Colono guilty in home invasion, rape and stabbing
Marcos Colono has been found guilty in connection with a 2010 Cambridge home invasion and sentenced to some 85 years in prison, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said today.
Home invasion trial set to begin Thursday
Marcos Colono, 32, of Cambridge, is charged with a 2010 home invasion, rape and stabbing – and a similar incident two years earlier in Brighton.
Livingstone becomes second candidate to announce for Walz’s rep seat (update)
Jay Livingstone follows Nils Tracy into the special election for state Rep. Marty Walz’s seat in the 8th Suffolk District, which includes Cambridgeport and parts of Area IV and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Council OKs gun buy-back, Area IV name change process
City councillors are making a gun buy-back program just the start of anti-gun efforts in Cambridge, and giving a neighborhood a potentially official way to change its less-than-official name.
Area IV residents want formal process to change neighborhood’s name, councillor says (update)
Residents from Area IV don’t want to be from Area IV anymore, city councillor Denise Simmons said – meaning they want to formally rename their neighborhood. Simmons has a policy order for Monday’s council meeting asking the city manager to start the process.
Group launches $100,000 fundraiser for historic Magazine Beach powder house
A $2.2 million revamp is in the future for Magazine Beach, Cambridge’s second-biggest park, but the first step is raising $100,000 to fix and replace the park’s powder house building.
‘Car Talk’ starts exhaustive run on Sirius this week
For 147 million people, Friday is the holiday shopping day known as Black Friday. For 23.4 million subscribers to the SiriusXM Satellite Radio service, it’s the day “Car Talk” premieres in a three-hour rush-hour block.
Cambridge Athletic Hall of Fame holds induction dinner Oct. 27
The 2012 inductees are Ed Asaley, coach Al Coccoluto, Robert Cooper, Lance Dottin, Patrick Ewing, Jack Hannon, Francis Jarvis, William “Doc” Linskey, Khari Milner, Bob Sheehan, Terry Shinkwin Ward, Rudy Williams and the 1958 CHLS hockey team.
Five things to do today: Saturday, Sept. 29
So what if it rains? It’s Cambridgeport History Day, the last day of “Marie Antoinette” at the A.R.T, there’s a Marshmallow Fluff Festival in Union Square, the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo in Porter Square and even a Cockroaches Mini-Exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
First appeal in 2006 fatal shooting fails in court; second is in November
The men convicted in the March 18, 2006, fatal shooting of Corey “C-Gunna” Davis in Cambridgeport are 0-1 so far in appeals.
