Cambridge
Eric Weinberger reports from New Haven on the Charles that some movie maker has recast an area near Harvard to look like Yale.
Cambridge Police report a man, 33, was shot at 5th and Spring streets around 1:30 a.m. Read more.
Cambridge Police report the Prius-heavy city is now in in its second wave of thefts of expensive catalytic converters from 2004-2009 Toyota Priuses. Read more.
The Tech reports and condemns e-mail from somebody claiming he will pay $50,000 to female students with certain Chinese surnames if they give up some of their eggs - about five times the going rate for them and without any mention of the potentially serious complications (like, oh, death) for women who get hormone shots to stimulate extra egg production for harvesting.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Cambridge has to pay the owner of a long abandoned and boarded-up apartment building $3.7 million even as he continues to fight to get the property back, under a state eminent-domain law drafted with the acknowledgement of the "sudden and heavy financial burdens" such land takings can have on property owners. Read more.
The Cambridge Historical Commission recounts Lincoln's visit to Cambridge on Sept. 20, 1848, to give a speech in support of that year's Whig ticket of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore.
Boston Restaurant Talk chronicles the demise of Atomic Bean Cafe on Mass. Ave. near Central Square.
A Cambridgeport resident watched in amazement last night as somebody stopped at the intersection of Putnam Avenue and Acorn Street, got out, went up to the little free library there and removed all the books.
He stumbled over the snowbank with the stack, piled them into a very full looking back seat, and drove off into the night.
The New Haven Independent reports on what has become a national manhunt for Qinxuan Pan (shown right), who is considered armed and dangerous. Kevin Jiang was shot to death on Feb. 6.
Jiang was recently engaged to a woman who graduated from MIT before moving to New Haven to become a doctoral student herself at Yale.
Researchers at MIT report they've discovered that two sheets of graphene - an incredibly thin carbon hexagonal lattice - one layered atop the other, create an unusual "ferroelectric" property that could lead to "neuromorphic computing," which "could usher in new, faster information-processing paradigms." Read more.
Cambridge Day reports People's Republik has apparently crossed the border to the great socialist beyond.
Lawyers for Gang Chen, an MIT nanotechnology expert, today asked a federal judge to sanction local US Attorney Andrew Lelling for what they said was his attempt to gin up Chen's charges of failing to properly fill out grant applications by making it sound like the professor was somehow engaged in something far more nefarious. Read more.
Cambridge Day reports the arrest of a Boston man for the Nov. 23 robbery.
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