FAA officials spent 3 1/2 hours listening to residents and elected officials rip into the way planes now fly over a host of communities, at a Milton meeting on Thursday that they agreed to attend only after US Rep. Stephen Lynch threatened to cut the agency's budget for community outreach by $25 million.

The meeting brought out several hundred people from Belmont to Hull, to complain that a new GPS-based flight-path system may be great for airline profits and schedules, but means unlucky residents are now subjected to endless waves of planes, often starting at 5 a.m., for days on end, because of the way it slots planes into very narrow air corridors. Residents also said planes are flying lower than they used to, further contributing to the noise. Read more.

Chris Kollett forwards a copy of a flier that went up around Roslindale recently.

Daisy Razor reports a black cat has been hanging around her yard near the West Roxbury quarry of late.

Around 10:15 p.m. in Oak Lawn Cemetery off Cummins Highway. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of his injuries.

Boston Police report officers investigating gun sales arrested five people in the parking lot of the American Legion McDonald's last night after arranging to buy a high-powered weapon from one of them. Read more.

Javier Soto, a stabbing suspect who eluded police who thought they had him surrounded at Roslindale's Archdale project, turned himself in last week to face a variety of charges, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Around 12:15 a.m., on Beram Avenue just off Beech Street. Several shell casings recovered.

Seven Star Street Bistro on Belgrade Avenue is urging fans to hold tight as it gears up for a re-opening with an actual dining room. Read more.

UPDATE: Police say he shimmied down a garden hose, rather than jumped.

A man wanted for a stabbing on Friday who was holed up with his family in a third-floor apartment in Roslindale's Archdale escaped police by jumping out his third-floor window last night, WCVB reports.

The BRA board of directors meets Tuesday to decide, among other things, whether to allow construction of a 16-unit condo building at what is now the decaying Weld-American gas station at Weld and Centre streets. Read more.