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Tuesday, June 16

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The first weekday FIFA World Cup match at Boston Stadium is Tuesday, and the excitement has been building.

It’s two teams that have been waiting for the moment. Norway and Iraq face off at Boston Stadium.

Yesterday, hundreds of Iraqi fans gathered at the Boston Common. The team has not been in the World Cup since 1986. Fans say they’re taking in the moment of joy despite instability at home.

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Another superb day ahead with full sunshine and low humidity.

Highs will be knocked down a couple of degrees from yesterday, generally near 80 this afternoon. We’ll be a bit cooler on the North Shore and out through Cape Ann thanks to a light sea breeze.

Tomorrow sees more of the same, with a more pronounced sea breeze at the coast. This will push the 80s back to Metrowest, outer Route 2 and into Southern New Hampshire (away from the Seacoast). We’ll see an increase in afternoon clouds as well.

It took more than a year for a defense attorney to obtain a series of text messages from disgraced Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor — and now she says what they reveal could impact not just one case, but potentially many.

Attorney Rosemary Scapicchio talked about those messages in an interview with NBC10 Boston, describing what she says are racist and sexually violent texts allegedly found on Proctor’s phone.

“He’s joking with his friends about dragging Black people from the back of his car,” Scapicchio said. “He’s joking with his friends about stopping Black people for nothing.”

A person was hospitalized after being pulled from a pond in Mashpee, Massachusetts.

Fire crews responded to Mashpee Wakeby Pond shortly after 6 p.m. for a report of a person in distress.

Mashpee police and an off-duty firefighter found the male swimmer underwater, bringing him onto a boat.

Saturday’s World Cup game between Haiti and Scotland was by and large a success — Boston Stadium was full, though there were complaints about how long it took trains to get back to the city.

Just three days later, the region will do it all again, but Tuesday’s game will be a new test, since the Iraq vs. Norway game is being held on a weekday. That means the tens of thousands of people heading to Boston Stadium will be competing with commuters.

A series of street closures will be in place around South Station starting Tuesday morning, and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation is telling drivers who will be in or passing through the Foxborough area to expect delays.

A child who was riding a bicycle on a street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, was hit by a vehicle and killed on Wednesday afternoon, officials said.

The driver stayed at the scene of the crash, on Cherokee Street, and was cooperating, according to New Bedford police. The incident was reported about 3:30 p.m.

Police shared few other details about the deadly collision, which was being investigated by state and local police and the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office. NBC affiliate WJAR reported that the street was shut down amid the investigation.