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Mostly sunny in seventy four degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Suzanne Sasville. Here's what's happening. This just in too the WBZ newsroom. Boston Calling is calling off next year. WBZ strumo'holland has details.
On an absolutely beautiful Boston summer day. Here we learn that the Boston Calling Music Festival is changing up the plans, and the first order of business is that they will not be having a festival next year in twenty twenty six. It is just a year off for the festival. They will be back in twenty twenty seven. But the big change we learn here is that the dates are going to change. No longer Memorial Day weekend. The next Boston Calling Music Festival is now set for June fourth through
the sixth, twenty twenty seven. We're going to learn more about this as we go. I have been assured though, that there was so much energy still behind this festival. They've had so many great years. And don't forget it's not the first year that this festival has missed a year. They missed two years during COVID again Boston calling taking a year off. They'll be back in twenty twenty seven. They'll be excited and ready to go. Drew Mahl and WBZ, Boston's news radio.
The North Shores only all girls private high school is closing after it filed for bankruptcy. In a message to families obtained by Salem News, the Academy at Penguin Hall says they'll shutter effective immediately after it failed to secure new donors and increase enrollment numbers. The school also owes the town of Wenham more than six thousand dollars in water bills and has been operating in a negative balance since twenty twenty two. A juror in the Karen Reid
trial speaks out. Paula Prado tells Tammy Mutasa of CBS News Boston why she was so confident was not guilty of second degree murder.
Proto is a lawyer from Brazil. She says part of why the jury reached their verdict was because of the poor police investigation, saying there were too many inconsistencies and not enough evidence that a crash actually happened.
At first. For me, I thought Connie Reid was actually maybe guilty of manslaughter at the beginning, but as the weeks passed by, I just realized there was too many holes that we couldn't feel, and there's nothing that put her on the scene. In our opinion, decides to just drop John mcckeffe off and the Tale eight. The injuries on his arm didn't make much sense that come from the Taie eight for us. The last witness arca from the defense that made clear they did a very good job.
We couldn't prove there was a collision and she was responsible for.
Staff And now the former lead investigator speaks out. Disgraced mass State Police trooper Michael Proctor from the first trial appeared on ABC's twenty twenty last night and was asked if community disdained towards him was a shock.
That's just a loud minority that the silent majority have.
We've had an overwhelming amount of support. They're just not out there.
Tweet despite admitting to sending vulgar text messages about Read amid her investigation. Proctor is appealing his dismissal from the State Police after a misconduct investigation relieved him of duty last year. A wind advisory is in effect until six pm. North and west of Boston. A beautiful day, otherwise sunny, skies and not as humid as yesterday. A high of eighty five, a few clouds overnight low sixty six. Tomorrow mostly sunny and the humidity does come back later in
the day. We'll have a high of eighty five, a possible thunderstorm late tomorrow night. On Sunday, a mix of sun and clouds, hot and humid, with a high near ninety eighty on the Capan Islands. On Monday, mostly sunny, still humid, with highs in the mid to upper eighties. Right now in Boston we have mostly sunny skies and seventy five degrees. A new study claims chat GPT may be doing more harm than good when it comes to writing. Wbz's Charlie Bergeron explains.
A new study from the MIT Media Lab reports when people use the artificial intelligence tool to help write SAT style essays, they consistently underperformed Over time. Chat GPT users got lazier with EHSA, many times resorting to copy and paste methods. Another group was found to exhibit more brain function when writing, especially around creativity, when not using technological aids. Charlie Burger on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Boston Police is investigating a deadly shooting near the border of Dorchester and Roxbury. Police found a man suffering from a gunshot wound on Ruthven Street at around ten pm last night. He was transported to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Anyone with information is urged to contact Boston Police. In the Middle East, Israel and Iran continue to trade fire after nearly a week into the war. ABC's Ian Penell has the latest.
Overnight, a new wave of strikes in the Middle East. Fires in southern Israel after an Iranian ballistic missile attack, and state broadcasters in Iran reporting air defense systems intercepted Israeli drones over Tehran, Israel launching multiple attacks across the country.
Meanwhile, Iranian foreign minister is set to talk with European leaders in Geneva, and President Trump says he is days away from a decision to strike Iran's nuclear program.
President has now given himself a two week deadline to make this high stakes decision and whether to strike Iran. We are told he's hoping this gives the Iranians quote time to come to their senses and come back to the negotiating table. The big question now, what happens if they don't.
ABC's Mary Bruce with details. The President as repeatedly stated, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Suzanne Sosville, WBZ, Boston's news radio