Rite Aid announced Monday that a data breach might have put the personal information of over 2 million customers at risk.
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Karen Read lists Mansfield home for sale amid defense’s motion to dismiss two charges
The Karen Read legal saga continues Wednesday morning after her attorneys filed a new motion this week.
The defense not only arguing against a retrial but also a push to drop two of her three charges. This comes the same day that Read’s home went home for sale.
In a 10-page document filed Tuesday, her lawyers once again asked the court to dismiss the second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a crash charges against her, claiming now four of the 12 jurors have come forward saying that during deliberations the entire jury agreed Read was not guilty of either.
This is the latest attempt to stop a second Read murder trial that the prosecution is planning to re-try. The defense believes they were “given no opportunity to be heard” before the judge presiding over the case declared a mistrial.
Read’s defense team is now calling on her to either dismiss the charges or call a hearing to question the jury about what happened.
“It’s very unusual that a jury would come to a verdict, and we wouldn’t know that, and we would only learn about it after the jury was dismissed. The jury believes if they truly came to a verdict that should be respected,” said Peter Elikann, criminal defense legal expert.
Meanwhile, Read’s four-bedroom, three-bathroom, 2,500 square foot Mansfield home is now up for sale for just under a million dollars.
Her realtor told NBC10 Boston they’re screening prospective buyers. However, due to the interest in her case, they won’t be doing open houses.
A status hearing has been set for next Monday in Dedham, Massachusetts, where we learn if in fact there will be a second Read murder trial.
Fire breaks out in multi-family home in Roxbury
A fire broke out in a multi-family home in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood Wednesday morning.
The fire happened on St. Alphonsus Street.
Video shows the top floor of the home heavily damaged.
It’s unclear what caused the fire or if any injuries were reported.
Migrant families at train station in Quincy seeking shelter
Migrant families in Massachusetts are facing a shelter crisis with many facilities filled up to or near maximum capacity.
The issue is only growing after migrants staying at Boston Logan International Airport were forced to leave last week.
That shelter crisis has led dozens of people to the Wollaston MBTA station in Quincy. Both migrant families and people struggling with homelessness have been sleeping there overnight.
Video shows there were dozens of people, including children, there on Tuesday with suitcases and nowhere to go.
Many of these families have been reportedly spending their days at the nearby Quincy Welcome Center, but the center closes in the early evening.
NBC10 Boston cameras captured a Quincy Welcome Center van dropping some people off Tuesday night.
That’s where Gladys Vega with La Colaborativa in Chelsea has stepped in.
For at least three nights over the past week, she has sent her vans to pick up the people left there at the T station and given them food, a shower and a place to stay at their office overnight.
But she says this is only a temporary solution following Gov. Maura Healey’s decision to no longer allow migrant families to sleep at Logan overnight.
And the governor agrees.
“We need more funding from the federal government and Congress needs to act to give us that funding. In the meantime, I’ve also said we are full up in terms of capacity. We have gone above and beyond,” said Healey.
“I’m not so much frustrated with the governor’s office. I’m frustrated with the lack of planning that we’ve all been able to do,” said Vega.
Vega says she hopes more community groups can step up to help find both immediate and long-term solutions to help these families.
First Alert: Final day of intense heat in New England to end with storms
One last day of searing heat Wednesday. And we’ll go out with a bang, with thunderstorms this afternoon.
Wednesday’s storms will be much slower than Tuesday, so in addition to our normal threats of wind, small hail and lightning, w…
