July 17, 2025 • 6 mins
Protesters planned to march in Boston for the "Good Trouble Lives On" rally, Rep. John Lawn pleaded not guilty at his arraignment, and parents on the North Shore filed a lawsuit against the Beverly Teachers' Union. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Partly cloudy eighty four degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock
on this Thursday morning. Hello, thanks for being with us.
I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening all right. This just
into the WBZ newsroom. The Bristol County DA's office says
another person has now died from last weekend's fire at
the Gabriel House assisted living facility in Fall River. The
(00:32):
sixty six year old Brenda Cooper had been in critical
condition since the fire. She died late last night. That
brings the death toll now up to ten. Investigators still
looking into how that fire started, but so far they
say they do not think that anyone set the fire
on purpose. The Senate passing a spending cuts package overnight,
(00:53):
pulling back billions of dollars already allocated for public broadcasting
in four and AID. We get that from CBS's Stacy Lynn.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
On this vote, the Ya's are fifty one, the nays
are forty eight, and on this vote the bill is
amitted as passed. Republican Senators Collins and Murkowski voted against
the package. Mitch McConnell opposed it earlier, but ended up
voting in favor of it. The bill now goes back
to the House, where it faces a Friday deadline for
a final vote before it hits President Trump's desk for
(01:23):
his signature. Stacy Lynn CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Demonstrators plan to take to the streets of Boston this evening.
It's all part of nationwide day of events in honor
of John Lewis, the late civil rights leader and congressman.
March scheduled to depart from Copley Square at five PM,
with a rally at the Liberty Mall on Boston Common
at six. It's all part of the Good Trouble Lives
(01:47):
On protests planned across the country. Among the organizers is
the group Public Citizen.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
The Trump administration has guided the Civil Rights Office at
the Department of Justice. It's just pushed through a bill
in Congress that will strip healthcare, and it's pushing an
authoritarian agenda evidence perhaps most aggressively in its mass deportation
and vicious anti immigrant policy.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
The ACLU of Massachusetts, Embrace Boston, and Boston Indivisible are
just some of the groups organizing the event Locally. Say
lawmaker pleading not guilty to OUI charges in Boston court
this morning. Representative John Lawn, a Democrat from Watertown, arrested
early yesterday morning, and Boston police say a witness who
(02:29):
flagged down police saw Lawn hit a parked pickup truck
near the State House and then take off. This was
at around one am. Lawn was pulled over. Lawn was
released on his own recognents after this morning's arraignment. He's
been ordered not to drive and we'll be back in
court on August first. Now, the eguather forecast unfortunately, another
(02:50):
hot and humid day today. The heat advisory remains in
effect through seven pm. That excludes the Cape in the Islands,
where it's much cooler. Hies in the city eighty eight degrees,
but real field temps will be in the nineties for
the Cape in the Islands, high seventy eight to eighty two.
We're going to see a mix of sun and clouds, breezy,
a shower thunderstorm in places. Already. We're seeing in western
(03:12):
and central masts some spotty showers to not heavy, gusty
thunderstorm in places. Partly cloudy, breezy, a low of seventy one.
That humidity is going to hang on overnight, but hang
on just a little bit longer, because Friday is going
to be much more pleasant, more sun than clouds, breezy.
A high eighty four Saturday, sun and clouds eighty to
eighty four are the high. Sunday again, a high of
(03:34):
eighty four, but that's when a couple of showers and
a thunderstorm enter the mix. It's eighty four, partly sunny,
partly cloudy, whichever way you choose. In Boston at eleven
oh five because of the humidity, the real field fields
ten degrees warmer. Back to news, the Beverly Teachers Union
now facing a lawsuit brought on by parents.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
The teachers union is being sued by two families who
claim their twelve strike last year financially cost parents and
caused emotional distress. Part of the lawsuit includes the fact
that it is technically illegal under state law in Massachusetts
for public employees to go on strike, despite efforts on
Beacon Hill to change the long standing law with exceptions
(04:16):
for public safety workers. The parents are suing for seventeen
million dollars and are asking the courts to rescind the
collective bargaining agreement that teachers praise as a massive victory.
Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio, all Right.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
A troubling sign about the cost of housing here in
Greater Boston. New data says the median price of a
single family home in Greater Boston has now surpassed a
million dollars for the first time in history. According to
the Greater Boston Association of Realtors, prices in June were
up two point four percent from the previous month and
up four and a half percent from June of last year. Meanwhile,
(04:54):
Greater Boston's condo market remained much steadier in June, the
median price reaching seven high hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
President Trump lashing out at members of his own party
over growing criticism of his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
President Trump snapping at his own supporters who have criticized
his administration's handling of the investigation into convicted sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
There's stupid people.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
As Republicans pressed the Justice Department to release additional files,
President calling it all a hoax, writing on social media,
my past supporters had bought in hook line and Sinker, saying,
let these weaklings continue forward because I don't want their
support anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And that's ABC's Rachel Scott reporting there the controversy. It
all started last week when the Justice Department issued a
memo saying that they found no client list and no
evidence at Epstein had blackmailed powerful people. You are now
in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen
to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm
(05:54):
Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Partly cloudy eighty four degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock
on this Thursday morning. Hello, thanks for being with us.
