Mid Day Report: Friday, December 12, 2025

The defense delivered closing arguments in the Brian Walshe murder trial, Waltham teachers walked out in protest of immigration tactics, and the MBTA reported increase in fare revenues. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
News Sonny twenty eight degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock
on this Friday morning. It's December twelfth. As always, thanks
for tuning in. I'm Sherry Small. Let's get you caught
up with news. Here's what's happening at the Brian Walsh
murder trial. The prosecution is now delivering its closing arguments.

(00:29):
They say that Walsh killed his wife Anna after he
found out that she was having an affair. Now, the
defense wrapped up its arguments a short time ago where
they tried to poke holes in that theory.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
The cur was asked and she said, you know, Anna
told me that he didn't get jealous.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
He's not the jealous tug.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
In fact, how was she.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Was more jealous?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Walsh has admitted to dismembering Anna's body and misleading police. Now,
the defense calls her death sudden and unexplained. We're following
today's develop and so keep it bright here or you
can always stream us on the iHeartRadio app. For the
very latest. House Democrats release more photos from convicted sex
offender Jeffrey Epstein's estate.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
The nineteen photos come from a collection of ninety five thousand.
The estate is given to Congress. They feature President Trump,
former President Bill Clinton, billionaires Bill Gates and Richard Branson,
actor and director Woody Allen, and others in social settings.
Congressman Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee,
calls the photos disturbing and says they raise more questions
about Epstein's relationships with powerful men.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
That CBS is Michael Wallace reporting, a spokesperson for the
Republican led House Oversight Committee, says nothing in the photos
shows any wrongdoing. A teacher walkout taking place at several
Waltham schools in protest of immigration deportation tactics. WBC's James
Rojas is at Waltham High, with.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
More teachers at Kennedy Middle School, Fitzgerald Elementary, and Waltham
High stood out in bone chilling temperatures to protest ice
and what they call aggressive tactics.

Speaker 6 (02:03):
Students have had family members detain, there have been students
who have been detained. And then there's also just a
lot of anti immigrant rhetoric going on in the country
that's making people feel unwelcome and.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Unsafe, and that's led to an uptaken absences and a
decline in enrollment. State Representative Tom Stanley.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
This perhaps up to a couple of hundred students that
are not regularly going to school right now, and no
one knows if they've moved back to the country of
origin or the just stay in hall.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Teachers are telling their students they have their support and
they are welcomed in Waltham, James Rojas w b Z
Boston's News Radio.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Meanwhile, the complicated immigration status of kilmar Abrego Garcia continues
as a Trump administration is pushing to get him in
ICE custody, this while a federal judge rules that he's free.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
On the steps of an ICE facility in Baltimore, supporters
rallied is kilmar Abrego Garcia headed for a back in
with immigration officials. He spoke to supporters through an interpreter.

Speaker 7 (03:03):
I believe that this injustice will come to its end.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Hours after a federal judge ordered his release from ICE custody,
saying the administration never properly ordered his deportation, and immigration
judge filed new paperwork correcting what he described as an error.
This morning, Judge Paulusnis has issued a temporary restraining order
to prevent abrego Garcia's red attention. Stephen Portnoy, ABC News Washington.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Today, it's going to be sunny but blustery, a high
of thirty six. That's in the city, but real field
temps are going to be in the teens to near
twenty Tonight, clear skies early, than increasing clouds late, a
low of twenty seven in Boston. For many of those
inland suburbs, the low will be near twenty Tomorrow, mainly cloudy.
There can be a little snow and rain late toward

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the south coast and the Cape, so quite a different
story than the last storm. A high of thirty eight,
and then when all is said and done, the best
chance for one to three inches of snow will be
again toward the south coast the Cape in the island.
Sunday breezy with some clouds breaking in the afternoon. Highs
near freezing early, then tamps will slowly fall in the afternoon,
and Monday it's going to be mostly sunny, breezy, and cold.

(04:09):
He's approaching thirty in Boston right now. We're seeing sunshine,
but at chilely twenty eight degrees in the real field
temp is even colder, it feels like it's sixteen at
eleven oh six. Back to news. More walls in Boston's
deep history come tumbling down.

Speaker 7 (04:25):
Matthews Arena, which opened two years before Fenway back in
nineteen ten, will be closing for good after one more
hockey game on Saturday night, the forty five year home
to Northeastern hockey. The Huskies will take on bu on
Saturday Night. It was a citywide venue for its first
seven decades of operation, the original home to the Bruins

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and Celtics before the original Boston Garden opened up in
nineteen twenty eight. Demolition will get underway this winter, as
Northeastern will completely build a new facility and the historic
structure will be torn down. Jim McKay w b Z,
Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
The MBTA announces that it has brought in eight million
dollars more in fares than expected, a positive signed for
the transit system, which has struggled to regain writers in
the wake of the COVID nineteen pandemic. The agency says
that fair collection was the strongest across the Orange, Red,
and Blue lines, and also notes that contactless payment systems

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rolled out last year have been put to good use
by writers. Although fair revenue has exceeded expectations this year,
the MBTA says it still has fallen short of pre
pandemic levels. Promising New statistics shows the overall number of
middle and high school students who use e cigarettes has
decreased over the past six years, but it's also sounding

(05:48):
the alarm. At the same time.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Among young people who do still use e cigarettes, researchers
find troubling signs that they're hooked to share of teenage
daily users of nicotine vappens who've tried to quit has
risen from twenty eight percent to fifty three percent, suggesting
that young vapors are suffering severe levels of nicotine addiction.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
And that's ABC's Jim Ryan reporting. You are now in
the loop. For news updates throughout the day, listen to
WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Sherry Small,
WBZ Boston's news radio