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News fifty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. He drank his beer in Boston. Then everybody knew his name. To millions, he was Norm.
Hey, what's happened to Norman?
That's a doggy dog. World is Emmy, and I'm more in Milkbone underwear.
George Went, the actor best known for his starring role in the long running NBC sitcom Cheers, has died. TMZ reports Norm George Went passed peacefully in his sleep at his home at the age of seventy six. Went's family remembering him as a doting family man, a well loved friend and confidante to all those lucky enough to have known him. We knew him. He sat at the end
of the bar. The Diry excuse for the day and the Karen Reid retrial during recross to day the defense once a ripping into the educational background, witness Shannon burgas a.
Bachelor of General Science in Mathematics and Business Administration does not exist as an offered degree at the University of Alabama.
Birmingham, does it sure, so that is an air Clearly, BGS stands for Bachelors of General Studies and that should have a with minor in mathematics and Business administration.
Burgess telling the prosecution he's been working on getting his degree for years.
I would like to finish my bachelor's, but again work and life gets in the way.
Burgess is a digital forensics expert. He determined that Karen Reid backed up her resuve at the same time that John o'keef stopped using his cell phone. How Speaker Mike Johnson is hoping to advance President Trump's big beautiful tax bill in the House Rules Committee tonight. ABC Stephen Portnoy tells us some Republicans still are opposed.
To House speaker expresses optimism. There's a great a spree occur in the room this morning because everybody knows what's at stake, and Mike Johnson insists.
We are going to get this done.
But fiscal hawks say they want deeper cuts and moderate holdouts from New York, New Jersey, and California reiterate in a joint statement that they want a meaningful increase in the deduction for state and local taxes. Hours earlier, President Trump shrugged off that concern saying it amounted to a bailout for Democratic governors. Stephen Portnoy, ABC News Washington.
And the rest has been made in connection with the inmate escape from a New Orleans jail. Stirling Williams, a maintenance worker at that facility, has been charged with aiding the inmates by cutting off the water to a toilet so they could escape through a hole in the wall behind it. The motives still not known for William's role in all this. This is Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams rereed.
Avarice, friendship. You know, in the criminal justice system, it's the motives that caused men to do bad things. They range so greatly. All I can tell you as he made a bad choice going to chain his.
Lifehever six of the inmates who escaped are still on the run. Clouds in place as we head into the latter part of the afternoon and later this evening, probably very late tonight, after midnight, perhaps we'll get a little drizzle in spots, Temperatures upper forties downtown, a little cooler in the suburbs. The breeze will make it feel a little chillier as well. Cloudy, breezy Tomorrow, intermittent drizzle. Temperature's
low fifties. Tomorrow night, cloudy, breezy, rain and drizzle. Forty six for the low, and then on Thursday, we'll have windy conditions. There'll be periods of rain. Some of that rain will come down pretty heavily, could be ponding of water on streets, and with the northeaster, it could be some coastal flooding to worry about. Temperatures not very warm. We'll struggle to get to fifty in many places. Cloudy on Friday, temperatures mid to upper fifties. We'll have a
couple of showers at least lingering. May get some brightening later on in the day, and the Memorial Day weekend may be salvageable, although not overly warm. Right now fifty three degrees in Boston. Two members of Boston Mayor Michelle's woozednministration are fired after both were arrested by Boston police on domestic violence charges. Wbz's Mike Macklin with details.
The two staffers for Mayor Michelle Wou were both arrested when Boston police responded to the apartment the couple shared for a report of domestic violence. The couple reportedly involved in an argument over alleged infidelity in the relationship, an argument that turned violent. Marvell Cutenazer, chief of staff in the Office of Police Accountability, and Schulan Huang of the Office of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion both face assault charges.
Kittinazer also charged with assaults on the arresting police officers. The incident becoming a flashpoint in the mayor's re election campaign. Mayoral challenger Josh Kraft demanding to know what role the mayor's Economic Affairs cabinet chief had in the incident. City Councilor Ed Flynn also calling for more accountability from the WU administration at City Hall. Mike maclub WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Despite growing concerns that many of Massachusetts aren't leaving for greater pastures, the Census Bureau numbers find many cities and towns are seeing more moving trucks headed in then headed out. The Bureaus of Vintage twenty twenty four report finds four out of five communities count more residents than the year before. The data shows while thousands of people continue to leave Massachusetts newly incoming immigrants, and more than made up for it.
Boston leads the way with more than eighty eight hundred new people. That's up one point three percent. On art legend is immortalized on Cape Ann wbz's Jablet with the story.
I'm, you know, the happiest I've ever been professionally.
Mark Henderson is the manager of Fish City Studios, a gallery that's just reopened in Gloucester after the death of his good friend John Sarkin.
For ten years he created art here and it's a lot of mixed media, really frenetic drawings, really visually arresting, kind of random abstract imagery.
Sarkin specialized in outsider art, only getting into it after suffering a stroke stemming from a neurosurgery. Before then, he was a chiropractor.
So he just created this body of work by just kind of obsessively coming in here seven days a week, eight hours a day, and just focusing on the craft and the practice of doing it.
Now, his original gallery is open once again, this time as a sanctuary for new artists. Jay Willette WBZ Boston's news Radio.
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