Revere Police arrived at a Proctor Avenue home Monday evening on a report of a stabbing and were met by the resident. According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office:

The 65-year-old victim responded to an officer's inquiries as to who was hurt by turning and showing them a large kitchen knife still stuck in his back just above the waistline.

The man told police his girlfriend, Diane Ambroso, 51, had put the knife there, allegedly "because she was drunk." As EMTs pulled up to treat and transport the man - whom police told not to pull the knife out - Ambroso pulled up in her car, and "began screaming at the officer to move his marked cruiser so she could park in the driveway," the DA's office says.

Ambroso was charged with charges of armed assault with intent to murder a person over 60 and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, according to the DA's office, which add she also faces a charge of operating under the influence as a second offense.

The victim was taken to Mass. General, where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries, the DA's office says.

Once at the station, Ambroso voiced a strong dislike for the first officer on sceene, referring to him in derogatory and scatological terms. A Revere Police lieutenant directed another officer to conduct the field sobriety tests. That officer asked if she had ever undergone sobriety testing before.

"Several times," she allegedly replied.

Practice, unfortunately, did not make perfect, and Ambroso allegedly failed every single test. During the final sequence, when instructed to stand on one leg, she complained that her legs were too heavy, then lost her balance.

Prosecutors asked for bail of $5,000. Chelsea District Court Judge D. Dunbar Livingston set bail at $500.

Innocent, etc.

Chicago columnist welcomes Theo Epstein:

Epstein, see, has yet to win a Series without a juiced-up middle of the order. ...

I want Epstein to succeed. I'd love for the Cubs to win a World Series just to see whether that indeed marks the apocalypse.

But it's hard to get past the idea of the most embarrassing franchise in sports empowering the man in charge of the most embarrassing death spiral in baseball history without concluding that, yep, the Cubs are getting exactly what you'd expect.

Meanwhile, back here in Boston, Paul Flannery asks:

So, anyone want to buy a Fenway brick?

Falls off one of the radio towers off Needham Street.

A mobile food festival originally planned for this Saturday has been postponed until at least this spring, the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy announced today:

The decision is based on the fact the attendees we're anticipating for the Greenway Mobile Food Fest, when combined with the Occupy Boston encampment on Dewey Square, would simply be too crowded to be considered safe for the public.

The conservancy says it was expecting 12 vendors, many of them in "large trucks." It emphasized Occupy Boston participants had not gotten in the way of the setting up and taking down of a farmers' market at the square, but that "the scale of Saturday's event is much, much bigger."

An East Boston woman living with her ex-boyfriend was arraigned yesterday on charges she set his Coleridge Street apartment on fire, causing $300,000 in damage, displacing three people and sending four firefighters to the hospital.

Judge Roberto Ronquillo, Jr., set Tina Farulla's bail at $5,000, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which had requested bail of $50,000, and which provided this account:

Two neighborhood residents gave statements to the officers and said they'd been speaking with Farulla's ex-boyfriend, a resident of the building, just before the fire broke out. As they stood on the front steps, the witnesses said, they saw Farulla throwing bottles and other items out his window. Seconds later, they saw smoke and flames from the same window.

"Oh my God," the resident said, "shess burning my house down!"

A short time later, the witnesses saw Farulla leaving the building with several bags.

Farulla was arrested while standing across the street from the fire, the DA's office says.

Innocent, etc.

Cuffs played the Boomerang thrift store in Jamaica Plain the other day.

The MBTA is starting a new courtesy campaign, via placards that urge people to be a kinder, gentler ridership. Will it work?

The campaign follows the T's no groping and no littering campaigns.

General Manager Jonathan Davis - a daily MBTA user - asked the T's Marketing Department to develop a new campaign to encourage courteous and polite behavior on trains and buses.

See all five placards.

South End Patch notes a proposed Dunkin' Donuts on Tremont Street (which would replace, gasp, a "modern furniture store") is "less than half a mile" from an existing Dunkin' Donuts.

Adam Castiglioni sees trouble brewing:

One wonders how the Dunkin Donuts proposal will fare after neighbor concerns have already caused the cancellation of redevelopment plans (that included new restaurants) for buildings at the corner of West Newton and Washington Streets and the corner of Washington Street and Worcester Square in the South End.

The Globe details some of what was going on in the clubhouse as the Sox collapsed last month. Not pretty; give Francona props for talking, at least.

A state senator who owns a bar has added a provision to a proposed casino law that would let every bar in the state offer happy hours as a way to compete with casinos that would be allowed to offer free boozes to loosen up their customer's wallets.

