John Keith reports the Upton Street agreement means the Inn will only turn two of the three buildings it owns there into housing for previously homeless people and sell of the third building at market rates.

Some residents objected to the plan as too large, even though it would have meant fewer residents in the buildings than under the previous non-profit that owned the buildings.

The South End News reports on a couple and their three children, routed from their 36 Claremont Park basement apartment by five feet of water from a burst BWSC pipe "thrashing almost everything in its path" and leaving them homeless - and, they say, with no help from the city.

Boston Police tweet a "gypsy cab driver" was pistol whipped and his Lincoln stolen at the intersection of Columbus and Mass. avenues last night. Massachusetts plates: Livery 50862.

WBUR declares Chuck Turner kind of a cult leader, says that helps explain why the Innocent Until Proven Guilty Councilor will win tomorrow.

Two men charged with first taunting and then attacking a man they thought was gay will go on trial on assault and battery and civil-rights charges on Dec. 10, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.

Darren Morgan, 46, and Howard Rice, 50, were initially charged with assault and battery after the June 15 incident, but an investigation resulted in the civil-rights charge. According to prosecutors, the two, standing near Myers and Chang, 1145 Washington St., hurled homophobic insults at two men who walked by them, and then escalated their attack:

Even as the men tried to avoid the defendants, Rice allegedly placed one victim in a headlock. When he broke free and the victims entered a nearby restaurant, both assailants followed them in and continued to assault them before Boston Police responded and took them into custody.

Innocent, etc.

Life imitated TV this afternoon when a man was stabbed inside the Boston Medical Center emergency room, leaving him in critical condition, Channel 5 reports.

As first reported here, councilors Murphy and Linehan want to look at building a movie production facility in Boston. The Herald reports developer Tim Pappas may already be on the case and scouting land off Summer Street past the South Boston convention center.

Jay Fitzgerald suggests the 500 block of Harrison Avenue:

... There's an abandoned brick warehouse/garage around there that has an old stately look to it – and I've always wondered why it hasn't been converted into a theater or condos or something. ...

I'd propose a third possibility: The old Stop & Shop warehouse off Neponset Valley Parkway in Readville. It's a huge, now mostly dormant facility, with plenty of room for expansion. It's not that far from 128 and it has its own rail spur for Tom or Ben's private train.

Domenic Hall, 25, will be arraigned today on charges he shot at a street worker on Hammond Street on the evening of Aug. 21.

The Globe reports Hall shot the man, an employee of the Boston Community Centers' Streetworkers Program, which works with gang members and their families. The victim was rushed to nearby Boston Medical Center and was treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Hall will be charged with with assault with intent to murder and unlawful possession of a firearm. He was picked up yesterday in Mattapan by Boston Police and US Marshals.

Innocent, etc.

Location

Boston Fire reports a two-alarm fire that broke out around 1:30 p.m. at the Parmlee Court Homes complex, 123 Northampton St. forced five people out of their apartments, but didn't injure anybody. The fire, knocked down in about 10 minutes, did $100,000 damage, the department says.

Boston Restaurant Talk rounds up the news on the imminent departure of the Bombay Club to Washington Street (where Pho Republique is now) in the South End.