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Tuesday, January 13

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The New England Patriots are seeking their first trip to the AFC Championship Game since the 2018 season, and standing in their way are the Houston Texans.

The No. 2 seed Patriots will host the No. 5 seed Texans in the AFC Divisional Round next Sunday with kickoff set for 3 p.m. ET at Gillette Stadium. New England defeated the Los Angeles Chargers 16-3 while Houston beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 30-6 in the Wild Card Round.

Before this past weekend, the Patriots hadn’t won a playoff game since Super Bowl LIII in February of 2019.

Milder temperatures are moving in through the middle of the week. All the while, our upper-level pattern is priming for a developing storm, that appears to avoid us all together.

Sunshine will give way to a few afternoon clouds, but we’ll still rise into the low and mid-40s Tuesday afternoon. More clouds are on tap for Wednesday, but we’ll still sneak in a few rays of sun. Highs soar to near 50 degrees in a steady southwest breeze. There could even be a passing shower.

We’ll see a storm form on Thursday across eastern New York and Vermont, that tracks up towards Quebec City. That will keep the snow sequestered to the St. Lawrence Valley while we see a few sprinkles and cloudy skies.

A driver miraculously walked away from a rollover crash after being thrown out of his car window in Everett, Massachusetts.

It happened on Glendale Street around 7:30 Sunday morning. Surveillance video shows the car barreling down the street, flying over a speed bump, crashing into a porch and slamming into a home.

“I woke up with the most violent noise you could hear. Shook up the whole house, everybody was so scared,” said Prasit Gurung, who was asleep inside the home at the time of the crash. “It was crazy. It hit the power, everything. I didn’t even know what to think.”

The deadly crackdown on protests in Iran is reverberating thousands of miles away, leaving Iranians and Iranian Americans fearful for the safety of loved ones they have been unable to contact for nearly a week.

For Rosa Khorshidi, an Iranian psychologist living in North Andover, Massachusetts, the silence itself is torturous.

“Silence is the biggest component of trauma, and this is what’s happening in Iran,” she said.

A man is accused of driving off after hitting and killing a woman early Sunday morning in Cranston, Rhode Island.

Police and fire crews in Cranston responded around 4:15 a.m. to the 500 block of Scituate Avenue, where a pedestrian had been hit. An Amazon employee called 911 after finding her.

The woman, who had been thrown about 42 feet in the crash, was pronounced dead at the scene.

A switch in Medford’s ambulance services is sparking backlash from the community, and Tuesday could be the last chance for residents to voice their concerns before the new services take effect.

Tuesday night’s meeting follows a council meeting last week where things got heated.

City councilors want more time to review and discuss the decision to switch EMS providers after 25 years, because the move isn’t sitting well with everyone in Medford.