Wicked Local Needham reports the owners of two restaurants named Pomodoro in the North End and Brookline are stewing over a Needham restaurant's attempt to paste the same name - which means "tomato" in Italian - on its storefront: The former's lawyer wants the latter to can it and threatens to dice them up, in a saucy letter to both the owners and Needham officials. The owners of the Needham restaurant refuse to be crushed, say there's no heirloom status for "Tomato" as a name.

Of course, all this leaves West Roxbury residents wondering if Pomodoro's Italian Kitchen can catch up.

Early this afternoon near the Greendale Avenue bridge, Channel 5 reports.

Mass. High Tech reports that BigBelly Solar of Needham, which makes those solar-powered trash receptacles you can see around the more heavily traveled sections of Boston, has raised a bunch of equity capital.

Paul Keleher took in the Run of the Charles canoe and kayak races in Needham today.

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Today's most amazing crash photo.

Whatever it was, I feel sorry for everybody who was stuck in the traffic nightmare there. Not only was the right lane on 128 southbound jammed up with all these people not moving at all, people trying to get to Highland from the feeder road off the side of 128 also weren't going anywhere anytime soon.

Channel 7 reports on an accident this morning in Needham: Car slid into guardrail, trooper stopped to help, then, of course, another car slid into the cruiser.

Greg Reibman reports that what might be the last Ground Round in all of Massachusetts - that sorta-invisible one just off 128 at the Newton/Needham line - has closed. Those of you who are old enough to remember may throw some peanut shells on the floor and take your kid to see a scary clown.

Gas tanker rolled over and exploded on Rte. 128 south near Highland Avenue around 5:30 a.m.; road shut, driver slightly injured, smoke visible from across the region.

Miss Von Schtoop was up early, went out for a drive, took photos along the way of a smoke ring from the accident drifting over Mission Hill, Cambridge, downtown and South Boston, including this montage from Southie:

Three suspects arrested for armed robbery, carjacking at Needham Panera this morning.