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Thursday, November 27

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Cooking a turkey today? We have tips for safely frying, storing and reheating. Plus, analysis on how to talk turkey -- not politics -- this holiday. I'm Kaitlin McKinley Becker, and all of us at NBC10 Boston are wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving.

Brian Walshe’s murder trial is set to begin on Monday, after a jury was impaneled last week — and the defendant’s two recent guilty pleas in the disappearance of his wife has added a new twist to the high-profile case.

In a last minute move, Walshe pleaded guilty to two of the three charges he faces in the alleged murder of Ana Walshe — misleading investigators and disposing of his wife’s body. He continues to plead not guilty to first degree murder.

NBC10 Boston chief legal analyst Michael Coyne joins us on a new episode of The Searches for Ana Walshe podcast to discuss how Walshe’s legal team may try to reconcile his two guilty pleas with his claim of innocence in Ana’s murder.

A Brazilian woman who had been living in the United States for most of her life is being held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana as she fights deportation.

The woman, identified as 33-year-old Bruna Ferreira of Revere, Massachusetts, is the mother of the nephew of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, according to official sources familiar with the case.

Ferreira’s lawyer Todd Pomerleau said she was detained on Nov. 12 after leaving her home in Revere to pick up her 11-year-old son in New Hampshire. Pomerleau said ICE agents stopped her and detained her. She then was taken to Vermont before being moved to Louisiana.

Thanksgiving is just a few days away, and if you’re cooking the centerpiece of dinner, food safety experts have some tips to help you avoid a disaster.

Cooking fires spike on Thanksgiving Day to about 1,400 each year, about triple the number of daily average cooking fires throughout the year, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Deep-fried turkey, which has gained in popularity over the years, is particularly dangerous and can lead to devastating burns, destruction of property and other injuries.

“Every year, we see preventable fires and injuries caused by cooking accidents during the holidays,” said CPSC Acting Chairman Peter A. Feldman. “We’re urging everyone to stay focused when in the kitchen because a few minutes of attention can make the difference between a happy holiday and a heartbreaking one.” 

Our political commentator, Sue O’Connell, takes a break from explaining politics to share how to avoid taking the bait at the Thanksgiving dinner table if someone wants to start a politics-based argument.

A man has been arrested in Florida in connection with a deadly shooting this weekend in Fall River, Massachusetts, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The shooting on Saturday night, near a liquor store on Pleasant Street, left 31-year-old Taiquan Teixeira dead, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office has said.

On Wednesday, Kendrick Williams, a 32-year-old from Fall River, was arrested in Jacksonville, Florida, prosecutors said. He’s wanted on an assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon charge and gun charges, and he’s also suspected in an armed home invasion case based in Bristol County.

A nasty, highly contagious virus is spreading across the country ahead of the holiday season — and it’s not the flu or Covid.

Norovirus, also called the “winter vomiting disease,” has been rising across the nation since as early as mid-October, especially in states like Louisiana, Michigan and Indiana, according to data from WastewaterSCAN, an academic program through Stanford University in partnership with Emory University.

With data through Nov. 21, Amanda Bidwell, scientific program manager for the WastewaterSCAN program, said norovirus wastewater concentrations have increased nationwide by 69% since October.