April 13, 2025 • 7 mins
A different scene from yesterday when April snow showers brought several inches of snow to some places Friday night into Saturday. More demonstrations at elite Universities against Trumo Administration's retalliation against individuals and institutions that refuse to comply with his politics and world view. An innovative way to tackle a common problem in Allston. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Good Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
At six o'clock, we have cloud eas skies in thirty
eight degrees in the city. I'm Sherry Small, thanks for
being with us. And here's what's happening. A chili days,
some rain bud minus the snow.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Today brings one more day of wet and cold conditions
with rain and drizzle continuing in a high of forty six.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And that's ACKI weather meteorologist LaTroy Thornton. The full forecast
is coming up in Traffic and Weather on the threes
all right. Quite the different scene from yesterday when April
snow showers brought several inches of snow to some places
Friday night into Saturday. Some of those jackpots, Princeton saw
the most, with nine inches of snow. South Princeton right
(00:46):
behind eight point nine inches. Ashburnham and Lester both saw
eight inches. Now, we are in spring, but snow isn't
exactly unusual here in April. We in fact, have seen
snow here about eighty three percent of all the recorded
April's in Boston history. In temperature is there only running
about a degree below the average. Now, the snow postponed
(01:09):
a Worcester Red Sox game and a woman in a
sports event at Polar Park. The game between the Wusaws
and the Columbus Clippers will be made up at a
later date yet to be announced. More demonstrations at elite
universities against the Trump administration's retaliations against individuals and institutions
that refuse to comply with his policies and worldviews.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Harvard students, faculty, and staff braved a drizzly afternoon on
Cambridge Common to demand the university's leadership push back against
President Trump's threats to withhold millions in federal funding if
the school doesn't comply with Trump's conservative politics. Professor Corey
Harden is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I get the fear.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
My colleges are terrified. Me up, your silence and your complicity.
Horned will not Protaxia.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
The rally comes after a campaign by the Trump administration
to crack down on elite universities in the wake of
the Hamas attack on Israel and the wake of campus
protests over Israel's military offensive in Gaza in Cambridge. Mike
Macklin WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Boston police searching for a missing thirteen year old girl
from Roxbury, zania Aliah Princess Davis. Zania Aliah Princess Davis
was last seen just before three pm on Friday. She's
described as five feet two weighs about one hundred and
eighteen pounds, with brown eyes and long black hair with locks.
(02:49):
Last scene wearing a white sweater, black glasses, carrying a
Celtic's stuffel bag and a burgundy backpack. Anyone with information
on her whereabouts is asked to contact police.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Scow the fort A WBC.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
At you Weather forecasts cloudy, chilly, periods of rain and
drizzle today with a high of forty six, and then
a bit of that lingering rain and drizzle early tonight.
Otherwise the skies will clear. We'll see lows near forty
degrees and then tomorrow much warmer. We'll see sunshine to start,
more clouds in the afternoon, but high's near sixty in
(03:23):
the city, mid fifties on the Cape and the islands.
Clouds will build at night and then showers returning to
the area. A Tuesday, We're going to see some clouds,
some breaks of sunshine, another shower or two hanging around, though,
but again we'll be in the low sixties. Wednesday, we
cool back down, a mix of sun and clouds, a
(03:44):
high of just.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Fifty three degrees.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
If we look ahead, Thursday looks rather nice, plenty of sunshine,
but we're only.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Going to reach the mid fifties.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's cloudy and thirty eight degrees right now in the
city looking at the radar map. Though south of Boston
along the south coast, the South Shore capin Islands, they're
getting drenched with rain.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It's six oh five. Back to news.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
An innovative way to tackle a common problem in Allston,
the call is out for rat rangerss WPCJ will like
to explain.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I do think the rat problem is a problem.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
There's like rats size raccoons out here that is crazy.
