The Crimson reports a total of 16 confirmed mumps cases at Harvard, with some cases now also reported at Tufts and BU.

Cambridge Police report arresting a man they say fired blank rounds from a gun several times in the area of Broadway and Windsor Street last month. Read more.

It's severe-delay time on both sides of the Red Line as a switch at Alewife has forgotten the one job it has.

Rose pleads:

HELP send coffee & bagels to Harvard @MBTA!

In Cambridge, Central Square Florist had a pair of turkeys walk by this morning.

In West Roxbury, Terry Klein spotted a bunch of turkeys on Redlands Road: Read more.

Next City takes a look at how Cambridge is trying to increase public participation in land-use and planning discussions. Among the tools the citiy is using: A "mobile engagement station" - a wooden table carved into the shape of the city, with a map on its surface that residents sitting around it on their neighborhood-shaped chairs can draw on as they consider the issue at hand:

"We take a photo of the table, redraw it in an online GIS application, and then we have a file where we can turn [layers] on and off. We'll use [the table] to collect and scrutinize and analyze," explains D'Oca.

M.L. reports seeing a weird, teensy-tiny little purple car on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge today, headed towards MIT (of course). Corinne replies with the above photo. Anybody know more about it?

Dorothy Steele, 77, of Cambridge, who was in her wheelchair on Columbia Street when hit head on by a car on Feb. 2, has died of injuries from the crash, Cambridge Police and the Middlesex County District Attorney's office report.

Police identified the driver of the car a few days later as Henry Park, 62, of Somerville. Authorities say he will now be charged with leaving the scene of a personal-injury crash causing death. An arraignment date has not been set.

Innocent, etc.

Cambridge Police report somebody fired repeatedly at a parked car at Washington and Pine streets around 2:55 p.m. Read more.

The Boston Business Journal remembers Ray Tomlinson, who gave us both e-mail and the use of the @ symbol in 1971, as an engineer for what was then Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge.