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In West Cambridge, new questions are being raised about flight of African-Americans from their once black working-class neighborhood.

Like any other high school student, Rebecca Skloot learned about human cells in her biology class; but unlike most students, she became fascinated with the cells of one particular human: Henrietta Lacks.

Mon Feb 8, 6:00 pm ET CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Harvard University says retired will be the principal speaker at its spring commencement ceremony.

More than three months have passed since November's election, but Cambridge is still without a mayor.

Photo by Nick Shabanoff US Sen. Scott Brown helps co-owner Gerry Burke Jr. work the bar at Doyle's Cafe on Dec.

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The Boston police officer who sent an e-mail that included a racial slur to describe Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

"I paint with words. I write with images. I film art'' is the motto of Michael Van Devere, whose films and art are yours for the viewing at "Fabular Films and Faces .

IN a Jan. 23, 2010 file photo Justin Timberlake arrives at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.

A Brighton resident was robbed at gunpoint on Alewife Brook Parkway Jan. 25, according to a police report.

Boston cops served search warrants in Hyde Park and Dorchester yesterday, netting heroin, cocaine, a few guns, and three suspects.

Authorities are offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of two bandits who robbed a postal truck in Cambridge early Friday evening.

CyPhy Works Inc. has landed $1.8 million in funding, according to a U.S. Security and Exchange Commission filing.

After an 82-year-old woman was killed by an unsecured hose on a passing fire truck in Cambridge, Team 5 Investigates learned it's not the first time an incident like this has happened.

The day when patients can a oeswallow their doctora has come a step closer with the development of a submicroscopic nanoparticle that acts as an intelligent pill to deliver drugs when and where they are needed in the body.

Brush High School alumnus Stacey Lyne admitted that she was originally a bit nervous to leave home for college last fall.It's hard to blame her, though, considering she had been accepted to the oldest and one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in the United States.

A 25-year old Quincy man is in critical condition after he was shot in Cambridge Friday night.

"She had such fight, heart and spunk," said Joseph King of Marshfield, who was at his aunt's bedside when Gertrude "Trudy" King, 82, died at 2:30 a.m. at Massachusetts General Hospital.

An international team of researchers suggests that running barefoot may be better for the feet and joints of the lower limbs because they found people who run barefoot or in minimal shoes strike their foot on the ground in such a way that they have almost no impact collision due to "heel-strike", unlike people who run in modern running shoes where ...

Actress Anne Hathaway rides in a car with Hasty Pudding Theatricals actors Clifford Murray and Derek Mueller January 28, 2010 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.