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CBS News
a day ago
- Automotive
- CBS News
Colorado State Patrol investigating fatal rollover crash on I-70
The Colorado State Patrol is investigating a crash on Thursday that claimed the life of one person. Authorities said a black Lexus SUV was traveling east in the westbound lanes of I-70 around 4:44 p.m. when it crashed near milepost 198 west of Frisco. The SUV reportedly rolled and ejected the driver. The driver was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. Although the official cause of the crash remains to be determined, officials said heavy rain was reported at the time of the crash. I-70 was shut down in both directions for about 20 minutes due to the crash, but one eastbound lane has since reopened. CSP said the westbound lanes will remain shut down for approximately three hours. They encouraged drivers to avoid the area while the scene is under investigation.
India.com
2 days ago
- Business
- India.com
Anil Ambani was bankrupt, lost all his money, didn't have money to pay lawyers fees, but never thought of selling this rare thing, it's worth Rs…, thing is…
In 2020, Anil Ambani, once among the richest men in India, declared himself bankrupt, stating that he was under financial stress that he couldn't even afford to pay his legal fees. Today, however, his companies are coming back in business and race. Anil Ambani Reliance Companies Recovery Companies like Reliance Power and Reliance Infrastructure are now beginning to recover. With new projects in hand, their stock prices have surged, and debt burdens are slowly decreasing. But just a few years ago, Ambani faced a major financial setback. In 2012, Anil Ambani personally guaranteed a $700 million loan from three Chinese banks for Reliance Communications. In 2020, a London court ordered him to repay $717 million (with interest) within 21 days. At that time, Ambani told the court he had no money left and could not even cover his personal expenses. He claimed his net worth was zero. Even during this period he didn't sell his most valuable possession. Anil Ambani's Priceless Possession That possession is his luxurious 17-storey residence 'Abode', inherited from his father, the legendary Dhirubhai Ambani. It is located in Mumbai's Pali Hill area which is the highest priced wealth among Anil Ambani's assets. It is spread across 16,000 square feet, with a helipad, swimming pool, a big garage for luxury cars, and an expansive lounge area. Anil Ambani lives here with his wife Tina Ambani and their two sons, Jai Anmol Ambani and Jai Anshul Ambani. The estimated value of this residence is Rs 5,000 crore. Anil Ambani's Other Assets Anil Ambani owns a private jet worth around Rs 311 crore, and has a collection of ultra-luxury cars including a Rolls-Royce Phantom, Lexus SUV, Audi Q7, and Mercedes GLK350. He once gifted his wife Tina a luxury yacht of Rs 400 crore on her 64th birthday, which he named 'Tian' in her honour. Now that his companies are slowly stabilising, debts are being repaid, new projects are flowing in, stock values are recovering and his wealth is once again on the rise. According to media reports, the combined net worth of Anil and Tina Ambani is estimated to be over Rs 2,500 crore.
India.com
08-07-2025
- Business
- India.com
His companies were sold, went bankrupt, but Anil Ambani never let go of THIS priceless possession, it is..., price is Rs...
His companies were sold, went bankrupt, but Anil Ambani never let go of THIS priceless possession, it is..., price is Rs... Anil Ambani's life story feels just like a movie. By the late 2000s, he was one of the richest people in the world and ranked sixth globally, with a fortune of USD 42 billion. But wrong decisions, rapid business expansion without proper planning, and rising debts pulled him down. Slowly, his wealth dropped to zero. As time passed, Anil Ambani found himself trapped under massive loans worth thousands of crores. His companies started shutting down one after another. Many loans turned into NPAs (non-performing assets), and several businesses were sold off. Things became so serious that Anil Ambani declared in court that he was bankrupt. In 2020, standing in a London court, Anil Ambani said he had no money left, not even enough to pay his own daily expenses or his lawyer's fees. He revealed that his wife and family were helping him financially. Even during these tough times, when he was drowning in debt and struggling to keep his companies running, there was still one special thing he held close, something very valuable to him. Despite all his financial troubles, Anil Ambani still owned many precious things. One of them is his grand 17-storey home, which he inherited from his father. While everyone talks about Mukesh Ambani's famous house, Antilia, Anil's home is also luxurious and impressive in its own way. Anil Ambani's most precious thing – his lavish 17-storey home Anil Ambani's most treasured possession is his home. Located in the upscale Pali Hill area of Mumbai, his 17-storey private bungalow is not just a house it's a symbol of