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.
Porter Square
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.
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.
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.
Ari Ofsevit snapped the front of Little Bake, 1925B Massachusetts Ave. in Porter Square, which closed for good yesterday.
Cambridge Day reports that Rockler Woodworking and Hardware in Porter Square is closing next month - and has already marked down everything by 30%.
The MBTA had to roll out buses to replace the Red Line between Alewife and Harvard this morning after a train exhaled its last at Porter Square, the deepest station on the line. Things are now back to what passes for normal these days, the T reports.
The MBTA reports residual 10-minute delays on the Red Line after doing something about a train stuck at Porter with a door problem. The T did not say if the train in question was one of the new ones.
A roving UHub Red Line passenger took a photo this morning of the water spilling onto the third rail at Porter Square. He also took some video: Read more.
Update: The T says it had to send in another train to push the dead one all the way to Cabot Yard in South Boston.
The MBTA is reporting delays up to 30 minutes on the Red Line as "our crews remove a train that was disabled at Porter Square."
Cambridge Police report a guy grabbed $300 worth of Red Bull from the cooler of a Porter Square store Tuesday morning, then rushed out.
An Uber driver and his two passengers suffered apparently minor injuries after their vehicle crashed into a Citizens Bank branch on Somerville Avenue at Massachusetts Avenue around 11:10 p.m. on Friday, Cambridge Police report. Read more.
Cambridge Police are investigating a report by a woman walking Roseland Street towards Massachusetts Avenue that she was groped around 8:40 a.m. on Wednesday. Read more.
Cambridge Day reports on the impending closing of the bar and restaurant, which opened in 1966, and which will be replaced by "a new Asian concept."
Jess Fox posts a photo of the flaming white "ghost bicycle" in Porter Square, a memorial to Joe Lavins, hit and killed by an 18-wheeler as he rode to work in 2016.
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