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Tuesday, July 7

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We’ve started this Tuesday with quite a bit of rain over parts of southern New England as an area of low pressure approaches from the south. 

In fact, periods of heavy rain are possible through the early morning commute today in Greater Boston, especially over South Shore and the Cape. 

A Flood Watch is posted through this afternoon for southeastern Mass, Rhode Island and Connecticut where a few communities could see between one and three inches of rain.  Some locally higher amounts of four to six inches of rain are possible underneath some narrow bands of heavy rain. Remember, turn around, don’t drown. Find another route if a road is flooded.

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Boston Celtics leadership broke their silence on last week’s stunning Jaylen Brown trade at a news conference Monday, explaining the financial reality that led to the deal.

President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens said that the salaries of Brown and Jayson Tatum made up 47% of the Celtics’ cap when they won their championship, and that had ticked up to 70%.

Given the state of the league and its last few champions, Stevens said, “the path looked a little bit more challenging to me.”

The suspected gunman in a shooting in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, in the hours after July 4 was an active-duty member of the U.S. Navy, officials said Monday.

The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office had previously identified the man who shot a man and woman, then himself, early Sunday morning as 21-year-old Tyshawn Cooper. Cooper died by suicide in a confrontation with police.

Cooper worked on the USS Hampton as an information systems technician (submarines), second class, according to an update from prosecutors and state and local police on Monday. He was living in New Hampshire for the military assignment — the submarine has been at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

A man accused of driving drunk and causing a wrong-way crash on Interstate 95 in Massachusetts early Monday morning is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.

John Tarshi, a 25-year-old from Lawrence, was charged with operating under the influence of liquor after the crash on I-95 southbound in Reading.

State police said they responded to reports of a vehicle traveling north in the southbound lane around 3 a.m. Monday. Before troopers arrived at the scene, the car, a black Porsche 911, had crashed in the left lane by Exit 54A in Woburn.

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Officials say a body was found Monday in the Merrimack River, where a man went missing after a boat crash in the water off Salisbury, Massachusetts, Friday night.

The body was found near Ram Island in Newburyport about 4:06 p.m., according to the Essex County District Attorney’s Office.

The investigation was ongoing as of Friday evening, a representative for the office said, and the person’s identity wasn’t being shared until his family could be notified.