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News forty degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. He's out of work. Trooper Michael Proctor is fired after an investigation into his actions and behavior in the Karen Reid investigation. CBS News Boston's Christina Rex at State Police headquarters in Framingham details the rulers.
This information all came out as he took the stand in Karen Reid's first trial last summer, where it was revealed that he sent lude text messages about Reid on his personal cell phone. Family, friends, and fellow troopers, and state police say he did not conduct his investigation into that case up to state police standards. He also was in trouble for an incident where he went out drinking
with Canton police officer Kevin Albert, then drove his cruiser afterwards. Now, the trial board found him guilty on both of those charges. This isn't guilty in the criminal sense, just guilty of violating state police protocol.
And Proctor was dishonorably discharged, meaning he can never again work as a mass State trooper. He does have the right to appeal. Procter's family, in his statement says they're truly disappointed with the trial Board's decision, as it lacks precedent and unfairly exploits and scapegoats one of their own. Less than two weeks from now, Karen Reid will go on trial again in the death of her Boston Police boyfriend, Ronald Keef. Her defense has now filed a list of
prospective witnesses. The filing ahead of the retrial includes more than ninety names, including now former State trooper Michael Procter, as well as many other names from the first trial. Reads retrial is set to start April first. There is one more hearing set before that trial tomorrow in Dedham. A senior official at DOGE will be taking on a leadership role at USA. Details from CBS's When did Gillette.
Trump Administration political appointee Pete Morocco will serve as the State Department's head of Foreign Assistants, overseeing any remaining USAID programs after he and the Department of Government Efficiency got it more than eighty percent of the agency's contracts. That's according to an email to State Department staff obtained by
the Associated Press. It was sent the same day of federal judge ruled Doje and Elon Musk had no constitutional authority for the cuts and firing of agency employees, went each let CBS News.
The administration has indicated it will appeal the judges ruling. President Trump's sounding encouraged about a ceasefire in Ukraine after speaking today with President Vladimir Zelenski.
The President says it was a very good call, about an hour long, and was aimed at aligning both Kivan and Moscow in terms of their requests and needs. As he tries to negotiate a ceasefire, the president writes on social media, we are very much on track. Putin yesterday refused to back a full thirty day cease fire, but did agree not to target Ukraine's energy infrastructure, a vow. Zolensky says, Russia's already broken amid heavy drone strikes over night.
That is the Ape s Saga Magani. It's got some sunshine around, but it's not right near the coast, that's for sure. We've got the clouds and some fog hanging in right near the coastal areas. But as you step inland, you bring in some sunshine and warm things up into the low to even mid sixties across parts of the interior. Far enough out into the Berk Shears, we've been seeing temperatures get into the upper sixties this afternoon, but right
at the coast hanging mainly in the forties. We in fact, are at forty degrees right now in Boston with the reading over at Logan Airport. We'll have clouds overspreading the area as we head through the night too, some fog and some spotty drizzle. Temperatures in the upper thirties. Tomorrow, There'll be some fog and some drizzle in the morning,
just in some places, not everybody. We'll see it mainly cloudy through the day though, temperatures fifty to fifty five, some clouds and some rain late tomorrow night low forty two, and then some rain hangs out with us, especially in the morning. On Friday, it will be windy. Temperatures eventually climb into the upper forties, and by Saturday we'll climb into the mid to maybe upper fIF fifties with a mix of clouds and sunshine. Forty degrees right now in Boston.
An arcade game for the ages gets a revival in Medford w The bus's aile shaffle as the tail.
You barely know where to look first when you walk into Pop's pinball parlor. The walls are lined with a dozen jewel colored, flashing, singing machines, all of them shouting for you.
On Lisha in her ten year old child, So we were as surprised as you that there is this like extreme love of pinball in the Boston area.
Daniel Raydon is the co owner of this spot in Medford Square, his second one of these in Greater Boston.
This place's at a tap room who just opened this month.
The machines are originals and still run on a handful of quarters. His love of pinball comes from his dad, so this line of work was a very intentional choice.
The most fun, the most work, and the least money is pinball, so it's absolutely a labor of love.
He INA's business Martner fixed the machines, but they're really doing this to kickstart a modern pinball renaissance.
Starting with me.
Are you kidding me?
Come on?
I lost instantly, but you know, they say, try try again.
I'm just trying to stay it.
Live out of here. Kyle Schaffele to BBS Boston's News Radium.
Boston Mayor Michelle Who delivering the State of the City Address tonight. The speech, the Mayor's third State of the City, starts at seven. It'll again be at the MGM Music Hall. Among the topics affordable housing, safety of the city, and stabilizing Boston Public schools. Energy costs will also be part of the Mayor's address and the economy. The speechably streamed live on the city's website Boston dot gov. Do you have a landline accorded phone? At and T wants what's old to be new again.
The phone giant has a new service called AT and T Phone Advanced. It's a modern take on a traditional landline and it's available in sixty markets across sixteen states. It is a traditional phone with a cellular connection. You can plug in an old school phone, a fax machine, even your alarm system, and you can use it to call your cell phone when you can't find it. The system costs forty six bucks a month, including a one dollar fee for equipment. I'm pre tennis.
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