Karen Anderson

1 month ago | nfb.org | Karen Anderson

Braille Monitor               March 2025 NFB BELL®: It’s Not just for the Kids! by Karen Anderson From the Editor: Karen Anderson is Education Programs Coordinator on our national staff, so she knows a thing or two about the impact of our BELL Academies and our other education programs. In this article, she talks about an aspect of that impact that she feels is not considered often enough. Here is what she says: As a kid, I knew summer as a time to be, well, a little bit lazy.

1 month ago | wcvb.com | Karen Anderson |Kevin Rothstein

Jennifer Geddes is cherishing her memories with Lemark Jaramillo. "Lamar was a good guy. He didn't deserve this," she said. Geddes said she last saw him just days before he was shot and killed by a Boston police officer at the Chick-fil-A near Copley Square. And now she wants answers. "I just feel like he deserves justice, and his family deserves answers. I deserve answers," she said. The two had been dating for a decade. Geddes said he was loving and close to her two children. "My kids loved him.

1 month ago | wcvb.com | Karen Anderson |Imani Clement

JOINS US HERE IN THE NEWSROOM. SO, KAREN, WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED? WELL, ACCORDING TO THESE POLICE REPORTS, A YOUNG WOMAN WAS TAKING AN UBER HOME FROM A BAR IN SOUTHIE WHEN SHE WAS RAPED BY THE DRIVER. AND IT WAS HER ROOMMATE WHO CALLED 911. NOW, POLICE SAY THE VICTIM HAD BEEN AT LOCO IN SOUTH BOSTON, TOOK AN UBER HOME, AND WHEN THEY ARRIVED, SHE SAYS THE UBER DRIVER CLIMBED INTO THE BACK SEAT, PINNED HER HANDS DOWN ON THE SEAT AND RAPED HER.

2 months ago | wcvb.com | Karen Anderson |Kevin Rothstein

Boston police are refusing to release body camera footage from a call involving one of their own where officers did not give the suspect, an off-duty detective, a Breathalyzer despite his showing several signs of intoxication. "This looks like more of the same from a notoriously opaque government," said media attorney Jeffrey Pyle, who is an expert in Massachusetts public records law. It started as an early morning call involving a minor motor vehicle accident last October in East Boston.

2 months ago | wcvb.com | Karen Anderson |Gail Waterhouse

BEEN TAKEN KAREN. AND THAT’S INCLUDING ONE MAN WHO LOST HIS WIFE, HIS HOME, AND HE’S NOW BATTLING DEMENTIA. WELL, HIS SISTER SAT DOWN WITH US, TELLING US HOW HE’S STRUGGLING TO RECLAIM HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. AND THIS IS MONEY THAT STATE LAW AND A FEDERAL JUDGE SAY SHOULD BE IN HIS BANK ACCOUNT. THE AMERICAN DREAM, EVERYTHING THAT YOU KNOW, WE TELL PEOPLE IF YOU WORK HARD ENOUGH AND YOU DO ALL THE RIGHT THINGS, YOU CAN HAVE IT.