luxury and wealth. With all the modern comforts and grand design, this mansion feels nothing less than a royal palace. The bungalow is named 'Abode', and it covers a massive area of 16,000 square feet. It has everything you can imagine i.e. a helipad, a swimming pool, a gym, a large garage for multiple luxury cars, and spacious lounge areas. Anil Ambani lives here with his wife Tina Ambani and their two sons, Jai Anmol Ambani and Jai Anshul Ambani. Even though Anil Ambani was once declared bankrupt and faced loans worth crores, he has continued to live a life of luxury. His home, Abode, may be smaller than his brother Mukesh Ambani's famous house Antilia, but in terms of style and comfort, it is just as grand. The house is valued at approximately Rs. 5,000 crore. Anil Ambani's lifestyle doesn't stop at the bungalow Anil Ambani owns a private jet worth around Rs. 311 crore and has a collection of luxury cars like the Rolls Royce Phantom, Lexus SUV, Audi Q7, and Mercedes GLK350. Despite being under heavy debt at one point, he once gifted his wife Tina a luxury yacht worth Rs. 400 crore for her 64th birthday, which he named 'Tian' in her honor. In recent times, his financial situation is slowly improving. As some of the loans on his companies are being cleared, investors are starting to return. His companies' net worth is going up, and with rising share prices, Anil Ambani's personal wealth is also growing again. Today, the combined net worth of Anil and Tina Ambani is over Rs. 2,500 crore.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Yahoo
The witnesses that defined the retrial of Karen Read for the death of her police officer boyfriend
Karen Read's retrial for the death of John O'Keefe is nearing its finale, likely closing a yearslong chapter in the lives of the defendant, the victim's family and the many witnesses called to testify — some of them in two high-profile and divisive murder trials. In the retrial — the first ended with a deadlocked jury — Massachusetts prosecutors and Read's defense called a combined 49 witnesses. Some were laypeople, others were law enforcement and many were experts who analyzed mountains of digital and physical forensic evidence. Collectively, their testimony sought to answer one essential question: What happened outside the home at 34 Fairview Road in Canton, Massachusetts, around 12:30 a.m. on January 29, 2022? Prosecutors allege Read drunkenly struck her boyfriend with her Lexus SUV and left him to die in the snow. But Read's defense contends there was no collision. They have cast her as the victim of a cover-up, alluding to a conspiracy by those who they say killed O'Keefe and framed the defendant, while painting the police investigation as biased and flawed. Read has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a collision resulting in death. Here, CNN highlights about a dozen witnesses called over the last eight weeks, whose testimony illuminated key pieces of the theories presented by prosecutors and Read's defense: On the evening of January 28, 2022, Read and O'Keefe went to a local bar to meet up with friends before the group decided to move the party to a home at 34 Fairview Road. Read has said she dropped off O'Keefe, but other witnesses said he never arrived. Prosecutors allege this is the moment Read put her Lexus SUV in reverse and pressed on the gas, striking O'Keefe and scattering pieces of her vehicle's taillight across the scene. Read did not take the stand to testify. But throughout the trial, prosecutors played numerous clips from Read's media interviews, offering jurors a chance to hear from the defendant herself. Prosecutors tried to use these clips against Read to bolster the testimony of their own witnesses, refute the defense's arguments or highlight inconsistencies in Read's account. In one clip from her October 2024 interview for NBC's 'Dateline,' she asked: 'Could I have tagged him in the knee and incapacitated him?' Read said. 'He didn't look mortally wounded as far as I could see — but could I have done something that knocked him out and, in his drunkenness, and in the cold, (he) didn't come to again?' In another clip, taken from an Investigation Discovery series, Read strongly denied her vehicle made contact with O'Keefe. (Investigation Discovery and CNN share a parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.) Jennifer McCabe, called by the commonwealth, was present for each key moment surrounding O'Keefe's death, including the gathering at the bar; the after-party at her sister's home at 34 Fairview; and finally, the discovery of his body. McCabe expected Read and O'Keefe at 34 Fairview, and she spoke to O'Keefe to help him with directions, she testified. At the house, McCabe saw what she believed was Read's SUV out front, but the couple never came inside. McCabe testified she was awoken the next morning by a phone call from Read, who she described as frantic and hysterical. McCabe detailed the search for O'Keefe, first at his home and then at 34 Fairview, where they found him in the snow. Stunned, McCabe called 911. McCabe recalled Read