August 25, 2025 • 7 mins
The countdown to back to school, a search resumes for a missing man at Salisbury Beach, and a tragic drowning at Hampton Beach. 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.
Good morning, six o'clock. Flight attendants, please prepare the cabin
for takeoff this morning. We're under cloudy skies and instrumental
flight rules today sixty six degrees. As we get started
this Monday morning together in Boston. The News at six
(00:23):
is brought to us by your new England Toyota dealer,
your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Welcome aboard. I'm Jeff Brown.
As summer begins to take its last gasp, but they
will be huid with clouds and limited sun a stray
shower or thunderstorm, look for plenty of sunshine tomorrow. At
is WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. The unofficial end
of summer is one week from today. Labor days quickly
(00:44):
coming up, mainly in the seventies. Pretty much all this week.
They can't all be winners, right right, Fields back Jimsevis
Secular of the night. It's ESPN Sunday Night Baseball. Red
Sox lose, but they do take three of four or
from the weekend series with the Yankees. They're off to
Baltimore tonight. Chinese Taipei wins the Little League World Series
(01:07):
in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, which ends the summer dreams of kids
from Nevada. Kids hate it, course parents love it. It's
back to school time, and while students in Massachusetts are
headed back to classrooms both this week and next, school
is already underway in many other parts of the country,
and this year, more students than ever before will be
banned from using cell phones or other electronic devices in classrooms.
(01:30):
Seventeen states and counting jump on this bandwagon in an
effort to get kids attention laser focused on lessons and
not distractions. Here in Massachusetts, there is no statewide ban,
as lawmakers seem intent for now on letting local school
districts make the rules as they see fit. Speaking of school,
in Massachusetts, there is still no consensus on the guidelines
(01:52):
for a high school graduation. Since voters nixed the long
held MCAST standard that delivered a diploma with a passing
score on the State anddized test. It's left to students
proficiency in math, science and other classes that springs them
loose from the best years of their lives. State school
officials have given themselves a deadline of next summer to
come up with a new concrete plan that will ultimately
(02:14):
replace the long controversial mcast exam. A new kidi or
health just might be nuts.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
If sometimes you feel like a nut, you might want
to reach for almonds. According to a study published in
Scientific Reports, eating twenty two almonds a day could improve
your long term health. The researchers looked at eight studies
involving more than four hundred people that includes people with obesity,
high cholesterol, or heart disease. They found higher almond intake
was linked to fewer markers of oxidative stress, a process
(02:43):
that can damage cells over time. It makes sense because
almonds are rich in antioxidants like vitamin E and polyphenols,
which help reduce cellular damage linked to aging and disease.
Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio and who.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Knew sleeping could make so much money?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
A rabbinical court in Israel ruled last week that thirty
five thousand dollars was due to a woman divorcing her
husband because he failed to address his snoring. The co
founder and CEO of the sleep tech company Oslo Sleep
and Bepatil says slumbering disruptions or a costly affair.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
One in three dollars aren't getting enough sleep, costing the
US economy four hundred billion dollars annually in lost productivity.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oslo offers Bluetooth sleep Buds, a redesigned version after Bow's
discontinued its sleepier buds.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
We have seen people not looking for more data, they're
actually looking for technology that actually helped people sleep.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Better and perhaps save a marriage. Wendy July, CBS News.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Pretty dark this morning here in Boston as we get
started together on a Monday morning. We've got some clouds,
we've got some fog, and sixty six, so it's relatively
humid out the door. That's one thing you'll notice about
this start on a Monday morning. It is going to
be mostly cloudy with a chance for some showers throughout
much of the morning. In fact, we do see some
shower activity over the cape and islands this morning that'll
(03:59):
be pulling away. Here's a chance for occasional showers throughout
much of the day today, and we certainly we do
need the rain. We haven't had a lot of it
this August, but it doesn't look like we're going to
get a lot if any along the way today might
see some breaks of sun along the way as well.
