Today's Top Headlines

Saturday, November 8

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Disgraced former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor is no longer fighting to get his job back, but his investigative work is still attracting the attention of defense attorneys.

Proctor was fired in March because of his handling of the Karen Read case. He served as the lead investigator into the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.

Read was ultimately acquitted of the most serious charges against her, including murder, at the end of her second trial this year.

The blade of a wind turbine broke off the structure in southeastern Massachusetts on Friday. Investigators were working to determine what led to the incident.

No one was hurt, Plymouth police said. Images from the scene — see more below — showed a damaged blade on the ground of a cranberry bog in Buzzards Bay.

The company that oversees the site, Future Generation Wind, said it shut the project down while they investigated what happened.

A man has been arrested in an attack that injured a convenience store clerk on Halloween night in Lynn, Massachusetts, police said Friday.

Joshua Mora, 22, was arrested on Friday with the help of state police on charges of armed robbery, assault and battery and malicious destruction of property, Lynn police said.

The assault at the Richdale Convenience Store on Chatham Street was reported as a fight about 7:21 p.m. on Halloween, police said. Items were stolen and the clerk was severely attacked, for which he was sent to the hospital.

The skies over the Boston area will gradually clear through the day on Saturday, with a mild afternoon temperature in the 50s and low 60s and a light breeze, plus mainly dry conditions that will last through Sunday morning.

Another system arrives Sunday afternoon into early Monday, bringing another round of rain and gusty southerly winds.

This setup will also pull in cooler air behind it, enough for the higher peaks of Vermont and New Hampshire to see some early season snowflakes as the colder air settles in early next week.

Jaylen Brown and Anfernee Simons took turns in the second half, but it wasn’t enough as the Magic made more plays in crunch time and earned a 123-110 victory against the Celtics at Kia Center on Friday.

It represented Boston’s first loss in Group B of the 2025 NBA Cup. The C’s are now 1-1 in the in-season tournament with games against the Detroit Pistons and Brooklyn Nets scheduled for later this month.

Brown scored 18 of his game-high 32 points (15-for-28 from the floor) in the second half while Simons scored all 11 of his points (4-for-8) in the fourth quarter.

Massachusetts Veterans Services Secretary Dr. Jon Santiago is preparing to leave his position by year’s end.

The emergency room doctor-turned-cabinet secretary began his three-year tenure by shepherding the creation of the commonwealth’s Executive Office of Veterans Services in the wake of dozens of COVID-related deaths at veterans’ homes in Holyoke and Chelsea.

“There was a loss of trust in the community, locally, at Holyoke and Chelsea. So, it really needed a rebirth, a transformation,” said Santiago. “We secured hundreds of millions of dollars from D.C. to make Holyoke happen and I’m proud to say that today it’s ahead of schedule. The plan is to open next week.”