An employee of a Boston-based biotech company became the second person to be sentenced in a scheme officials say was designed to manipulate the company’s stock prices and defraud investors. M. Jay Herod, 52, of Cambridge was sentenced Thursday to serve six months in prison for the scheme involving PixarBio, MassLive.com reported. Herod, who was also an investor of...

A woman from Cambridge, Massachusetts, who had not been seen since the weekend has been safely located, police said Friday morning. Cambridge police asked for the public’s help on Thursday in locating 34-year-old Toni Napoleon, who had last been seen around 4 p.m. on Sunday. Napoleon was described as being about 5’4 and 173 pounds with a dark complexion, short…

As the number of coronavirus cases worldwide continues to rise, one man in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is working to keep his family and friends overseas safe from the virus that is spreading fast. George Xue, an educator and policy researcher, grew up in Shanghai, and some of his siblings are still there. He also graduated from a university in Wuhan, which…

A Massachusetts dentist faced a judge Tuesday after being arrested Monday in Cambridge for the alleged hit-and-run of a cyclist.

Cambridge residents in the neighborhood known as The Port were left without power late Friday night, after four utility poles fell down on Washington Street.

Utility poles in Cambridge snapped Friday night, leaving the area of Washington Street without power.

A couple of hundred people rallied near Boston on Thursday to call for diplomacy to prevail between the United States and Iran following an American strike that killed the top Iranian general. On a bitterly cold evening, around 200 people marched through Cambridge, carrying hand-printed signs that read: “Hands off Iran” and “No war with Iran.” They then gathered to…

Cambridge has selected a Muslim woman who immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan as a child to be mayor, in an apparent first for Massachusetts. Sumbul Siddiqui, who was in her second term as a city councilor, was selected by her peers. The mayor serves as chair of both the City Council and the School Committee as well as...

A year after a Massachusetts man was murdered, his family came forward to ask the public for help. Paul Wilson, 60, of Cambridge, was found with multiple blunt force injuries to his head in Danehy Park on Jan. 2, 2019. Despite an exhaustive investigation, police still do not have a suspect. “My brother would have been the last person I…

About 10 percent of greater Boston storefronts are now empty, but in Cambridge, city leaders have gotten creative, employing strategies like paying local artists to exhibit artwork in vacant buildings to help liven up the spaces

Local leaders say empty storefronts can be a blight on neighborhoods.

A food truck owner’s actions captured the hearts of the internet when he was seen giving a homeless man a meal at a red light in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bill McAllister of Billy Bear Catering was driving his food truck when he got out of his vehicle at a red light and offered a meal to a homeless man, according...

An act of kindness by a Massachusetts food truck owner recently went viral. That owner explains how he’s hoping his small gesture will inspire others.

Two restaurants in the Boston area were honored in OpenTable’s Top 100 Restaurants in America for 2019 list, compiled from reviews for more than 30,000 eateries in the country. Brassica Kitchen + Cafe in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood and The Table at Season to Taste in Cambridge were both mentioned in this year’s list for their culinary delights. “We are…

A stranger grabbed a 13-year-old girl by the arm Monday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to police. The man allegedly grabbed the girl around 6 p.m. in the area of Windsor Street and Palermo Street. She was walking home from the Frisoli Youth Center at the time. The girl managed to escape. She was not injured in the incident, Cambridge police…

A man is on trial in Boston for offering $500 to anyone who would kill a federal immigration officer. The trial of Brandon Ziobrowski opened Monday in federal court and is expected to continue through the week.

Firefighters have responded to a small but stubborn and smoky fire in a Harvard University building.

The fire in Emerson Hall was reported early Friday afternoon. The building, which opened in 1906, houses the Ivy League school’s philosophy department.

Five people have been arrested in connection with a sex trafficking operation that ran in multiple cities in the Boston area, according to the state Attorney General Maura Healey.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren will be the commencement speaker for the University of Massachusetts Amherst.