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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Norfolk Superior Court judge has postponed a hearing in the anti-mask lawsuit filed against the state education department, Cambridge, the Cambridge schools and six other local school systems after the state sought to consolidate a growing number of similar suits.

Rashad Gober, who was awaiting trial on charges of animal cruelty, killed himself Sunday. The death was confirmed Tuesday by family in Georgia.

A group of parents and activists based in Bristol and Plymouth counties has sued the state education department, Cambridge, its school district and 13 other school districts, contending that their mask mandates for schoolchildren are illegal.

The families of two Cambridgeport pedestrians who were killed by vehicles in 2018 have sued the drivers accused of running over them. One driver had been acquitted of a criminal charge of negligent driving and the other awaits a resolution in criminal court.

The family of Romelia Gallardo, 80, who was run over in the parking lot of her Cambridgeport building, says it is suing the driver to get justice on its own.