In two deaths of pedestrians by large vehicles, State Police reports found the victims at fault
In two fatal accidents a month apart in which drivers ran over pedestrians in Cambridge, State Police investigators found the victims, not the drivers, responsible. The most recent conclusion came in the case of a woman who hit an 80-year-old using a walker in the parking lot of a public housing development.
Disclosure of Covid contact delays Monturio trial after a review of video showing resident’s death
About two and a half hours into the second day of trial, an attorney’s assistant reported that she had been in close contact with someone testing positive for coronavirus, putting on hold until April 19 the misdemeanor trial of Ashley Monturio for allegedly leaving the scene after she ran over Romelia Gallardo, a public housing resident.
Driver of the vehicle that killed an 80-year-old behaved like a ‘good Samaritan,’ attorney says
Ashley Monturio, accused three years ago of fleeing the scene to go to a job interview after running over an 80-year-old, didn’t know her SUV had hit the victim, stayed at the site for almost seven minutes and was parked less than a block away while police hunted for her, her lawyer said Monday.
Somerville man sues Uber for paralyzing crash, alleging that company ignored driver’s history
A Somerville man filed a $63 million lawsuit Tuesday against Uber over a crash that left him permanently paralyzed, saying the driver of the car had had a history of reckless driving but still managed to pass the ride-share company’s screening process. His lawyer called it “inexplicable.”
Judge’s Covid question picks up a Cold War relic covered in dust: the city’s ‘civil defense agency’
A curiosity dating from the Cold War of the 1950s was unearthed Tuesday in court: Along with every “political subdivision” of the state, Cambridge is supposed to have an organization for civil defense, but the local one is defunct, according to a city official. Or just folded into the fire department, according to another.
Killer loses attempt to reduce his sentencing from a fatal 2015 stabbing in Central Square
The killer in a Sept. 11, 2015, stabbing outside the Central Square 7-Eleven was denied a new trial and reduced sentence by a Middlesex County Superior Court judge.
Thanksgiving was a bigger deal than Christmas for Cantabrigians during and after the Civil War
At Thanksgiving, people blessed with plenty were called upon to extend aid to those less fortunate through donations of food, clothing and money. In its emphasis on family unity and charitable giving, it was a more prominent holiday even than Christmas.
Attempt to cancel student mask mandate fails, with a judge scoffing at group’s ‘thin evidence’
A judge has refused to strike down a statewide mask mandate in schools across Massachusetts and mask orders specifically issued by Cambridge, the Cambridge schools, the town of Dover and 17 other school districts.
How to best use American Rescue Plan funds? Toward immediate change for the vulnerable
To swing the pendulum on our problems, we must discover our greatest moral selves and be undeterred to create institutions through private, public and university financial commitments that will move us closer to the opportunity and equity we espouse.
We’ve had anti-vaxxers before, but for smallpox, and a Cambridge case went to the Supreme Court
Heated discussions of vaccine mandates and the class and racial tensions inherent in these conversations may seem like a contemporary dilemma, but Cambridge engaged in similar debates around the issue of smallpox vaccination and public accommodation more than 100 years ago.
