Nation: After a seven-week manhunt, survivalist Eric Frein was captured yesterday to face charges of murdering a Pennsylvania state trooper. Prosecutors say they will press for the death penalty.

Frein, 31, was believed to have been living in the woods he had known all his life but he was found inside an airport hangar in the Poconos. He’s accused of ambushing two state troopers, killing one and seriously wounding the other. Police said Frein was captured without a fight, but in pictures there’s blood dripping over the bridge of his nose and clear bruising from a right-hander around his left eye.

Our northeast Pennsylvania stringer said, “Ironic that they captured him the day before Halloween, since he had been haunting the whole area the last six weeks.”

Poll-Ticks: With four days to go before the election, Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog says the Republican chances of winning control of the Senate are 68.5 percent, the highest yet. Republicans need a net gain of six seats to have a majority.

Quarantine: In Maine the nurse fighting her quarantine order went for a bicycle ride yesterday in Fort Kent near the Canadian border. Kaci Hickox, 33, avoided going into town so she wouldn’t freak people out, according to one of her lawyers. Hickox has tested negative for Ebola, but Maine Gov. Paul LePage said negotiations with the nurse who volunteered in West Africa have failed and he will “exercise the full extent of his authority allowable by law.”

In Louisiana, the state’s three-week quarantine rule is preventing Ebola researchers with recent exposure to the disease from attending a New Orleans medical meeting on tropical diseases. They’d have to check into a hotel and stay there in isolation for three weeks. A statement from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene says the quarantine rule is “outside of the scientific understanding of Ebola transmission.”

World: Protesters are on the streets of Burkina Faso in West Africa again today, demanding the immediate resignation of President Blaise Compaore who had been making a bid to extend his 27 years in power. After yesterday’s violent protests the parliamentary government collapsed and authorities declared martial law. The political opposition says dozens of people were killed around the country.

Econ 101: Economic output grew at a healthy 3.5 percent in the third quarter. Together with the spring quarter (4.6 percent) it’s considered one of the best six-month stretches the US economy has had in years.

The Obit Page: Former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, the city’s longest-serving mayor, who directed the rebuilding of the city he loved, has died of cancer at age 71. Menino was appointed in 1993 and ended up spending 20 years in office after Mayor Raymond Flynn was appointed ambassador to the Vatican. Menino was a Boston politician in the best sense, a man who knew how to work with people in the neighborhoods as well as the halls of power. He was at times generous and forgiving and at others petty and vengeful. Menino knew how to wield power to get things done. He wrote in his memoir, “Fear is power. I owed it to my city to keep fear alive.”

Trick or Treat: With outfits for the dominatrix, the sexy sailor, and the “captivating cop” flying out the door of the costume stores, the former children’s holiday known as Halloween has been officially re-named “Slutoween.”

 -30-