Newmarket Square businesses will soon begin a campaign to urge the mayor to get Long Island open again - or find another place where addicts can get treatment and counseling away from their streets and the drug dealers who prey on them. Read more.

But that could end starting tonight. District C-6 Capt. Joseph Boyle promised Newmarket Square merchants today he'll have officers assigned to the square tonight to break up the Friday-night races before they begin. Read more.

Headley Barnes, 33, was arraigned today on a variety of charges for an incident overnight that sent an 18-year-old woman to the hospital near death with multiple stab wounds and left another woman with injuries from a beating. Read more.

A person was stabbed five times in the stomach and once in the chest at 28 Millet St. shortly before 3 a.m., Boston EMS Incidents and Mark Parkinson report. The homicide unit was brought in due to the severity of the person's injuries.

Shortly before 10:30 a.m. on the inbound platform at Shawmut.

Brett reports this sign, posted on Dot. Ave. by the Peabody Square fire house, is "one of the most Dorchester things I've ever seen."

Zoo New England reports the Franklin Park Zoo giraffe baby rushed to the Tufts animal hospital when it wasn't doing too well after its July 24 birth got well enough to be returned to the zoo. Read more.

The Dorchester Reporter reports that Elizabeth Seton Academy is closed, effective immediately.

In the thigh, shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Park Street at Geneva Avenue. A car was found with a bullet hole at Bourneside Street and Paisley Park.