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A woman was killed by a speeding motorcycle in Methuen, Massachusetts, Sunday night, police say, asking for help finding the driver, who fled the scene and hadn’t been caught.

The woman, a 62-year-old from Methuen who hasn’t been publicly identified, was found face down by the side of Lowell Street near Alexander Circle at about 8:37 p.m. Sunday, Methuen police said. An officer provided first aid until paramedics arrived to bring her to Lawrence General Hospital, where the woman was pronounced dead.

Surveillance video shows a speeding motorcycle, possibly a Harley Davidson with a missing, two-tone grey and dark red fender, hit the woman, police said. The vehicle slows and stops, then continues driving.

Anyone with information about what happened, the motorcycle or its driver, who hadn’t been identified as of Monday morning, was asked to call police at 978-983-8698.

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With just a few weeks left in the semester, college students nationwide, including in Massachusetts, are standing their ground, and protesting the war in Gaza.

Protests calling for peace continue to pop up across campuses despite local and national leaders calling for their protests to end.

The tents are cleaned up at Emerson College and the encampment is gone. But now more than 100 protestors – many of them Emerson students — are set to go before a judge this week to face charges for not leaving that encampment.

Emerson administrators said no matter the college’s position on the Israel-Hamas conflict, they have and will continue to support their students by posting bail, adjusting class schedules, encouraging the district attorney to not pursue charges and assuring students they will not face disciplinary action at school.

Meanwhile, over at Tufts University, administrators are urging students to peacefully end the encampment there so it can prepare for commencement.

They said Student Life staff will be reaching out to protestors Monday morning to plan for the end of the encampment in the next few days but did not give a hard and fast deadline for removal.

And at MIT, the president says the encampment needs to shutdown to avoid the arrests that happened at Emerson and Northeastern University.

She said police are monitoring them 24/7 and the tents need to be taken down “soon” but she also did not give a specific timeline.

“Out of respect for the principles of free expression, we have not interfered with the encampment, but it is creating a potential magnet for disruptive outside protesters. It is commandeering space that was properly reserved by other members of our community. And keeping the encampments safe and secure for this set of students is diverting hundreds of staff hours around the clock away from other essential duties,” said MIT President Sally Kornbluth.

Meanwhile, Emerson will be holding a town hall meeting at 10 a.m. Monday to discuss how the removal of the encampment was handled.

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The long-awaited trial of the Karen Read murder case opens Monday with opening statements.

This comes after what was about a five-day jury selection process. 12 jurors and four alternates will be officially identified Monday, and they will help decide the fate of Read, who’s facing several charges for allegedly killing her boyfriend, Boston police Officer John O’Keefe, in 2022 after a night out at two separate bars in Canton, Massachusetts. 

Prosecutors and the defense will each have 45 minutes Monday morning to perform their opening statements.

The defense plans to argue that Read is being framed and that someone else is responsible for O’Keefe’s death. However, the judge said the defense can’t — in these opening statements Monday — make that third party culprit argument.

Instead, they have to “develop their argument, through relevant, competent, and admissible evidence over the course of the trial.”

The trial is expected to last six to eight weeks, with full days on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and half days on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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