September 22, 2025 • 6 mins
Jimmy Kimmel is coming back. Karen Read returns to court for a hearing in the civil case against her. A small earthquake in Maine is felt in parts of Connecticut. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
sixty seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. This is just into
the WBZ newsroom. Jimmy Kimmel is coming back. Disney says,
(00:21):
Jimmy Kimmelve is coming back to the late night scene
on ABC tomorrow nights. It's Jimmy. The company says it
made the decision last week to pull Kimmel to avoid
further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for
our country. Kimmel's show was suspended after he made comments
(00:42):
regarding the assassination of conservative activists Charlie Kirk in Utah.
Disney says his comments were ill timed and thus insensitive.
But now Jimmy Kimmel coming back to ABC tomorrow night.
When it comes to free speech, some local universities get
an F, which does not stand for free. The Fire
and College pulses out with its latest college free speech rankings.
(01:04):
Sixteen Massachusetts schools A rank The average speech climate grade
is F, matching the national average. Amherst College ranks seventieth overall.
The top ranked school in the state. It was a
close second to MIT, which came in eighty second overall,
but even they got D minuses. Harvard, Boston College, and
Northeastern are among the lowest ranked schools in the country.
(01:26):
Six Bay State schools, according to the report, have red
light ratings, meaning they're written policies clearly and substantially restrict
protected expression. Months since she was found not guilty of murder,
Karen Reid back in court today, but the visist Madison
Rodgers tells us about a hearing in the civil wrongful
death case brought by John O'Keefe's family.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
When a Superior court judge Daniel O'Shea is now weighing
whether or not to drop the emotional distress claims Rita
is facing. Her attorneys argued the family can't make those
claims because they weren't physically present for O'Keeffe's death or
the immediate aftermath. The attorney for the o'keefes argues the
harm Reed caused is real because these are real damages
for real people who have suffered long enough. What does
(02:08):
Reid's attorneys look to limit the case? They're also pushing
to broaden it significantly. Proposing a plan to bring in
third parties from the Albert and mccabs to Michael Proctor,
to the Town of Canton and use the facts before
this court to make their own case that Reid was framed.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Miss Reed was wrongfully targeted, maliciously prosecuted, made to face
two criminal trials.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The judge called the proposal rather extraordinary and indicated it
could complicate the case immensely. Madison Rogers w b Z
Boston's news.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Radio recognition keeps coming out of the UN General Assembly.
France the latest to recognize a Palestinian state, joining the
likes of other US allies including Australia, Canada and the UK.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Is saying that a Palestinian state would be a threat
to Israel's security and they don't want to work with
her mass for sure. They don't want to work with
a Palestinian authority either. That's the kind of autonomous government
in the West Bank just close to here.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
ABC's Tom Sophie Burridge. France's President Emmanuel Macrone says giving
Palestinian's rights does not take away the rights of the
Israelis and is hinting that Spain, Ireland, Norway and Sweden
also will be going down this same path. Checking in
the four to eight WBS Active Weather Forecast, We've got
some pretty decent weather coming up for tonight and the
first part of tomorrow, which by the way, will be
(03:28):
the first full day of fall. We started fall, autumn,
whatever you call it, at two nineteen this afternoon, the
autumnal equinox, and as we head into the evening, clear,
partly cloudy sky sixty in Boston, mid fifties in the
inland suburbs. And then we start off pretty nice tomorrow
with the sun shining. It'll get more humid. It'll also
get warmer. Temperatures tomorrow will be more summer like in
(03:49):
the low eighties, and again that humidity making it feel
just a little sticky and icky. Showers in spots as
we get late in the day and into the evening,
maybe a couple of rumbles of thunder for you. Mostly
cloudy on Wednesday, there could be a shower around. Temperatures
around seventy. We may or may not get to seventy,
depending on where you are. On Thursday, with some clouds in,
a couple of showers, many spots hanging out in the sixties.
