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Mid Day Report: Sunday, September 22, 2024

Sep 22, 20245 min
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Mayor Neil Perry of Methuen died yesterday following a lengthy battle with health problems. Boston College is celebrating a win while honoring a fallen hero. Dozens of horses are safe after a fire late Friday in a barn at the Big E. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.

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This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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Cloudy and sixty degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock good Sunday morning. As always, thanks for tuning in. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening, all right. It looks like Mother Nature checked the calendar on this first day of fall.

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This afternoon, we'll see a lingering shower or two, especially for the Cape and Islands where there's coastal flood advisories and high serve advisories up.

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And that's ACCU Weather meteorologist Bill Degger. The full forecast is coming right up. Sad news out of Methuen Mayor Neil Perry, who died yesterday at the age of sixty five following a lengthy battle with health problems. He has been the mayor there since twenty twenty. Governor Mori Heally and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll releasing a statement saying, in part he believed in and gave so much to his community.

He will be deeply missed. Also, Congress moment Laurie Trehan, whose district includes Methuen, saying that Perry was someone who never backed down. From a fight if it helped hard working families in methuen At Large City Councilor David Beauregard will serve as acting mayor until a special election can be held within the next sixty days to replace Perry. Boston College celebrating a big win while honoring a fallen hero.

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It's been an exciting start to the English season. We love Bez Baobah with a new head coach at the Helm created a monster and a big.

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Boston once against Florida State.

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Fans are way forward to the season ahead. What I heard the point BC football. But as the BC Eagles took on the Michigan State Spartan Saturday, something special could be seen around Alumni Stadium in the stands on the sides of players uniforms a red bandana representing.

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A Boston College hero wearing our red bandanas to commemorate Wells's former do you see lacrosse player Wells Crowther is honored annually during a red bandana game, who played every year. Around September eleventh, Crowder died while rescuing as many as a dozen victims from the North Tower of the World Trade Center. He could only describe it by what ks ary.

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If we're saying someone to ride bandana saved them and he was selfus.

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He kept going back up and down.

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He made as many trips as he could, and that's how we know he was in the towers.

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That story from WBZTV's Laura Haflee. The Eagles beat the Spartans twenty three to nineteen on a forty two yard touchdown pass with a minute twenty eight to play, not backing down Israel's Prime minister indicating that he will continue attacking Hesbela experts in Israel, saying Benjamin Netanya, who is either attempting to get the militants to agree to a

diplomatic solution or face war. The Hespala has been firing rockets into northern Israel since October eighth, in a show of solidarity with Hamas and the people of Gosa.

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I'm Minister Benjamin Natanya says Israel will no longer tolerate nearly a year of unprovoked has Balla rocket fire on the north what has displaced seventy thousand Israelis. It comes as Nataniel continues to intensify the ideas for prisal strikes. What led to the killing of sixteen top Hasbala commanders in a surprise idea of airstrike in Beirut Friday. In a new video message, Natanie warning has Bala if it doesn't yet get the message to stop firing on Israel,

it will soon. Jordana Miller, ABC News Jerusalem.

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Now here's the four day WBZ ACU weather forecast with meteorologists Bill Dagga.

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As we had through this afternoon with a coastal low offshore, a lingering shower or two, especially for the Caban Islands. Otherwise breezy and cool with peaks of sun high sixty four. Still some concerns about coastal flooding and high surf. Tonight, partly cloudy, low fifty seven, so sunshine and cool Tomorrow and Tuesday highs sixty four, showers back Wednesday sixty two and more showers on Thursday. I'm acuweather, Medigarello Jas, Bill Degker, WBZ Boston's News Radio and clouds.

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Cloudy skies in the city, and it looks like across the board as well. Checking tamps with sixty two degrees in Plymouth, sixty two in New Bedford along the Cape sixty two to sixty three degrees up on the north shore. We're in the very low sixty sixty sixty one. We have sixty in Newton, sixty one in Lemonster, fifty nine in Worcester Springfield, sixty five degrees at eleven oh five. A getaway goat is back in its pen. In Taunton.

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The goat is got. Taunton police set a billy goat to escape from his home on Friday. They spent hours looking, along with animal control and volunteers for two days. Pictures posted on the Taunton PD Facebook show a big goat with big horns, looking very out of place in people's yards. Finally, yesterday, the perps time on the limb came to an end. In a tongue in cheek up date, police said. The escapegoat, named Alfredo, it turns out, is facing several charges, including escape,

failure to stop, and even a Sultan battery. Alfredo apparently gave one volunteer a swift hoof to the behind. Police gave their thanks to everyone who took part in the search effort, and as for mister Alfredo, he's under house arrest. Madison Rogers WBZ Boston's news Radio.

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You are now in the look for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's news radio

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