The national artistic swimming team will compete in the Olympics for the first time since 2008, and a swimmer from Andover, Massachusetts, is hoping to represent Team USA in Paris.
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Gunfire erupts in Peabody, leading to arrest of 15-year-old
A 15-year-old has been arrested after gunfire was exchanged in a neighborhood in Peabody, Massachusetts.
The incident happened Tuesday evening on Littles Avenue.
“I saw three kids running through the yard shooting a gun of some sort,”…
Justice on hold for grieving mom who says Steward Health put profit before patient care
A grieving mother is looking for justice for her 4-year-old daughter who died after being rushed to a Steward Health Care hospital, but justice is on hold in the wake of the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
Tabatha Toy’s heart is forever broken. She says she’ll never get over the loss of her daughter, Tina, who died in March 2016 after being rushed to the emergency room at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton. Tina and her identical twin Jasmine were born with Down Syndrome but the little girls were thriving.
Toy brought Tina to the doctor because she wasn’t feeling well – she suffered a seizure and was in need of help.
“They took away my child. I can’t ever get her back. This is something I’ll feel for the rest of my life,” Toy said.
Tina’s medical records show she arrived at the Good Samaritan emergency room at 4:09 p.m. on March 25, 2016. She had a high fever, elevated heart rate, strep and had suffered a seizure. Her oxygen levels were dropping and she had swelling in her brain.
Toy told us her daughter was having trouble breathing and after she was initially examined and given medication, the hospital staff ignored them. She said her daughter would have an episode where her chest would lift off the bed that would trigger a monitor alarm but staff would just shut off the alarm and walk away.
“I feel like we were just put to the side and forgot about. They didn’t either have time or whether they were too busy. I felt they didn’t care about my daughter,” Toy said.
The hospital’s policy at the time was to transfer any child under the age of 8 in need of inpatient care expeditiously to another hospital and to monitor the child closely while in the emergency room.
Tina’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Good Samaritan back in 2019 but the case has been delayed multiple times.
Good Samaritan is a Steward Health Care facility. The NBC10 Boston Investigators have discovered it’s one of a few hundred open civil cases against Steward and its affiliates filed in the past 10 years. They include 12 wrongful death cases, medical malpractice cases, fraud and business-related lawsuits for non-payment of services, goods and rent. All of the cases are on hold in the wake of Steward’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Attorney Kathryn Wickenheiser, who represents the Toy family said she is frustrated.
“This is a case that should have been resolved and this family should have answers and closure and I don’t know if that’s possible for them now.”
Wickenheiser said the staff in the emergency room at Good Samaritan that day back in 2016 was stretched thin and did little to help.
“These communities rely on Steward medical group and the disservice and what they’re doing to this community is just heartbreaking and it’s been building. And they’ve known it for a long time and they let it happen,” she said.
According to the lawsuit, the 4-year-old stopped breathing multiple times at Good Samaritan. The doctor said that could be because Tina’s tongue was larger than normal due to Down Syndrome and it may be falling back into her airway. That same doctor wrote that Tina was stable and finally ordered a transfer but it was too late. She was rushed to a Boston hospital three hours after being admitted to Good Samaritan. Tina had suffered major brain damage and was taken off life support the next day. Her official cause of death was a viral upper respiratory infection complicated by MRSA pneumonia.
Toy is left with a hole in her heart. The grief is also deep for Tina’s twin Jasmine-who lost her playmate and best friend. Tabatha said she tells Jasmine that Tina loves her and is always watching over her.
“I want closure, I just want them to be held accountable for what they’ve done so they can’t hurt anybody anymore,” she told NBC10 Boston.
Tina’s case was set for mediation in September. Her lawyer fears her family will never get justice. Steward denies the allegations in Tina’s case. A spokesperson had no comment on any of the civil cases impacted by the bankruptcy.
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In a city fighting to keep artists, affordable condos for creatives planned in Dorchester
In Boston — where it can seem like every square foot of space is becoming a hot commodity — some people are being left behind in the real estate crunch, including those in the creative economy.
In fact, Catherine Infantino of New Atlantic Development says it takes a conceited effort to keep artists in the city in the face of rising costs for work and living space.
