April 28, 2025 • 6 mins
Week 2 of testimony in the Karen Read retrial, plans to remake Maverick Square in East Boston, and coffee prices take a hike amid tariffs. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Now this is special, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's delightful too here in Boston on this Monday morning,
clear skies at sunrise and fifty degrees. Thanks for tagging
along today, I'm Jeff Brown. Now this is more like it.
So they will be much nicer than yesterday, with lots
of sunshine, at gusty breeze and a warm afternoon high
in the mid seventies. That is WBZ achi weather meteorologist
Joe Lundberg. How about near eighty tomorrow. The News at
(00:33):
six is brought to you by your New England's Toyota dealer,
your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. How about those Celtics
hate him with a steal?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
What a mess this is? Horford get to to Tatum,
he leaves it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Brown lays it in the call on TNT Sports. Celtics
take Game four in Orlando. They can clinch with a
Game five victory at home against the Magic tomorrow night
at the Garden. Red Sox are off today. They will
take their showed to Toronto to begin a three game
series starting tomorrow night. Week two of testimony begins this
morning in the Karen Reid case in Norfolk Superior Court.
(01:10):
The jury has been put through the ringer, with emotional
testimony from John O'Keefe's mother last week and a visit
to the crime scene in Canton. The panel also gets
a look at Read's SUV, which prosecutors say she used
to run down her boyfriend during a snowy winter night
more than three years ago. It is expected that this
trial could last up to two months. New report shows
(01:31):
the juvenile detention rate in Massachusetts is higher for a
third straight year, powered by a dramatic increase among black
and Hispanic youths. This is a troubling trend. The Juvenile
Justice Policy and Data Board says it's the highest rate
scene in seven years, driven also by low level charges
and pre trial detention hearings. The Globe reports, Officials with
(01:53):
the organization says this is not a good trajectory. A
spike in juvenile detention rate some thirty years ago created
a flow sory of legislation on Beacon Hill. They just
wanted to go on vacation. I'm sure some of them
had business trips overseas. But wbz's Drew Mulhollands tells us
the airline and a bird may have had other plans. Yeah,
(02:15):
good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Good morning, Jeffrey. Best laid plans right. In this case,
a British Airways flight from Dulles to London is forced
to make an emergency landing at Logan Airport this weekend.
Official Safe Flight two sixteen was headed to Heathrow when
it reported a bird strike. Smoke filled the cabin, very scary.
The flight touchdown safely at Logan Airport around seven thirty
Saturday night, no injuries reporting.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'm sure the entire weekend for those passengers was a
mess too, because no telling how long it took for
them to get out of town. Yeah, you're so right,
all right, thank you, Drew. A neighborhood in East Boston
on solid ground is going to the SPA.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Emily has her head on a swivel while walking through
Maverick Square looking out for careless drivers.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
And a lot of times they'll just they're on their
phone or they're not paying attention. We'll try and cross
and let us try and hit us.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
She's among the many who hop off the Maverick te
station and the type of person the city of Boston
wants to hear from as it reviews plans to improve pedestrian,
bus and car safety.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
It is a weird place to drive anyway, so sometimes
you will confuse, and there's not really a whole lot
of enough signage to tell if you want again.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
The city also wants to create a space where folks
can safely gather while making it accessible to buses and
drivers in Maverick Square. James Rojas WBZ Boston's news Radio Beautiful.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Starts to Monday morning in a brand new work week
and back to school. April vacation is of course over,
and we're good. We've got the right attitude at least
as we head back to new beginnings. Sunny skies at
sunrise this morning. It is fifty degrees right now, will
be in the mid seventies later on today. This is
the start of something good too, Mainly clear skies Overnight
(03:51):
tonight we're back in the fifties. Tomorrow's even warmer, with
a high temperature near eighty, mix of sun and clouds,
a little bit on the breezy side. Even Wednesday is
in good shippe under partly to mostly sunny skies continued
a bit windy highs in the lower seventies, more seasonal temperatures,
but still pretty nice as we head towards the latter
part of the week. Right now in Boston, fifty degrees,
(04:13):
clear skies at six oh five this Monday morning. The
breeze and the trees brings no rain on the plaine,
just some sniffles and sneezes. This year you can blame oak,
birch and of course maple trees.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Miserable.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Miserable, yeah, even.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
