April 25, 2025 • 7 mins
The Karen Read trial ends for the week after the jury sees the spot where John O'Keefe's body was found. The accused killer of a health insurance executive faces the death penalty if convicted. A popular local winery changes hands. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.https://www.spreaker.com/episode/afternoon-report--65729337
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening the end of week
one at Karen Reid's read trial. After some testimony, court
ended early this afternoon. While earlier, the jury took a
(00:23):
trip to the scene of John o'keef's death in Canton.
More than the three years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Fearview rode in Canton, the place where Boston Police officer
John o'kee's body was found in the snow at the
foot of a flagpole on the front lawn of a home.
Jurors in Karen Reid's retrial getting their first look at
the scene, and it reads black Lexus SUV, the vehicle
prosecutors say Reid was driving when she allegedly struck her boyfriend,
(00:48):
killing him after a night of heavy drinking. Naomi Boor
and walking her dog in the neighborhood looked at the
scene and remarked out, what happened here has changed the town.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
But I hope it's changed it for the good. Just
got you know, the chief of police just sloped down.
People were excited about that John Conley out of the
Border Selectman. He's out. Hopefully Chris Albert's out next, you know,
clean up and get some better people that want to
do like a proper job that's not like been here
their whole lives in Canton.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Mike Maclin WBZ Boston's News radio.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
In New York federal court today, the man accused of
gunning down a healthcare ceo is pleateed not guilty to
murder and stocking charges. It comes as prosecutors declare they
will seek the federal death penalty for Luigi Mangioni, the
twenty six year old's accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO
Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk last year. He's also
already pleated not guilty to state charges. Massachusetts and other
(01:43):
states are mounting a new legal fight over the Trump
administration's DEI purge. We get more from wbz's Kyle brad.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Unlawful and harmful to students in schools. That's what Attorney
General Andrea Campbell thinks of the Trump administration's plan to
pull federal funding from schools that don't scrap their DEI initiatives.
Eighteen other attorneys generals are now taking legal action against
the administration, trying to block it from taking away any
funding from states that do not apply with the order.
The Attorney General says these programs are meant to help
(02:11):
students feel safe, supported, and respected, and include programs like
teaching English to non native speakers and supporting students that
are homeless or in foster care. Massachusetts gets nearly five
hundred and seventy five million dollars in federal education funding,
more than half of which goes to helping students with disabilities.
A separate lawsuit looking to block the order has had
some success recently. Two judges ruled yesterday to block the
(02:32):
administration from withholding funding for now. Kyle Bray, WBZ, Boston's.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
News radio Word leaders are arriving at the Vatican ahead
of tomorrow's funeral for Pope Francis.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
President Trump and the First Lady are in root to
Rome to attend the funeral of Pope Francis. The President
spoke to reporters at the winehouse before leaving good Man.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
He loved the world, actually, and he was asticodvent I
met him twice.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
I thought he was a fantastic.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Pope Francis did not shy away from weighing in on
policy issues. He put care for migrants, climate change, social justice,
and helping the poor at the center of his papacy,
and he was critical of President Trump's plans for deportations.
Karen Travers ABC News the White House.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
President Trump is expected to arrive in Rome within the hour.
Among those also attending the funeral, Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey.
He'll be part of a bipartisan delegation of Catholic US senators.
Senator Marque says Pope Francis held a unique power in
convening people, instilling in them a moral obligation to act
boldly on the world's most pressing issues, and guiding them
(03:39):
through dark and difficult times with wisdom, humility, and compassion.
Get some clouds building in. We'll have some clouds around tonight,
and later on tonight we'll get underneath the shower or
too late. Temperatures in the mid fifties tomorrow, good day
to do something inside, perhaps with some rain around, even
some heavier downpours and even a thunderstorm, a little bit
of a breeze as well. Temperatures in the low sixties
(04:01):
Tomorrow night lingering clouds, lingering rain or showers, and maybe
even the thundershower early before we turn cooler. Tomorrow, night's
lows into the forties and then windy and chili. On
Sunday we will have some sunshine, but temperatures only in
the mid fifties to near sixty before we warm up
again with some sunshine on Monday, temperatures around seventy. Right now,
(04:21):
it's fifty nine degrees in Boston. It's a prime spot
for picking apples, and it's under new ownership. Wbz's Hile
Shaffle is at the farm Yeah Ei old.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
On an idyllic green rise around to Bend in the
road in Amesbury. Cider Hill Farm routinely makes the list
as one of the best apple picking spots in the country.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
The people have been apple picking for decades.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
But now it's changing hands and come in full circle.
