Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts)

Tweet battle between police, union about social media strategy

2013-04-08 16:50:17

The weekend tweets from the Baltimore Police Department featured a recruiting video, an appeal reminding domestic violence victims that officers can help, and a message honoring a colleague who died 40 years ago. But when a fatal stabbing at the Inner...

Center for simulated medicine opens in Anne Arundel County

2013-02-18 05:21:00

A surgeon enters the operating room, offers his hands to a nurse and watches as she helps him into his rubber gloves with a snap. He glances at the patient on the table. A cloth covers the man's torso but for one area. Three trocars — tubes into...

Bloomberg loses the soda battle, not the war

2013-03-12 12:31:00

The beverage industry is claiming victory after a New York City judge on Monday overturned a ban on super-size sodas and sugary drinks Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg had championed as a way to combat obesity among residents. But the battle is hardly over. Mr....

O's doctor becomes defense target in Angelos asbestos case

2013-03-27 19:16:00

The Orioles' team doctor, William H. Goldiner, tended to orange-clad ballplayers at the same time as he diagnosed thousands of blue-collar workers with asbestos-related illnesses whose cases were taken up by prominent lawyer and team owner Peter G....

"The Civil War and American Art" is one of the first in a wave of regional creative projects about the conflict

2013-03-23 00:00:00

The lone Union sentry stands atop Federal Hill, outlined against an ominous orange/red sky. In the distance, the tops of the Washington Monument and several spires rise above the city, as straight and determined as the rifle held in the soldier's left...

Meet Eddie, the calico lobster

2013-03-15 09:40:00

Meet Eddie. Eddie is a calico lobster. He is one in 30 million, give or take. Eddie is in safe hands now with the Profish Seafood Company of Washington, D.C. John Rorapaugh, Profish's director of sustainable initiatives, says that Eddie has been...

Exhibit at Smithsonian explores history of America's obsession with food

2013-01-17 11:51:00

Whether you're stuffing your face with a KFC Double Down sandwich or watching Gordon Ramsay roast professional chefs on "Hell's Kitchen," you're sharing in one of society's biggest obsessions: food. "Food is hot," said Paula Johnson, curator for the...

Roland V. Danielson, naval architect

2012-11-25 13:59:53

Roland V. "Danny" Danielson, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. naval architect and avid outdoorsman, died Nov. 17 of renal failure at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. He was 92. The son of Swedish and Danish immigrants, Roland Victor Danielson was born...

Alleyn W. Moore, gardener

2012-12-11 14:01:01

Alleyn Wagandt Moore, a gardener who was a judge in national horticultural competitions, died of cancer Nov. 21 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The North Baltimore resident was 92. Born Alleyn Hays Wagandt in Baltimore, she was a great-granddaughter of...

Plight of Chinese orphans inspires author

2012-10-27 00:00:00

Maryland-born author Carol Peacock describes living conditions in the poorest Chinese orphanages with a dispassionate eye. Her new novel, "Red Thread Sisters," describes playgrounds strewn with old tires and a caste system that divides children perceived...

Dixon leads Chesapeake to MLL championship game with win over Boston

2012-08-25 18:42:00

It didn't start pretty for the Chesapeake Bayhawks during Saturday's Major League Lacrosse semifinal at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, Mass., but a momentum-changing string of four points in 48 seconds left the Bayhawks smiling at the end. Kyle Dixon, the...

Carol M. Herndon, volunteer

2012-09-15 00:00:00

Carol M. Herndon, a longtime volunteer and advocate for the developmentally disabled, died Sept. 8 of complications from cancer at PowerBack Rehabilitation in Lutherville. She was 82. The daughter of a surgeon and a homemaker, Carol Mae Smith was born...

Research affiliate Nimit Dholakia works under a microscope with cell encapsulation materials for diabetes research at the Langer Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology September 14, 2010 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2013-05-01 17:21:44

Students take their seats for the diploma ceremony at a university in Cambridge, Mass.

2013-04-30 10:25:03

Yusufi Vali, executive director of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, speaks to reporters at news conference in Cambridge, Mass., about the Boston bombings.

2013-04-23 00:00:00