Today's Top Headlines

Saturday, November 29

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We shake the wind today but it will still be colder than average. We're tracking our next weather maker that is winding up and expected to create difficult travel Tuesday. Other top news we're following includes brown water in Bridgewater and a college freshman who was deported while flying home from Boston for Thanksgiving. I'm Kaitlin McKinley Becker, and these are our headlines.

A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20 when she was told there was an issue with her boarding pass, said attorney Todd Pomerleau. The Babson College student was then detained by immigration officials and within two days, sent to Texas and then Honduras, the country she left at age 7.

“She’s absolutely heartbroken,” Pomerleau said. “Her college dream has just been shattered.”

It is not the sight Kathleen Wasik was hoping would greet her when she turned on the bathroom sink on Wednesday morning.

“I went to brush my teeth and the water was brown,” Wasik said. “And then I started to cry.”

That is because the Bridgewater resident of nearly 50 years knew she would be hosting family for Thanksgiving just 24 hours later.

That was a shock to the system right! With wind chill, our temperatures have plummeted by 40 degrees in two days! It’s all thanks to those icy winds. Gusts at Boston Logan Airport nearly topped 50 mph on Friday.

Today, we shake the wind.

Temperatures are still colder than average. But at least we’ll have sunny skies.

FOXBORO — Twelve games is no small sample size.

We can, with some level of confidence, state that the Patriots are a good football team. They may be a good football team with a relatively weak schedule, yes, but they are a good team nonetheless. You are what your record says you are, and they’re atop the conference at 10-2.

We can also say, with perhaps an even greater level of confidence, that Drake Maye’s second season has been historically effective to this point. He currently leads the league in win percentage (83.3), completion percentage (71.0) and pass yards (3,130). He would be only the fourth quarterback in the Super Bowl Era to lead the NFL in passing yards in one of his first two seasons (Joe Namath, Dan Marino, Drew Bledsoe).

With Thanksgiving officially behind us, it’s prime time to go Christmas tree shopping — and in Belmont, a longstanding tree tradition returns money back to the community and to charity.

The Belmont Lions Club has been offering trees for nearly 70 years, since 1957. The trees have been coming from the same Nova Scotia farm for nearly seven decades.

Donations to the Lion’s holiday tip jar go to a good cause. This year, the recipient is the Barton Center for Diabetes Education. The group’s president gets to pick the charity each year.

As we wrap up Thanksgiving, we are looking ahead to another historic event as the nation gets set to mark its 250th anniversary.

The city of Gloucester is set to host a massive reenactment in just seven months to commemorate the Battle of Gloucester.

“It’s actually going to be recreated to, look like Gloucester on August 8, 1775 as Gloucester Village,” Member of Lexington Minutemen and Organizer of Battle of Gloucester Steve Cole said.