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Editor's note: This page summarizes testimony in the Karen Read trial for Thursday, May 29. For the latest updates on the Karen Read retrial, visit USA TODAY's coverage for Friday, May 30.
Skokie-based clean energy company LanzaTech Global, Inc., which has been heralded in TIME magazine and by Prince William’s global environmental competition, plans to lay off 44 of its 383 ...
KAREN M. EVITT, (nee Fikejs), beloved wife of Clifford Evitt; loving mother of Jill Volpi, Keith (Jennifer) Volpi, Derek (Grace Mittenthal) Evitt, Clifford (Wendy) Evitt, Lauren Evitt, & Grant ...
A firefighter who was among the first at the scene. A friend of the man found lying in the snow. And the man’s mother in tears recalling her son, a Boston police officer whose death is at the ...
No court proceedings are scheduled through Memorial Day in the Karen Read trial as the judge said things are moving ahead of schedule. Read is accused of hitting and killing her boyfriend ...
After the 27th day of her retrial on Wednesday, Karen Read told reporters her defense could rest its case as soon as Tuesday, meaning jury deliberations could start as soon as next week ...
As murder defendant Karen Read rounds the corner on the halfway point of her second trial, the crippling weight of unpaid legal bills could be alleviated by an unlikely source: online crowdfunding.
A Karen Read attorney began the first day of the defense’s case, arguing that the whole matter should be thrown out. That motion was denied, though the argument sets up testimony that is to follow.
TOTALLY SURE WHICH ONES WILL BE CALLED. DURING A SIDEBAR THIS WEEK, KAREN READ SMILED AND WINKED AT ONE OF HER ATTORNEYS. SHE CONTINUES TO PROJECT CONFIDENCE ABOUT HER DEFENSE STRATEGY.
The prosecution rested its case on Thursday in the high-profile Karen Read case after weeks of testimony from 38 witnesses. Read's defense will now take over calling witnesses on Friday ...
Karen Read's defense team put a hostile witness on the stand Monday in the form of a Boston police officer who was working for the Canton Police Department the morning Karen Read and two friends ...