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1 week ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Sean Cotter |Travis Andersen
But Read was not testifying herself. Rather, her statements that day in court came from one of the myriad of media interviews she’s given over the past several years. And it was played right there on a courtroom monitor, before jurors who will decide her fate in a re-trial, as prosecutors sought to show her animosity toward one of the key witnesses in the case.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
The proposed ban on international enrollment is just the latest salvo leveled at Harvard by the president and his allies over the Ivy League school’s ties to China. While Trump and other GOP leaders have raised alarms about the links, citing among other things the 2021 conviction of a former professor for lying to investigators about his ties to China, the school itself has never been found to have violated federal law in its dealings with Beijing.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
A Nahant fire lieutenant is on paid leave following his arraignment this week on charges of rape and assault, according to records and officials.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen |Nick Stoico |Dana Gerber
The Trump administration told Harvard University in a letter Thursday that it was revoking the Ivy League school’s ability to enroll international students, citing what the Homeland Security secretary called “an unsafe campus environment” that is hostile to Jewish students, supports Hamas, and promotes “racist” DEI initiatives.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
A Norfolk Superior Court judge this week dismissed some of the witness intimidation charges against Aidan Kearney, the blogger known as Turtleboy, in connection with the Karen Read case, while letting other allegations stand, records show. In a 37-page ruling filed Monday in Norfolk Superior Court, Judge Michael Doolin dropped six of the 16 counts that Kearney was indicted on between November 2023 and February 2024.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
A State Police lab analyst told jurors in the Karen Read trial on Wednesday that pieces of plastic found at the crime scene matched the damaged taillight of her SUV. Red plastic found on John O’Keefe’s clothes was “consistent” with the taillight of Read’s SUV, analyst Christina Hanley testified. She also testified that six pieces of glass investigators found at the scene on Fairview Road in Canton matched a broken cocktail glass recovered there.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen |John R. Ellement |Jenna Reyes
Two reporters who have been covering the Karen Read trial since the very beginning will host a live question and answer session Thursday at 10 a.m. to break down the case and all of its moving parts. Stay tuned for the discussion and submit your own questions here.
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3 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Claire Thornton |Travis Andersen
A former Dover doctor was sentenced Friday to serve 12 to 16 years in prison for strangling his wife to death in May 2020 after she allegedly struck him with a glass. Judge Mark A. Hallal issued the sentence to Ingolf Tuerk in Norfolk Superior Court, calling his conduct “truly disturbing.” Before Hallal handed down his sentence, he heard impact statements from a daughter and sister of the victim, Kathleen McLean, 45.
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3 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
Her lawyers say she was framed and that O’Keefe entered the house, owned at the time by a fellow Boston police officer, where he was fatally beaten and possibly mauled by a German Shepherd before his body was planted on the front lawn. Read’s first trial ended in a hung jury in July and she remains free on bail. Witness Brian Higgins answers a question from defense attorney Alan Jackson in 2024.
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3 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
A Norfolk County grand jury on Tuesday indicted Aidan Kearney, the controversial blogger known as “Turtleboy,” on his two lastest charges of intimidating witnesses in the Karen Read case, records show. Kearney was indicted on two counts of witness intimidation for allegedly targeting Chris Albert, a Canton business owner and selectman, and his son Colin Albert in early March, according to legal filings. A Superior Court arraignment date hasn’t been set.
