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Wednesday, January 28

Good morning Wypierdalaj,

It's a frigid start this morning, and we have our eyes on another winter storm, a possible nor'easter that could bring another heavy dose of snow this weekend. We're also following the latest with the Patriots ahead of the Super Bowl, and many are wondering if QB Drake Maye is injured. I'm Kaitlin McKinley Becker, and these are your Wednesday headlines.

Deep snowpack can often lead to very cold temperatures, and this pattern follows that theme.

Overnight lows will dip into the single digits through the first part of the weekend, and daytime highs will only reach a numbing range of low and mid-20s.

The next storm is a finicky one. Track matters, but so does the huge plume of precipitation swirling around the storm. Even a glancing shot could mean a big dose of snow.

The cleanup continues in Massachusetts after a massive, 2-day storm dumped over 2 feet of snow on parts of the region.

It’s a scene New Englanders know all too well, but that doesn’t make it any easier to deal with.

In Foxborough, they got about 18 inches of snow. And now it’s time for the cleanup.

The Patriots need to get healthy ahead of the Super Bowl, head coach Mike Vrabel said Tuesday, responding to speculation about a possible injury to quarterback Drake Maye’s shoulder.

“I think that everybody — and including Drake — is not 100% at this part of the year and we’ll do everything that we can to help our players be prepared and get ready for this game,” Vrabel said.

He declined to give specifics, instead cracking jokes about his response to the speculation during an interview on The Greg Hill Show on WEEI.

New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye’s health is a storyline ahead of his team’s Super Bowl 60 matchup against the Seattle Seahawks on Feb. 8.

NBC Sports Boston’s Phil Perry reported Tuesday that Maye was dealing with a right shoulder issue before the AFC Championship Game win over the Denver Broncos this past Sunday, but it hadn’t limited him in practices or games.

“On Drake Maye’s health, my understanding is that he was dealing with a right shoulder issue prior to the Denver game,” Perry wrote on X. “It hadn’t limited him in practices or games, but wasn’t 100 percent. The Talanoa Hufanga hit, which resulted in Maye landing hard on his right side, didn’t help.”

Two 12-year-olds have been charged with murder after a deadly attack on a man last week in Providence, Rhode Island.

Police said four children — three 12-year-olds and an 11-year-old — were taken into custody after the beating of a 51-year-old man on Jan. 19. The victim, later identified as Romy Alonso, died from his injuries.

Two of the juveniles were arraigned Tuesday on charges of murder and conspiracy to commit felony assault in Family Court, police said. The other two accused in the attack are due to appear in court later this week.

A federal judge said Tuesday that a nearly completed Massachusetts offshore wind project can continue, as the industry successfully challenges the Trump administration in court.

At U.S. District Court in Boston, Judge Brian Murphy halted the administration’s stop work order for Vineyard Wind, citing the potential economic losses from the delays and the developers’ likelihood of success on their claims. Vineyard Wind is one of five big offshore wind projects on the East Coast that the Trump administration froze days before Christmas, citing national security concerns— and the fourth that has since been allowed to go forward.

A spokesperson for the company, Craig Gilvarg, said in a statement that it would “work with the Administration to understand the matters raised in the Order.”