telling a first responder, 'I hit him, I hit him, I hit him' — testimony echoed by other witnesses who were on the scene. On cross-examination, defense attorney Alan Jackson highlighted McCabe's family ties to law enforcement, including her brother-in-law, Brian Albert, who owned 34 Fairview. He also questioned her about interviews she'd given investigators and interactions with her family and other witnesses, accusing McCabe of coordinating her account and colluding with others. McCabe denied those allegations. The second witness called by the commonwealth, Kerry Roberts — another friend of O'Keefe's — testified she, too, was woken up by Read the morning of January 29. She joined the search for O'Keefe by first driving to meet the two women at McCabe's home. Central to the commonwealth's case was Roberts' testimony about the defendant's taillight: Roberts saw the damage that morning when she pulled into McCabe's driveway and parked behind Read's vehicle. McCabe and Read were in Read's SUV, and Roberts was in hers, she testified, but she heard their conversation while on the phone with them: In previous testimony, Roberts said the conversation about the taillight happened upon their arrival at O'Keefe's home. But on cross-examination, Jackson played home surveillance footage showing the arrival, and Roberts conceded the footage did not show the interaction she described, saying she had been incorrect about the timing. Called to the stand for the defense, Brian Loughran, a snowplow driver, testified he did not see a body in the yard at 34 Fairview early in the morning on January 29, 2022, despite passing by multiple times. Loughran first drove the snowplow past the home between 2:40 and 2:45 a.m. Though it was dark and snowing hard, Loughran testified he could clearly see to the front door of the home. Asked what he saw on the lawn by the flagpole, Loughran responded: 'Did you see a 6-foot-1, 216-pound man lying on that lawn?' defense attorney David Yannetti asked. 'No,' Loughran said. Jonathan Diamandis testified about sexist and crude text messages he received from the lead investigator: his longtime friend, former Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor. Diamandis was called as a defense witness, but it was the commonwealth who had him read the texts into evidence. He declined to do so for the most offensive messages, including one calling Read 'a whack job c*nt.' Proctor apologized for the messages in the first trial, but the defense has continued to use them to paint the investigation as biased. Neither side called him to testify in the retrial. The messages ultimately led to Proctor's dishonorable discharge from the state police. Prosecutors underscored Proctor's texts did not indicate he committed misconduct. Asked whether Proctor ever suggested he framed the defendant or planted evidence, Diamandis said, 'Absolutely not.' Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik testified about the investigation and Read's emergence as the suspect in O'Keefe's death. But Proctor, his former direct report, loomed large over his testimony. Through Bukhenik, prosecutors tried to minimize Proctor's influence in the investigation. While the defense held Proctor up as the lead investigator, Bukhenik said each homicide case is a 'team effort.' During cross-examination, Jackson tried to restore the sense of Proctor's control over the case, showing Bukhenik investigative documents that carried Proctor's name or signature. Still, Bukhenik refused to call Proctor the 'lead investigator,' referring to him as the 'case officer.' Bukhenik was emphatic the investigation itself was handled with integrity and honor. But when pressed by Jackson, he said Proctor's texts lacked both. The defense also used Bukhenik to present flirtatious text messages Read exchanged with another man, Brian Higgins, prior to O'Keefe's death. Higgins was among the revelers who got together the night of January 28, and the defense tried to suggest he should have been considered as a suspect. An attorney for Higgins denied any wrongdoing by his client. Nicholas Guarino described communications between Read and O'Keefe. In one instance, he showed the jury text messages between Read and O'Keefe from January 28, 2022, showing the couple had been at odds. Guarino later testified for the commonwealth that Read called O'Keefe more than 50 times and left eight voicemails between the time she said she dropped him off at 34 Fairview and when she started searching for him the next morning. All went unanswered. 