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.
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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
DemonHusky spotted this literal dumpster fire off Sherman Street in North Cambridge this evening.
By adamg - 1/24/24 - 11:53 pm
The Crimson reports Harvard and Cambridge police responded to a law-school building after getting a report of a bomb there around 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. There was no bomb there.
By adamg - 1/24/24 - 9:19 am
The day on the brand new Green Line Extension started bright and early and full of buses: The MBTA announced at 5 a.m. it couldn't run trains on the tracks, not because they were out of gauge again but because the signals weren't working near East Somerville. But the bustitution only lasted until 5:17 a.m., when the T updated those darn signals were signaling again.
By adamg - 1/23/24 - 4:44 pm
RadioInsight reports the estate of Bob Bittner, who died last May has sold WJIB in Cambridge to longtime Boston-area broadcaster and DJ John Garabedian. Read more.
By adamg - 1/22/24 - 4:15 pm
At 1:44 p.m., the MBTA reported delays of up to 15 minutes on the Red Line due to signal problems at Harvard.
By adamg - 1/15/24 - 10:13 am
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that the Courthouse Fish Market in East Cambridge has closed for good after more than 111 years in business. Its sister restaurant, Courthouse Seafood, however, remains open.
By adamg - 1/10/24 - 11:49 pm
A group of Jewish students have sued Harvard University, alleging discrimination from top to bottom against Jews. Read more.
By adamg - 1/10/24 - 10:35 pm
Webcam captured Giordani carrying explosives and wires onto Havard Science Center plaza.
A New Hampshire man who said he was answering a Craigslist ad to deliver items to a man's son at Harvard University pleaded guilty today to a federal charge that he knew he was involved in something illegal but failed to alert authorities. Read more.
By adamg - 1/9/24 - 11:32 pm
Surveillance photos of suspect via Cambridge PD.
Cambridge Police report they are looking for a man they say stabbed two people at the Porter Square Shopping Center around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and who they say is "a person of interest in multiple assaults in Boston and Cambridge." Read more.
Brooklyn Dodgers fan from Jamaica Plain sentenced to five years on his third bank-robbery conviction
By adamg - 1/8/24 - 3:11 pm
Surveillance photos via FBI.
A Jamaica Plain man who wore a Brooklyn Dodgers cap over his platinum-blond hair was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison last week for robbing a TD Bank branch on Mass. Ave. in Harvard Square on May 2, 2022. Read more.
By adamg - 1/4/24 - 9:59 pm
One man was stabbed in the stomach and the other twice in the arm during a fight involving a third man at the Halal Guys in Porter Square around 7:40 p.m. WFXT reports both victims were taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
By adamg - 1/2/24 - 12:49 pm
Update: Victim identified as Brian Brandt, 52, of Cambridge.
Cambridge Day reports on the early morning explosion and fire in a four-story apartment building on Chester Street in North Cambridge.
By adamg - 12/28/23 - 2:36 pm
The conspiracy. See it larger.
Shiva Ayyadurai, who has more MIT degrees than you, has filed a new federal lawsuit in which he alleges a federal cybersecurity agency, Facebook, Google and Elon Musk's X are all conspiring to limit his social-media reach - with a reaction time measured in minutes and using techniques perfected by British censors and the Massachusetts Secretary of State's office. Read more.
By adamg - 12/27/23 - 9:42 pm
Jen Deaderick says farewell to Jimmy Flynn, a presence in Central Square and the Boston hardcore scene who died Christmas night, just 40. She recalls the bad and the good times, including how he introduced her to the scene when she was at a low point of her own: Read more.
By adamg - 12/21/23 - 10:23 pm
Update: Thanks to a reader who is far more eagle-eyed, we've updated the story because there are three candidates from Massachusetts listed on that ballot.
Take a look at an official New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot and after you realize that Joe Biden isn't listed (because he believes New Hampshire has had more than its 15 minutes worth of first-primary-in-the-nation fame), you'll notice three candidates from Massachusetts: Perennial head-boot wearer and pony promiser Vermin Supreme of Rockport and Don Picard of Cambridge. Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/23 - 4:53 pm
A Cambridge man pleaded guilty today to three counts of rape of a child with force for an attack in a girl's bedroom that went unsolved for more than two decades, the Middlesex County District Attorney's office and Cambridge Police announced today. Read more.
By adamg - 12/18/23 - 7:37 pm
Cambridge Police are seeking criminal charges against 28 men they say patronized brothels run by three people who were arrested on federal charges in November, the US Attorney's office says.
The men's names will be released only if judges in Cambridge District Court find probable cause for arrest warrants and if the Middlesex Country District Attorney's office agrees to prosecute them, the US Attorney's office says.
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