartment, the color draining from her face, repeating "Oh my God." ...

J.L. Bell takes a look at press leaks in pre-Revolutionary Boston:

... The legal challenge to writs of assistance came in the midst of a feud between two Customs officials in Boston, Collector Benjamin Barons and Surveyor Charles Paxton. Both men slipped documents embarrassing to the other side into sympathetic newspapers. ...

Today's the day when sixth graders across Boston take the ISEE, which will help determine whether they get an invitation to one of the city's three exam schools (it counts for 50% of the decision, with the rest based on their last fifth-grade marks and their first sixth-grade marks). Here, kids - and their parents - wait in line at the West Roxbury Education Complex for check in. They had to show both an acceptance letter for the test and a passport or birth certificate - nobody was going to pull a Curley today.

Your guy won/lost this past Tuesday. You can take the sign down now.

The Herald reports. Hmm, maybe they moved to Charlestown to get away from the noise at the South Street Diner.

Wicked Local Framingham reports a truck driver who slammed into a car may have been eating cereal behind the wheel: The investigating officer found milk and cereal all over his dashboard - and a bowl in woods nearby.

In May, Needham police arrested a man for driving while under the influence of cereal.

Location

Local 718 reports a fire broke out at 33 Brighton St. shortly after 10 p.m. Everybody got out OK.

Local 718 reports a barge fire in Boston Harbor out past Castle Island. Both Massport and Boston firefighters responded to the fire, which crews on one of the two tugs pushing the barge were able to extinguish.

Cambridge Community TV posts a video of his story of Ah.

NECN's report:

KennedySeat.com reports US Rep. (and Senate hopeful) Mike Capuano voted yes on a measure to congratulate the Yankees on their World Series win.

In fact, so did Reps. Frank, Lynch, Tierney, Markey, and Neal. Olver and Tsongas voted "present," McGovern didn't record a vote. Only Delahunt had the courage to vote "nay."

Location

Fire reported around 4 p.m. in the second floor of a two-story house at 58 Forest St..

Boston Police report three men wound up in the back seat of cruisers on gun-related charges after they broke simple traffic laws.

Third Decade details tomorrow's Old Fashioned Roxbury Apple Festival, 1-4 p.m. at Paige Academy, 28 Highland Ave. There'll be cooking classes, drumming and fresh cider (note: Wear some clean socks - the academy has a no-shoes rule for indoor activities).

The Jamaica Plain Gazette interviews City Councilor Steve Murphy, who says the city is nearing completion on a new "payment in lieu of taxes" plan that could almost triple the $15 million the city now receives from local colleges, hospitals and other non-profit organizations.

More info.

John Keith reports the Upton Street agreement means the Inn will only turn two of the three buildings it owns there into housing for previously homeless people and sell of the third building at market rates.

Some residents objected to the plan as too large, even though it would have meant fewer residents in the buildings than under the previous non-profit that owned the buildings.

Aaron Cohen reports that if you really want to get help with a problem, e-mail them or just post your complaint to them on Twitter rather than wasting your time on hold on the phone.

In his case, that's how he got a fix for an RCN "service" he didn't want - if he mistyped a URL, he'd get some RCN page instead of a Google page.

Beacon Press posts a note from Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie and Easter Rising, on his recent visit to the four Boston high schools that use his books in their curricula:

... At Codman Academy today, students read passages of All Souls to me and talked about their personal connections to each passage, e.g. one young woman related to my outrage at the injustices in my brother Steven's case, telling me -- and the assembly of students and faculty -- that she experienced similar rage at her sisters imprisonment on murder charges. I was so moved by the experience at Codman Academy that I announced that this would become an annual institution, making pro bono appearances in the Boston Public Schools every year on All Souls Day (and the following days), thus bringing the intentions of the All Souls Day vigils we once held in South Boston, into the schools (where they are as relevant as ever). ...

Eliot Gelwan, a psychiatrist, mourns the loss of Brother Blue and struggles to find meaning in the death of an alcoholic in his hospital this week.

WGBH tells the Globe that when the purchase of WCRB goes through, it will eliminate folk and blues programs because there are other outlets for that in Boston (so good news for WUMB, Boston's other other public radio station) and it wants to keep its programming "unique." And by unique, it means adding news and information shows just like the ones WBUR and WBZ already broadcast.

The most prominent thing on the Boston Redevelopment Authority's Web site is a Flash package that features Tom Menino standing in front of the Boston skyline - enhanced by the 80-story tower he wants to build at Winthrop Square.

For a building that never got built, Winthrop Square sure gets around:

Hugo Hernandez, 22, is scheduled for arraignment in Boston Municipal Court today on multiple charges of indecent assault and battery on the T, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

Hernandez was originally arrested late Wednesday at Sullivan Square for an Orange Line incident on Oct. 19, but by the end of yesterday, Transit Police pegged him for three more incidents, the DA's office says.

Mass. High Tech reports on the ARPA-backed projects, mostly started by people from MIT.