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T checkpoints deter threats, officials say nearing four years without arrests

By Marc Levy
No arrests or investigations have resulted from more than 1,420 security checkpoints MBTA police have run at T stations since Oct. 10, 2006.
By Marc Levy
A surge in enrollment has Community Charter School of Cambridge searching for extra classroom space. Faculty and staff at the tuition-free college prep school say it is a good problem to have
By Marc Levy
Parking rates are doubling and pay hours extended by four hours in two city-owned lots in Central Square.
By Marc Levy
WIth three musical groups performing under sunny skies in historic Harvard Yard, the year’s Harvard Senior Picnic was a musical affair.
By Marc Levy
At least eight Cambridge grills will compete next month for bragging rights and $500 for charity in the “Smoke This” Rib Fest, the latest step into the spotlight by the new East Cambridge Business Association.
By Marc Levy
Web-based reality sitcom “Quiet Desperation” is going off the air, kind of, only to take to the actual air. Musician and comedian Rob Potylo and director Warren Lynch said Friday they are ending the Web series and restarting it on MyTV, where it can reach a potential 2.4 million people.
By Marc Levy
Neither pollsters nor top news sources acknowledge that the plunge in the president’s popularity results from more than a lingering recession — namely an extreme and unprecedented split of a rabid far right and disappointed progressives.
By Marc Levy
A 53-year-old man and his young son were stabbed early Thursday in their home by an unknown assailant who fled after the attack, police said.
By Marc Levy
For those still mourning the old Harvard Square — the funky one alive with buskers and late-night rowdiness at The Tasty, the one before Abercrombie & Fitch and all the bank branches — the announcement of the Harvard Square Business Association’s 100th anniversary gala will seem a bitter epilogue.
By Marc Levy
“Intensive” investigations cleared the sergeant who arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. of wrongdoing, police have said, but documents received by Cambridge Day through a Freedom of Information request show the investigating was anything but thorough or vigorous.
By Marc Levy
Mailed invitations to Cambridge Community Television’s annual Backyard BBQ has alarmed people around the city — an unintended but not wholly undesirable result, said Shawn Clarke, associate director of the cable channels.
By Marc Levy
The Cambridge Historical Society is offering residents free Toscanini’s ice cream Saturday along with digital scans of their vintage photographs. That’s just the start of what’s new in history.
By Marc Levy
A 22-year-old man was shot in the back of the neck at about 2 a.m. Friday at Bishop Allen Drive and Columbia Street, near Central Square, police said.
By Marc Levy
A simple poster on a telephone pole warning neighbors of danger to their cat. That’s nice, right? Not to the cat owners.
By Marc Levy
Four days of rain ending midday Wednesday didn’t give Cambridge flood problems like those experienced as recently as July 10. And now the bad weather has passed for a while.
By Marc Levy
Turningart.com, a startup based in Central Square, could be the next Netflix, but its works of art aren’t cinema — they’re actual works of art.