“The city’s push has always seen, since Mayor Menino’s time, the benefit of maintaining artists in the city, and that it doesn’t just happen,” Infantino said, who serves as project developer for the mission-based development company. “It really has to be fought for.”
Part of that fight is happening right behind the Humpreys Street Studios in the Upham’s Corner neighborhood of Dorchester. New Atlantic is using a parcel of land directly adjacent to the working artist studios to develop affordable condos to help house the city’s creatives, while also giving them space to work.
“We’re very excited about it; it will be 21 units of ownership,” Infantino said. “18 of the units will have an artist preference. And so that means if somebody has an artist certificate or artist housing certificate from the city of Boston, they will have a preferential number in the lottery.”
Infantino said that the developer is helpful to start construction in November, and to get the building up in about 18 months.
Once complete, the artist housing will compliment Humpreys Street Studios, forming a tight community of artisans and creatives.
“We would love to see some of the artists here be able to literally live in their backyard of the artists studios or work in their backyard,” Infantino said. “The community has been very supportive thus far.”
Humpreys Street Studios was founded by two artists over two decades ago. It’s not home to around 45 working artists, ranging in trades that include iron forging, car wrapping, fashion anzd just about everything else in between.
Jahzara Pierre just brought her business, Jahzara Fashion House, into the studios in April. She’s hopeful to score one of the new units to live in. She currently lives in Hyde Park.
“Since coming out of high school, dreamed of having a big old loft, doing my work in there, and Boston kept getting expensive,” she explained as she painted a set of earrings for her fashion house.
As Boston prices rise, the city will put a cap on resale prices for the planned condo units, ensuring they stay affordable for years to come.
Car flips in front of Norwood middle school
A car crash left one vehicle flipped on its roof in front of a middle school in Norwood, Massachusetts, on Thursday, police said.
The Norwood Police Department shared images of the rolled-over car on Washington Street near the entrance to Coakley …
Blogger ‘Turtleboy’ due back in court in case tied to Karen Read trial
Aidan Kearney, the controversial blogger known as “Turtleboy,” was due in court Tuesday for a hearing in his witness intimidation case involving with the murder trial of Karen Read.
Kearney has extensively covered the case, and continues to, in hundreds of blog posts, bringing heightened attention to Read’s claims that she is being framed for the killing of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, in a wide-ranging coverup.
Kearney is due in Norfolk Superior Court Tuesday at 2 p.m. Unlike the Read trial, the hearing will not be livestreamed.
Police arrested Kearney in October on charges of intimidation and conspiracy, with prosecutors accusing him of harassing witnesses in the case. He has since faced more charges of witness intimidation and conspiracy, and had his bail revoked after being accused of assaulting a woman he was dating. Prosecutors say that woman’s allegations are at the heart of more charges of harassing a witness and intercepting wire or oral communication.
Kearney has pleaded not guilty and maintained his innocence.
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Last month, Judge Michael Cahillane ordered that the prosecution provide what Kearney’s lawyer described as critical pieces of evidence by May 8.
Outside of court that day, Kearney described the withholding of those documents as “running out the clock and keeping me on thin ice by having me out on bail.”
A Massachusetts State Police affidavit released in January alleges that Read fed confidential information to Kearney, with the two communicating directly in over 40 hours of phone calls, as well as through other means.
This information allegedly included personal details about witnesses in the case, autopsy photographs, crime scene photographs, images of her car, and the 911 call made when O’Keefe’s body was found.
“The only crime here is the robbery of privacy,” Kearney’s attorney, Timothy Bradl, said in a statement at the time.
“Turtleboy does not reveal sources,” Kearney wrote on his website the same day. “However, there is nothing wrong or criminal about seeking out people close to Karen Read in order to write a story about her. At no point did Karen Read ever direct content on the Turtleboy website.”
Ken Mello, the special prosecutor brought in to handle the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office’s allegations against Kearney, disputed this argument outside the courthouse.
“You cannot hide behind the shield of a journalist to be an activist, and the commonwealth feels that’s what’s happened here,” he said.
The judge overseeing the Karen Read trial ordered that Kearney not be in the courtroom for testimony from people he’s accused of intimidating.
