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Bernandez Anderson will be in a federal courthouse this afternoon in Boston. Demy bz's Kendal Buell report she was arrested this morning by the FBI on corruption charges.
Seven thousand dollars in cash was handed to Fernanda's Anderson in a city hall bathroom, federal prosecutor say by a family member hired by the District seven councilor who lied about the relationship to city hall employees. According to a grand jury indictment handed down yesterday, the money came from a thirteen grand bonus Fernandas Anderson gave that employee I saw more than twice as large as that given to
all other staff members combined. I RAS Special Agent Jonathan Wanica says this was not a victimless crime.
The victims of the citizens that inhabit these communities. The victims of the taxpayers whose money was used for the enrichment of one instead of the greater good of all.
US attorney Josh Levy says Bernandas Anderson was motivated by financial hardship caused in part by a five thousand dollars fine she paid last year for a state ethics violation, hiring her son for a seventy thousand dollars a year job from the locally federal courthouse. Kennebuild You Busy, Washington's news radio.
A killer remains on the loose two days after the CEO of United Healthcare was gunned down fatally in the streets of Manhattan, and police right now are pouring over security camera footage in an effort to retrace the gunman steps in the days before the shooting. Aby's's Aaron Kotursky report.
They have him all over the city, focused on this ten day period from when he arrived November twenty fourth to the day of the shooting December fourth. He was in a taxi, he went to a McDonald's, he went to the Starbucks, and he paid cash, and he made sure to keep his mask on.
Investigators believe the suspect may have taken a bus to New York all the way from Atleta, and they believe it was a targeted killing. They don't think the suspect was a professional hit man. And a Boston senator DeLay's action on Mayor Wu's controversial home rule petition for the second time this week after new data is released about
the city's property tax outlook. Senator Nick Collins says they need time to consider their decision in the light of this new data, which shows Boston residents would not pay fourteen percent more in property taxes, but more like ten and a half percent more. The lower tax estimate also has the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and several other business groups rethinking the compromise plan they drafted with Mayor Wu,
to be continued certainly next week on Beacon Hill. And the job market bounces back big time from a two I'm in October, even as unemployment ticks up. ABC's Brian Clark has.
That the November jobs report, highlighting the resilience of the labor market. It beat expectations with two hundred and twenty seven thousand private sector jobs added last month. The revision to the September and October reports also promising fifty six thousand more jobs added for those two months, including twenty four thousand four October, when hurricanes and strikes kept the number low. All this could set the stage for another interest rate cut when the Fed meets later this month.
Brian Clark ABC News.
In terms of weather searching, and this is where our stronger wind gust star Provincetown wins sustain wins right now out of the northwest at twenty nine to thirty miles an hour. So this is the strongest wind gust I'm seeing, but they could bload of forty even fifty miles per hour elsewhere throughout the day. I am seeing on the Doppler what looks like a snowfloury just west of Danvers. And in this forecast from Aquare, I'm also seeing a
little bit of snow and rain on Sunday morning. Believe it or not, we'll have a lot more on that coming up. Good morning. The Marvelhead School Committee is trying to decide how to make up the ten days that students lost during last month's teachers strike. Last night, they opted to hold class on the Monday before Christmas. That would leave nine more days to make up. The Salem
News says the committee is weighing two options. Option one would shave days off the February and Spring vacation breaks and add an extra day of class in June, heading into summer. Option two would only sacrifice the February break, but it would also push graduation back. Parents, you get to weigh in. A survey will be coming your way by next week. So many of us text nowadays, and the fbis out with another cybersecurity warning, Watch what you
say over text. Christina rex was CBS News Boston has More was cybersecurity expert Peter Tran how to protect your privacy.
The rule of thumb is don't text message anything that you wouldn't grab a bullhorn and say in the middle of Harvard Square.
Like your social security number or your credit card information. I think my mom might have sent me that by text. Actually once, I should probably look at that. If you're concerned about hackers in your texts, you can use encrypted texting programs or that's a rare solution these days. Well, of course, of course.
I never talked to my daughter. The only way I get to hers through a text.
And this is all based on a recent FBI investigation that uncovered a broad cyber espionage campaign by the Chinese government. Transgender advocates leave the US capital in handcuffed. Nancy. The demonstrator is holding banners that said things flush bathroom bigotry. They were demonstrating against a new rule recently announced by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson restricting which bathrooms transgender people
are allowed to use on Capitol Hill. Johnson announced the rule weeks before Representative Alex Sarah McBride is set to become the first openly transgender member of Congress. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Laurie Kirby WBZ, Boston's news radio