Today's Top Headlines

Wednesday, August 20

Good morning Wypierdalaj,

We're following an arraignment set for today for a Rehoboth man after remains were found on his property in the search for his missing, pregnant girlfriend. Other stories we're following include a Brockton High School choral director who allegedly paid for sex with a minor, and our meteorologists are tracking a chilly, rainy day today, as well as Hurricane Erin's potential impacts here. I'm Kaitlin McKinley Becker and these are our top headlines.

Below are the latest local stories from our reporters.

A man is due in court today on assault charges after remains were found on his property Tuesday in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, as part of the search for his missing, pregnant girlfriend.

Kylee Monteiro, a recent Attleborough High School graduate who was 11 weeks pregnant, hadn’t been seen since Aug. 7 at the County Street home of Gregory Groom, a 22-year-old she had been dating.

Groom — the one who called police to report his girlfriend’s disappearance — was arrested Tuesday after investigators searched his home. He’s facing charges of assault and battery on a pregnant person, intimidation of a witness and domestic assault and battery.

A Massachusetts family is grieving after a 13-year-old girl was killed in a Marblehead crash.

A 16-year-old boy is charged with operating under the influence in the crash that killed Savannah Gatchell early Tuesday morning on Atlantic Avenue.

“She was always there,” her sister, Allysa Otero, said Tuesday. “Always loving.”

We have a somewhat chilly August day on tap today. Heavy clouds, cool breezes, and a few showers will combine to bring us highs in the upper 50s (!) and low 60s. If it sounds sinister for late summer, it is. Thankfully it’s only for a day. Tomorrow we bounce back to the upper 60s to around 70.

Back to the shower thing. How much rain is coming? That’s the big question of the day, and it seems that the trend is for less and less.

We’re seeing the best chance for a soaking in Connecticut and Rhode Island, with somewhat beneficial showers from the South Shore (think Duxbury south) and then back to Worcester, Massachusetts.

An internal affairs investigation found a police sergeant in Medford, Massachusetts, repeatedly misused a family member’s disability placard to park in a handicap space during her shifts.

The probe, which was launched in the wake of an NBC10 Boston investigation, also determined Barbara Decristofaro was not truthful about her use of the parking privilege.

In April, NBC10 Boston gathered undercover surveillance video of Decristofaro parking in an accessible space right in front of the Medford Police Department.

A woman and the baby she was pushing in a stroller were hit by a vehicle Tuesday morning in Framingham, Massachusetts.

The crash happened at the intersection of Waverly Street and Hollis Street around 11:30 a.m., police said. The victims were in a crosswalk at the time.

Both victims were brought to hospitals in the Boston area with non-life-threatening injuries.

The choral director at Brockton High School was arrested Tuesday for allegedly paying a minor for a sex act in the Massachusetts city this spring, officials said.

Matthew Cunningham, 35, was taken into custody at his home in Brockton on charges of paying for sex and trafficking a person for sexual servitude and ordered held on $25,000 bail after pleading not guilty, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office.

Cunningham was placed on leave when Brockton Public Schools officials learned of his arrest, a district representative said, adding, “We are deeply troubled by the allegations in this case.”