Charles River

(Newser) - A baby alligator that somehow ended up in Boston's Charles River was rescued by a local animal educator before the cold could claim it. The reptile, spotted earlier in the week and caught on camera by witnesses, was captured Wednesday night by Joseph Kenney of Joe's Crazzy Critters,...

(Newser) - What could be harder than looking for a needle in a haystack? Maybe retrieving a ring from a river. But against all odds, divers with the Cambridge Fire Department in Massachusetts managed to fish a woman's diamond ring from the Charles River after it tumbled into the water while...

(Newser) - A missing Boston graduate student has been found dead in the Charles River, bound with chains to a cement block. Jonathan Dailey, 23, was identified yesterday, a day after the body of a 62-year-old man was found in the river near the Boston University boathouse. The older man's death...