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Saturday, June 7

Today starts off like the past twelve Saturdays. 

With a threat of showers. 

Since mid-March, we have seen 12 straight Saturdays with a trace (meaning it rains but nothing is measured) or more of rain. While no records exist for consecutive days of the week with precipitation, we can all agree this is getting ridiculous.

This story originally appeared on Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra. You can see it in Spanish here.

A construction worker who was arrested Wednesday by federal agents in Lynn, Massachusetts, was released a day later, and he alleges he was assaulted when he was taken into custody.

Alejandro Reyes said he was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement despite telling them on several occasions that he’s a legal resident.

A former top police official in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, was found guilty Friday of child rape charges.

The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office said a jury convicted former Hopkinton Police Deputy Chief John “Jay” Porter of three counts of child rape that occurred in 2004 and 2005 when he was a school resource officer.

The victim, who was 15 at the time, was a student at Hopkinton High School. Prosecutors said Porter assaulted her off campus multiple times.

Political commentator Sue O’Connell says the growing rift between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk could affect national security, the economy, space missions, major companies and political coalitions across the country.

A Massachusetts family is looking for answers after a Plymouth hit-and-run left a 3-month-old puppy dead.

Aurora, a golden retriever, was just 3 months old.

“She had a whole awesome life ahead of her,” said Plymouth resident Ryan Lesko. “That’s my child, too, this beautiful dog that didn’t deserve this.”

A Massachusetts judge on Friday tossed a lawsuit brought by nine municipalities challenging the MBTA Communities Act, ruling that the controversial zoning-reform law is not an unfunded mandate.

Plymouth Superior Court Justice Mark Gildea granted the Healey administration’s motion to dismiss the latest challenges to the 2021 law, which supporters see as a key tool to spur development of much-needed housing in more than 170 eastern Massachusetts cities and towns.

Marshfield, Middleton, Hanson, Holden, Hamilton, Duxbury, Wenham, Weston and Wrentham had each filed legal complaints against the law in recent months, contending that it should not be enforceable after the Division of Local Mandates in Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s office deemed the measure an unfunded mandate.