We are two days away from the Fourth of July and on Tuesday, federal, state and local officials will discuss public safety ahead of celebrations in Boston.
Officials will provide guidance and information on the upcoming events at a 10 a.m. new…
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Massachusetts senators say taxpayers may be unfairly footing bill for migrants with financial sponsors
A group of Massachusetts senators are demanding that the governor review how many migrant families being supported by taxpayers entered the U.S. on the condition of having their expenses covered by a sponsor, and that she make those people pay up.
Michael Proctor relieved of duty, state police say after Karen Read mistrial
Feds extend Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants
Federal immigration officials on Friday extended a legal status for Haitian immigrants — who make up the majority of the population of new arrivals into Massachusetts — for an additional 18 months.
Temporary Protected Status is an …
Who was on the first Karen Read jury? We may never know
The closely watched Karen Read murder case ended in a mistrial Monday, with the jury’s foreman reporting that deep divisions in the body meant they wouldn’t be able to come to unanimous verdict.
The jury had deliberated for five days in a trial that stretched from the end of April to the first day of July, all under intense scrutiny and major media coverage that Judge Beverly Cannone worked to shield them from.
But how the conversations in the jury room played out may remain private — a clerk at Norfolk Superior Court told NBC10 Boston that the list of jurors will not be made public.
Who serves on Massachusetts juries is a matter of public record, according to a 2015 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in a murder case out of Middlesex County, but only, with rare exceptions, for “jurors who have been empanelled and rendered a verdict in a criminal case.”
The jury in the first Read trial did not render a verdict.
That doesn’t mean no juror will speak out about the case — they can come forward on their own.
And another jury will eventually be empaneled to weigh the charges against Read, since the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office announced that they will re-try the charges against her. Read pleaded not guilty.
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Person hospitalized after shooting in Dorchester
A person was injured in a shooting Monday afternoon in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood.
Police say the shooting happened on Oldfields Road. Officers responded around 4 p.m. to find the victim suffering from non-life-threatening injuries…