More because they are the key contributors to high pollen
counts this time of year, which in turn.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You know, stuff nose, watery eyes, sneezing all the time,
and it can be pretty bad. And this is just
the very beginning as the weather warms up and days
grow longer, when most people look forward to going outside
and enjoying the sun.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Most people, I'm a rad hat, I don't enjoy this one.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
This makes it even worse this time of year.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Give me the winter.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I'm good. I'm good with the winter.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Chris Fahmon, WBZ Boston's News Dirty.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Laundrom at CBS's sixty Minutes comes out in the wash
of a national television audience. When correspondent Scott Pelley addresses
the elephant in the room, the resignation of the show's
executive producer, only the third in sixty Minutes history. Bill
Owen steps down as of last week. Now Pelly says
none of us at sixty Minutes is happy following this move,
(05:22):
which Owen says is due to ownership's recent policy change
with regard to his journalistic independence, which he says he
no longer had at the program. CBS's parent company, Paramount,
is trying to strike a merger deal with Skydance and
has been trying to get in the good graces of
President Trump by settling a ten billion dollar lawsuit filed
(05:42):
by the President against the network and the program sixty Minutes.
The coffee in your cup this morning is getting more
expensive to sip.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
The coffee industry has been hit hard over the past
nine months, says Jeff Taylor with Birdrock Coffee based level.
Coffee pricing has been rising, and now the influence of
ti all of our.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Coffee comes from Latin America, from Africa.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Now there's a ten percent tariff in all those countries.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
As coffee prices continue their upward movement, it's wait and
see for both coffee roasters and consumers.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
National Coffee Association and the SCA are working to big
TIFF's off of coffee.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
It's nothing more than a tax.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Not doing anything to help the usccon It's just part
of consumers.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Stephan Kauffman, CBS News.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm
Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio.
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Now this is special, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's delightful too here in Boston on this Monday morning,
clear skies at sunrise and fifty degrees. Thanks for tagging
along today, I'm Jeff Brown. Now this is more like it.
So they will be much nicer than yesterday, with lots
of sunshine, at gusty breeze and a warm afternoon high
in the mid seventies. That is WBZ achi weather meteorologist
Joe Lundberg. How about near eighty tomorrow. The News at
(00:33):
six is brought to you by your New England's Toyota dealer,
your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. How about those Celtics
hate him with a steal?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
What a mess this is? Horford get to to Tatum,
he leaves it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Brown lays it in the call on TNT Sports. Celtics
take Game four in Orlando. They can clinch with a
Game five victory at home against the Magic tomorrow night
at the Garden. Red Sox are off today. They will
take their showed to Toronto to begin a three game
series starting tomorrow night. Week two of testimony begins this
morning in the Karen Reid case in Norfolk Superior Court.
(01:10):
The jury has been put through the ringer, with emotional
testimony from John O'Keefe's mother last week and a visit
to the crime scene in Canton. The panel also gets
a look at Read's SUV, which prosecutors say she used
to run down her boyfriend during a snowy winter night
more than three years ago. It is expected that this
trial could last up to two months. New report shows
(01:31):
the juvenile detention rate in Massachusetts is higher for a
third straight year, powered by a dramatic increase among black
and Hispanic youths. This is a troubling trend. The Juvenile
Justice Policy and Data Board says it's the highest rate
scene in seven years, driven also by low level charges
and pre trial detention hearings. The Globe reports, Officials with
(01:53):
the organization says this is not a good trajectory. A
spike in juvenile detention rate some thirty years ago created
a flow sory of legislation on Beacon Hill. They just
wanted to go on vacation. I'm sure some of them
had business trips overseas. But wbz's Drew Mulhollands tells us
the airline and a bird may have had other plans. Yeah,
(02:15):
good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Good morning, Jeffrey. Best laid plans right. In this case,
a British Airways flight from Dulles to London is forced
to make an emergency landing at Logan Airport this weekend.