High temperatures will be in the mid to upper seventies
along the shoreline and especially in Boston today low eighties
(04:19):
and inland locations. It's going to clear out overnight Tonight,
fifties and sixties for low temperatures. Tomorrow, beautiful day, mostly sunny,
bit windy, highs right around eighty and a mixture of
sun and clouds on Wednesday too, with highs in the seventies. Overall,
it does look like a relatively dry week and more
sunshine than clouds along the way, with highs mainly in
the seventies. Right now sixty six, clouds, fog, and maybe
(04:40):
a rain drop in your neighborhood. It's six oh six
this Monday morning. Fired in an embarrassing fall from grace,
a former Massachusetts State Police trooper wants back in.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Former mass Day Police trooper Michael Proctor is making his
pitch to get his job back, appealing his firing this
week to the Civil Service Commission. Hearing is set for
Tuesday and Wednesday. Procter led the investigation into Boston police
officer John O'Keeffe's death, but was fired for his conduct
after derogatory texts he sent about Karen Reid in a
group chat came to light during the first trial.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
She's a whack job see you.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Proctor was relieved of his duty immediately after Reid's first
trial ended in a mistrial. Then he was suspended without
pay and later fired. Reid's defense team accused Proctor of
planting evidence during the investigation. Reid was ultimately acquitted of
second degree murder during trial number two, though she was
found guilty of an OUI and sentenced to a year
of probation. I'm a freedman. W b Z Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Search is expected to resume this morning off the North
Shore coast for a missing man in the waters off
Salisbury Beach. Rough surf from one time Hurricane Aaron said
to be responsible for a capsized boat this weekend. The
beach off limits to swimmers due to the high seas.
The nearly fifty foot vessel flipped over Saturday. The boat
seen bobbing up and down in the water. That broken
(05:52):
piece from that vessel found floating in the Merrimack River
as well. Massachusetts State Police, the US Coast Guard, and
Environmental Police all involved in the search for the man
tragedy at Hampton Beach this weekend. The same high surf
from Hurricane Aaron believed to be the cause of the
drowning of a seventeen year old boy. A desperate attempt
by the young man's father lands him in the hospital
(06:12):
as well. The emergency call comes in just before seven
last night when the boy went under and dad jumped
in after him. Both taken to Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire.
The teenager pronounced dead. The boy's father is expected to recover.
The son of a TV star spends a weekend in court.
Twenty five year old Mingus Ritas, the son of Walking
Dead star Norman Ritas, is arrested on allegations he beat
(06:34):
up his girlfriend. The younger Reatas pleads not guilty and
is released on his own recognizance following a night court
appearance in Manhattan on Saturday, Ritas's thirty three year old
girlfriend taken to a hospital after the couple reportedly had
a break up fight. This is not Ritas's first rodeo.
He's faced previous charges of assault against a woman in
New York's Little Italy neighborhood three years ago. You are
(06:56):
now in the loop for news updates throughout the day.
Listen 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.
Good morning, six o'clock. Flight attendants, please prepare the cabin
for takeoff this morning. We're under cloudy skies and instrumental
flight rules today sixty six degrees. As we get started
this Monday morning together in Boston. The News at six
(00:23):
is brought to us by your new England Toyota dealer,
your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Welcome aboard. I'm Jeff Brown.
As summer begins to take its last gasp, but they
will be huid with clouds and limited sun a stray
shower or thunderstorm, look for plenty of sunshine tomorrow. At
is WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. The unofficial end
of summer is one week from today. Labor days quickly
(00:44):
coming up, mainly in the seventies. Pretty much all this week.
They can't all be winners, right right, Fields back Jimsevis
Secular of the night. It's ESPN Sunday Night Baseball. Red
Sox lose, but they do take three of four or
from the weekend series with the Yankees. They're off to
Baltimore tonight. Chinese Taipei wins the Little League World Series
(01:07):
in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, which ends the summer dreams of kids
from Nevada. Kids hate it, course parents love it. It's
back to school time, and while students in Massachusetts are
headed back to classrooms both this week and next, school
is already underway in many other parts of the country,
and this year, more students than ever before will be
banned from using cell phones or other electronic devices in classrooms.
(01:30):
Seventeen states and counting jump on this bandwagon in an
effort to get kids attention laser focused on lessons and
not distractions. Here in Massachusetts, there is no statewide ban,
as lawmakers seem intent for now on letting local school
districts make the rules as they see fit. Speaking of school,
in Massachusetts, there is still no consensus on the guidelines
(01:52):
for a high school graduation. Since voters nixed the long
held MCAST standard that delivered a diploma with a passing
score on the State anddized test. It's left to students
proficiency in math, science and other classes that springs them
loose from the best years of their lives. State school
officials have given themselves a deadline of next summer to
come up with a new concrete plan that will ultimately
(02:14):
replace the long controversial mcast exam. A new kidi or
health just might be nuts.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
If sometimes you feel like a nut, you might want
to reach for almonds. According to a study published in
Scientific Reports, eating twenty two almonds a day could improve
your long term health. The researchers looked at eight studies
involving more than four hundred people that includes people with obesity,
high cholesterol, or heart disease. They found higher almond intake
was linked to fewer markers of oxidative stress, a process
(02:43):
that can damage cells over time. It makes sense because
almonds are rich in antioxidants like vitamin E and polyphenols,
which help reduce cellular damage linked to aging and disease.
Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio and who.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Knew sleeping could make so much money?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
A rabbinical court in Israel ruled last week that thirty
five thousand dollars was due to a woman divorcing her
husband because he failed to address his snoring. The co
founder and CEO of the sleep tech company Oslo Sleep
and Bepatil says slumbering disruptions or a costly affair.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
One in three dollars aren't getting enough sleep, costing the
US economy four hundred billion dollars annually in lost productivity.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oslo offers Bluetooth sleep Buds, a redesigned version after Bow's
discontinued its sleepier buds.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
We have seen people not looking for more data, they're
actually looking for technology that actually helped people sleep.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Better and perhaps save a marriage. Wendy July, CBS News.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Pretty dark this morning here in Boston as we get
started together on a Monday morning. We've got some clouds,
we've got some fog, and sixty six, so it's relatively
humid out the door. That's one thing you'll notice about
this start on a Monday morning. It is going to
be mostly cloudy with a chance for some showers throughout
much of the morning. In fact, we do see some
shower activity over the cape and islands this morning that'll
(03:59):
be pulling away. Here's a chance for occasional showers throughout
much of the day today, and we certainly we do
need the rain. We haven't had a lot of it
this August, but it doesn't look like we're going to
get a lot if any along the way today might
see some breaks of sun along the way as well.
High temperatures will be in the mid to upper seventies
along the shoreline and especially in Boston today low eighties
(04:19):
and inland locations. It's going to clear out overnight Tonight,
fifties and sixties for low temperatures. Tomorrow, beautiful day, mostly sunny,
bit windy, highs right around eighty and a mixture of
sun and clouds on Wednesday too, with highs in the seventies. Overall,
it does look like a relatively dry week and more
sunshine than clouds along the way, with highs mainly in
the seventies. Right now sixty six, clouds, fog, and maybe
(04:40):
a rain drop in your neighborhood. It's six oh six
this Monday morning. Fired in an embarrassing fall from grace,
a former Massachusetts State Police trooper wants back in.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Former mass Day Police trooper Michael Proctor is making his
pitch to get his job back, appealing his firing this
week to the Civil Service Commission. Hearing is set for
Tuesday and Wednesday. Procter led the investigation into Boston police
officer John O'Keeffe's death, but was fired for his conduct
after derogatory texts he sent about Karen Reid in a
group chat came to light during the first trial.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
She's a whack job see you.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Proctor was relieved of his duty immediately after Reid's first
trial ended in a mistrial. Then he was suspended without
pay and later fired. Reid's defense team accused Proctor of
planting evidence during the investigation. Reid was ultimately acquitted of
second degree murder during trial number two, though she was
found guilty of an OUI and sentenced to a year
of probation. I'm a freedman. W b Z Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Search is expected to resume this morning off the North
Shore coast for a missing man in the waters off
Salisbury Beach. Rough surf from one time Hurricane Aaron said
to be responsible for a capsized boat this weekend. The
beach off limits to swimmers due to the high seas.
The nearly fifty foot vessel flipped over Saturday. The boat
seen bobbing up and down in the water. That broken
(05:52):
piece from that vessel found floating in the Merrimack River
as well. Massachusetts State Police, the US Coast Guard, and
Environmental Police all involved in the search for the man
tragedy at Hampton Beach this weekend. The same high surf
from Hurricane Aaron believed to be the cause of the
drowning of a seventeen year old boy. A desperate attempt
by the young man's father lands him in the hospital
(06:12):
as well. The emergency call comes in just before seven
last night when the boy went under and dad jumped
in after him. Both taken to Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire.
The teenager pronounced dead. The boy's father is expected to recover.
The son of a TV star spends a weekend in court.
Twenty five year old Mingus Ritas, the son of Walking
Dead star Norman Ritas, is arrested on allegations he beat
(06:34):
up his girlfriend. The younger Reatas pleads not guilty and
is released on his own recognizance following a night court
appearance in Manhattan on Saturday, Ritas's thirty three year old
girlfriend taken to a hospital after the couple reportedly had
a break up fight. This is not Ritas's first rodeo.
He's faced previous charges of assault against a woman in
New York's Little Italy neighborhood three years ago. You are
(06:56):
now in the loop for news updates throughout the day.
Listen WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ,
Boston's news radio
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