Speaker 1: This is WBZ in Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News fifty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. He drank his beer
Speaker 2: in Boston. Then everybody knew his name. To millions, he
Speaker 2: was Norm.
Speaker 3: Hey, what's happened to Norman?
Speaker 4: That's a doggy dog. World is Emmy, and I'm more
Speaker 4: in Milkbone underwear.
Speaker 2: George Went, the actor best known for his starring role
Speaker 2: in the long running NBC sitcom Cheers, has died. TMZ
Speaker 2: reports Norm George Went passed peacefully in his sleep at
Speaker 2: his home at the age of seventy six. Went's family
Speaker 2: remembering him as a doting family man, a well loved
Speaker 2: friend and confidante to all those lucky enough to have
Speaker 2: known him. We knew him. He sat at the end
Speaker 2: of the bar. The Diry excuse for the day and
Speaker 2: the Karen Reid retrial during recross to day the defense
Speaker 2: once a ripping into the educational background, witness Shannon burgas a.
Speaker 4: Bachelor of General Science in Mathematics and Business Administration does
Speaker 4: not exist as an offered degree at the University of Alabama.
Speaker 5: Birmingham, does it sure, so that is an air Clearly,
Speaker 5: BGS stands for Bachelors of General Studies and that should
Speaker 5: have a with minor in mathematics and Business administration.
Speaker 2: Burgess telling the prosecution he's been working on getting his
Speaker 2: degree for years.
Speaker 5: I would like to finish my bachelor's, but again work
Speaker 5: and life gets in the way.
Speaker 2: Burgess is a digital forensics expert. He determined that Karen
Speaker 2: Reid backed up her resuve at the same time that
Speaker 2: John o'keef stopped using his cell phone. How Speaker Mike
Speaker 2: Johnson is hoping to advance President Trump's big beautiful tax
Speaker 2: bill in the House Rules Committee tonight. ABC Stephen Portnoy
Speaker 2: tells us some Republicans still are opposed.
Speaker 3: To House speaker expresses optimism. There's a great a spree
Speaker 3: occur in the room this morning because everybody knows what's
Speaker 3: at stake, and Mike Johnson insists.
Speaker 2: We are going to get this done.
Speaker 3: But fiscal hawks say they want deeper cuts and moderate
Speaker 3: holdouts from New York, New Jersey, and California reiterate in
Speaker 3: a joint statement that they want a meaningful increase in
Speaker 3: the deduction for state and local taxes. Hours earlier, President
Speaker 3: Trump shrugged off that concern saying it amounted to a
Speaker 3: bailout for Democratic governors. Stephen Portnoy, ABC News Washington.
Speaker 2: And the rest has been made in connection with the
Speaker 2: inmate escape from a New Orleans jail. Stirling Williams, a
Speaker 2: maintenance worker at that facility, has been charged with aiding
Speaker 2: the inmates by cutting off the water to a toilet
Speaker 2: so they could escape through a hole in the wall
Speaker 2: behind it. The motives still not known for William's role
Speaker 2: in all this. This is Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason
Speaker 2: Williams rereed.
Speaker 6: Avarice, friendship. You know, in the criminal justice system, it's
Speaker 6: the motives that caused men to do bad things. They
Speaker 6: range so greatly. All I can tell you as he
Speaker 6: made a bad choice going to chain his.
Speaker 2: Lifehever six of the inmates who escaped are still on
Speaker 2: the run. Clouds in place as we head into the
Speaker 2: latter part of the afternoon and later this evening, probably
Speaker 2: very late tonight, after midnight, perhaps we'll get a little
Speaker 2: drizzle in spots, Temperatures upper forties downtown, a little cooler
Speaker 2: in the suburbs. The breeze will make it feel a
Speaker 2: little chillier as well. Cloudy, breezy Tomorrow, intermittent drizzle. Temperature's
Speaker 2: low fifties. Tomorrow night, cloudy, breezy, rain and drizzle. Forty
Speaker 2: six for the low, and then on Thursday, we'll have
Speaker 2: windy conditions. There'll be periods of rain. Some of that
Speaker 2: rain will come down pretty heavily, could be ponding of
Speaker 2: water on streets, and with the northeaster, it could be
Speaker 2: some coastal flooding to worry about. Temperatures not very warm.
Speaker 2: We'll struggle to get to fifty in many places. Cloudy
Speaker 2: on Friday, temperatures mid to upper fifties. We'll have a
Speaker 2: couple of showers at least lingering. May get some brightening
Speaker 2: later on in the day, and the Memorial Day weekend
Speaker 2: may be salvageable, although not overly warm. Right now fifty
Speaker 2: three degrees in Boston. Two members of Boston Mayor Michelle's
Speaker 2: woozednministration are fired after both were arrested by Boston police
Speaker 2: on domestic violence charges. Wbz's Mike Macklin with details.
Speaker 7: The two staffers for Mayor Michelle Wou were both arrested
Speaker 7: when Boston police responded to the apartment the couple shared
Speaker 7: for a report of domestic violence. The couple reportedly involved
Speaker 7: in an argument over alleged infidelity in the relationship, an
Speaker 7: argument that turned violent. Marvell Cutenazer, chief of staff in
Speaker 7: the Office of Police Accountability, and Schulan Huang of the
Speaker 7: Office of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion both face assault charges.
Speaker 7: Kittinazer also charged with assaults on the arresting police officers.
Speaker 7: The incident becoming a flashpoint in the mayor's re election campaign.
Speaker 7: Mayoral challenger Josh Kraft demanding to know what role the
Speaker 7: mayor's Economic Affairs cabinet chief had in the incident. City
Speaker 7: Councilor Ed Flynn also calling for more accountability from the
Speaker 7: WU administration at City Hall. Mike maclub WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Despite growing concerns that many of Massachusetts aren't leaving for
Speaker 2: greater pastures, the Census Bureau numbers find many cities and
Speaker 2: towns are seeing more moving trucks headed in then headed out.
Speaker 2: The Bureaus of Vintage twenty twenty four report finds four
Speaker 2: out of five communities count more residents than the year before.
Speaker 2: The data shows while thousands of people continue to leave
Speaker 2: Massachusetts newly incoming immigrants, and more than made up for it.
Speaker 2: Boston leads the way with more than eighty eight hundred
Speaker 2: new people. That's up one point three percent. On art
Speaker 2: legend is immortalized on Cape Ann wbz's Jablet with the story.
Speaker 1: I'm, you know, the happiest I've ever been professionally.
Speaker 8: Mark Henderson is the manager of Fish City Studios, a
Speaker 8: gallery that's just reopened in Gloucester after the death of
Speaker 8: his good friend John Sarkin.
Speaker 1: For ten years he created art here and it's a
Speaker 1: lot of mixed media, really frenetic drawings, really visually arresting,
Speaker 1: kind of random abstract imagery.
Speaker 8: Sarkin specialized in outsider art, only getting into it after
Speaker 8: suffering a stroke stemming from a neurosurgery. Before then, he
Speaker 8: was a chiropractor.
Speaker 1: So he just created this body of work by just
Speaker 1: kind of obsessively coming in here seven days a week,
Speaker 1: eight hours a day, and just focusing on the craft
Speaker 1: and the practice of doing it.
Speaker 8: Now, his original gallery is open once again, this time
Speaker 8: as a sanctuary for new artists. Jay Willette WBZ Boston's
Speaker 8: news Radio.
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