Brockton breakfast restaurant thriving as patrons look for cheap eats

Today's date -- 5/7/9 -- is three consecutive odd numbers, which only happens six times per century, according to the Web site, www.oddday.net. The day marks the half-way point in this parade of Odd Days which began with 1/3/5. The previous stretch of six dates like this started with 1/3/1905, which was 13 months after the Wright Brothers' flight. Click through to share your thoughts on this historic, yet underappreciated, day.

Until he became a medical intern, Dr. James Knutson never knew the street value of Percocet and OxyContin.  But now that he's nearly done with his first year residency at Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital — learning how to become a doctor — Knutson has become skeptical of prescribing these addictive prescription painkillers, especially after one patient came in having overdosed on them. "Sometimes you do have to question the motives and the sincerity and the purity of the complaint," he says.

For previous installments in our Making a Doctor series, click here to go to www.makingadoctor.com.

Speaking out for the 109th time since their bitter breakup last week, an emotionally wrought but defiant Republican Party, the longtime companion of Sen. Arlen Specter, said it had been the party that had left Specter, and not the other way around.

This is the editorial cartoon for Friday, May 8, 2009, from the mind and pen of GateHouse cartoonist O'Mahoney.

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” has problems. For one thing, it’s too long. Two hours and 45 minutes — when they’re as deliberately paced as they are here — can be tough going.

The Radio Kings' new CD finds guitarist Mike DiNallo and vocalist-harmonica ace Brian Templeton expanding to a quintet and putting forth an album more Americana and less rockin’ blues.The have a gig next Friday at Johnny D’s in Somerville.

In a town known for its little league baseball and softball enthusiasts, people didn’t exactly seem bowled over news that former Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez was suspended for failing a test for performance-enhancing drug. (What's your opinion? Open the story to take our poll.)

Janet Reid, owner of the eatery on the south end of Brockton, said breakfast is proving to be the meal of the day, the time people go out and Reid’s is enjoying an upswing in business, despite the closing of Shaw’s supermarket a short distance away on Route 28.

The most productive start to a Major League inning in 56 years boosted Boston to a 13-3 win over Cleveland on Thursday night. The rally was capped by Jason Bay’s seventh home run of the season, a three-run shot into the home bullpen.

Point guard Rafer Alston will serve a one-game punishment for slapping Eddie House in the back of the head during the third quarter of Boston’s easy victory on Wednesday night.

In the same courtroom where two of the six defendants in what became known as the Big Dan’s rape trial once stood, 10 of the key participants in the case reflected on the 25-year-old trail that sent shockwaves through a community that can still be felt today.

Getting enough support for a municipal relief package that could produce more than $400 million in annual revenue for the state’s cities and towns may prove difficult, several lawmakers said Thursday.

Janet Reid, owner of the eatery on the south end of Brockton, said breakfast is proving to be the meal of the day, the time people go out and Reid’s is enjoying an upswing in business, despite the closing of Shaw’s supermarket a short distance away on Route 28.

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