The rapist tracked down in March after eluding police for more than 20 years has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to 10 to 12 years in state prison.

Cambridge resident Roderick Jackson was killed with a police officer in a Wednesday driving incident that led to a suspect being held without bail.

Rampant shoplifting has led to installation of metal accordion barriers around alcohol at the Central Square Target, and officials are looking at additional measures.

Customers of the sex workers included “politicians, pharmaceutical executives, doctors, military officers, government contractors that possess security clearances, professors, lawyers, business executives, technology company executives, scientists, accountants, retail employees and students,” according to an affidavit.

Returning Central Square to its status as “the jewel of our city” after an increase in homelessness, drug use and public intoxication, violence and aggressive panhandling is being made a top priority for the city manage by Cambridge city councillors.

An unarmed bank robber got into a Cambridge apartment building Wednesday before being caught, according to police and scanner reports.

Free document shredding will be offered Sept. 9 in front of the Citywide Senior Center in Central Square, Cambridge.

A joint fugitive investigation led to the arrest early Thursday of a Cambridge man wanted for murdering and dismembering his roommate in Indiana in 2017.

An Everett man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for the 2017 shooting of Kevin Raymond in a parking lot on Canal Lane in Somerville.

Residents of The Port neighborhood fed up with gun violence said they were calling for next steps, including signs putting trespassers on alert, brighter lights to expose wrongdoing and even surveillance cameras to solve or prevent crimes.