(04:10):
Right now, sixty seven degrees see in Boston. Did you
feel it the earth move under your feet? Probably not.
It wasn't a big one. But last night there was
an earthquake in southern Maine.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Just after nine o'clock in the evening, a one point
nine magnitude earthquake trembled quietly just northeast of Lake Arrowhead
and Maine. Dozens of residents reported feeling the vibrations tectonic
plate shifting around underneath the ground. We stand on some
as far as New Haven, Connecticut. It's possible some Massachusetts
folks out there felt something. According to the US Geological Survey,
(04:42):
Maine is not a typical hot spot for quakes. The
largest it's ever had was in nineteen oh four, when
a five point nine magnitude earthquake shook neighbors from southern
New England to Nova Scotia. Jaya Willette WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Maine is a pretty big spot for lobsters, though, just
saying a win for wind. Federal judge in Washington granting
a request by offshore wind developer Or Stead to restart
work on the newly finished Revolution Wind project, he wrote
island based project claim to be losing more than two
million dollars a day during the shutdown a month ago.
The Department of the Interior issued a stop work order
(05:17):
at the time, citing natural security concerns. When you're grabbing
a burger, some nugs, fries, you know things like that,
do you grab yourself a couple of extra sauce or
condiment packets for the right home. The thing is, it's
a growing trend. It's called pocket packing, and restaurants say
it's affecting the bottom line.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
We all have our favorite condiments.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Sour kraut, well, let's just get too but catch up
hot saucer, mild.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
To try to true classics. As I'm talking to people
on the common to see if they are guilty of
pocket packing the actual packets, right, Yes, that's right. Mario
is from Revere on his way to work and tells
me in the past he's been known to grab a
few extra packets of sauce while grabbing some taco bell.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I don't need to taco buy anymore, but when I
used to, I take the packets and rip it with
my teeth and then pour the sauce.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
On, making me hungry. And customers have always grabbed some
extra sauces here and there, but it's becoming a save
some money tactic and in large quantities restaurant owners begin
to feel it. So as with everything, all you pocket
packers out there pack away, just do so in moderation
on the common Jim McCay.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
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 WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
sixty seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. This is just into
the WBZ newsroom. Jimmy Kimmel is coming back. Disney says,
(00:21):
Jimmy Kimmelve is coming back to the late night scene
on ABC tomorrow nights. It's Jimmy. The company says it
made the decision last week to pull Kimmel to avoid
further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for
our country. Kimmel's show was suspended after he made comments
(00:42):
regarding the assassination of conservative activists Charlie Kirk in Utah.
Disney says his comments were ill timed and thus insensitive.
But now Jimmy Kimmel coming back to ABC tomorrow night.
When it comes to free speech, some local universities get
an F, which does not stand for free. The Fire
and College pulses out with its latest college free speech rankings.
(01:04):
Sixteen Massachusetts schools A rank The average speech climate grade
is F, matching the national average. Amherst College ranks seventieth overall.
The top ranked school in the state. It was a
close second to MIT, which came in eighty second overall,
but even they got D minuses. Harvard, Boston College, and
Northeastern are among the lowest ranked schools in the country.
(01:26):
Six Bay State schools, according to the report, have red
light ratings, meaning they're written policies clearly and substantially restrict
protected expression. Months since she was found not guilty of murder,
Karen Reid back in court today, but the visist Madison
Rodgers tells us about a hearing in the civil wrongful
death case brought by John O'Keefe's family.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
When a Superior court judge Daniel O'Shea is now weighing
whether or not to drop the emotional distress claims Rita
is facing. Her attorneys argued the family can't make those
claims because they weren't physically present for O'Keeffe's death or
the immediate aftermath. The attorney for the o'keefes argues the
harm Reed caused is real because these are real damages
for real people who have suffered long enough. What does
(02:08):
Reid's attorneys look to limit the case? They're also pushing
to broaden it significantly. Proposing a plan to bring in
third parties from the Albert and mccabs to Michael Proctor,
to the Town of Canton and use the facts before
this court to make their own case that Reid was framed.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Miss Reed was wrongfully targeted, maliciously prosecuted, made to face
two criminal trials.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The judge called the proposal rather extraordinary and indicated it
could complicate the case immensely. Madison Rogers w b Z
Boston's news.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Radio recognition keeps coming out of the UN General Assembly.
