Brighton Main Streets reports that Scoop N Scootery at the corner of Washington Street and Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton has closed. Fans will now have to trek all the way to Linden Street in Allston for some of its ice cream. Brighton Main Streets adds, though, that another ice-cream place might be moving in.

Boston College is fighting back against a worker who's suing it for disregarding what he claims is his religious right to not get a Covid-19 shot in a way that other organizations facing similar suits cannot: It argues it has its own religious rights under the First Amendment to require workers to get vaccinated. Read more.

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the state wiretap law bars Suffolk County prosecutors from using video recorded by an undercover cop buying drugs from an alleged dealer in East Boston and Brighton because the cop didn't get a warrant first. Read more.

The Heights reports Boston firefighters responded to the area of Lake Street and Undine Road around 2:45 p.m. for a brush fire in woods there.

The entire state is under a red flag warning until at least 6 p.m. on Wednesday because of a drought that has persisted even as deciduous trees shed their leaves, creating huge swaths of particularly flammable areas.

A man was stabbed in the chest outside Sammy's Pizza and Wine Basket & Spirits on Commonwealth Avenue at Warren Street shortly after 10 p.m. Read more.

The co-founder of Flatiron Energy of Boulder, CO met with Brighton residents yesterday to talk at length about the company's proposal for a two-story, 62,000-square foot building filled with lithium-ion batteries on Electric Avenue - except for the one thing most of them wanted to hear more about: How the company would protect them from the risk of a fire at a large electric facility as close as 40 feet to some residents' property. Read more.

City Councilor Liz Breadon (Allston/Brighton) reports that BTD has ajusted traffic lights at several Brighton intersections to automatically signal time for pedestrians to cross between 7 p.m. on Friday and 7 p.m. on Saturday - so that observant Jewish pedestrians don't have to press buttons at the intersections on their sabbath.

The new automated pedestrian-crossing lights start this Friday at: Read more.

A man was stabbed in the stomach on Camelot Court, off Warren Street in Brighton shortly before 12:30 p.m.

As his attackers - possibly a man and a woman - fled, he managed to get himself to the Franciscan Children's Hospital, where staff tended to him until EMTs arrived to transport him to a Boston trauma center.

The Crimson reports Harvard University will built and maintain a public dock at Herter Park, along the Charles River in Brighton, not because it really wants to, but as part of a deal to win state approval to allow renovations at its current boathouses, one on each side of the river - on shoreland that state law normally requires be open to the public.

The Boston city animal shelter in Roslindale is now home to a young python, brought there after somebody found it Monday somewhere along Washington Street in Brighton - so somewhere between Brookline and Newton.

If Snakey looks familiar, contact Animal Care and Control at 617-635-1800 or [email protected].