Police news as reported in the police logs.
One McDevitt Middle School student is facing criminal charges and a second may be charged after school officials found them carrying knives, Detective Sgt. Tim King on Tuesday.
The process to turn the old Hardy School into senior apartments is well under way, while the city is looking for an architect to come up with a design for housing at another surplus school.
State Rep. Thomas Stanley is among a group of lawmakers who have launched a Facebook page so people can offer suggestions for reforming government.
As the rousing song ``Eye of the Tiger'' roared through the Whittemore Elementary School cafeteria, a young girl named Abby dressed in a fire-engine red superhero cape, oversized sunglasses and black gloves yelled, ``I have the power of one!''
Police have filed criminal charges against an 11-year-old student at James Fitzgerald Elementary School, according to a press release issued by Detective Sgt. Tim King on Tuesday.
Poet Dan Chiasson will participate Sunday in a National Book Release for his newest collection of poems Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Harvard Square, at 10 Arrow St., Cambridge.
The state's Department of Transportation is warning commuters to plan ahead for tomorrow's snowstorm.
Lots of snow is headed our way. Find out if any schools, events or programs are closed or canceled, as reported by our news partner, WCVB.
Area bottle-recycling centers say Gov. Deval Patrick's budget proposal to add more categories of beverage containers to the state's 27-year-old deposit law may force them into bankruptcy.
Bentley University officials say a male student has been stabbed inside a dormitory and two non-student women have been taken into custody.
A Massachusetts medical examiner has found Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan's father died of a heart rhythm problem after suffering a neck injury so severe it damaged his voice box, and his death has been ruled a homicide.
The state House of Representatives has approved a bill that includes a ban on school bus drivers using mobile electronic devices while behind the wheel.
Police will likely press criminal charges against an 11-year-old for three bullying incidents at James Fitzgerald Elementary School, said Detective Sgt. Tim King yesterday.
While the City Council last night approved more than $520,000 for several school projects, some members said they are concerned that there isn't a better plan to upgrade technology in schools.
When folks tune in to a City Council meeting to see a matter discussed, often those talks are brief. That's because the bulk of the discussion on such items has already taken place in the council's committee meetings, which, unlike the regular City Council meetings, are not televised by Waltham Community Access.
The case against a 32-year-old homeless man charged in the armed robbery of a Bank of America branch on Moody Street was moved Monday from Waltham District Court to federal court.
A red-crowned crane and spindly grasshoppers, radiant sunflowers and a black-eyed squid have flowed from the horsehair brushes of Judith Funkhouser and her fellow artists of the Chinese Painting Guild.
The constitutional rights of John Odgren, facing a murder charge in the slaying of a fellow student, were violated as were the rights of a child to have private conversations with his parents when authorities recorded his phone calls while he was in custody, his lawyer argued at a hearing in Middlesex Superior Court today.
Lawyers for John Odgren, who is charged with fatally stabbing another student at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, are asking a judge today to bar jailhouse recordings of the teen's conversations with his parents from being used as evidence at trial.
Senate leadership today will propose a drastic reduction in the number of agencies under the state’s far-reaching economic development bureaucracy, empowering the governor’s economic development chief with enhanced oversight of several quasi-public agencies and opening the door to a state-owned bank.
First Parish Church is offering $20,000 in grants through a new program established through the generosity of two longtime members.
The FBI has captured the second suspect in the Jan. 4 armed robbery of a Bank of America branch in Waltham. The 28-year-old man was nabbed in Bangor, Maine, according to the U.S. attorney in that state.
State Rep. Peter Koutoujian said the House will work quickly to close a legal loophole that led the state's high court Friday to overturn the conviction of a man accused of sending sexually explicit messages to a minor.
Putting the finishing touches on her drawing of a rainbow squrrounded by stars and hearts, 9-year-old Alex Attardo, a fourth-grader at Our Lady's Academy, said she hopes her card ``goes to a little girl, somebody my age'' in Haiti.
The Nonantum home of Quemars and Faeze Niaraki was filled with song and prayer Sunday as 20 members of the Baha'i faith gathered in support of seven Baha'i leaders on trial in Iran this week.
Join members of the Columbus Club at their hall on Fountain Street tonight for food, football and a chance to win a 50-inch plasma television.
A red-crowned crane and spindly grasshoppers, radiant sunflowers and a black-eyed squid have flowed from the horsehair brushes of Judith Funkhouser and her fellow artists of the Chinese Painting Guild.
John Odgren phone conversation 
