Today's Top Headlines

Friday, May 9

Happy Friday, all! We're tracking heavy rain through tomorrow morning. Other top headlines this morning include video that shows a chaotic scene as ICE agents detain a mother and daughter in Worcester. The Karen Read trial resumes today for Day 13 of testimony, and there's a bail hearing for the Tufts University student, who has been detained in Louisiana for the past six weeks.

Worcester police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were seen on video detaining a mother and her teenage daughter, whose face was slammed into the ground, Thursday in the Massachusetts city.

Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of the chaotic scene on Eureka Terrace. It shows a large crowd forming around the agents and officers as community members shout, “You’re not supposed to work with ICE!”

One person, whom neighbors said was a 16-year-old girl, momentarily escaped from Worcester police officers, who are then seen chasing and restraining her on the ground as she screams desperately.

The pattern has officially turned wet. That may be obvious, but I was holding out hope that we may spring out of it and get into a dry stretch.

Boy, that was naive.

There are a lot of storms across the Lower 48 rolling into the West Coast and lumbering across the country. It seems all roads lead to New England with every storm track. That causes timing issues with the guidance (models) and they give “head fakes” that there is only a small chance for rain in the extended (beyond 4 days) range.

It was a tense day in court Thursday as a key investigator in John O’Keefe’s murder took the stand, putting vulgar text messages and high stakes evidence on full display as Karen Read’s defense team grilled into Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik.

The Massachusetts State Police sergeant served as one of the lead investigators and says he went to interview Read shortly after he was named to the case.

“The defendant stated that she dropped Mr. O’Keefe off at 34 Fairview. She was asked if she saw him go in the house, she stated that she did not see him go into the house,” Bukhenik said on the stand.

The Tufts University student detained by ICE agents near her Somerville, Massachusetts, home in late March could possibly be released from a Louisiana detention center soon.

Rumeysa Ozturk has been held for the last six weeks in Basile, Louisiana, as her lawyers fought the government to release her. There’s a bail hearing taking place Friday morning in Vermont, in which Ozturk will participate virtually. The judge will decide whether to release the 30-year-old doctoral student from ICE custody.

Friday’s hearing comes after a circuit court of appeals in New York this week rejected a petition from the Trump administration to keep her in Louisiana.

James Lamonte reached his hands through the openings of a fence and scratched behind the ears of Hulk, a former K9 with the Massachusetts State Police.

Lamonte told us it took months for the retired service dog to trust him enough to get this close.

“You’re being such a good boy,” Lamonte whispered.

Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Mass on Friday after his historic election as the first North American pope, meeting with the cardinals who chose him to lead the Catholic Church and follow in Pope Francis’ reform-minded footsteps.

Leo, the Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert Prevost, spoke off-the-cuff in English to the cardinals who elected him to lead the Catholic Church and follow in Pope Francis’ social justice-minded footsteps. He acknowledged the great responsibility they had placed on him before delivering a brief but dense homily on the need to joyfully spread Christianity in a world that often mocks it.

“You have called me to carry that cross and to be blessed with that mission, and I know I can rely on each and every one of you to walk with me as we continue as a church, as a community, as friends of Jesus, as believers, to announce the good news to announce the Gospel,” he said.