Afternoon Report: Friday, December 12, 2025

Jury deliberates after closing arguments of the Brain Walshe trial, a lawsuit has been filed to block construction of new White House ballroom, and Teamsters Local 25 kick off their annual toy drive. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
thirty six degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Nothing yet in debt
on the jury has the case of Brian Walsh. After
closing arguments in Norfolk Superior Courts this morning, wbz's Amanda

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Keen has more.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Defense made their final plea to show reasonable doubt in
the case against Brian Walsh this morning, enjoying.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Life, talking about the future, and then a sudden and
unexpected tragedy happens and it doesn't make six.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
The state followed those remarks by saying there is no
question who caused Anna Walsh's death on New Year's Day
in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Donnor Walsh is dead because he heard.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
The judge has handed the jury the cards they are
to determine whether or not Brian Walsh killed his wife.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
You may not find the defending guilty on the charge
just because the defendant something else that was wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Brian Wallsh admitted to dismembering his wife and disposing of
her body. Her body has never been found. Now we wait,
as the jury will take whatever time it needs, Amandi
Keen WBZ Boston's news radio.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
The lawsuit's been filed to block construction of the new
White House Ballroom. CBS's Lynda Kenyon with more.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
The first major lawsuit has been filed by the National
Trust for Historic Preservation and names President Trump and others,
including Interior Secretary Doug Bergham. The lawsuit argues the administration
failed to undergo legally required reviews or receive congressional authorization
for the project. The President had said the ballroom would
be near but not touching, the White House structure, then

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later demolished the entire east wing.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Last night, the President said the ballroom will be completed
in a year and a half before he leaves office.
Federal officials want the voting data from four more states,
including Massachusetts. The Department of Justice is willing to sue
to get it, filing similar lawsuits against seventeen other states
for failing to provide such information. The Justice Department says
it wants voter named birthdays, addresses, and social security numbers

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to ensure the security of elections. Of The BC News
Radios reached out to Secretary of State Bill Galvin's office
for comment. More judicial maneuvering. In the case of Abrego Garcia,
a federal judge this morning moving to prevent ICE from
taking him back into custody a day after she ordered
his release. The Trump administration accuses of Brego Garcia of
being a gang member. He denies that. They've also charged

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him with being part of a human trafficking ring.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Supporters cheered on the newly released Kilmar Abrego Garcia as
he walked into an ICE office in Baltimore for a
check in. About an hour later, he walked out. Overnight,
an immigration judge who works for the administration moved to
correct what he described in papers as an error, a
move to firm up the legal basis for a Brego
Garcia's deportation. But in response, this morning, Maryland based federal
judge Poulsenes issued a temporary restraining order to prevent him

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from being taken back into custody.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
That is ABC's Stephen Portnoy. We've got some snow that
is heading in our direction, but more mostly in our
southerly direction, so south coast Cape, maybe even parts of
Rhode Island in Connecticut, and even even southern Worcester County
might pick up a little bit of snow from this,
but most of it the Lion's share will be South
Coast Cape and Islands, where one to three inches of

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snow is possible Tomorrow night into Sunday morning. Getting there,
we've got mainly clear skies early tonight, temperatures mainly in
the twenties. Some clouds will filter in as we head
through the evening, mainly cloudy. Tomorrow it should be an
okay day at least most of the time, and as
you head well north and west of Boston, it will
really be okay because probably no snow falls at all.

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Little snow gets in here tomorrow night and then again
continuing into Sunday morning, could be some slick spots. Eventually
the sun breaks out on Sunday, it's chilly, temperatures around freezing.
It'll be breezy, so it'll feel like it's in the twenties,
and we'll have mostly sunny skies and breezy conditions on
Monday with a high year thirty Right now, it is
thirty six degrees in Boston. Stepping out and helping out,

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Teamster's Local twenty five is getting involved in helping the
community this holiday season.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
We go every Christmas, and with that, Santa opened up
the doors to a box truck full of toys bound
from Medford Family Network. The toys were donated, packed and
unloaded by members of Teamsters Local twenty five is a
part of their annual toy drive. This year, demand was
so high for MFN that they needed to add a
weight list, but Secretary Treasurer Stephen Sound says the increased

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demand was met by increased Giving.

Speaker 6 (04:27):
A weight list for Christmas is like a jumbo shrimp.
That's just not.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Going to work for us.

Speaker 6 (04:32):
So we instead of the van this year, we brought
a big truck so to try to make sure that
there is no weightlist.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
Marie Cassidy is the director at MFN, and she says
she's thrilled with the toy hall for this year.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
It's been really tough for a lot of folks for
a lot of things, and this gives them an opportunity
to then I'll know that they belong in this community
and we're going to take care of them.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
From Medford. Kyle Bray WBZ Boston's news.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Radio stalking and home invasion charges pressed against former Michigan
football coach Sharone Moore.

Speaker 7 (05:02):
I'm Peter King. Sharon Moore has been formally charged after
appearing virtually in court. He's accused of repeatedly calling and
texting a woman against her will, then going to her home.
Prosecutors say he terrorized her and threatened to kill himself
with kitchen scissors and butter knives. More's attorney says he's
not a threat to anyone. The judge has granted his
release on twenty five thousand dollars bond. They'll have to

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wear a GPS device, stay in Michigan, and stay away
from the woman he's accused of stalking. Peter King's CBS
News Polar bears.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
You associate them with cold places, but what if those
places aren't as cold. Researchers at the University of East
and Glia in England went to find out the answer.

Speaker 8 (05:40):
Rising temperatures are causing changes of the DNA and polar
bears as they try to adapt elice gott it.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
These habitats are very different and the changing very quickly,
the bears having to adapt quicker than they physically can.

Speaker 8 (05:54):
To some point, researchers found bigger DNA changes and the
polar bears living where the Arctic temperatures are rising the
fastest Jim chrysilliss Ive yesterday.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
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