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Speaker 2: Sixty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock at afternoon,
Speaker 2: and Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there.
Speaker 2: I'm Suzanne Sawsville. Here's what's happening. Not all moms get
Speaker 2: to celebrate with their children. In Dorchester, thousands came out
Speaker 2: for an annual Mother's Day event honoring moms who have
Speaker 2: lost their kids to violence. Wbz's Hyle Shaffle has more.
Speaker 3: The Walk for Peace takes place very intentionally on Mother's Day.
Speaker 3: It can be an emotional day for mothers who have
Speaker 3: had children taken too soon by violence.
Speaker 1: On a day that we're afraid. We're leaning into each
Speaker 1: other because we need it. We can't do this alone,
Speaker 1: and we're not alone. So many people have been through it.
Speaker 3: Ruth Henry's and artists and residence with the Lewis D.
Speaker 3: Brown Peace Institute. What started twenty nine years ago is
Speaker 3: the mostly local gathering of grieving families is now a
Speaker 3: massive event that draws thousands even from far outside Austin
Speaker 3: and overseas, and the mayor.
Speaker 4: It reminds you that motherhood is transformational. You will do
Speaker 4: anything for this little being in your life.
Speaker 3: The participants here walk to raise money for the institute
Speaker 3: and to raise awareness about how violence can tear families apart.
Speaker 3: The goal of this year is six hundred grand money
Speaker 3: to help people through grief and onward. Kyle Shaffel w BZ,
Speaker 3: Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: US officials are sounding optimistic after weekend trade talks with China.
Speaker 2: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant led the US delegation. He briefly
Speaker 2: spoke to the media after Sunday's meeting wrapped up.
Speaker 5: The talks were productive. We had the Vice Premier to
Speaker 5: vice ministers who were integrally involved, Ambassador Jamison and myself
Speaker 5: and I spoke to President Trump, as did Ambassador Jamison
Speaker 5: last night.
Speaker 2: The talks aim to ease trade tensions between the US
Speaker 2: and China amid aggressive tariffs. Hamas says it plans to
Speaker 2: release a dual US Israeli citizen, Eden Alexander, as it
Speaker 2: looks to get a ceasefire deal across the finish line.
Speaker 2: CBS's Linda Gradstein has the details.
Speaker 4: In a statement, Hamas said it is prepared to enter
Speaker 4: intensified negotiations aimed at reaching a final agreement to end
Speaker 4: the war, establish a mutually agreed prisoner exchange, and allow
Speaker 4: Gaza to be administered by an independent professional authority. While
Speaker 4: Idan Alexander is the only US citizens still being held
Speaker 4: by Hamas, there are a total of fifty nine hostages,
Speaker 4: both alive and dead. Aid organizations say Gaza is on
Speaker 4: the brink of famine. After Israel has refused to allow
Speaker 4: humanitarian aid to enter Gaza for more than two months.
Speaker 2: Israel has begun letting humanitarian aid back in under the
Speaker 2: supervision of private contractors. In the forecast, mostly skies Tonight,
Speaker 2: low forty seven, mostly sunny, Tomorrow, still a bit breezy,
Speaker 2: though high seventy two. Tuesday cooler with sun giving way
Speaker 2: to clouds. High near sixty in Boston and at the coast,
Speaker 2: but closer to seventy Inland. On Wednesday, mostly cloudy, high
Speaker 2: sixty four, a possible shower or two at night. Right
Speaker 2: now in Boston we have sunny skies and sixty nine
Speaker 2: degrees well. Tomorrow kicks off week four of testimony and
Speaker 2: the Karen Reid murder trial. As w bz's Emma Friedman
Speaker 2: tells us, last week, things got pretty heated on the stand.
Speaker 1: Things got heated when investigator Michael Proctor's supervisor state Police
Speaker 1: sergeant your review kind of testified he read pages of
Speaker 1: flirty text between Brian Higgins and Karen Reid on the stand.
Speaker 4: None of us is married true, so game on.
Speaker 1: The defense, questioning the early hours of the investigation and
Speaker 1: why key witnesses weren't separated and questioned right away they
Speaker 1: were inside the home when the defendant and mister O'Keefe
Speaker 1: in the suv. These are the very people that would
Speaker 1: have a motive to lie if they were somehow involved.
Speaker 1: Jen mcabe's Google search how Long to Diane Cold also
Speaker 1: sat in the center of testimony. The Commonwealth called digital
Speaker 1: forensic expert Jessica Hyde to the stand, who analyzed the
Speaker 1: phone data.
Speaker 4: To a reasonable degree of certainty, I can say that
Speaker 4: hasloan to Diane Cold was searched at approximately six twenty
Speaker 4: four am.
Speaker 1: One witness unboxed tail light evidence and clothing evidence from
Speaker 1: the day John O'Keeffe was discovered dead in Canton. I'm
Speaker 1: a freedman, w b Z Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: The union representing concessions workers at Fenway Park may vote
Speaker 2: to go on strike next month. Unite Here Local twenty
Speaker 2: six as scheduled to strike authorization vote from June thirteenth
Speaker 2: to the fifteenth. The union represents over one thousand Era
Speaker 2: Mark employees at Fenway and MGM Music Hall. The union
Speaker 2: says they're fighting for substantial raises, arguing most workers make
Speaker 2: under twenty dollars an hour, which is less than other
Speaker 2: Major League all parks. In a statement to WBZ News Radio,
Speaker 2: Aramark says they intend to keep working with the union
Speaker 2: toward a settlement that works for everyone, and if there
Speaker 2: is a strike, they have plans to ensure that services
Speaker 2: are not interrupted. The winning jockey of this year's Kentucky
Speaker 2: Derby is punished for his treatment of the winning horse.
Speaker 6: Just days after learning Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty would not
Speaker 6: be racing in the Preakness Stakes, Jockey Junior Alvarado was
Speaker 6: suspended two days and fined sixty two grand for using
Speaker 6: his riding crop on Sovereignty too many times during the
Speaker 6: race at Churchill Downs. The Horse Racing Integrity and Safety
Speaker 6: Authority issued its ruling after determining Alvarado whip Sovereignty eight times.
Speaker 6: Rule state jockeys may use their crops no more than
Speaker 6: six times Alvarado's punishment was doubled because it was his
Speaker 6: second violation within one hundred and eighty days. Erica Herskowitz
Speaker 6: for CBS News.
Speaker 2: Linfield Police and the SXDA are investigating an apparent homicide
Speaker 2: on Lookout Terrace in Lynnfield. Police responded to a nine
Speaker 2: to one one call at about eight thirty Friday evening
Speaker 2: and found fifty five year old Timothy O'Neill of Lynnfield
Speaker 2: with apparent trauma. O'Neill was pronounced dead at the scene.
Speaker 2: Authorities say they do not believe there is any wider
Speaker 2: threat to the public. You are now in the loop
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