Official Safe Flight two sixteen was headed to Heathrow when
it reported a bird strike. Smoke filled the cabin, very scary.
The flight touchdown safely at Logan Airport around seven thirty
Saturday night, no injuries reporting.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'm sure the entire weekend for those passengers was a
mess too, because no telling how long it took for
them to get out of town. Yeah, you're so right,
all right, thank you, Drew. A neighborhood in East Boston
on solid ground is going to the SPA.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Emily has her head on a swivel while walking through
Maverick Square looking out for careless drivers.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
And a lot of times they'll just they're on their
phone or they're not paying attention. We'll try and cross
and let us try and hit us.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
She's among the many who hop off the Maverick te
station and the type of person the city of Boston
wants to hear from as it reviews plans to improve pedestrian,
bus and car safety.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
It is a weird place to drive anyway, so sometimes
you will confuse, and there's not really a whole lot
of enough signage to tell if you want again.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
The city also wants to create a space where folks
can safely gather while making it accessible to buses and
drivers in Maverick Square. James Rojas WBZ Boston's news Radio Beautiful.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Starts to Monday morning in a brand new work week
and back to school. April vacation is of course over,
and we're good. We've got the right attitude at least
as we head back to new beginnings. Sunny skies at
sunrise this morning. It is fifty degrees right now, will
be in the mid seventies later on today. This is
the start of something good too, Mainly clear skies Overnight
(03:51):
tonight we're back in the fifties. Tomorrow's even warmer, with
a high temperature near eighty, mix of sun and clouds,
a little bit on the breezy side. Even Wednesday is
in good shippe under partly to mostly sunny skies continued
a bit windy highs in the lower seventies, more seasonal temperatures,
but still pretty nice as we head towards the latter
part of the week. Right now in Boston, fifty degrees,
(04:13):
clear skies at six oh five this Monday morning. The
breeze and the trees brings no rain on the plaine,
just some sniffles and sneezes. This year you can blame oak,
birch and of course maple trees.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Miserable.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Miserable, yeah, even.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
More because they are the key contributors to high pollen
counts this time of year, which in turn.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You know, stuff nose, watery eyes, sneezing all the time,
and it can be pretty bad. And this is just
the very beginning as the weather warms up and days
grow longer, when most people look forward to going outside
and enjoying the sun.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Most people, I'm a rad hat, I don't enjoy this one.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
This makes it even worse this time of year.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Give me the winter.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I'm good. I'm good with the winter.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Chris Fahmon, WBZ Boston's News Dirty.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Laundrom at CBS's sixty Minutes comes out in the wash
of a national television audience. When correspondent Scott Pelley addresses
the elephant in the room, the resignation of the show's
executive producer, only the third in sixty Minutes history. Bill
Owen steps down as of last week. Now Pelly says
none of us at sixty Minutes is happy following this move,
(05:22):
which Owen says is due to ownership's recent policy change
with regard to his journalistic independence, which he says he
no longer had at the program. CBS's parent company, Paramount,
is trying to strike a merger deal with Skydance and
has been trying to get in the good graces of
President Trump by settling a ten billion dollar lawsuit filed
(05:42):
by the President against the network and the program sixty Minutes.
The coffee in your cup this morning is getting more
expensive to sip.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
The coffee industry has been hit hard over the past
nine months, says Jeff Taylor with Birdrock Coffee based level.
Coffee pricing has been rising, and now the influence of
ti all of our.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Coffee comes from Latin America, from Africa.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Now there's a ten percent tariff in all those countries.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
As coffee prices continue their upward movement, it's wait and
see for both coffee roasters and consumers.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
National Coffee Association and the SCA are working to big
TIFF's off of coffee.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
It's nothing more than a tax.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Not doing anything to help the usccon It's just part
of consumers.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Stephan Kauffman, CBS News.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm
Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio.
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