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Jury to keep deliberating Karen Read's murder charge on Monday after saying they haven't agreed
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the Karen Read trial went home for the weekend after telling the judge Friday that they couldn’t agree, only to be told to keep trying. The jury must decide whether prosecutors have proven that Read drunkenly and angrily slammed into her Boston...
Karen Read, a 'convenient outsider' accused of killing her Boston police boyfriend
CANTON, Mass. (AP) — The woman accused of ramming her luxury SUV into her boyfriend and callously leaving him on the ground before a snowstorm had dated the future Boston police officer briefly in her 20s. They reconnected during the pandemic. Her father described her as a...
Boston officer John O'Keefe was called a 'patron saint' by the girlfriend accused of killing him
CANTON, Mass. (AP) — John O’Keefe’ s title was Boston police officer, but to those who loved him, he was Johnny, J-J or affectionately, the Godfather. His girlfriend once called him “the patron saint of Canton.” That girlfriend, Karen Read, is now on trial, accused of...
Karen Read's jurors weigh evidence in a murder trial that challenged police integrity
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — In the heat of early summer, a Massachusetts jury is deciding whether a woman murdered her boyfriend on a snowy winter night, or was framed in a conspiracy concocted by corrupt police involved in the killing of one of their own. Karen Read is charged with...
Karen Read's jurors must now decide: Was it deadly romance or police corruption?
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The fate of Karen Read was handed Tuesday to jurors who must decide whether she ended a rocky romance by angrily striking her boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him mortally injured in the snow, or is a victim of police corruption, framed to cover up a fight at the home of...
Defense rests in trial of Karen Read, accused of killing her police officer boyfriend with SUV
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The defense rested its case Monday in the murder trial of a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV, clearing the way for closing arguments and jury deliberations after nearly two months of testimony. Karen Read did not take...
Defense for woman accused of killing police officer boyfriend tries to show she was framed
Attorneys for a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank outside another officer's home began presenting their case Friday that she was framed by police, with a snowplow driver who said he didn't see a body. ...
Editorial Roundup: New England
Portland Press Herald. June 16, 2024. Editorial: Abortion ruling allows Maine to stay the course – for now The Mills administration’s consistent, proactive work on abortion access is still as important On Thursday, in the U.S. Supreme Court’s...
A murderous romance or a frame job? Things to know about Boston's Karen Read murder trial
BOSTON (AP) — The highly publicized trial of a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank finished its seventh week on Friday. John O’Keefe, 46, died in the Boston suburb of Canton in the early hours of Jan....
Top investigator in Karen Read murder case questioned over inappropriate texts
BOSTON (AP) — Defense attorneys for a woman accused of leaving her Boston police officer boyfriend for dead in a snowbank grilled the lead investigator Wednesday about a series of offensive and inappropriate texts he wrote about the suspect during the investigation. Massachusetts...
