By adamg - 1/30/25 - 1:46 pm

The Crimson reports on the Wednesday night crash on JFK Street. No injuries reported.

Eagle walking on the Charles River
By adamg - 1/17/25 - 5:02 pm

Ari Ofsevit was running along the Charles in Cambridge yesterday when he noticed an eagle walking on the ice and nd asked a guy with a camera if he'd taken a photo.

By adamg - 1/14/25 - 9:19 am

Updated, 3:25 p.m.

A Springfield man was fatally shot outside 24 Clifton St. shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Monday, Cambridge Police and the Middlesex County District Attorney's office report. Read more.

Mob of turkeys outside a Cambridge office building
By adamg - 1/7/25 - 5:13 pm

A roving UHub photographer snapped this turkey mob outside 1050 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge today, then scurried away before the feathers flew.

18-wheeler stuck on Storrow Drive
By adamg - 12/27/24 - 9:28 am

The bridges and overpasses of the river roads continued their winning streak in 2024, once again teaching lessons to truck drivers from near and far what "CARS ONLY" means. The year also brought an unusual, underwater twist as construction work in the Sumner Tunnel meant we got to see some below-ground storrowing. Read more.

Orb in the snow at Mount Auburn Cemetery
By adamg - 12/21/24 - 11:40 pm

Our own Swirlygrrl attended Solstice, an annual winter show at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge last night. Read more.

By adamg - 12/19/24 - 9:58 am

An oncology professor at the University of California, Irvine yesterday agreed to hand over $1.52 million in profits he made by buying stock in Nuvalent before it announced positive news about a lung-cancer drug for which he was running clinical trials and then selling it after the news led to a jump in the stock's price.

Dr. Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou also agreed to pay a $1.52 million fine on top of that, according to documents filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in US District Court in Boston yesterday. Read more.

Firefighters clean up debris as car awaits transport away from the scene
By adamg - 12/18/24 - 4:17 pm

A roving UHub photographer snapped the aftermath of an apparent car-B-Q at the southern end of the Gilmore Bridge this afternoon, reports traffic was back up all the way to North Station. Read more.

By adamg - 12/16/24 - 1:52 pm

Cambridge Day reports the arrest of Edward J. Watson, 65, on charges he killed Michelle Miller in 1992 at the behest of her abusive partner.

By adamg - 12/14/24 - 5:29 pm

Cambridge Day reports on the impending end of Whitney's, which opened on JFK Street when it was still called Boylston Street.

By adamg - 12/12/24 - 11:00 pm

Cambridge Police report residents are getting calls from somebody claiming to be a Cambridge PD captain - while a siren and a police radio blare in the background - with a warning that the residents are targeted for arrest for missing jury duty but that they can fix things by depositing a large amount of money at a specific location. Read more.

Snowball in person's hand in Cambridge
By adamg - 12/5/24 - 9:19 am

Grant Gould shows us the first snowball of the season, made fresh this morning in West Cambridge.

By adamg - 12/2/24 - 2:01 pm

A woman who was raped at knife point in a restroom at 125 Cambridgepark Dr. in May today sued several companies that own or manage the building or were doing construction work in it at the time, seeking information she says the companies have refused to turn over related to just who was working in the building at the time and how and why the building's security systems were turned off. Read more.

By adamg - 11/30/24 - 10:02 am

GBH News reports on efforts by councilors in the three cities, including Boston's Enrique Pepén (Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale) to lift Massachusetts's current standing as the only state where tenants have to pay fees to apartment brokers who work for landlords.

By adamg - 11/21/24 - 6:05 pm

The Crimson reports Memorial Drive near the BU Bridge turned into a demolition derby around 4:15 p.m., with at least one vehicle flipped on its roof.

By adamg - 11/20/24 - 3:58 pm

Cambridge firefighters responded to MIT's Building 18 at 21 Ames St. after hydrogen burst into flames inside a hood shortly before 12:30 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 11/20/24 - 2:15 pm

Cambridge Day reports a man was shot several times around 12:45 a.m. in the Port neighborhood.

By adamg - 11/14/24 - 11:21 am

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a Cambridge clerk-magistrate can hold public hearings on whether to bring charges against a couple dozen alleged clients of a ring that flew in prostitutes from Los Angeles and Las Vegas to render sexual services in high-end Cambridge and Watertown apartments turned into brothels. Read more.

Electric-powered garbage truck
By adamg - 11/12/24 - 3:16 pm

Cambridge today rolled out the first of four battery-operated trash trucks it's buying to reduce carbon emissions from city vehicles. Read more.