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Friday, August 14

Good morning Wypierdalaj,

We have the risk of a few pop-up showers or storms this afternoon but we also have a fantastic setup for the weekend! We continue to follow the Lindsay Clancy trial -- there's no court today; jurors are set to return Monday. Other news includes a big win for the Bridgewater Little League team! I'm Kaitlin McKinley Becker, and these are your headlines.

Another Massachusetts police department is putting its Flock Safety license plate reader cameras on pause, this time for at least one of its own police officers allegedly misusing the technology.

New Bedford Police Officer Emily Pacheco stood by her attorney at a protective order extension hearing on Thursday in court. Pacheco’s former girlfriend says the police officer was stalking her after their break up — even using the police department’s Flock Safety license plate reader cameras to track her vehicle.

The former girlfriend testified that police told her Pacheco was tracking her vehicle using Flock Safety cameras and it made her feel like she was being followed.

It’s a spectacular setup for the weekend: tons of sun, low humidity, and no chance for rain. Sea breezes are likely at the coast – just enough to keep us near 80. Elsewhere, low 80s are in store, with overnight temps dropping to the 50s and 60s.

Today’s forecast challenge is the risk for pop-up showers or storms in the afternoon. Since we don’t have a lot of water vapor (dew points are low) to work with, coverage should be limited. In fact, most guidance shows only one or two cells forming after 5 or 6 p.m. as a fast-moving disturbance zips through the jet stream.

If these showers develop into storms, some may have briefly gusty winds, so keep an eye out in the late afternoon.

Lindsay Clancy searched online about hallucinations, psychosis and the side effects of several drugs she was prescribed in the weeks before she strangled her three young children in January 2023, according to an analysis of her phone data presented at Thursday’s murder trial in Massachusetts.

Clancy looked up suicide methods, bipolar disorder and insomnia at the end of December 2022 and, in January, went in search of information on postpartum depression. She also wrote a detailed note in October 2022 expressing doubts about her parenting choices, second-guessing her decision to stop breastfeeding her 8-month-old, and reconsidering plans for a fourth child.

The defense says she was in the grip of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis, a rare condition that can alter a woman’s sense of reality after childbirth. A forensic psychiatrist diagnosed Clancy with those conditions following the killings.

A group of boys from Bridgewater, Massachusetts, is going to the Little League World Series.

Bridgewater is representing the New England region after an 8-0 win Thursday over the team from Gray, Maine.

The team beat Vermont on Monday to advance to Thursday’s regional.

For more than 25 years, Dan Daddieco and Sheri Craig of Westford, Massachusetts, faithfully paid premiums on long-term care insurance policies they believed would help protect them in retirement.

Now in their 70s, they say that safety net has become unaffordable.

This year, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company notified the couple that their premiums are set to increase by 118.2%, phased in over the next three years. For Daddieco alone, annual premiums would rise from about $4,300 to roughly $9,500 by 2028. Combined, the couple estimates they would pay more than $17,000 a year to keep their coverage.

At a certain point on Thursday night, with both the Patriots and Colts struggling mightily to generate scoring drives, a tie felt like the most fitting possible ending.

Yet with a chunk play and a free 15 penalty yards, the Patriots instead were able to quickly shoot into field goal range, appearing to at least be able to send the spirited fans in attendance home with an extra hop in their step.

Alas, second-year kicker Andy Borregales — who missed two field goals earlier in the game — hooked his would-be-game-winning kick wide left.