To come up with new and creative ways to mitigate
rat infestations in Allston. The Rat City Arts Festival is
recruiting rat rangers.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
We lead walks and explore the areas of Austin Brighton
looking out where rat dens might be or areas where
rat mitigation is vital so they don't spread as they
happen throughout the years.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
At this point, Rat Ranger and Boston Parks Ranger Alex
Hartgrove says. Their duties include planning out the annual rat
Walk in August, where participants dress up and rat out
rat nests to three one one.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
So we have artists coming in bands and whatnot. They're
more the show than we are.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
The biggest you've seen probably like football shapes.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
If you could throw the thing, I could throw the thing.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You probably don't know baw some damage.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I don't want to go near that.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I wouldn't touch it. Things like a small dog jabill
at WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
All right, you can check out the rat Rangers for
yourself on our TikTok page.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
WBC News Radio.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Police asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect
who broke into a Malden business. This is happening in
the four hundred block of Faery Street in Malden yesterday
between about four fifteen and four forty five am. The suspect,
believed to be a light skinned, Hispanic or white male,
believed to have walked northbound on Ferry Street carrying a
(05:38):
black safe Now Police have posted pictures on social media.
Anyone who may have seen something suspicious in the area
is asked to contact Malden Police.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Exempts some electronics from its tariffs on China, including things
like smartphones and computers.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Trump administration and els exemptions for smartphones, computers, and other
consumer electronics from most of his tariffs. President Trump hinted
at the move that could be a couple.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Of exceptions there, you know obvious reasons.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
The move is a boost to corporate giants like Apple,
whose iPhone is primarily made overseas in China and India.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And that CBS White House reporter Willie James Inman reporting there.
A former North Shore High school soccer coaches arrested accused
of sending sexually explicit messages to miners. Gloucester police arresting
forty five year old Jasoncalcus of Gloucester on a Rutcalcus,
(06:38):
I should say of Gloucester on Wednesday. He's charged with
enticing a child under the age of sixteen and sending
obscene materials to miners. Court records show that police collected
more than seventy screenshots of inappropriate messages he allegedly messaged
teenage boys on Instagram's Snapchat and telegram. The high school student,
(07:00):
some of whom were soccer players, that he coached were
between sixteen and eighteen years old. Officials say Racalcus was
fired as varsity soccer coach at Rockport because of a
bullying investigation, and he was fired from coaching at Gloucester
High where he was accused of inappropriately messaging students, but
no criminal complaint was filed. You are now in the
(07:23):
loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ
News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small,
WBZ Boston's news radio
Good Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
At six o'clock, we have cloud eas skies in thirty
eight degrees in the city. I'm Sherry Small, thanks for
being with us. And here's what's happening. A chili days,
some rain bud minus the snow.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Today brings one more day of wet and cold conditions
with rain and drizzle continuing in a high of forty six.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And that's ACKI weather meteorologist LaTroy Thornton. The full forecast
is coming up in Traffic and Weather on the threes
all right. Quite the different scene from yesterday when April
snow showers brought several inches of snow to some places
Friday night into Saturday. Some of those jackpots, Princeton saw
the most, with nine inches of snow. South Princeton right
(00:46):
behind eight point nine inches. Ashburnham and Lester both saw
eight inches. Now, we are in spring, but snow isn't
exactly unusual here in April. We in fact, have seen
snow here about eighty three percent of all the recorded
April's in Boston history. In temperature is there only running
about a degree below the average. Now, the snow postponed
(01:09):
a Worcester Red Sox game and a woman in a
sports event at Polar Park. The game between the Wusaws
and the Columbus Clippers will be made up at a
later date yet to be announced. More demonstrations at elite
universities against the Trump administration's retaliations against individuals and institutions
that refuse to comply with his policies and worldviews.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Harvard students, faculty, and staff braved a drizzly afternoon on
Cambridge Common to demand the university's leadership push back against
President Trump's threats to withhold millions in federal funding if
the school doesn't comply with Trump's conservative politics. Professor Corey
Harden is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I get the fear.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
My colleges are terrified. Me up, your silence and your complicity.
Horned will not Protaxia.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
The rally comes after a campaign by the Trump administration
to crack down on elite universities in the wake of
the Hamas attack on Israel and the wake of campus
protests over Israel's military offensive in Gaza in Cambridge. Mike
Macklin WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Boston police searching for a missing thirteen year old girl
from Roxbury, zania Aliah Princess Davis. Zania Aliah Princess Davis
was last seen just before three pm on Friday. She's
described as five feet two weighs about one hundred and
eighteen pounds, with brown eyes and long black hair with locks.
