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Speaker 1: This is WVZ at Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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Speaker 2: Light rain coming down in Boston right now, forty four

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Speaker 2: degrees at eleven o'clock. Hello, and thanks for being with

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Speaker 2: us on this Saturday morning. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening.

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Speaker 2: A seventy one year old man dies after becoming trapped

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Speaker 2: under a tractor at a Cranberry bog. This happened in Born.

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Speaker 2: Here's details from CBS News Boston's Paul Burton.

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Speaker 3: State Rapper Stephen Uxarro's spoke to the Cranberry Bog owner.

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Speaker 4: He's just a hard working man and he's very upset

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Speaker 4: and struggling with the loss of his friend.

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Speaker 3: Fire officials say the man was using the tractor to

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Speaker 3: send the bog to prepare for the next season. That's

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Speaker 3: when something went horribly wrong.

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Speaker 4: When the tractor that this gentleman was driving started to

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Speaker 4: go down a ramp to get on the bog, it

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Speaker 4: flipped over. He was trapped and his fellow workers who

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Speaker 4: were with us did the best to get him out

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Speaker 4: of there, and they did.

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Speaker 3: Officers in paramedics rushed in in attempt at CPR, but

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Speaker 3: it was too late. This is a fifth generation family

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Speaker 3: owned Cranberry bog Now, with just one week to go

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Speaker 3: before Thanksgiving, what was supposed to be routine maintenance turns deadly.

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Speaker 4: Thanksgiving is a good time in people's lives, and now

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Speaker 4: this will always be part of that.

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Speaker 2: State Police. Born Police and OSHA are investigating A thirteen

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Speaker 2: year old boy has died after he was hit by

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Speaker 2: a car in Stoneham. That team was riding an electric

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Speaker 2: dirt bike when he was hit. This happened at about

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Speaker 2: four point thirty yesterday afternoon at the intersection of Oak

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Speaker 2: and Royal Streets. The unidentified victim was rushed to Mass

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Speaker 2: General where he was pronounced dead. No word on whether

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Speaker 2: or not the driver involved in that accident will face

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Speaker 2: any charges. All Right, a big shake up for the

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Speaker 2: Republican Party. Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green announcing her plans

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Speaker 2: to step down in early January. Your CBS is Nicole

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Speaker 2: Killion with more harder.

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Speaker 5: Than almost any other elected Republican to elect Donald Trump

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Speaker 5: and Republicans to power.

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Speaker 6: In a surprise announcement Friday night, congress Woman Marjorie Dale

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Speaker 6: Green said she will resign rather than face a primary

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Speaker 6: challenger in next year's election.

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Speaker 5: I do not want my sweet district to have to

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Speaker 5: endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the

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Speaker 5: President that we all thought for.

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Speaker 6: The Georgia Republican has been one of the President's fierces

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Speaker 6: beckers in Congress, but a riff developed over the congress

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Speaker 6: women's disagreements with the White House on foreign intervention, H

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Speaker 6: one B visas and most notably the release of files

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Speaker 6: related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Speaker 2: And she will be leaving with nearly a year left

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Speaker 2: in her term. A special election will take place within

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Speaker 2: forty days of her departure. Meanwhile, President Trump, reacting to

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Speaker 2: her announcement on his True Social platform this morning, the

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Speaker 2: President saying Marjorie Trader Brown, because plummeting poll numbers and

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Speaker 2: not wanting to face a Trump endorsed primary challenger with

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Speaker 2: no chance of winning, decided to call it quits. He

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Speaker 2: concluded by saying that he will always appreciate the congresswoman

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Speaker 2: and thank her for her service to our country. The

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Speaker 2: ECU weather forecasts some rain and drizzle around through the

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Speaker 2: early afternoon today, otherwise just mostly cloudy, the high forty eight,

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Speaker 2: then mostly clear skies tonight, but it's going to get

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Speaker 2: really chilly, down to thirty two in Boston overnight in

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Speaker 2: most suburbs mid to upper twenties. All right, Tomorrow, it

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Speaker 2: looks like sun will give way to clouds. It'll at

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Speaker 2: least be a dry afternoon, a high forty four, but

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Speaker 2: maybe we'll add a shower tomorrow night perhaps, and a

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Speaker 2: low of thirty six on Monday. As we head back

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Speaker 2: to work, we're seeing the sunshine return and a warm up.

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Speaker 2: Highs near fifty again on Tuesday, highs near fifty, some

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Speaker 2: sun giving way to clouds, but some rain likely come

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Speaker 2: Tuesday night in the city. Right now, we're seeing light

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Speaker 2: rain and forty four degrees at eleven oh five. Back

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Speaker 2: to news. Federal funding brings new buses to the base day.

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Speaker 7: Governor Hilly says Massachusetts has been awarded over one hundred

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Speaker 7: and five million dollars in federal funding. That money going

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Speaker 7: towards five regional transit authorities and the MBTA to modernize

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Speaker 7: their bus fleets and facilities. The funding from the Federal

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Speaker 7: Transit Administration's Lower No Emission Grant Program and the Buses

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Speaker 7: and Bus Facilities Program will support the purchase of zero

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Speaker 7: and low emission buses. The five transit authorities are the

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Speaker 7: Merrimack Valley Transit Authority, Lowell Regional Pioneer Valley and Berkshire

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Speaker 7: Regional Transit Authority. The governor says the low and no

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Speaker 7: emission buses will deliver smoother rides, lower costs, and healthier air.

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Speaker 7: I'm a freedman, w b Z, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: New charges for the former Stoton officer accused of killing

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Speaker 2: a pregnant woman and making it look like a suicide.

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Speaker 8: Keofar while waiving his appearance, but he submitted documents pleading

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Speaker 8: not guilty to new charges connected with the death of

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Speaker 8: Sandra Birchmore and now her unborn son as well. Prosecutors

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Speaker 8: have alleged the twenty three year old woman told the

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Speaker 8: officer he was the father, though testing has suggested otherwise,

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Speaker 8: and that Farwell killed her at her Canson apartment in

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Speaker 8: twenty twenty one to stop the relationship from coming to light,

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Speaker 8: a sexual relationship that allegedly started when Birchmore was just fifteen.

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Speaker 8: Right now, Firewell's attorneys are trying to get the case

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Speaker 8: moved from Boston to Rhode Island, alleging biased media coverage,

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Speaker 8: and with the trial set for next fall, a judge

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Speaker 8: has also set a January deadline for prosecutors to say

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Speaker 8: whether or not they'll seek the death penalty. Madison Rogers

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Speaker 8: w b Z, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: A twenty eight year old man from India is indicted

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Speaker 2: by a federal grand jury in Boston for allegedly stabbing

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Speaker 2: two seventeen year olds with the metal fork during a

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Speaker 2: flight from Chicago to Germany. This happened last month. The

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Speaker 2: suspect indicted on two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon.

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Speaker 2: After the alleged attacks on October twenty fifth, the flight

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Speaker 2: was diverted to Logan Airport, where the suspect was taken

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Speaker 2: into custody. The latest victim of bird flu dies in

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Speaker 2: Washington State.

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Speaker 1: East Harbor County resident was an older adult with underlying

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Speaker 1: health conditions. They were being treated in King County since

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Speaker 1: early November. They were diagnosed with H five and five

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Speaker 1: avian influenza. It's the first time that variant was confirmed

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Speaker 1: in a person. The Washington State Department of Health says

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Speaker 1: no one else involved as tested positive for the virus

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Speaker 1: and the risk to the public is low. I'm brad

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