Around 8:20 a.m., an inbound Kat Powers reported:

On a D Line train in Newton delayed by a turtle on the track. Driver has announced she can't move the train because the turtle will die. Waiting for an official to move the turtle.

A few minutes later, she reported two MBTA officials arrived to try to move the recalcitrant reptile.

Action-news reporter Steve Annear adds:

Officials removed it with a shovel.

Inbound turtle-free service then resumed.

Barefoot reports on an attack by three drunks armed with a fire extinguisher:

He ended up unloading a half a fire extinguishers worth of chemical powder on both of my friends, the sidewalk and me. Unable to see or breathe the Volvo drove away before I could get their plate numbers. I called the cops and gave an ID of the car and the boys inside but since when have the Allston cops ever been helpful? I ended up finding the extinguisher this morning on the corner of linden and Cambridge st, so they most likely live in Lower Allston.

Via Allston Rat City.

Boston Police report detectives are now looking for whoever killed Richard Hallahan, 70, and Diane Bourglas, 54.

Firefighters discovered their bodies on arrival at what turned into a one-alarm fire early Sunday in their their third-floor apartment at 4 Linsky Barry Ct.

Police did not specify what led them to classify the deaths as homicides, but Channel 5 had reported they were stabbed.

The two are South Boston's second and third murder victims this year. In April, a woman was stabbed to death.

A concerned citizen has had enough of all those gold-plated people just silently staring at him in front of Faneuil Hall:

The living statues, dancers, etc are taking over and people are not seeing the reason to be here Our HISTORY.