11-Year-Old Brooklyn Boy Saves Mom, Stabs Boyfriend; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- 11-year-old Brooklyn boy saved the lives of his mother and a cousin by stabbing mom’s violence-prone boyfriend with a kitchen knife. NY Daily News

- Downtown site sells for $19 million to “Brooklyn Princess.” Plans call for 35 stories and 214 units. Brownstoner

- Brooklyn judge says cops have to prove a defendant's drink has alcohol, not just claim they could smell it. Brooklyn Eagle

- Search for missing New Jersey boy focuses on Brooklyn. Carroll Gardens Patch

- In case you missed it, here are all the winners of the Brooklyn Film Festival last week. BFF

- The Brooklyn Flea feeds "this bottomless, infinite need for stories about Brooklyn." NonaBrooklyn via Atlantic Yards Report

- Coast Guard suspends search off New Jersey coast after another apparent hoax. NY Magazine

- Rodney King died at 47. Gawker

- You're gonna hate Windows 8 at first. Then you may still hate it. TechCrunch


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