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Over half a million people gathered to watch the fireworks and the Boston Pops concert on Monday.

Staff Sergeant Tracy Labrecque and the U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers Chorus kick off the program with the Star-Spangled Banner.

Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops, and Michael Chiklis, host for the concert, pose for reporters before the beginning of the July 4th concert at the Esplanade. Chiklis is best known for playing Detective Vi...

The honor guard displays flags before the beginning of the concert.

Thousands lined the Charles River to watch the fireworks display.

Boats gather on the Charles River to watch the fireworks display.

Over 15,000 fireworks lit up the sky above the Charles River on Monday night.

Firing tubes that have not yet been loaded with fireworks shells are seen midday Saturday.

A worker makes electrical connections to a fireworks shell that has been loaded into its firing tube midday Saturday.

The Beta Theta Pi fraternity was disbanded for two years by its local alumni association and national organization.

The graphs show the net flux of all requested undergraduate dorm transfers. Net flux is defined as the number of people requesting to move into a dorm minus the number of people requesting to move out of the dorm, nor...

A hazardous materials decontamination tent was set up in the Westgate parking lot early Tuesday morning in response to a New House bomb scare. Cambridge and MIT police eventually determined that there was never any th...

MIT and Cambridge police and firefighters coordinated the response to potential pipe bombs in New House early Tuesday morning. There was never any threat to campus safety, but the Cambridge bomb squad carried out a se...

Members of the police, fire department, and ATF wait on Amherst Alley as the Cambridge Police Bomb Unit disrupted a suspicious material on the 3rd floor of German House in New House midday on Tuesday. The material tur...