Supposed to be caring for. That nurse was once facing decades in prison, but tonight, shes a free woman. 9 on your sides ashley zilka spoke with the Dearborn County prosecutor about what led to this decision. Kathy hess worked at this care center for almost 20 years. She had a good reputation until one day back in december 2013 when her patient died. The dearborn Prosecutor Says it was almost ruled a natural deathuntil a witness came forward. In december of 2013 77 year old dionne scalf died here at Woodland Hills care center in lawrenceburg. Now two years later her nurse, 60 year old kathy hess admitted she broke scalfs vertebra while in her care. 01 03 the point was to hold some point of accountability to this lady whose actions resulted in the death of dione scalf. 11 at one point hess was looking at 20 years in prison. Now she will serve 18 months on nonreporting probation. This week hess received a three year sentence. Dearborn county prosecutor, aaron negangard, agreed to dismiss
Team. The special honor for their wounded teammate. Danielle were in store for more seasonable temperatures this weekend, but the cooldown wont last long. Youre watching wcvb, bostons news leader. Good morning this is newscenter 5s eyeopener. To you. So glad youre with us just after 6 00 on this saturday morning. Im Antoinette Antonio. Frank and im frank holland. Its saturday, november 7. Going to toss things over to Danielle Vollmar with a look at our weekend forecast. Hey, danielle. Antoinette good morning, frank and antoinette. Temperatures starting out on the mild side. In fact, some of these temperatures are where we should be during the day today. Our average High Temperature is actually 54 degrees. Were already starting at 60 in boston. Upper 50s in taunton. Lower 50s through worcester. Upper 50s through merrimack valley. In fact, as we go through the next 12 hours there, temperatures will warm into the low 60s before falling back into the 50s by this evening. Notice were going
Danielle, you have our weekend forecast and this mild weather. Can it continue . Is it possible . Danielle frank, antoinette, all things are possible. At least for today. The mild air will stick around. Its 59 degrees currently in boston. 62 in new york city. But take a look up to the north and west. There is is colder air up through canada. All of that unfortunately is headed in our direction. Its by way of a cold front. That cold front is crossing our region right now. And one thing youre going to notice when you step outside the door this morning. Youll notice the winds. Theyre picking up out of the north and northwest and will blow anywhere from 1020 miles an hour. Now we do have more clouds beginning to work their way in too. In fact, well call it mostly cloudy through the afternoon. But right now its all about the mild temperatures. Upper 50s in boston. Low 60s on the vineyard and nantucket. And low 50s in worcester. As we go through the next 12 hours, you notice were going to ke
Good morning, danielle. Danielle good morning, frank and antoinette. Take a look outside this morning. Starting out at 62 degrees in boston. Already above where we should be in terms of High Temperatures for today. Take a look back to the north and west. You see colder air over syracuse and parts of canada. All of that is headed in our direction. We do have a full front moving through right now. This is going to kick up those winds out of the north and west today. You will feel them. It will bring in more clouds as we head through Morning Hours and into the afternoon and may even bring a sprinkle or two to parts of nantucket. Right now though its all about the mild air. 62 boston. 61 on the vineyard. 62 on nantucket. 55 degrees in worcester and 55 degrees right now in keene. So its a mild start. We have some brisk winds already. Youre feeling them out of the westnorthwest. At about 1015. Theyre going to continue to be through the afternoon. Temperaturewise, we may dip a couple more deg
We have a peek of that weekend forecast. 76 on thursday, 73 on yesterday and starting close to 60 in boston now. The sunshine is out and will help warm us up a couple degrees today. You can see temperatures not that low throughout the day. Cooler weekend compared to where temperatures have been. A bit cooler out there. That 7day forecast coming up. Police are on the look out now for a man they believe assaulted a young girl in south boston. Officials say it happened friday morning at a bus stop. Now that community is on alert keeping an eye out for that man. We have the very latest. Reporter neighbors say the 11yearold girl was waiting at the bus stop at 9 00 this morning when a stranger walked up and groped her. He apologized and ran off. Several officers rushed in south boston. They saw several Police Officers is searching the neighborhood. A lot of Police Officers were there and i seen different people coming down. I dont know what happened. Reporter police did not find the suspect