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Looking to cool off? Spray decks open in Boston, Cambridge, and Belmont

Starting Wednesday, a dozen spray decks will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the rest of the summer season.

Cambridge Police Department seeks public’s help as part of sexual assault investigation
Police on Thursday asked the public to check security cameras and other video surveillance they may have of the Cambridgepark Drive area recorded between 5 p.m. and midnight on May 17 as part of its investigation into a reported sexual assault by a masked man armed with a knife.

Looking to cool off? Spray decks open in Boston, Cambridge, and Belmont
Starting Wednesday, a dozen spray decks will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the rest of the summer season.

Police in Cambridge boost patrols near site of reported sexual assault

Cambridge man, missing nearly a month, found dead in White Mountains, officials say

PERSPECTIVE

Marcia Kadish recalls the day she made same-sex marriage history in Cambridge

‘This has gotta be a scam.’ How a Somerville resident found out Guster wanted to perform on his porch at Porchfest.

Boston made some of its busiest MBTA bus routes fare-free. Why hasn’t Cambridge?

Camberville & beyond

Over beer, MBTA chief offers optimism, saying big improvements ‘not as far away as we think’

Boomerangs thrift stores to close in Jamaica Plain, South End, and Central Square

Palestinian flags raised in Harvard Yard over the weekend spark outrage

Two people rescued in separate incidents on MBTA, officials say

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Meet the man who put up a wooden elephant and two giraffes in Somerville — without asking

Did Hayward Zwerling, a retired endocrinologist and amateur woodworker, ask anyone before erecting his renditions of some of the animal kingdom’s largest beasts on public land? “No. I just did it,” he said.

A promised bridge over the Mystic River would be a missing link for Somerville and Everett. So where is it?

The project, which bikers, mayors, and customers say would close a glaring transportation gap, is back on the drawing board.

At Rodent Academy in Cambridge, you have one assignment: Kill the rats

To beat the pests, we have to be smarter than them. And sometimes, participants at the academy learn, we have to unleash the rat-killing dogs. Really.

Local officials are scrutinizing ShotSpotter gunshot detection system anew: ‘What exactly have we been doing here?’

Proponents say ShotSpotter saves lives. Civil libertarians say the technology makes it more likely in communities of color that people will have tense or even dangerous run-ins with police.

Serial bank robber pleads guilty to Cambridge robbery, escape from custody, officials say

On May 9, 2022, Kim Daley walked out of the Boston residential reentry center where he was confined after previous federal bank robbery convictions, and six weeks later he robbed a Cambridge bank, officials said.

Cambridge school resource officer discharges gun in high school restroom, officials say

The officer notified police and the school’s administration of the accidental discharge immediately after it occurred around 1:45 p.m., officials said.

Cambridge public school teacher pleads not guilty to charges of raping two sisters

Jorge Bonilla, 28, was arraigned on two counts of rape of a child aggravated by five years age difference, four counts of rape of a child, and three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.

Teacher at Cambridge public school accused of raping two girls a decade ago

Jorge A. Bonilla, an elementary teacher in the Cambridge Public Schools, is under indictment for allegedly sexually assaulting two girls in 2013 and 2014, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan and school officials.