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Authorities in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are looking to identify two suspects after a business was broken into overnight and two cars were stolen. According to police, officers were called to a commercial establishment on Massachusetts Avenue around 5:20 a.m. Sunday for a report of an alarm. Officers discovered the gas and service station had been broken into. Two vehicles were stolen…

Cambridge police have asked for the public’s help identifying two individuals wanted in connection with the theft.

A bicyclist has died after being hit by a truck in Boston shortly after noon Wednesday. The crash was reported around 12:09 p.m. at the intersection of Huntington and Massachusetts avenues, where a truck hit a bicyclist, Boston police said. The bicyclist, an adult male, was conscious and was taken to an area hospital, police said. Police said Wednesday night…

After an assault in Billerica, authorities searched for the suspect in Cambridge and Arlington, but he was not found.

Massachusetts State Police say a search for a domestic assault suspect in Arlington and Cambridge on Tuesday afternoon has ended without an arrest. “Search has ended with negative results,” state police said in a tweet at 2 p.m. “The victim in the case is an adult female. Investigation will be ongoing and be led by local police. The case is…

More police will be out patrolling the area commonly referred to as Mass. and Cass, a long troubled part of Boston located along Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard.

More police will be out patrolling the area commonly referred to as Mass. and Cass, a long troubled part of Boston located along Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. The added police presence is coming in response to a recent uptick in violence, according to police, who cited a series of stabbings in the South End neighborhood. Five stabbings were…

Authorities are looking for a man wanted in a sexual assault in Cambridge.

Authorities are looking for a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman at Porter Square in Cambridge.

Police are investigating a report that a woman was sexually assaulted in the Porter Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wednesday morning. Cambridge police said a 47-year-old Somerville woman said she was physically and sexually assaulted near the Porter Exchange Shopping Center at 1815 Massachusetts Avenue around 8:40 a.m. Wednesday. The woman told police she was walking down Roseland Street…

One person was taken to the hospital with non life-threatening-injuries after a shooting on Massachusetts Avenue overnight, Boston EMS said. The shooting occurred in the area of 1261 Massachusetts Avenue just before 2 a.m. Tuesday. No further information was immediately available.

Mayor Michelle Wu visited Mass. and Cass on Wednesday, the deadline for unhoused people to move out of the homeless encampment as the city works to place them in housing.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu visited Mass. and Cass to speak with unhoused people living in the area as the city clears out the homeless encampment.

Boston has reached Mayor Michelle Wu’s clearing deadline for people living in tents at the homeless encampment known as Mass. and Cass, but dozens of people remain.

City of Boston work crews were at the homeless encampment known as Mass. and Cass Wednesday, the deadline for unhoused people to move out, tearing down tents as Mayor Michelle Wu visited to speak with residents. Wu had said this week that there were 62 people who still needed to be moved from the area near Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea…

More than half of the people who’d been living in the homeless encampment along Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard have left, but more than 60 remain.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Monday that the city has started to remove tents along Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard and dozens of unhoused people have been placed into housing. More than half of the people who’d been living in the homeless encampment have left, but more than 60 remain. “The encampments that we see and that some individuals…