The owners, Glenn and Karen Cook, won a succession plan
in place for the beloved spot which opened to the
early eighties.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
You know, if you ask them, they'll tell you they've
been working on this plan since probably ten years ago,
and I don't think they thought I was a part
of it initially.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Chris da Roscher has been on the farm and doing
chores for the cooks. She was seven years old, becoming
a kind of surrogate son. When he met Jenny. He
took her to the farm and she fell in look,
rising up the ranks to become general manager and now
the co owner of the whole place. She says, her
ghouls are clear.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Now keeping some land land you know, and keeping this
place a place that grandparents can say they were here
as kids.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Kyle Shaffele to be busy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
When you go to the zoo, you expect to see animals,
but you don't go home with any. However, today at
the Franklin Park Zoo there were some parting gifts. No,
not animals. WBC's Kendall Bule explains.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Ashley, who lives not far from the Franklin Parks. It
was walking out of the park with her grandkid a
sapling and a page of instructions by.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Cherry care guide.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
So you don't kill your tree, all right, but to
go chase my grandsacke.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
The zoo is marking Arbor Day by giving away some
three hundred of these saplings to beautify area neighborhoods and
provide homes for quitters and shade for people. Because Hadra Midwelles,
a horticulturist here.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
At the zoo, dor Chess historically has had a bit
more of an urban heat eye on effect. There's like
less greenery in the neighborhood, and so by giving away
trees in the neighborhood, we're trying to help counteract that.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Black cherry is a resilient tree that grows one to
two feet a year from the Franklin Park. Zuo Kendallbill
to be busy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
See a letter. Alligator. It wasn't a gator in the
first place, but this week there was a social media
rumor that an alligator was swimming in Wooster's Indian Lake.
Mass Live reports it was not an alligator, but a muskrat.
According to the Worcester Police Department, the semi aquatic rodents
are common in Massachusetts. Alligators are not. They're usually found
(06:32):
in lakes and ponds and open swamps. Muskrats that is.
A spokesperson says animal control did not have to catch
the animal, probably just went away on its own. We
bothered them.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio
This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening the end of week
one at Karen Reid's read trial. After some testimony, court
ended early this afternoon. While earlier, the jury took a
(00:23):
trip to the scene of John o'keef's death in Canton.
More than the three years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Fearview rode in Canton, the place where Boston Police officer
John o'kee's body was found in the snow at the
foot of a flagpole on the front lawn of a home.
Jurors in Karen Reid's retrial getting their first look at
the scene, and it reads black Lexus SUV, the vehicle
prosecutors say Reid was driving when she allegedly struck her boyfriend,
(00:48):
killing him after a night of heavy drinking. Naomi Boor
and walking her dog in the neighborhood looked at the
scene and remarked out, what happened here has changed the town.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
But I hope it's changed it for the good. Just
got you know, the chief of police just sloped down.
People were excited about that John Conley out of the
Border Selectman. He's out. Hopefully Chris Albert's out next, you know,
clean up and get some better people that want to
do like a proper job that's not like been here
their whole lives in Canton.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Mike Maclin WBZ Boston's News radio.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
In New York federal court today, the man accused of
gunning down a healthcare ceo is pleateed not guilty to
murder and stocking charges. It comes as prosecutors declare they
will seek the federal death penalty for Luigi Mangioni, the
twenty six year old's accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO
Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk last year. He's also
already pleated not guilty to state charges. Massachusetts and other
(01:43):
states are mounting a new legal fight over the Trump
administration's DEI purge. We get more from wbz's Kyle brad.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Unlawful and harmful to students in schools. That's what Attorney
General Andrea Campbell thinks of the Trump administration's plan to
pull federal funding from schools that don't scrap their DEI initiatives.
Eighteen other attorneys generals are now taking legal action against
the administration, trying to block it from taking away any
funding from states that do not apply with the order.
The Attorney General says these programs are meant to help
(02:11):
students feel safe, supported, and respected, and include programs like
teaching English to non native speakers and supporting students that
are homeless or in foster care. Massachusetts gets nearly five
hundred and seventy five million dollars in federal education funding,
more than half of which goes to helping students with disabilities.
