John O'Keefe

Karen Read’s defense team is calling on the highest court in Massachusetts to drop two of the charges against her in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe in Canton in January 2022.

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The latest chapter in the Karen Read saga moved to Massachusetts’ highest court Wednesday, where her attorneys are hoping to convince judges that some charges related to the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend should be dropped. Read, who was in court seated alongside her parents Wednesday morning, is accused of ramming into John O’Keefe with her SUV...

Karen Read will not be deposed in a civil case against her until the conclusion of her second criminal trial, which is scheduled to begin in January, a judge ruled Thursday.

Part 2 of Vanity Fair’s Karen Read profile was released Wednesday morning. Here’s what we learned.

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As prosecutors prepare to retry Karen Read, the opening of a two-part profile has dropped in Vanity Fair.

The second installment in the two-part series is expected to be released on Wednesday.

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The first installment in Vanity Fair’s long-awaited profile of Karen Read dropped on Tuesday morning. Part 2 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday. Karen Read is ready to speak. This summer, after her first murder trial ended with a hung jury, Read spoke to VF about her late boyfriend John O’Keefe, and what she and her legal team...

Karen Read’s lawyers were back in the courtroom Monday seeking to delay the civil case against her.

A one-time girlfriend of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe shared her thoughts on the case against Karen Read in an interview with NBC’s Dateline. Lindsay Higgins says she dated O’Keefe for about six months. “He was just such a gentleman, you know, walked me home,” she told Dateline. “Just really, really kind.” She first learned of his death while...

Lindsay Higgins, who dated John O’Keefe for about six months, told NBC’s Dateline she thinks Karen Read is innocent.

The defense team in the high-profile Karen Read case submitted their response to the prosecution’s argument against dismissing some of the charges against her as both sides prepare to square off before Massachusetts’ highest court next month.

In Friday’s edition of Canton Confidential, we look at Karen Read’s Dateline interview, her first trial’s price tag for taxpayers and other recent headlines in the high-profile case.

Police announced Friday evening that Det. Lt. Brian Tully, who has been under internal investigation, has been transition to a different department for the time being.

Taxpayers are on the hook for a hefty security price tag after the monthslong trial that ended with a hung jury.

Courthouse security for the first Karen Read case cost more than $200,000 in police overtime, according to records shared with NBC10 Boston Thursday.

Karen Read is seeking the dismissal of two of the three charges against her.

Prosecutors in the high-profile Karen Read case submitted their response to her team’s appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court Wednesday to have two counts in her murder case dismissed. Read is accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV during a snowstorm in Canton in January 2022, but after a mistrial was declared in the...

Prosecutors believe some data from Karen Read’s SUV, which they say fatally struck her boyfriend John O’Keefe in January of 2022, may still be recovered, and they say it could help prove — or disprove — their case ahead of the retrial.

Three months after a mistrial was declared in the case against Karen Read, we look at all the developments and how they will impact the upcoming retrial.