Protesters marched in the streets Wednesday afternoon, blocking off traffic in the downtown area. Cambridge Police closed off Massachusetts Avenue from Memorial Drive to Vassar Street around 4:30 p.m. as protesters gathered outside of MIT. The group mobilized about an hour later, traveling along Vassar Street towards Main Street, taking up the entire main road. […]
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As a Cambridge student, I appeal to my university to act against anti-Israel protests
I am a third-year undergraduate student at Cambridge, and have been following the activities of a small number of my fellow students currently occupying the lawn outside King’s College and the official response of the university. I am writing to say that I am appalled by the response that the university has offered. Freedom of […]
Oxford and Cambridge students set up Gaza protest camps
Students and staff at Oxford and Cambridge have set up camps on their university campuses to protest against the war in Gaza. The so-called ‘Liberated Zone’ encampments were created in the early hours of Monday in front of the Pitts Rivers Museum in Oxford and outside King’s College in Cambridge. The protesters are calling for […]
Students protesting against Gaza war disrupt Cambridge open days
Pro-Palestine demonstrators are disrupting open days at Cambridge as Britain’s leading Jewish student group calls on universities to do more to tackle “antisemitic hatred” on campuses. Activists are telling prospective undergraduates and their families they will be “complicit in Israel’s genocide” in Gaza if they apply to Trinity College, which is said to have invested […]
Police reassign resource officer they say accidentally discharged gun in Cambridge school bathroom
A Youth Resource Officer in Cambridge has been reassigned after unintentionally discharging his gun inside a Cambridge school bathroom on Tuesday, according to authorities. Cambridge Police say Officer Frank Greenidge was in a single-stall staff bathroom of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School when he removed his department-issued firearm from its holster and it […]
Cambridge elementary school teacher to be arraigned on child rape charges
A Cambridge elementary school teacher charged in the alleged rape of two girls is expected to be in court on Monday morning. Jorge Alexis Bonilla is slated to be arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court on charges including two counts of aggravated rape of a child and three counts of rape of a child by force […]
Cambridge fourth-grade teacher indicted on child rape charges, DA says
An elementary school teacher in Cambridge was indicted on several counts of child rape charges, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office. Jorge Alexis Bonilla was indicted by a Middlesex County Grand Jury on two counts of aggravated rape of a child and three counts of rape of a child by force in connection with […]
Cambridge City School District board members get a taste of what students experience
CAMBRIDGE − Cambridge City School District Board of Education members sampled a little taste of what students at the Cambridge Intermediate School experience each day during the recent board meeting. Led by principal Laurie Goggin, several teachers taught board members a little bit of the language and math curriculum. They also used student Chromebooks to […]
MBTA police searching for person who pepper-sprayed riders on a Green Line trolley in Cambridge
MBTA Transit Police are searching for a man who allegedly pepper-sprayed several passengers aboard a Green Line trolley in Cambridge on Saturday, officials said. The incident occurred just before 2:30 p.m. at Lechmere station, according to police. The man police are looking for allegedly sprayed “numerous” passengers with OC spray, also known as pepper spray, […]
Cambridge man arrested in connection with alleged break-ins of stores in Boston neighborhood
A Cambridge man has been arrested in connection with alleged break-ins of multiple stores in Beacon Hill. According to Boston police, around 11:30 p.m. officers responded to 103 Charles Street for reports of breaking and entering. Upon arrival, officers observed a glass pane broken on the entrance door at the ‘Tibet Emporium’ at 103 Charles […]
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Public’s help sought finding two missing foreign exchange students in Cambridge
Authorities are asking for the public’s help locating two teenage Vietnamese exchange students who went missing in Cambridge on Saturday. Gia Hung Nguyen and Thi Thao Uyen Tran, who are both 16 years old, are in Massachusetts on a 10-day VISA, staying in Belmont and Andover respectively, according to police. Neither of the teens speaks […]