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A letter signed by the president of the Cambridge Firefighters Union and 12 of the city’s 13 deputy chiefs calls the selection process “ripe for abuse.”

Barack Obama was a young community organizer when he met this behind-the-scenes political power broker  Washington Post

Editor’s note: This article was updated April 30 at 5:20 p.m. after Cambridge Police Department made an arrest in the case. A Cambridge man has been

An unidentified man in his 30s died after he was found suffering from several stab wounds Tuesday evening on Franklin Street, according to the Middlesex

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As expected, a big chunk of Cambridge’s Democrats threw their support behind their hometown senator, Elizabeth Warren, who picked up 15,198 (40%)

After 18 months of surveys, open houses and interviews with the community, BioMed Realty publicly released its design proposal for a new mixed-used

Elijah McKinney, 18, of Cambridge, along with Christian Virgile, 18, of Malden, and a 17-year-old Cambridge juvenile face charges stemming from a stabbing

A man was reportedly stabbed Sunday night after confronting kids who were damaging cars in the Riverside neighborhood of Cambridge. Cambridge police

We asked our readers on Facebook: What are the most romantic spots in Cambridge? Close to 100 people responded, offering their favorite places to eat,

The MBTA announced Monday that Lechmere Station in East Cambridge will be closed for a year starting in the spring as part of the Green Line Extension

Editor’s note: This article was updated Monday, Jan. 27, following an interview with Nabil Sater, co-owner of the Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub.

“Anyone who looks on people my age and makes easy assumptions about what is going on with us is making a major mistake. Our interior life may well be

Two older Cambridge men reported to police this week they were scammed out of thousands of dollars after befriending younger women on Facebook. Police do

A 28-year-old Dorchester man and a 25-year-old Lynn woman were arrested on gun charges Thursday afternoon following a shelter-in-place alert at Harvard

A real estate developer is looking to build 29 micro-studio apartments above Teddy Shoes in Central Square. Although the development is already two years

Following a push from students, parents and over 50 school leaders, Emily Dexter has opted out of serving a third term on the Cambridge School Committee.

Over 50 Cambridge Public Schools principals, assistant principals, deans, coaches and administrators sent Emily Dexter a letter Friday, calling for her

Border Café in Harvard Square was forced to temporarily close this week after a fire inside an exhaust vent Sunday afternoon caused heavy smoke and

New details have emerged regarding slain Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s connection to a 2011 unsolved triple homicide in Waltham. A partially