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Speaker 1: This is w BZY, Boston's news radio re defining local

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Speaker 1: news thirty eight degrees seen in Boston at four o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. A year

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Speaker 1: and a half after the death of a state police recruit,

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Speaker 1: officers accused of manslaughter have now gone before a judge.

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Speaker 1: How do you play guilty and that guilty?

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Speaker 2: Sergeant Jennifer Penton, Trooper Edwin Rodriguez, and Trooper David Montanez

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Speaker 2: have all pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and causing

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Speaker 2: serious injury in a training program at the State Police

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Speaker 2: Academy a New Braintree. It's alleged they knew a twenty

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Speaker 2: five year old recruit had showed signs of a concussion

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Speaker 2: before Enrique Delgado Garcia was allowed in the boxing ring

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Speaker 2: for a competitive match and suffered a massive fatal brain bleed.

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Speaker 2: His family sat in the front row of the courtroom.

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Speaker 2: The academy members are accused of negligent, reckless behavior, their

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Speaker 2: lawyers arguing for less restrictions.

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Speaker 3: These are good people, are These are good people. These

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Speaker 3: are not people that are violent.

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Speaker 2: The three have all now been released without bail, but

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Speaker 2: with some conditions. A fourth officer accused, and the deaf

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Speaker 2: Casey LaMonte is doing court on the fourteenth. Madison Rogers

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Speaker 1: Big Doings in Washington. Pam Bondy is out as Attorney General.

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Speaker 4: President Donald Trump says Pam Bondy is out as his

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Speaker 4: attorney general. Bondi's departure ends the contentious tenure of a

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Speaker 4: Trump loyalist who oversaw firings of career employees and investigated

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Speaker 4: the Republican president's perceived enemies. The news follows months of

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Speaker 4: scrutiny over the Justice Department's handling of files related to

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Speaker 4: the Jeffrey Epstein case that made Bondy the target of

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Speaker 4: angry conservatives. Trump is named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche

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Speaker 4: as acting Attorney General. Three people familiar with the matter

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Speaker 4: say he has privately discussed Environmental Protection Agency head Lee

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Speaker 4: Zelden as a permanent pick. I'm as Dwyer.

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Speaker 1: Local politicians are reacting to news of Bondie's firing. In

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Speaker 1: a post on ex Senator at Marky writes that he's

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Speaker 1: glad Bondie's disastrous tenure is over, but adds her successor

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Speaker 1: could be even worse. Speaking on ms NOW, Congressman Seth

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Speaker 1: Moulton sees the new acting AG Todd Blanchez, more of

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Speaker 1: the same.

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Speaker 5: Basically, what's happening is he's replacing one child pedophile protector

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Speaker 5: with another. That's what's going on, and that's just an

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Speaker 5: embarrassment that that's the top justice official in the United

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Speaker 5: States of America.

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Speaker 1: Senator Elizabeth Warren calling the Justice Department a cess pool

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Speaker 1: of corruption under Bondie life without parole the sentence for

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Speaker 1: Judy Church, the Salisbury woman was convicted of murdering her

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Speaker 1: boyfriend by poisoning him with an anti freeze ingredient. Church

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Speaker 1: was found guilty Monday of first degree murder and the

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Speaker 1: death of Leroy Fowler in twenty twenty two. Prosecutors that

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Speaker 1: said Church deliberately poisoned him because she was jealous of

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Speaker 1: his relationship with another woman. The four d a WZ

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Speaker 1: ACTU weather forecast, which is featuring the rawness and grossness

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Speaker 1: in the air today. We've had some drizzle around here

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Speaker 1: and there. We've had a few snowflakes mixed in here

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Speaker 1: and there, and temperatures barely getting to forty A couple

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Speaker 1: spots hit forty, but not many, and as we go

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Speaker 1: into the evening, watch out for a little drizzle around.

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Speaker 1: Some snowflakes could mix in, especially across the Worcester Hills.

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Speaker 1: Temperatures will hang out in the thirties, cloudy, damp to

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Speaker 1: start Tomorrow, a little drizzle too, and a little fog.

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Speaker 1: This ability could be an issue with that fog at

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Speaker 1: least until the sun comes out and burns it away,

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Speaker 1: because we will get sunshine tomorrow and we will warm

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Speaker 1: up into the low sixties, partly to mostly cloudy Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: night in the fifties, and then on Saturday, some clouds,

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Speaker 1: some sun. We start out okay, little breeze around and

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Speaker 1: temperatures close to sixty, but temperatures will fall into the

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Speaker 1: forties as we go later into the day. On Saturday

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Speaker 1: Sunday we bounce back to the mid fifties to near sixty.

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Speaker 1: We'll have some clouds around though, and rain at times,

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Speaker 1: especially from the late morning on. Right now, it is

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Speaker 1: thirty eight degrees in Boston. The courtyard at the Isabella

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Speaker 1: Stuart Gardner Museum is often considered a special sight, possibly

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Speaker 1: even more so right now as we hear from wbz's

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Speaker 1: Carl Stephens.

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Speaker 3: The Gardener Museum gets a lot of visitors every day

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Speaker 3: and they all want to see the courtyard with its

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Speaker 3: many flowers and sculptures. But right now it's even more

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Speaker 3: majestic because of all the hanging nesturtiums. This is museum

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Speaker 3: spokesperson Cassandra Martinez.

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Speaker 6: The hanging noasturtiums are this beloved tradition. We consider them

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Speaker 6: the herald of spring. It's something that was started by

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Speaker 6: our founder, Isabelle Steirt Gardner herself in the early nineteen

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Speaker 6: hundreds and it has been done annually with very few exceptions,

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Speaker 6: for over a century.

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Speaker 3: They are these long strands of orange flowers twenty to

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Speaker 3: thirty feet long, cascading down toward the courtyard. It's extremely

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Speaker 3: popular and the gardener routinely sails out during the time

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Speaker 3: they're on display, which is only until April thirteenth. From

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Speaker 3: outside the Gardener Museum, Carl Stephens. WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 3: Today is Holy Thursday, tomorrow's Good Friday. Sunday is Easter,

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Speaker 3: and despite worries about the economy, consumers Where's are expected

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Speaker 3: to spend nearly twenty five billion dollars this year for

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Speaker 3: the holiday.

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Speaker 7: This shopper is feeling lucky after finding the Easter goods

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Speaker 7: she bought on sale.

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Speaker 4: I bought chocolate bunnies, I bought Peeps.

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Speaker 7: Peeps is really cashing in teaming up with brands including

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Speaker 7: Bath and Bodyworks with products tagged Peeping It Real. At

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Speaker 7: the National Retail Federation, Mark Matthews says despite the tight

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Speaker 7: economy for consumers.

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Speaker 2: Spending on family and spending on loved ones is critical.

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Speaker 1: Allison Keys CBS News body camera footage has been released

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Speaker 1: of Tiger woods arrest last week in Florida following his

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Speaker 1: rollover crash.

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Speaker 8: While he was in the patrol car, he was sweating profusely,

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Speaker 8: it appears, and officer asked Woods if he was cool

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Speaker 8: in the back of the car. He responded nope. It

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Speaker 8: then appears air conditioning was adjusted to cool him down.

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Speaker 8: This was all part of a larger records release. We

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Speaker 8: were getting hours worth of video from the moments after

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Speaker 8: the crash. During that ride, Woods had some questions for

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Speaker 8: the officer, including how long the attainment process would be.

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Speaker 1: At his ABC's Perry Russem. Police say Woods was driving impaired.

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Speaker 1: He is pleaded not guilty. You are now in the

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