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By adamg - 3/28/24 - 9:37 am

The Crimson reports the university, after long and careful consideration of the sort only Harvard can mount after ten years of criticism, has "removed the human skin binding from a book held in Houghton Library and apologized for 'past failures in its stewardship of the book'." Read more.

By adamg - 3/25/24 - 9:53 am

Cambridge Day reports the university is looking at new ways to make Palmer Street better. One proposal: Retractable bollards on timers to be raised at key times to keep ride-share drivers out.

By adamg - 3/20/24 - 4:04 pm
Wanted for scrawling swastikas at Central Square

Surveillance photo by TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say took time out of his no doubt busy day to scrawl swastikas inside the Central Square Red Line station, around 5 a.m. on March 11.

If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050, anonymously if you prefer.

By adamg - 3/20/24 - 11:23 am

The Crimson reports on a unanimous council vote towards making the 1 bus free, in advance of another one of those long Red Line shutdowns in July.

By adamg - 3/14/24 - 9:57 pm

Cambridge Day reports a federal judge this week dismissed a lawsuit by a Cambridge cop who was disciplined for a Facebook post he made while off duty in which he made disparaging remarks about George Floyd in 2021. Read more.

By adamg - 3/14/24 - 11:52 am
Kendall station headhouse

At Kendall Square Red Line entrance, sign would go under the red-and-white "Kendall" sign

The MBTA and the company that handles its electronic ad boards inside subway stations have begun a program to bring the boards above ground, at the entrances to stations. Read more.

By adamg - 3/10/24 - 10:29 pm
Mace man and Lysol lady on the Green Line

Mace man and Lysol lady, surveillance photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a man who maced numerous passengers on a Green Line trolley at Lechmere around 2:25 p.m. yesterday and a woman who sprayed Lysol into the eyes of a driver of a Green Line shuttle bus at Babcock Street around 11 p.m. on Feb. 21.

If either look familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050, anonymously if you prefer.

By adamg - 3/10/24 - 1:13 am
Ajak and Keech

Ajak (l) and Keech discuss overthrowing the South Sudanese government with arms dealers who were really federal agents. From federal affidavit.

A native of South Sudan who allegedly had dreams of moving from Harvard's Kennedy School to the presidency of his homeland was arrested on Monday on charges he and an accomplice were planning to export enough anti-tank missiles, grenade launchers, automatic rifles and ammunition to take over the beleaguered nation. Read more.

By adamg - 3/8/24 - 9:54 am

Two MIT students and a pro-Israel group from California yesterday sued MIT on charges it has allowed protests over the Israeli war in Gaza to blossom into full-blown anti-Semitic threats against Jewish students and professors. Read more.

By adamg - 3/7/24 - 6:14 pm

The Crimson reports German professor Eric Rentschler did something so horrible - exactly what, the U isn't yet saying - that he not only can't teach for two years, he's not even allowed to show his face on campus.

By adamg - 3/4/24 - 9:05 pm

Cambridge Day reports on a Massachusetts Appeals Court ruling in a case that started with Cambridge officials suspended a local restaurant's licenses for three days for violating a law against tea candles, only it turned out there was no such law.

By adamg - 2/25/24 - 12:49 pm

The Washington Post takes a look at what is increasingly stagnant demand for life-sciences lab space - even in Kendall Square - in the Boston area, which saw a huge increase in demand as companies rushed to develop Covid-19 drugs and vaccines.

By adamg - 2/12/24 - 12:51 pm

State Police report divers pulled the body of a man out of the river near the Longfellow about 1:50 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 2/12/24 - 8:53 am
Red car parked in the Harvard Square busway

George S. couldn't help but notice how somebody (with Mass. plates, no less) wound up parked in the Harvard Square busway around 7:45 p.m. yesterday.

Earlier: Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/24 - 1:02 pm
Long line of yellow shuttle buses

SteveBikes yells: Happy Red Line shutdown day from Davis, because, of course, today is the first of ten days of all-day non-stop non-subway action between Alewife and Harvard, with the non-service extended to Park after 8:45 p.m., so the T can do one of those speed-run repair marathons. Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/24 - 9:23 am
Rendering of the UFO that hovered over WBZ by a WBZ employee.  The X in the lower right represents a flashing light; the arrow the object's movement

Rendering of the UFO that hovered over WBZ by a WBZ employee. The X in the lower right represents a flashing light; the arrow the object's movement.

In the 1950s and 1960s, a unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, collected and investigated UFO sightings - including a number in the Boston area (two in West Roxbury alone). Read more.

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 4:11 pm

The Harvard Book Store announced today it just couldn't make the numbers work and has called off plans to open a second shop across the river at the Prudential Center: Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 6:49 pm

A magistrate judge in Boston federal court ruled today that federal prosecutors failed to make their case that a local doctor committed a lewd act while seated next to a 14-year-old girl on a flight from Honolulu to Logan Airport in May, 2022. Read more.

By adamg - 1/30/24 - 1:58 pm

Damon Krukowski bids farewell to the Courthouse Fish Market in East Cambridge, which closed this month after more than 110 years in business, meaning the end of not just a place to get fresh fish but a part of the community: Read more.

By adamg - 1/29/24 - 6:04 pm
Dumpster on fire in North Cambridge

DemonHusky spotted this literal dumpster fire off Sherman Street in North Cambridge this evening.

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