A disciplinary hearing scheduled for next week will determine suspended trooper Michael Proctor’s future with the Massachusetts State Police, according to a new filing in the Karen Read murder case.

The investigator whose text messages played an embarrassing role in the first murder trial of Karen Read will face a hearing next week.

Suspended Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor is scheduled to appear before a state police trial board next week, according to a recent court filing in the Karen Read murder trial. Proctor, who was the lead investigator in the Read case,

Massachusetts troopers started the new year in a unique way when they found an owl with a broken wing on Route 202 and brought it to safety.

Massachusetts State Police say they had an interesting start to the new year when they helped out an unlikely victim in Pelham. Troopers responded to reports of an injured owl that had been struck by a car and left with a broken wing.