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New England will be hotter than parts of Florida today! We're continuing to follow the extremely humid conditions, as well as the latest in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Plus, multiple people were injured in a late-night boat crash in Marblehead. I'm Kaitlin McKinley Becker, and these are your headlines. |
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| Heat advisories for another hot, extremely humid day in New England |
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| 5 people taken to hospital after Marblehead boat crash |
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A handful of people were injured, including at least two who were rescued from the water, after a boat crashed late Thursday night in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The Marblehead Fire Department says five people in total were taken to area hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to serious. Marblehead police assisted with moving the patients from the dock to awaiting ambulances. It was just after 11 p.m. when firefighters were dispatched to State Street Landing for the report of a boating accident with multiple injuries. The Marblehead, Salem, and Beverly Harbormasters were already there and had rescued two occupants who were taken to State Street Landing and then transferred to ambulances for evaluation and transport. |
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| Lindsay Clancy sobbed as jurors viewed autopsy photos of her youngest child |
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Lindsay Clancy sobbed uncontrollably Thursday as jurors viewed autopsy photos of the youngest of her three children whom she strangled in 2023, until the court eventually had to take an unscheduled break. In the second week of her Massachusetts murder trial, prosecutors brought more friends, a former work colleague and her former father-in-law to testify about Clancy’s mental and emotional state. They said she was mostly open about her postpregnancy mental health struggles but seemed like a loving mother who cared for her kids. Defense attorneys don’t dispute that she killed her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan — on Jan. 24, 2023, after sending her husband out on errands, but they argue that she was too mentally ill to bear criminal responsibility for her actions. |
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| Brockton mom who killed 2 of her kids granted new trial |
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A Brockton, Massachusetts, mother who is serving a double life sentence without the possibility of parole for murdering her two sons in 2018 has been granted a new trial, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday. A jury found Latarsha Sanders guilty on Dec. 27, 2022, of two counts of murder and one count of witness intimidation, following a nine-day trial and four hours of deliberation, Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz’s office said at the time. She was sentenced the following day by Judge William Sullivan — who is currently presiding over Lindsay Clancy’s high-profile murder trial. The two cases have some other striking similarities, as “Canton Confidential” has reviewed during the Clancy trial: |
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| At trial, medical examiner to explain why Sandra Birchmore's cause of death changed |
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The Massachusetts medical examiner who initially ruled Sandra Birchmore‘s death a suicide is set to explain why she did so, and why she recently changed that finding, at the upcoming federal trial of the former officer accused of killing her, according to a court document that lays out the prosecution’s case in great detail. That document, a trial brief filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts this week, says the medical examiner will testify she initially ruled Birchmore had died by suicide after asking “for investigative updates,” and that she hadn’t been told “this death was a potential homicide or a suspicious case.” The trial brief summarizes the prosecution’s case against Matthew Farwell, the former Stoughton police officer accused of killing Birchmore and staging it as a suicide, as well as potential procedural issues and who’s expected to testify for the prosecution. |
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| U.S. Navy declines to assist in Lily Jean salvage and recovery |
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It’s been more than six months since the F/V Lily Jean was lost at sea, and the mission to recover the remains of the crew just got more complicated. The Acting Secretary of the U.S. Navy has sent a letter back to Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey saying that while the Navy “deeply sympathetic towards the families affected by this tragedy,” it cannot fulfill the governor’s request for assistance with salvage and recovery. The Lily Jean, based in Gloucester, was lost on Jan. 30 off the coast of Cape Ann. The search for any survivors was suspended a day later, and all seven people on board the fishing vessel were presumed dead. |
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