A roving UHub photographer reports he rode the Red Line from downtown all the way down to Braintree this afternoon across from a woman holding two signs - the one in the photo above and the one behind it, that read "Following Jesus to the End." He adds:

She was surprisingly normal. Sat there quietly until pulling into Braintree and the signs slipped out of her hands and hit my foot. "Oh my goodness. Forgive me." We both laughed.

The day started bright and sunny and flamey on the Orange Line, when a fire erupted along the third rail near Sullivan Station. The T reported at 6:54 a.m., that its workers extinguished "the small fire," and service resumed, but with delays through the morning rush. Read more.

A person was shot near the Brewer Fountain on Boston Common shortly before 10:10 p.m. Read more.

Transit Police report they are looking for a man they say literally got spitting mad on a Green Line platform at Park Street station. Read more.

For the past couple of days, Mary Hurley has been chronicling the people who park on narrow Temple Place, blocking in Silver Line buses at either end of the short downtown street that is supposed to serve as the SL5's starting and ending points. Read more.

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Silvertone Bar & Grill, long a favorite of bartenders at other joints, suddenly closed this week.

Police shut State Street around 11:15 a.m. on a report of a a suspicious packages at 75 State St. Tim Lawrence captured the scene at State and Broad streets shortly before noon. Police re-opened State Street around 12:30 p.m., after the bomb squad said the object, whatever it was, was not a threat.

The Boston Fire Department reports a three-car crash on the ramp from the northbound Tip O'Neill Tunnel to the Ted Williams Tunnel caused a two-alarm fire that sent three of the six people in the ruined cars to the hospital and filled the tunnel with smoke, around 4 p.m. Read more.

A roving UHub photographer spotted this guy slowly driving around the Common this morning, reports the guy has been circling Beacon Hill for a couple months now.

Let's start with the telephone museum Verizon has, here in the town where the telephone was first used, but almost never lets anybody in to see. Read more.