A BU Medical School student visiting friends fell to his death off a third-story fire escape at 5 Walbridge St. in Allston around 12:30 this morning, according to Boston Police and Boston University.

Boston Police report: "Preliminary investigation indicates that the victim was injured as a result of an accidental fall."

BU Today identifies him as Babur Khalique, a third-year student at BU Medical School who had just begun training in biomedical engineering.

""He was a brillant and engaged medical and biomedical engineering student with a promising future," Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore said. "His death is a great loss."

The Daily Free Press quotes a neighbor as saying Khalique appeared drunk before going onto the fire escape.

And what better place to put a "resort casino" than Suffolk Downs?

Unlike Sal DiMasi, who managed to quash casinos, successor Bob DeLeo favors them.

Tom Menino has long supported a casino in Boston - two years ago, he backed a casino at the racetrack - and repeated that support earlier this week at a candidate's forum in the Back Bay, saying it would help create jobs.

At the same forum, his three opponents all opposed the idea of a casino in Boston.

"It's not real economic development when you exploit addiction," Sam Yoon said, adding the city could boost jobs through such things as promoting a "green" economy.

Kevin McCrea said any economic benefits of a casino would be negated by a large increase in "problem gambling - enough new gambling addicts to fill up the Garden - and said the city could cut the local unemployment rate by enforcing its existing requirements for hiring certain numbers of Boston residents on city-funded construction projects and replacing detail cops with flaggers from local neighborhoods.

Flaherty has a slightly open door: He said he would be willing to talk to any neighborhood actually interested in a casino, but cautioned that "casinos are hurting now," and are not the answer for the city's economic woes. He also called for enforcment of the city residency requirement on construction projects.

John Keith takes a look at the latest campaign finance reports for mayoral and at-large city council candidates (and posts the numbers). Among other things, Tom Menino spent $500,000 in just 15 days on his re-election campaign.

Rick Nohl tweets Massport and State police are on scene at the end of South Bremen Street.