Boston firefighters have been busy battling brush fires this weekend, first in Stony Brook Reservation yesterday and then in Franklin Park today - after more than three weeks without any rain. Read more.

A federal judge has sentenced Deondre Blanding, 27, of Roslindale, to five years in prison for engaging in a shootout in a pot deal gone bad on a residential street in Randolph, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Boston Police report arresting three teens - one just 14 - they say weren't fast enough to get back into their car when police showed up at the Archdale development in Roslindale after somebody called 911 to report six guys in ski masks get out of a car, all with guns, Tuesday night. Read more.

The Arnold Arboretum has filed plans to upgrade its Walter Street gate in Roslindale in part by replacing eight parking spaces with trees and improving the pedestrian paths along Bussey Brook near the entrance. Read more.

The MSPCA reports Moodini the Roslindale Bull, um, Steer, is now comfortably ensconced at its Nevins Farm in Methuen, where he is undergoing state mandated medical testing and exams before he can be re-homed to an area more suitable for one of our larger mammals than woods out back of a strip mall in New England's largest city. Read more.

Jamaica Plain, Roslindale and Hyde Park Facebook groups tonight are full of accounts of people and vehicles getting stuck in a mating frenzy of zillions of tiny flying ants, in those neighborhoods and West Roxbury and Dedham, too (Update: Cambridge and Somerville, too). Read more.

The Boston Parks and Recreation Department, which owns the Arnold Arboretum, and Harvard University, which has 858 years left on its lease of the land, have petitioned the city Public Improvement Commission to change the name of Bussey Street to Flora Way. Read more.

Distraction Brewing in Roslindale Square announced today that it will shut Aug. 31 - as a new owner works to change it into a brewery that is also a coffeehouse with food. Read more.

The power failed for more than 1,000 homes and businesses between Belgrade Avenue, West Roxbury Parkway and Washington Street around 5:40 p.m., Eversource reports. Read more

Power's out in Roslindale in the area where Washington, Beech and Walworth streets conmingle in one of those three-way Boston intersections that are hard to navigate even when the traffic lights are working, given how many people run the lights, let alone now, when they're out and one resident reports "drivers are beeping" in an attempt to get through the mess.

Eversource reports a total of 385 residences and businesses are without power and estimates a 1 p.m. restoration time.