'You're a f**king pervert,' she said in one voicemail left at 1:10 a.m., per Guarino's testimony. Seven minutes later, she left another: At 5:23 a.m., she left her seventh voicemail: 'John, where are you?' Paul Gallagher, who retired as a lieutenant from the Canton Police Department, testified for prosecutors about the initial recovery of evidence from the scene where O'Keefe's body was found. There were about four inches of snow on the ground, so Gallagher debated how to remove it, he said. He feared a shovel would harm any evidence, including a broken cocktail glass found in the snow. Gallagher saw pink spots in the snow he said he determined to be 'frozen or coagulated blood.' To preserve it, he got red plastic cups and placed the bloody snow inside, noting these decisions were made in a blizzard, under 'terrible' conditions. On cross-examination, Jackson raised questions about the adequacy of the evidence collection. Gallagher acknowledged plastic cups are not normally used for evidence recovery. Additionally, Gallagher testified he did not write a report about his actions on the scene. Nicholas Barros, a sergeant for Dighton Police, was called by the defense to refute the commonwealth's narrative about Read's taillight being broken when it allegedly collided with O'Keefe. The defense has tried to raise the specter of the taillight being tampered with after police seized the vehicle and suggested its pieces were planted at the scene. Barros responded on January 29, 2022, to Read's parents' home in Dighton, Massachusetts, at Proctor's request to help seize the vehicle, he said. Read went there after it was confirmed O'Keefe had died. In a report, Barros noted there was damage to a taillight. But he suggested on the stand it was relatively minor. Shown a photograph of the taillight after it was seized, Barros said it did not reflect what he saw that day. 'That taillight is completely smashed out,' he said. Under cross-examination, Barros said his report from that day merely noted 'damage,' but did not describe it. Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello, the Massachusetts medical examiner who performed O'Keefe's autopsy, outlined his injuries and his cause of death. The blunt impact injuries were the 'primary cause' of death, Scordi-Bello said. O'Keefe had a significant laceration on the back of his head, as well as skull fractures and bleeding on the top of his brain. Scordi-Bello also noted O'Keefe's body temperature at the hospital was 80.1 degrees Fahrenheit — far below the normal temperature of 98.6. The medical examiner could not reach a conclusion on the manner of O'Keefe's death — whether it was accidental or a homicide, for instance — acknowledging to defense attorney Robert Alessi there was not enough 'compelling' evidence to decide. Neurosurgeon Dr. Aizik Wolf described O'Keefe's injuries — specifically a laceration on the back of his head — as 'classic blunt trauma' consistent with the victim falling backward and striking his head against the ground. Wolf testified this type of injury was relatively common in places with cold climates, referencing his time working at a trauma center in Minneapolis: 'Very frequently, patients that are drunk fall down on ice, sidewalks, and could develop lacerations in their head.' A pivotal witness for the defense, Dr. Marie Russell is a retired emergency room physician, a forensic pathologist and a former Massachusetts police officer who testified injuries on O'Keefe's arm were 'the result of a dog attack.' The defense has theorized O'Keefe was mauled by a German shepherd owned by the family who lived at 34 Fairview. The dog was rehomed sometime after the victim died. Referencing a photograph of O'Keefe's injuries, Russell testified the wounds appeared to be going in the same direction. On cross-examination, Russell conceded she had never before testified as an expert witness on dog bites. Through Russell, Brennan pointed out holes in the arm of O'Keefe's sweatshirt were swabbed for DNA — but that no dog DNA was found, only pig DNA. There was no explanation for the pig DNA's origins. Ian Whiffin, a digital forensics expert, illustrated the victim's final movements after analyzing data taken from O'Keefe's cell phone. The data showed Read and O'Keefe came to a stop outside 34 Fairview at 12:24 a.m., Whiffin said. From that time on, he said, the data indicated O'Keefe's phone remained near the flagpole until his body was found the next morning. O'Keefe's phone screen locked for the last time at 12:32:09 a.m. Whiffin also testified to the phone's temperature: Throughout the evening, the phone had an average temperature of about 80 degrees Fahrenheit. But the temperature began steadily dropping around 12:22 a.m., Whiffin said, falling to 50 degrees at 1:36 a.m. The next recorded temperature was after 6 a.m. — about the time O'Keefe's body was found — when it dropped to its lowest recorded temperature of 37 degrees. Judson Welcher, an accident reconstructionist and biomechanical engineer, testified for the prosecution the evidence is consistent with O'Keefe being struck by a vehicle identical to Read's on January 29, 2022, around 12:32 a.m. Black box data from Read's SUV included two 'trigger' events recorded on her drive from the bar to 34 Fairview, Welcher said. By comparing this information with location data from O'Keefe's cell phone, Welcher's firm found Read's SUV reversed between 12:32:04 a.m. and 12:32:12 a.m. — the time the commonwealth alleges O'Keefe was struck. The data showed, at that time, Read's vehicle first moved forward before being put in reverse and moving backward, Welcher said. The data