France the latest to recognize a Palestinian state, joining the
likes of other US allies including Australia, Canada and the UK.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Is saying that a Palestinian state would be a threat
to Israel's security and they don't want to work with
her mass for sure. They don't want to work with
a Palestinian authority either. That's the kind of autonomous government
in the West Bank just close to here.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
ABC's Tom Sophie Burridge. France's President Emmanuel Macrone says giving
Palestinian's rights does not take away the rights of the
Israelis and is hinting that Spain, Ireland, Norway and Sweden
also will be going down this same path. Checking in
the four to eight WBS Active Weather Forecast, We've got
some pretty decent weather coming up for tonight and the
first part of tomorrow, which by the way, will be
(03:28):
the first full day of fall. We started fall, autumn,
whatever you call it, at two nineteen this afternoon, the
autumnal equinox, and as we head into the evening, clear,
partly cloudy sky sixty in Boston, mid fifties in the
inland suburbs. And then we start off pretty nice tomorrow
with the sun shining. It'll get more humid. It'll also
get warmer. Temperatures tomorrow will be more summer like in
(03:49):
the low eighties, and again that humidity making it feel
just a little sticky and icky. Showers in spots as
we get late in the day and into the evening,
maybe a couple of rumbles of thunder for you. Mostly
cloudy on Wednesday, there could be a shower around. Temperatures
around seventy. We may or may not get to seventy,
depending on where you are. On Thursday, with some clouds in,
a couple of showers, many spots hanging out in the sixties.
(04:10):
Right now, sixty seven degrees see in Boston. Did you
feel it the earth move under your feet? Probably not.
It wasn't a big one. But last night there was
an earthquake in southern Maine.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Just after nine o'clock in the evening, a one point
nine magnitude earthquake trembled quietly just northeast of Lake Arrowhead
and Maine. Dozens of residents reported feeling the vibrations tectonic
plate shifting around underneath the ground. We stand on some
as far as New Haven, Connecticut. It's possible some Massachusetts
folks out there felt something. According to the US Geological Survey,
(04:42):
Maine is not a typical hot spot for quakes. The
largest it's ever had was in nineteen oh four, when
a five point nine magnitude earthquake shook neighbors from southern
New England to Nova Scotia. Jaya Willette WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Maine is a pretty big spot for lobsters, though, just
saying a win for wind. Federal judge in Washington granting
a request by offshore wind developer Or Stead to restart
work on the newly finished Revolution Wind project, he wrote
island based project claim to be losing more than two
million dollars a day during the shutdown a month ago.
The Department of the Interior issued a stop work order
(05:17):
at the time, citing natural security concerns. When you're grabbing
a burger, some nugs, fries, you know things like that,
do you grab yourself a couple of extra sauce or
condiment packets for the right home. The thing is, it's
a growing trend. It's called pocket packing, and restaurants say
it's affecting the bottom line.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
We all have our favorite condiments.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Sour kraut, well, let's just get too but catch up
hot saucer, mild.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
To try to true classics. As I'm talking to people
on the common to see if they are guilty of
pocket packing the actual packets, right, Yes, that's right. Mario
is from Revere on his way to work and tells
me in the past he's been known to grab a
few extra packets of sauce while grabbing some taco bell.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I don't need to taco buy anymore, but when I
used to, I take the packets and rip it with
my teeth and then pour the sauce.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
On, making me hungry. And customers have always grabbed some
extra sauces here and there, but it's becoming a save
some money tactic and in large quantities restaurant owners begin
to feel it. So as with everything, all you pocket
packers out there pack away, just do so in moderation
on the common Jim McCay.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
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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