Rediet T. Abebe

After six weeks of trying to elect a mayor, the Cambridge City Council has narrowed the race to three candidates and agreed to investigate the legality of a runoff election.

Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Jeffrey M. Young proposed during yesterday’s school committee meeting the establishment of a middle school in the city’s K-8 school system to close the achievement gap among different socioeconomic and ethnic groups.

In a surprising upset, Republican State Senator Scott P. Brown was elected yesterday to fill the United States Senate seat formerly held by liberal Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, making Brown the first Republican Senator from Massachusetts in over 30 years.

The City of Cambridge will be without a mayor for at least two more weeks, as the new City Council members, despite narrowing down the number of candidates, have yet to elect a leader for the 2010-2012 term.

Cambridge School Committee members discussed structuring the Cambridge Public School District’s budget to best improve student achievement during a meeting last night.

Raymond Traietti, a parent of a student attending Cambridge Public School, wrote in an e-mail to a school official that he was “frustrated” with the school assignment process.

In the first meeting after the Cambridge Public School Committee elections two weeks ago, committee members discussed the socioeconomic divide ...

Rima Khalaf, a former United Nations assistant secretary-general, called for reform in the Arab world.

A few minutes after midnight, the conversations of the 40 townspeople and 30 staff members in the Cambridge Senior Center ...

On Nov. 3, the citizens of Cambridge will go to the polls and elect six members to the new Cambridge ...