also showed the SUV reached a speed of about 24 mph at 74% of the full throttle while in reverse. Welcher also testified about the damaged taillight, describing tests he conducted with a Lexus SUV identical to Read's. In contrast to Russell, Welcher testified the lacerations on O'Keefe's arm were 'consistent with the geometry and orientation' of Read's taillight. Asked whether O'Keefe's injuries — both to his arm and his head — were consistent with him being struck by a Lexus identical to Read's, Welcher said they were. On cross-examination, Alessi seized on Welcher's admission he did not have enough information to state exactly how O'Keefe was struck. Alessi pressed him to explain why he did not conduct a more robust crash test. Pedestrian impacts 'are so very sensitive,' Welcher said, and if the results of the tests came out differently, he'd have to defend it in court. The defense called accident reconstructionist Daniel Wolfe to refute Welcher's findings. Wolfe described tests his firm, ARCCA, undertook to figure out if O'Keefe's injuries were consistent with the damage to Read's Lexus — specifically, the broken taillight. Footage taken from those tests showed an example taillight and vehicle striking a dummy arm at different speeds to recreate the alleged collision between the SUV and O'Keefe. But at each speed — 10 mph, 17 mph, 15 mph, 29 mph and 24 mph — the damage to the test taillights was less than what was seen on Read's taillight, Wolfe said. None of the tests indicated the broken taillight would cause the holes found in O'Keefe's sweatshirt. The firm considered other possibilities for what might cause the damage, including a drinking glass found alongside O'Keefe's body, as well as his head and his 'center of mass.' In each instance, Wolfe said, the damage was inconsistent with that of Read's vehicle. Brennan tried to discredit the test results on cross-examination: he noted the dummy arm weighed nine pounds, while O'Keefe's weighed 11.86 pounds. Brennan also emphasized the dummy was secured by a harness, which prevented it from being thrown to the ground and illustrated the trajectory the victim's body would have taken once hit. CNN's Ali Zaslav contributed to this report.
Fox News
21-05-2025
- Fox News
Karen Read trial shifts focus to physical evidence after contentious tech testimony
incoming update… Karen Read's defense revved up its attacks on unexpected new expert findings Tuesday, which contradict the timeline they say proves she didn't hit boyfriend John O'Keefe with her Lexus SUV and leave him to die in a blizzard in 2022. Shanon Burgess, an expert on vehicle and phone data from the digital forensics firm Aperture, returned to the stand for a second day of brutal cross-examination with defense attorney Robert Alessi at the wheel. Alessi pointed out inconsistencies in Burgess' resume and revealed he got the dates wrong on a timeline that was supposed to be accurate "to the second." And nothing in Burgess' findings directly indicated that a fatal crash happened. "As you sit here today, none of the information in that black box that you referred to on direct testimony indicates that there was a collision on Jan. 29," Alessi said. "Does it?" "Not by itself," Burgess replied. Special prosecutor Hank Brennan pumped the brakes when he returned for redirect questioning, asking the expert about flaws he had found in a previous analysis that indicated O'Keefe, a Boston police officer, was interacting with his iPhone after the time when prosecutors allege he was fatally struck by the defendant. The math veered out of alignment, Burgess testified. A defense expert had relied on call logs to synchronize the internal clocks in Read's Lexus SUV and O'Keefe's iPhone. But that doesn't work, Burgess explained, because the expert used calls that Read made when her car was powered off, so the vehicle's internal clock had nothing to do with them. Their timing was the product of the internal clock on her smartphone, which he said synced up with the Lexus the next time she turned it on. Read the full story here. Karen Read arrived alongside her defense team at the Norfolk Superior Courthouse for Day 20 of her murder trial. The prosecution is expected to call Massachusetts State Police forensic scientist Christina Hanley to the witness stand for continued testimony regarding crime scene evidence in Read's trial. Karen Read's trial is resuming Wednesday with continued testimony from Massachusetts State Police forensic scientist Christina Hanley as the prosecution aims to further solidify its timeline. Read is facing the possibility of life in prison for the alleged murder of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe. The Commonwealth, led by special prosecutor Hank Brennan, alleges Read struck O'Keefe with her Lexus SUV in a drunken rage, leaving him to freeze to death in the front yard of 34 Fairview Road in the early morning hours of Jan. 29, 2022. Read's defense team claims Read dropped O'Keefe off at a party that night and drove off, insisting she never hit O'Keefe with her vehicle. Live Coverage begins here
