Cambridge Police today released their most detailed update yet on how a CPD officer's gun came to discharge in a restroom at Cambridge Rindge and Latin. As you may recall, in the last update we were told, the officer had entered the stall to use the facilities and somehow the gun went off. In today's update, we learn the gun fired as he was getting ready to leave: Read more.
The boat, freshly made sinkable by a commuter train. Photo by Transit PD.
Transit Police report on what, so far, is the weirdest MBTA crash of the year:
4/10 12:15AM Fitchburg Line between Cambridge & Belmont unknown person/s left a boat on the right of way. An #MBTA commuter rail train did strike the boat. No injuries were reported & no damage to train. TPD Detectives to follow up.
Cambridge Police are reporting some details on the incident with the police officer and self-discharging gun at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School yesterday. Read more.
Cambridge Police and Cambridge Public Schools report on the discharge at Cambridge Rindge and Latin this afternoon: Read more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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