A man who wouldn't take no for an answer from a woman he wanted to dance with at the Liberty Diner on Mass. Ave. last August ended up pulling out a black-handled knife and stabbing the woman's husband in the chest - and slicing open that man's brother's face from ear to chin, police told the Boston Licensing Board at a hearing today. Read more.

A man was stabbed in the chest and leg on Cambridge Street near Brighton Avenue and North Beacon Street around 6 p.m. The alleged stabber drove away in a reddish-orange SUV. Read more.

A woman was stabbed in an apartment at 125 Amory St. in Jamaica Plain around 8:45 a.m. Due to the severity of her injuries, the homicide unit was called in just in case.

Boston Police report officers who stopped a man for speeding and swerving down Blue Hill Avenue early this morning arrested him not just for that, but for the automatic rifle loaded with 30 bullets, two loaded handguns, switchblade and cocaine they found on him or in his car. Read more.

A man was stabbed in the chest in a Herter Park parking lot, near the kayak rental place, possibly in an argument spurred by a traffic incident on Soldiers Field Road in Allston shortly after 5 p.m. Boston EMTs found the man walking around. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say held up two markets around the corner from each other in East Boston - while holding two different types of weapons to convince employees to hand over money. Read more.

A person was stabbed in the throat in a field on the upper-busway side of the Forest Hills T station, where Washington Street crosses the Arborway to become South Street, around 4:20 p.m. Read more.

Boston Police report looking for a man they say tried to stab a clerk at the Uphams Corner Market, 521 Columbia Rd., 521 Columbia Road in Dorchester, failed, then whacked him with a Hot Pocket.