I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening all right. This just
into the WBZ newsroom. The Bristol County DA's office says
another person has now died from last weekend's fire at
the Gabriel House assisted living facility in Fall River. The
(00:32):
sixty six year old Brenda Cooper had been in critical
condition since the fire. She died late last night. That
brings the death toll now up to ten. Investigators still
looking into how that fire started, but so far they
say they do not think that anyone set the fire
on purpose. The Senate passing a spending cuts package overnight,
(00:53):
pulling back billions of dollars already allocated for public broadcasting
in four and AID. We get that from CBS's Stacy Lynn.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
On this vote, the Ya's are fifty one, the nays
are forty eight, and on this vote the bill is
amitted as passed. Republican Senators Collins and Murkowski voted against
the package. Mitch McConnell opposed it earlier, but ended up
voting in favor of it. The bill now goes back
to the House, where it faces a Friday deadline for
a final vote before it hits President Trump's desk for
(01:23):
his signature. Stacy Lynn CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Demonstrators plan to take to the streets of Boston this evening.
It's all part of nationwide day of events in honor
of John Lewis, the late civil rights leader and congressman.
March scheduled to depart from Copley Square at five PM,
with a rally at the Liberty Mall on Boston Common
at six. It's all part of the Good Trouble Lives
(01:47):
On protests planned across the country. Among the organizers is
the group Public Citizen.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
The Trump administration has guided the Civil Rights Office at
the Department of Justice. It's just pushed through a bill
in Congress that will strip healthcare, and it's pushing an
authoritarian agenda evidence perhaps most aggressively in its mass deportation
and vicious anti immigrant policy.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
The ACLU of Massachusetts, Embrace Boston, and Boston Indivisible are
just some of the groups organizing the event Locally. Say
lawmaker pleading not guilty to OUI charges in Boston court
this morning. Representative John Lawn, a Democrat from Watertown, arrested
early yesterday morning, and Boston police say a witness who
(02:29):
flagged down police saw Lawn hit a parked pickup truck
near the State House and then take off. This was
at around one am. Lawn was pulled over. Lawn was
released on his own recognents after this morning's arraignment. He's
been ordered not to drive and we'll be back in
court on August first. Now, the eguather forecast unfortunately, another
(02:50):
hot and humid day today. The heat advisory remains in
effect through seven pm. That excludes the Cape in the Islands,
where it's much cooler. Hies in the city eighty eight degrees,
but real field temps will be in the nineties for
the Cape in the Islands, high seventy eight to eighty two.
We're going to see a mix of sun and clouds, breezy,
a shower thunderstorm in places. Already. We're seeing in western
(03:12):
and central masts some spotty showers to not heavy, gusty
thunderstorm in places. Partly cloudy, breezy, a low of seventy one.
That humidity is going to hang on overnight, but hang
on just a little bit longer, because Friday is going
to be much more pleasant, more sun than clouds, breezy.
A high eighty four Saturday, sun and clouds eighty to
eighty four are the high. Sunday again, a high of
(03:34):
eighty four, but that's when a couple of showers and
a thunderstorm enter the mix. It's eighty four, partly sunny,
partly cloudy, whichever way you choose. In Boston at eleven
oh five because of the humidity, the real field fields
ten degrees warmer. Back to news, the Beverly Teachers Union
now facing a lawsuit brought on by parents.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
The teachers union is being sued by two families who
claim their twelve strike last year financially cost parents and
caused emotional distress. Part of the lawsuit includes the fact
that it is technically illegal under state law in Massachusetts
for public employees to go on strike, despite efforts on
Beacon Hill to change the long standing law with exceptions
(04:16):
for public safety workers. The parents are suing for seventeen
million dollars and are asking the courts to rescind the
collective bargaining agreement that teachers praise as a massive victory.
Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio, all Right.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
A troubling sign about the cost of housing here in
Greater Boston. New data says the median price of a
single family home in Greater Boston has now surpassed a
million dollars for the first time in history. According to
the Greater Boston Association of Realtors, prices in June were
up two point four percent from the previous month and
up four and a half percent from June of last year. Meanwhile,
(04:54):
Greater Boston's condo market remained much steadier in June, the
median price reaching seven high hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
President Trump lashing out at members of his own party
over growing criticism of his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
President Trump snapping at his own supporters who have criticized
his administration's handling of the investigation into convicted sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
There's stupid people.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
As Republicans pressed the Justice Department to release additional files,
President calling it all a hoax, writing on social media,
my past supporters had bought in hook line and Sinker, saying,
let these weaklings continue forward because I don't want their
support anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And that's ABC's Rachel Scott reporting there the controversy. It
all started last week when the Justice Department issued a
memo saying that they found no client list and no
evidence at Epstein had blackmailed powerful people. You are now
in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen
to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm
(05:54):
Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio
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