Cambridge

Mattapan man charged with 1992 murder for hire in Cambridge

By adamg - 12/16/24 - 1:52 pm

Cambridge Day reports the arrest of Edward J. Watson, 65, on charges he killed Michelle Miller in 1992 at the behest of her abusive partner.

Landlord booting Harvard Square's last dive bar, which had been open since the 1950s

By adamg - 12/14/24 - 5:29 pm

Cambridge Day reports on the impending end of Whitney's, which opened on JFK Street when it was still called Boylston Street.

Police in Cambridge are not calling you to threaten to arrest you for missing jury duty

By adamg - 12/12/24 - 11:00 pm

Cambridge Police report residents are getting calls from somebody claiming to be a Cambridge PD captain - while a siren and a police radio blare in the background - with a warning that the residents are targeted for arrest for missing jury duty but that they can fix things by depositing a large amount of money at a specific location. Read more.

Wait, what happened to all that rain on the coastal plain?

By adamg - 12/5/24 - 9:19 am

Grant Gould shows us the first snowball of the season, made fresh this morning in West Cambridge.

Woman who was raped in restroom at Cambridge office building sues building owners and managers and contractors that were doing work in the building

By adamg - 12/2/24 - 2:01 pm

A woman who was raped at knife point in a restroom at 125 Cambridgepark Dr. in May today sued several companies that own or manage the building or were doing construction work in it at the time, seeking information she says the companies have refused to turn over related to just who was working in the building at the time and how and why the building's security systems were turned off. Read more.

City councilors in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville start work to end broker fees for tenants

By adamg - 11/30/24 - 10:02 am

GBH News reports on efforts by councilors in the three cities, including Boston's Enrique Pepén (Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale) to lift Massachusetts's current standing as the only state where tenants have to pay fees to apartment brokers who work for landlords.

Hoping the T will get them out of town for Thanksgiving faster than flying

By adamg - 11/24/24 - 4:16 pm

Jordan Frias spotted this turkey rafter at a bus stop at Massachusetts and Putnam avenues in Cambridge today.

Forgotten how to drive in the rain? Multiple cars involved in Memorial Drive crash

By adamg - 11/21/24 - 6:05 pm

The Crimson reports Memorial Drive near the BU Bridge turned into a demolition derby around 4:15 p.m., with at least one vehicle flipped on its roof. Police shut both sides of the road.

MIT building evacuated after hydrogen erupts in flames in an enclosed space in one lab

By adamg - 11/20/24 - 3:58 pm

Cambridge firefighters responded to MIT's Building 18 at 21 Ames St. after hydrogen burst into flames inside a hood shortly before 12:30 p.m. Read more.

Man shot in the stomach in Cambridge

By adamg - 11/20/24 - 2:15 pm

Cambridge Day reports a man was shot several times around 12:45 a.m. in the Port neighborhood.

Powerful men who possibly availed themselves of a high-priced prostitution ring will have to face public hearings, court rules

By adamg - 11/14/24 - 11:21 am

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a Cambridge clerk-magistrate can hold public hearings on whether to bring charges against a couple dozen alleged clients of a ring that flew in prostitutes from Los Angeles and Las Vegas to render sexual services in high-end Cambridge and Watertown apartments turned into brothels. Read more.

Cambridge gets a charge out of new garbage trucks

By adamg - 11/12/24 - 3:16 pm

Cambridge today rolled out the first of four battery-operated trash trucks it's buying to reduce carbon emissions from city vehicles. Read more.

Getting started on Bluesky, Greater Boston edition

By adamg - 11/11/24 - 10:25 am

Bluesky, a social platform that feels like Twitter circa 2014 (so, yay), seems to have really taken off the past week. Of course, the hardest thing about signing up on a new platform is finding people to follow. Folks on Bluesky have assembled a series of "starter packs" - collections of accounts to follow on specific topics - and there are several of possible interest to people in Boston and the Boston area: Read more.

Cantabrigians urged to take shorter showers

By adamg - 11/10/24 - 12:35 pm

The Crimson reports the prolonged drought has been drying up Cambridge's reservoirs, leading to officials urging residents to conserve water - like by taking shorter showers. Worst case, Cambridge could buy water from the MWRA, which has larger, still relatively plentiful water sources out west, but that water would cost more.

Court: Case against man convicted of strangling and dismembering somebody was not prejudiced by prosecutors' use of songs he wrote and sang about strangulation and dismemberment

By adamg - 11/7/24 - 2:02 pm

The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a Cambridge man's first-degree murder sentence for strangling and then dismembering somebody in his apartment in 2015. Read more.

On both sides of the Charles, people called 911 to report the smell of smoke this morning, as bone-dry brush in greater Boston started flaming overnight. Read more.