FRAMINGHAM – With less than two months to go before the holiday season, the organizers of “Shop with a Cop” in Massachusetts are looking for donations to support hundreds of children in need.
The annual event pairs Metro West children in financial need with a police officer for a holiday shopping spree. It involves roughly 100 police officers from across the state, as well as appearances from Santa and the Grinch.
Framingham Police Officer Matt Gutwill, who leads the event, said 800 applications are expected this year, with roughly 500 children who will be identified as in need. Right now the event, which is funded by donations to the Framingham Police Association, only has enough money to provide for 125 children.
Gutwill said other charitable organizations have reached out to “Shop with a Cop” to fill in funding gaps during the busy holiday season.
The event has run for seven years and has served more than 2,000 children in Metro West, providing them with about $155,000 in gifts, clothing and food. Gutwill said it has a positive impact on children and officers.
“As a police officer, I go to a lot of different calls and I see a lot of different things that are heartbreaking or devastating to us,” said Gutwill. “Seeing a child’s face and how rewarding it is to us to build a relationship with a child that will last for years…that’s huge for us.”
AMHERST — The Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts elected the Very Rev. Miguelina Howell the 10th bishop diocesan. The election took place Saturday at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as part of the annual diocesan convention immediately following the Convention Eucharist.
Howell, dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford, Conn., was elected on the first ballot out of a field of three nominees.
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The 2025 Massachusetts high school football season continued on Friday, and High School On SI has a list of final scores from the second weekend of playoff action.
Massachusetts High School Football Schedule & Scores (MIAA) – November 14, 2025
Amesbury 34, Uxbridge 13
Archbishop Williams 28, Hanover 26
Belchertown 30, Athol 18
Bellingham 21, Norwood 9
Beverly 42, Reading Memorial 33
Bishop Feehan 33, Chelmsford 12
Bishop Fenwick 24, Abington 14
Bridgewater-Raynham 28, Billerica Memorial 7
Brighton 46, Boston Latin 24
Canton 27, Marblehead 22
Carver 46, Sharon 6
Catholic Memorial 47, Wellesley 0
Central 49, Lowell 14
Central Catholic 20, Natick 17
Chicopee 36, Monument Mountain 12
Clinton 18, West Bridgewater 6
Cohasset 42, Rockland 6
Dracut 28, Lowell Catholic 22
Dover-Sherborn 38, Wareham 8
Duxbury 38, Burlington 14
Essex North Shore Agriculture & Tech 42, Greater New Bedford RVT 14
Fairhaven 34, Stoneham 6
Falmouth 32, Somerset Berkley Regional 24
Fitchburg 22, Ayer Shirley 20
Foxborough 28, Gloucester 0
Frontier Regional 12, Easthampton 0
Greater Lawrence Tech 48, Southeastern RVT 13
Hudson 34, Old Rochester Regional 13
Keefe Tech 41, Old Colony RVT 8
King Philip Regional 42, Mansfield 12
Leicester 41, Bartlett 20
Ludlow 34, Mahar Regional 0
Malden Catholic 28, Hingham 13
Maynard 15, Oxford 14
McCann Tech 24, Northampton 16
Methuen 36, Arlington 13
Milton 41, Masconomet Regional 27
Nantucket 13, Medway 7
Narragansett Regional 27, Lunenburg 21
Nashoba Valley Tech 20, KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate 8
Needham 14, Newton North 12
North 36, Burncoat 28
North Attleborough 42, Barnstable 21
North Reading 21, Medfield 20
Northbridge 49, Millbury 20
Norwell 41, Pentucket Regional 14
Norton 24, Middleborough 13
Oakmont Regional 42, Gardner 22
Pathfinder RVT 42, Smith Vo-Tech 12
Quabbin Regional 20, Montachusett RVT 6
Randolph 46, Hoosac Valley 13
Scituate 34, Walpole 28
Shawsheen Valley Tech 28, St. Mary’s 7
South Shore Vo-Tech 30, Minuteman Regional 6
St. John’s 36, Wachusett Regional 35
St. John’s Prep 48, Leominster 32
Stoughton 42, Silver Lake Regional 6
Tantasqua Regional 42, Shrewsbury 35
Tewksbury Memorial 34, Ashland 7
Tyngsborough 40, St. Bernard’s Central Catholic 8
West Boylston 41, Bourne 20
Westborough 45, Groton-Dunstable 28
Westwood 41, Brookline 14
Whittier RVT 26, Bristol-Plymouth RVT 20
Winchester 38, Lincoln-Sudbury 21
Xaverian Brothers 49, Andover 17
Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts man accused of killing his wife Ana and dismembering her body, is due in court for a competency hearing today that has delayed the start of his upcoming murder trial.
Last month, Judge Diane Freniere ordered Walshe to be hospitalized for 20 days at Bridgewater State Hospital to determine if he is competent to stand trial. If Walshe is found to be competent, jury selection in his trial could start next week.
You can stream the court hearing live from Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham when it begins Friday morning on CBS News Boston or in the video player above.
Ana Walshe, 39, was last seen early on the morning of Jan. 1, 2023, after the couple hosted a friend at their Cohasset home for a New Year’s Eve dinner.
Brian Walshe told police that she left the house early in the morning to get a ride to the airport and fly to Washington, D.C. for a work emergency, but there’s no record of her being picked up by a car or boarding a plane.
Investigators allege that Brian Walshe made gruesome internet searches on his son’s iPad around the time of her disappearance, including “10 ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to.” Prosecutors also say surveillance video from Home Depot in Rockland shows him buying large amounts of cleaning supplies including mops, a bucket, tarps and drop cloths.
Walshe was arrested after detectives found blood as well as a bloody and damaged knife in the basement of their home. Her body has not been found.
Brian Walshe has suffered from fear and anxiety since he was stabbed in jail in September, his lawyers previously said.
“The defendant is not functioning at the level he was functioning prior to the violent assault and importantly, not functioning in a manner required of any defendant facing a complex trial,” the defense wrote in a filing.
The defense has asked for a change of venue outside Norfolk County, or for jurors to be selected from outside the county. They claim he can’t get a fair trial in the area because of pretrial publicity and media coverage.
Walshe’s lawyers have argued that the government obtained the alleged Google searches illegally. They’ve also sought texts and emails from former Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor, the lead investigator who was fired for his handling of the Karen Read case.
Walshe was sentenced last year to three years in prison in a separate case after pleading guilty to art fraud charges.
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