(02:49):
Last scene wearing a white sweater, black glasses, carrying a
Celtic's stuffel bag and a burgundy backpack. Anyone with information
on her whereabouts is asked to contact police.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Scow the fort A WBC.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
At you Weather forecasts cloudy, chilly, periods of rain and
drizzle today with a high of forty six, and then
a bit of that lingering rain and drizzle early tonight.
Otherwise the skies will clear. We'll see lows near forty
degrees and then tomorrow much warmer. We'll see sunshine to start,
more clouds in the afternoon, but high's near sixty in
(03:23):
the city, mid fifties on the Cape and the islands.
Clouds will build at night and then showers returning to
the area. A Tuesday, We're going to see some clouds,
some breaks of sunshine, another shower or two hanging around, though,
but again we'll be in the low sixties. Wednesday, we
cool back down, a mix of sun and clouds, a
(03:44):
high of just.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Fifty three degrees.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
If we look ahead, Thursday looks rather nice, plenty of sunshine,
but we're only.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Going to reach the mid fifties.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's cloudy and thirty eight degrees right now in the
city looking at the radar map. Though south of Boston
along the south coast, the South Shore capin Islands, they're
getting drenched with rain.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It's six oh five. Back to news.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
An innovative way to tackle a common problem in Allston,
the call is out for rat rangerss WPCJ will like
to explain.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I do think the rat problem is a problem.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
There's like rats size raccoons out here that is crazy.
To come up with new and creative ways to mitigate
rat infestations in Allston. The Rat City Arts Festival is
recruiting rat rangers.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
We lead walks and explore the areas of Austin Brighton
looking out where rat dens might be or areas where
rat mitigation is vital so they don't spread as they
happen throughout the years.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
At this point, Rat Ranger and Boston Parks Ranger Alex
Hartgrove says. Their duties include planning out the annual rat
Walk in August, where participants dress up and rat out
rat nests to three one one.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
So we have artists coming in bands and whatnot. They're
more the show than we are.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
The biggest you've seen probably like football shapes.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
If you could throw the thing, I could throw the thing.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You probably don't know baw some damage.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I don't want to go near that.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I wouldn't touch it. Things like a small dog jabill
at WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
All right, you can check out the rat Rangers for
yourself on our TikTok page.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
WBC News Radio.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Police asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect
who broke into a Malden business. This is happening in
the four hundred block of Faery Street in Malden yesterday
between about four fifteen and four forty five am. The suspect,
believed to be a light skinned, Hispanic or white male,
believed to have walked northbound on Ferry Street carrying a
(05:38):
black safe Now Police have posted pictures on social media.
Anyone who may have seen something suspicious in the area
is asked to contact Malden Police.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Exempts some electronics from its tariffs on China, including things
like smartphones and computers.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Trump administration and els exemptions for smartphones, computers, and other
consumer electronics from most of his tariffs. President Trump hinted
at the move that could be a couple.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Of exceptions there, you know obvious reasons.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
The move is a boost to corporate giants like Apple,
whose iPhone is primarily made overseas in China and India.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And that CBS White House reporter Willie James Inman reporting there.
A former North Shore High school soccer coaches arrested accused
of sending sexually explicit messages to miners. Gloucester police arresting
forty five year old Jasoncalcus of Gloucester on a Rutcalcus,
(06:38):
I should say of Gloucester on Wednesday. He's charged with
enticing a child under the age of sixteen and sending
obscene materials to miners. Court records show that police collected
more than seventy screenshots of inappropriate messages he allegedly messaged
teenage boys on Instagram's Snapchat and telegram. The high school student,
(07:00):
some of whom were soccer players, that he coached were
between sixteen and eighteen years old. Officials say Racalcus was
fired as varsity soccer coach at Rockport because of a
bullying investigation, and he was fired from coaching at Gloucester
High where he was accused of inappropriately messaging students, but
no criminal complaint was filed. You are now in the
(07:23):
loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ
News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small,
WBZ Boston's news radio
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