We’re getting a one-day summer pass with the temperatures Thursday. With plenty of sun developing, we should see our highs soar into the mid-70s in spots.
While it would be nice to say everyone latches onto this warmth, there are (always) a …
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We’re getting a one-day summer pass with the temperatures Thursday. With plenty of sun developing, we should see our highs soar into the mid-70s in spots.
While it would be nice to say everyone latches onto this warmth, there are (always) a …
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As the controversial Karen Read murder trial continues, we’re hearing from the families of those involved.
Emotions are high in a case that has become a national spectacle. Read is charged with the second-degree murder of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, whom prosecutors say she hit with her SUV two years ago in Canton, Massachusetts. She has long held that she is being framed in a wide-ranging coverup.
“It’s hell,” said William Read, her father. “I never thought we’d be in this position.”
For the Read family, court has already taken its toll just two days into testimony.
“If you’ve been in that courtroom, and if you’ve listened, it’s difficult not to feel the same way I feel and my family feels,” William Read said.
O’Keefe’s family is also seeking justice. The officer was just 46 years old when his life was cut short in January of 2022.
His brother, Paul O’Keefe, and Paul’s wife, Erin, took the witness stand on the first day of the trial.
“Definitely one of the worst weeks of our lives,” Paul O’Keefe said. “I don’t know, I can only just pray my family gets the answers they need.”
He recalled seeing his brother’s body in the hospital.
“He was pretty banged up,” he said. “His eyes had swelled up.”
“I woke up to my husband on the phone with his mother, saying, ‘He’s going to be OK, he’s going to be OK,’” Erin O’Keefe said.
Court was not in session Wednesday. The trial resumes for a half day Thursday. It is expected to last six to eight weeks in total.
Watch the Karen Read trial live on nbcboston.com, NECN, NBC Boston streaming platforms (including Roku, Peacock and Samsung TV) and NBC10 Boston’s YouTube page. Every night of the trial at 7 p.m., come back for analysis and more.
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Bodycam footage from the moments before police shot and killed a man in Raynham, Massachusetts, shows him opening the door and pointing a gun at officers.
Stephen Maclean, a 35-year-old Raynham man, was shot and killed at his King Philip Street apa…
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More than seven months after a shooting that injured five people in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, a second suspect has been arrested.
Two children, one of whom is autistic, were among those hurt in the gunfire on Ames Street on Sept. 17.
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A crash in Holliston, Massachusetts, sent a car down an embankment and three people to the hospital.
Police in Holliston say the two-vehicle crash happened Wednesday night on Washington Street.
One vehicle went through a stop sign, hitting anoth…
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A Springfield man accused of dragging a Lawrence police officer a short distance this week has been arrested, Massachusetts State Police say.
Early Monday morning, an officer with the Lawrence Police Department stopped a vehicle that was being soug…
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