Those looking to beat the heat on North Shore beaches in Massachusetts have another beast to contend with – the dreaded greenheads.
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Driver crashes stolen car after fleeing traffic stop in Revere, police say
A driver was arrested after fleeing a traffic stop in a stolen car, then crashing it, in Revere, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, police said.
A passenger in the car was hurt in the crash but is expected to survive, according to Revere police. Polic…
Mayor Wu issues heat advisory for Boston through Friday
Mayor Michelle Wu has issued a heat advisory for Boston beginning Tuesday and continuing through Friday.
The threshhold for a heat advisory is three days or more of 90 degree heat index or above sustained for two or more hours per day. She stopped short of issuing a heat emergency, the threshhold for which is two days or more of 95 degree heat index or above.
“City staff are working to ensure Boston has an enjoyable and safe summer, and we’re asking residents to do their part to protect themselves from hot and humid weather,” Wu said in a statement. “While this is not a heat emergency, we are advising people to take the necessary precautions such as taking breaks when working outside, staying hydrated, and checking on each other in the heat.”
The heat advisory means the city is taking action to provide heat relief.
Splash pads will be open at parks and playgrounds throughout the city during the heat advisory. Several city pools are open for people to cool off and operating hours can be found at boston.gov/pools. Memberships to all City pools are free.
Because of a collaboration between Boston Public Schools, Boston Centers for Youth & Families, the Public Facilities Department, and the Property Management Department, investments of city funding, and improved facilities assessment, the city is on track to have more pools open this year than in previous summers. The BCYF Mildred pool opens Wednesday and the BCYF Perkins pool opened Monday.
Boston Public Library locations are also available for residents to seek relief from the heat. Patrons are welcome to participate in the library’s summer programming for kids, teens, and adults.
Additional heat safety tips can be found online at boston.gov/heat.
Massachusetts shopping center sells for $23 million
A Lowe’s-anchored shopping center in Weymouth has sold for $23 million — just a small amount higher than what it traded for in 2013.
Riverway Plaza, which stands on Route 3A near the Hingham line, was bought by a limited liability corporation…
Why wasn’t the jury polled in the Karen Read trial?
Jurors in the trial of Karen Read unanimously concluded she was not guilty of murder or of leaving the scene of a deadly accident, and were deadlocked on only the remaining manslaughter charge before the judge abruptly declared a mistrial, her defense team said Monday.
The disclosure was made in a defense motion Monday in which they argued that retrying Read on those two counts “would violate” the double jeopardy protections in the U.S. and Massachusetts constitutions. If the court needs additional information, the defense said, it should approve a “post-verdict inquiry” in which they are allowed to “seek additional proof from the jurors” regarding their having “unanimously acquitted the defendant of two of the three charges against her.”
So why wasn’t the jury polled by Judge Beverly Cannone before she declared a mistrial?
We asked legal expert Michael Coyne, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law, that exact question during Monday night’s episode of “Canton Confidential.”
“Generally, they don’t want, the court doesn’t want the jury polled,” he said. “They don’t want to invade the jury’s space, in essence to ask them to reject their conscious decision individually.”
“She could have asked them generally, ‘Do you all agree that you can’t reach a verdict on count one, do you all agree you can’t reach a unanimous verdict on count two,’” Coyne added. “But you would’ve wanted to do it generally like that to the entire veneer, and not just individually ask each juror what their vote was, because that can be an intimidating tactic if they had chosen that route, and it’s not just disfavored, it’s not supposed to be done under the law.”
Following Monday’s defense filing, Cannone also ordered that the names of the jurors in the case not be released. In making her ruling, she said there “is a risk of immediate and irreparable injury should the list be made available to the public at this time.”
She did not specify the potential risk but said that people associated with the case had been charged with intimidation.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Heat index in New England could potentially hit 100 degrees Tuesday
Our hot and humid airmass is here to stay for a while. Plus, there is still a daily chance for showers or storms, but our widespread rain risk has decreased a bit for Boston this week.
And the greatest chance for flooding rainfall is farther north across the North Country. This is because the remnants of Beryl are forecast to track farther northwest by the end of the week.
Highs Tuesday reach the low to mid-90s even along the east coastline as we have a southwest wind transporting the warm air…no sea breezes like Monday.
Dewpoints are in the low 70s for many in southern New England and that combined with the heat inland means we see heat indices 95 to 100 degrees. Watch for an offshore fog bank that may roll in and out through the day, especially across eastern Maine and around Nantucket.
More clouds will be around and by late day some storms or showers develop across western and northern New England but staying mainly north of the Pike. Any storm can produce quick rainfall that may lead to localized flooding as our atmosphere is so moisture loaded.
Plus, there’s an isolated chance for severe storms with damaging wind or hail. The storms fall apart around sunset as they head southeast. Dissipating to showers around Boston around midnight.
As our humidity remains extremely high and as the remnants from Beryl track into the Great Lakes this week, this will enhance our rainfall potential to end the week.
With an area of high pressure across the middle Atlantic, more humidity and moisture will be transported from the south. So, we’re trending a bit hotter, still humid, and more isolated rain and storms Wednesday through Saturday.
One thing to note is Wednesday afternoon to evening, we see a warm front lifting across western and northern New England. As this happens, some brief spin up tornadoes are possible, in addition to damaging wind or hail in the stronger storms.
Drier air may return for Sunday into Monday next week; however, we stay hot and humid.
