The fallout is growing in Milton, Massachusetts, after its residents voted against implementing a controversial housing law last month, prompting the state’s attorney general to sue the town.
Attorney General Andrea Campbell is looking to get…
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The fallout is growing in Milton, Massachusetts, after its residents voted against implementing a controversial housing law last month, prompting the state’s attorney general to sue the town.
Attorney General Andrea Campbell is looking to get…
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An SUV and a truck collided Wednesday afternoon in Medfield, Massachusetts.
The crash happened at the busy intersection of West Street and North Meadows Road, near the Goddard School. It was caught on surveillance camera.
School owner Tshering G…
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Residents of Salisbury, Massachusetts, are calling for help to protect their beachfront homes.
Coastal erosion has taken its toll on Salisbury Beach. Residents spent $600,000 out of pocket and trucked in 15,000 tons of sand for protective dunes last week, only for half of the sand to wash away in Sunday’s storm.
A meeting was scheduled Wednesday afternoon. At the last minute, the in-person meeting moved online — a move State Sen. Bruce Tarr said was made to accommodate a spike in interest.
The Republican lawmaker said these meetings usually have about 10 people, while more than 150 joined Wednesday — some from as far away as Portugal.
Residents said at the meeting that they want help from the state, and that they can’t afford to continue spending thousands of dollars each time there’s a storm.
The state says it is continuing to work with Salisbury residents.
“As homeowners, I mean, we are kind of spitting into the wind here,” Joe Rossitto, who lives on Salisbury Beach, told NBC10 Boston Tuesday.
“If we didn’t build this, these dunes, our properties would have gotten damaged,” added resident Tom Saab.
Saab and Rossitto say it isn’t as easy as moving, either. In both cases, their oceanfront homes have been in their families for generations.
“You just don’t walk away from that, you know what I mean?” Rossitto said.
“Sacrificial sand buys time, but it does not buy permanence,” Tarr said Tuesday. “Obviously, this has been a very difficult year, we haven’t been able to stay ahead of it, but we need to continue to work together and use the tools that are available.”
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The U.S. House of Representatives has taken a significant step against TikTok, one of the most popular social media apps in the world.
Legislators voted 352-65 Wednesday to pass a bill that would give TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, six months to divest the app or face a ban, which could have widespread ramifications across millions of its users.
The bill would still need to pass the Senate, but President Joe Biden has said he would sign it into law if it reached his desk.
While much of TikTok’s content is meant to entertain and inform, there are others who use it for business. However, others argue that it poses a threat to privacy and cyber security.
“It’s a ticking time bomb, and I’m glad Congress is actually taking the time to make a law about and I think we need to do as a state,” said State Rep. Michael Soter of Worcester District 8.
Soter filed a bill last year calling on the commonwealth to ban all social media apps from China and other adversaries on government devices.
“The more people put on their government-owned devices, there’s ways for people to get in, and hackers to get in, to get into private systems, private information,” he said.
But a nationwide ban could impact about 170 million American users, with a good number of them depending on it to make a living.
“It’s going to leave a lot of creators jobless,” said Boston Food Journal founder Brittany DiCapua.
DiCapua has thousands of followers who turn to her for food recommendations around Boston.
“It actually has replaced my day job,” she said. “So full-time, I’m a content creator, and I have my own social media agency.”
DiCapua said many content creators on TikTok will need to prepare a backup plan and jump to other platforms in the event the app gets banned, risking a collapse of the TikTok economy.
“Now more than ever, it’s important for us to make sure that we’re on all of those platforms and creating content for those platforms,” she said.
TikTok has also served as a platform for those who would otherwise never be heard.
“I was just, like, crumbling away, and I go to the gym now … I got a job, I got a place to live,” said Troy McDermott, who was a homeless drug addict just a year ago.
McDermott was discovered by a good Samaritan who took to TikTok to share his story.
“TikTok really help me save these people,” said Victor Oliveira, a local online celebrity.
Oliveira’s videos helping the homeless have earned him millions of followers, who in turn have donated to help to save 35 people from the streets in the last two years.
Oliveira believes the app can be used to do good and should be protected under the First Amendment.
“People have the right to just speak and be themselves on TikTok,” he said.
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A Massachusetts State Police trooper involved in the investigation into Karen Read is now under investigation himself.
State police confirmed Wednesday that Michael Proctor is the subject of an internal investigation in connection with the case against Read, who is charged with second-degree murder in the Canton death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, in 2022.
“The MSP have opened an internal investigation into a potential violation of Department policy by Trooper Michael Proctor,” state police spokesperson Dave Procopio told NBC10 Boston in a statement. “Trooper Proctor remains on full duty.”
Prosecutors allege that Read hit O’Keefe with her SUV and left him to die, while Read’s defense attorneys have long claimed she is being framed in a wide-ranging coverup.
The defense team has accused Proctor of having longstanding relationships with witnesses in the case.
“That conflict was never described to the grand jury and we’ve been rebuffed at every single turn,” defense attorney Alan Jackson said in court Tuesday.
Jackson referred to text messages between Proctor and a family member about having a relative of one of the witnesses in the case babysit for his toddler. He also cited another text sent from Proctor’s sister to Proctor where his sister referenced a member of that same family saying, “when all this is over she wants to give you a thank you gift.”
“For two years, the commonwealth has been denying it, and still denies it,” he said.
Jackson also said that Proctor used a Canton police officer who is related to a key witness to help coordinate with witnesses.
NBC10 Boston reached out to Read’s attorneys Wednesday, but did not immediately hear back.
Read’s trial is set to begin April 16. The start was delayed on Feb. 26 after federal investigators released thousands of pages of new evidence.
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A woman gave birth to a baby on the Tobin Bridge during rush hour and luckily an EMS truck stuck in that same morning traffic that was able to rush to her aid.
This is definitely one of those cases of being at the right place at the right time.
The Armstrong Ambulance crew who were the first to respond say it’s a rarity that they drive over Tobin Bridge as they usually service the Arlington/Medford area.
But it was a special delivery in the most unexpected place.
“We were heading into Boston and we got flagged down by a guy on the side of the highway.” Nicholas Heckman, an emergency first responder with Armstrong Ambulance, said.
Heckman and his partner Benjamin Avigad were transporting a patient across the bridge towards Boston on Monday March 11 right during the morning rush hour, when their day took a 360-degree turn.
“You know, I didn’t think anything of it at the time because it was just two cars with hazard lights on, so I was going to call my dispatch to say there was a minor vehicle accident but it turned out to be a woman in labor,” Heckman, said.
When they finally got to the woman she had already given birth in the front seat of the car.
“The baby was still attached to the umbilical cord, my partner says his guess is probably 30 seconds the baby was out,” Heckman, said.
The woman was being driven to the hospital by her husband when she gave birth, police say.
Heckman tells us the newborn’s dad was able to participate in this special moment.
“It was pretty awesome because the father got to cut the umbilical cord, he was able to assist in that.”
Sean Mangan, the director of operations for Armstrong Ambulance, applauded their actions.
“They were very calm considering the stress they were under.”
Especially because neither of them has ever delivered a baby and Heckman has only been on the job for six months.
“That day there were 50 mph winds on that bridge when it was happening. It was a really windy day,” Mangan said.
Heckman sent a special message to the family.
“We hope all is well and we definitely would like to hear back and hear how the baby is and the mom is.”
Police say the baby boy was officially born in Chelsea.
Mom and her newborn were transported to Massachusetts General Hospital and are doing just fine.
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