A separate lawsuit looking to block the order has had
some success recently. Two judges ruled yesterday to block the
(02:32):
administration from withholding funding for now. Kyle Bray, WBZ, Boston's.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
News radio Word leaders are arriving at the Vatican ahead
of tomorrow's funeral for Pope Francis.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
President Trump and the First Lady are in root to
Rome to attend the funeral of Pope Francis. The President
spoke to reporters at the winehouse before leaving good Man.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
He loved the world, actually, and he was asticodvent I
met him twice.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
I thought he was a fantastic.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Pope Francis did not shy away from weighing in on
policy issues. He put care for migrants, climate change, social justice,
and helping the poor at the center of his papacy,
and he was critical of President Trump's plans for deportations.
Karen Travers ABC News the White House.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
President Trump is expected to arrive in Rome within the hour.
Among those also attending the funeral, Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey.
He'll be part of a bipartisan delegation of Catholic US senators.
Senator Marque says Pope Francis held a unique power in
convening people, instilling in them a moral obligation to act
boldly on the world's most pressing issues, and guiding them
(03:39):
through dark and difficult times with wisdom, humility, and compassion.
Get some clouds building in. We'll have some clouds around tonight,
and later on tonight we'll get underneath the shower or
too late. Temperatures in the mid fifties tomorrow, good day
to do something inside, perhaps with some rain around, even
some heavier downpours and even a thunderstorm, a little bit
of a breeze as well. Temperatures in the low sixties
(04:01):
Tomorrow night lingering clouds, lingering rain or showers, and maybe
even the thundershower early before we turn cooler. Tomorrow, night's
lows into the forties and then windy and chili. On
Sunday we will have some sunshine, but temperatures only in
the mid fifties to near sixty before we warm up
again with some sunshine on Monday, temperatures around seventy. Right now,
(04:21):
it's fifty nine degrees in Boston. It's a prime spot
for picking apples, and it's under new ownership. Wbz's Hile
Shaffle is at the farm Yeah Ei old.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
On an idyllic green rise around to Bend in the
road in Amesbury. Cider Hill Farm routinely makes the list
as one of the best apple picking spots in the country.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
The people have been apple picking for decades.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
But now it's changing hands and come in full circle.
The owners, Glenn and Karen Cook, won a succession plan
in place for the beloved spot which opened to the
early eighties.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
You know, if you ask them, they'll tell you they've
been working on this plan since probably ten years ago,
and I don't think they thought I was a part
of it initially.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Chris da Roscher has been on the farm and doing
chores for the cooks. She was seven years old, becoming
a kind of surrogate son. When he met Jenny. He
took her to the farm and she fell in look,
rising up the ranks to become general manager and now
the co owner of the whole place. She says, her
ghouls are clear.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Now keeping some land land you know, and keeping this
place a place that grandparents can say they were here
as kids.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Kyle Shaffele to be busy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
When you go to the zoo, you expect to see animals,
but you don't go home with any. However, today at
the Franklin Park Zoo there were some parting gifts. No,
not animals. WBC's Kendall Bule explains.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Ashley, who lives not far from the Franklin Parks. It
was walking out of the park with her grandkid a
sapling and a page of instructions by.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Cherry care guide.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
So you don't kill your tree, all right, but to
go chase my grandsacke.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
The zoo is marking Arbor Day by giving away some
three hundred of these saplings to beautify area neighborhoods and
provide homes for quitters and shade for people. Because Hadra Midwelles,
a horticulturist here.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
At the zoo, dor Chess historically has had a bit
more of an urban heat eye on effect. There's like
less greenery in the neighborhood, and so by giving away
trees in the neighborhood, we're trying to help counteract that.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Black cherry is a resilient tree that grows one to
two feet a year from the Franklin Park. Zuo Kendallbill
to be busy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
See a letter. Alligator. It wasn't a gator in the
first place, but this week there was a social media
rumor that an alligator was swimming in Wooster's Indian Lake.
Mass Live reports it was not an alligator, but a muskrat.
According to the Worcester Police Department, the semi aquatic rodents
are common in Massachusetts. Alligators are not. They're usually found
(06:32):
in lakes and ponds and open swamps. Muskrats that is.
A spokesperson says animal control did not have to catch
the animal, probably just went away on its own. We
bothered them.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio
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