Wicked Local reports the Senate passed Sen. Bob Hedlund's happy-hour amendment, which now goes to a House/Senate conference committee. The Senate rejected a proposed ban on free drinks at casinos. Happy hours have been banned in Massachusetts since the Dukakis era.

Carice Pingenot, who forwards this photo of the 99% Quartet from Dewey Square yesterday, reports:

The playing was lovely and attracted quite a crowd.

The Globe explains why some protesters arrested early Tuesday decided to fight charges, rather than pay a fine and talks to Menino and protesters about the crackdown. The Outraged Liberal explains what Occupy Boston is fighting for. The Phoenix posts photos from Tuesday morning. The Awl shows how democracy works at Occupy Boston, via its sometimes drawn out "general assemblies."

Wicked Local Danvers reports a family that couldn't find its way out of a local farm's corn maize as darkness fell yesterday called 911 for help:

Officer Justin Ellenton responded to the call and entered the corn maze with Connor’s Farm manager Ritchie Potter to search for the family.

Most of the protesters arrested at Occupy Boston early this morning walked out of Boston Municipal Court today after paying $50 fines. However, eight protesters insisted on criminal trials, while 4 others will get criminal trials because of past criminal records, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.

The DA's office reached agreement with 49 protesters to drop criminal charges in exchange for $50 fines, which means they walked out of court with no criminal record. A judge dropped charges against an additional 14 protesters in exchange for a similar payment and over prosecutors' objections, the DA's office says.

This is the same procedure the DA's office used to resolve the arrests of 24 people at an unrelated protest against Bank of America last week.

However, Robert Birmingham, 22, of Dorchester, Philip Darnawsky, 34, of Cambridge, Julian Taylor Evans, 28, of Brookline, Kamal Ghammace-Nansour, 21, of Oakland, CA, Christopher Hickman, 23, of Haverhill, Anthony Morris, 24, of Dorchester, Theodore Rhodes Murphy, 18, of the Back Bay and Khury Peterson-Smith, 29, of Dorchester, decided to fight the charges in a criminal trial, the DA's office says.

Another four defendants will have to make their cases in a criminal trial because of their past criminal records, the DA's office says.

Kathryn Kinzel photographed the demolition of the Quiet Man Pub in South Boston today, several years after the place closed.

Boston Police identified the victim of a murder on Nahant Avenue Monday morning was Ciaran Conneely, 36, who moved to Dorchester from County Galway, Ireland.

His murder came only hours after the end of the annual Irish festival in nearby Adams Corner.

The Irish Emmigrant reports that Conneely was originally from Inis Meáin in the Aran Islands, was known as "Kiwi," and had spent the past 10 years in Boston, working in construction. Breakingnews.ie reports Conneely was in the US illegally.

The Emmigrant reports Conneely had been violently attacked within the past few weeks and said his brother died in 2000 when a freak wave swept him off a pier he was standing on.

Following his funeral, his body will be returned to Ireland for burial.

Students, joined by some parents and staffers, staged a brief sit-in on the steps of Boston Latin Academy, which the school department wants to move into the shuttered Hyde Park High School, which would mean the city wouldn't have completely wasted $42 million in renovations made in Hyde Park a couple years back. The BPS plan would then have the Boston Arts Academy, currently in the Fenway, move into the BLA building.

Although Superintendent Carol Johnson has the final say, she has said she wants to wait until after the School Committee discusses the plan. A committee discussion planned for tomorrow night has been postponed until Oct. 24.

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today nothing the Supreme Court has said invalidates the state's requirements for gun permits, so people can't just go out and buy guns willy-nilly.

The ruling is the latest in legal volleying between our highest court and the US Supreme Court over the Second Amendment. Last year, the SJC ruled the Second Amendment doesn't apply to states. Does, too, the Supreme Court countered. Specifically, the Supreme Court vacated Jason Loadholt's conviction for illegal gun possession and ordered the SJC to think things over.

The SJC thought it over and concluded that while the Supreme Court has decided the Second Amendment includes state jurisdictions, its recent Second Amendment decisions do not rule out regulations on the possession of guns. So Massachusetts gun-control laws - which require a permit or license to own or carry a firearm - still apply, and Loadholt had no business challenging the constitutionality of the laws because he never sought a permit in the first place.

• Complete ruling, Commonwealth vs. Jason Loadholt.

Related cases:

• Court: Massachusetts murderers can't claim Second Amendment rights if they never applied for a gun permit
• Court: 2nd Amendment doesn't give teens the right to walk around with loaded, concealed guns
• Whoa: Supreme Judicial Court says Second Amendment doesn't apply to Massachusetts
• Supreme Judicial Court upholds Massachusetts requirements for gun permits