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Business Insider
12 hours ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Wells Fargo Remains a Buy on EOG Resources (EOG)
Wells Fargo analyst Roger Read maintained a Buy rating on EOG Resources (EOG – Research Report) on May 30 and set a price target of $146.00. Confident Investing Starts Here: Read covers the Energy sector, focusing on stocks such as Valero Energy, Devon Energy, and EOG Resources. According to TipRanks, Read has an average return of -0.2% and a 44.47% success rate on recommended stocks. In addition to Wells Fargo, EOG Resources also received a Buy from BMO Capital's Phillip Jungwirth in a report issued on May 30. However, on the same day, TD Cowen maintained a Hold rating on EOG Resources (NYSE: EOG). EOG market cap is currently $59.26B and has a P/E ratio of 10.08. Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 100 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of EOG in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in April 2025, Jeffrey R. Leitzell, the EVP & COO of EOG sold 4,037.00 shares for a total of $515,771.56.
Yahoo
a day ago
- General
- Yahoo
Read to Succeed Buffalo branching to Niagara Falls schools
The Niagara Falls City School District is looking for senior citizens to help elementary students read. Read to Succeed Buffalo, an AARP Foundation Experience Corps program operating in Buffalo since 2016, will be expanding to Bloneva Bond Primary School on Niagara Street starting next school year. SCHEER: Want to help a Falls school student? Volunteer to read Dr. G. Lawrence McNally didn't want to stop providing medical advice to children and their parents. The program wants to bring 10 to 20 people ages 50 and older to help improve the reading skills of kindergarteners, first-, and second-graders. 'The promise is, from the district, you will be welcomed,' said Supervisor Mark Laurrie, encouraging people to become volunteers during the program announcement on Friday. 'You'll be accepted. You'll be supported, and you'll work with great kids from Read to Succeed.' After the volunteers complete a two-day training session in September, they will start working with students in October. A literacy coach supporting the tutors curates a library of read-along books they and the students read. The helpers meet the students individually twice a week for 30-minute sessions for every week of the school year. Read to Succeed is eying between 30 and 36 students to participate, who are arranged to be taken out of English or language classes for their sessions. Anne Ryan, the executive director of Read to Succeed Buffalo, said that by the end of the third grade, 78% of Niagara Falls students are not reading at that grade level, with two-thirds of fourth-graders across the state not reading at that level. Studies were done to show that tutoring like this has provided gains in student learning, with all the participating students in Buffalo schools last year improving their reading ability, reading fluency, and social and emotional learning. 'Even if they (the outcomes) weren't great, they appreciate the one-on-one mentoring that these adults provide,' Ryan said. Read to Succeed is looking to have 10 volunteers each at Bloneva Bond and Henry J. Kalfas Elementary on Beech Avenue, remaining only at Bloneva Bond if they get less than 10 to 12. It is looking to expand to the district's other elementary schools in the future. G. Lawrence McNally, a retired pediatrician, has been volunteering at Buffalo schools since 2023 after hearing from one of his wife's friends who also volunteers. He has found the experience very rewarding, with students he works with calling him Dr. Lars. 'It was really rewarding to see all my first graders be below the benchmark, and by Christmas. ... they were all doing more at a first-grade level,' McNally said. The school district is using some of its Title I funds to bring this program here. Those interested can look further at
Yahoo
2 days ago
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- Yahoo
Karen Read retrial: Biggest takeaways from week 6 as prosecution rests its case
The prosecution rested this week in the Karen Read retrial after calling their last witness, a crash reconstruction expert who testified about his opinions whether John O'Keefe's injuries were consistent with being struck by an SUV. The prosecution's theory is that Read struck O'Keefe in a fit of rage outside of 34 Fairview Road in Canton in January 2022 and left him incapacitated to die in the snow. Judson Welcher, an accident reconstructionist and biomechanical engineer, spent three days testifying about his analysis of Read's Lexus and injuries to O'Keefe. Welcher testified that his opinion is that the damage to Read's SUV and the evidence in the case was 'consistent with a collision' with O'Keefe. He said that data from her SUV shows she drove in reverse at more than 20 mph outside of the Canton home where his body was found on Jan. 29, 2022. He also said that the car driving faster than 8 mph and hitting an arm in a sideswipe could've cracked the taillight. Then prosecutors used Read's own words to cap off their presentation of their case. Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan has woven interview clips of Read throughout the trial, and he saved one for the end. Here are the biggest takeaways from the week: At the end of Tuesday's testimony, Brennan asked a pointed question about whether Welcher believed, based on his analysis of the evidence, that Read's Lexus collided with O'Keefe around 12:32 a.m. on Jan. 29, 2022. 'Yes, based on the totality of evidence ... that is what happened,' Welcher said. The defense objected to the question, and the judge ultimately struck the statement from the record. The question then set off a debate between lawyers, but jurors heard Welcher's answer. Welcher had gone through the day explaining how he derived his opinion. 'Red marks' surrounded the broken cocktail glass in the snow at the scene. He had played videos of tests he conducted using an 'exemplar' Lexus, another way of saying he had bought the same Lexus model that Read had driven that night. In one test, the Lexus backed up at 2 mph and struck his right arm, bent and holding a cocktail glass. Blue paint on the taillight transferred onto his arm and left a large mark. When compared side by side with photos of O'Keefe's injuries, they were similar in coverage area. During cross-examination, Welcher said he did not use a crash dummy because he would only have one or two 'shots at it' before they damaged the car. 'Pedestrian impacts are so sensitive to initial angles,' he said. 'I was not going to hit myself with the Lexus at 20 mph.' Welcher also pointed out that there was a bruise on O'Keefe's right knee approximately at the height of the bumper of Read's SUV. He said the cuts on his arm were consistent with the 'geometry and orientation' of the right taillight. Still, he admitted that a lot of information was still unknown about the physics of the crash. 'We don't know the exact point of impact,' Welcher said. 'We don't have absolute information to say exactly where he was.' Based on the car's data, however, Welcher said that Read's SUV went three quarters 'full throttle' in reverse on Jan. 29, 2022, at around 12:30 a.m. and reached about 23 mph and traveled a total of 87 feet in reverse. A large part of Welcher's testimony involved attempting to dispel a theory put forward by the defense last trial. The issue of when Read cracked her taillight is highly contested. Her lawyers have pointed to a Ring video recorded by a security camera above O'Keefe's garage as evidence that she could've cracked it on the morning of Jan. 29, 2022, before she found O'Keefe. Neama Rahmani, an attorney and former federal prosecutor based in Los Angeles, said Welcher's testimony was useful for prosecutors in combatting one of the defense's big arguments. 'There was also important testimony about the broken taillight and how the broken taillight was consistent with Read hitting John O'Keefe as a pedestrian, and that it was not consistent with an accident with John O'Keefe's vehicle,' said Rahmani, who's followed both trials. In one video from Jan. 29, 2022, before she found O'Keefe's body, Read backs up and makes contact with O'Keefe's Chevrolet Traverse. Central to the prosecution's theory of the case is that Read backed up her SUV and struck O'Keefe, smashing the taillight on his arm in the process. 'Obviously, the defense is arguing that the taillight was broken in another incident with O'Keefe's car or it was broken when law enforcement impounded the vehicle and towed it in the blizzard,' Rahmani said. Welcher's presentation, using a PowerPoint, explaining how the company he works for, Aperture, created digital 3D models of both vehicles using laser scanners along with videos. From the videos and laser scans, Welcher said they figured out 'the exact position of the vehicles when that Lexus stopped … and the exact contact.' 'The only evidence of contact is nowhere near the upper taillight,' Welcher said. Using a photograph of O'Keefe's Traverse, he showed that only a scuff mark remained from when Read's SUV made contact well below the taillight. He said that Read's SUV drove 1 mph or less during the impact with O'Keefe's car. 'That impact did not break or crack that taillight,' Welcher said. A feature of this retrial is the prosecution's use of video clips of Read's various media interviews in recent years. None of the videos were played in the first trial. Brennan, who was hired specifically to try the Read case, has woven video clips in between witness testimony. 'These videos are really hurtful,' Jack Lu, a retired superior court judge, said in an interview last week. After a collection of videos was played last week, Lu said the videos 'alone might be enough to convict the defendant.' After Welcher, the prosecution's final witness, stepped off the stand on Thursday, Brennan played one final clip. Here is the full quote Read said in the clip: So I thought, 'Could I have run him over?' Did he try to get me as I was leaving and I didn't know it. I mean, I've always got the music blasting. It's snowing. I got the wipers going, the heater blasting. Did he — did he come in the back of my car and I hit him in the knee and he's drunk and passed out and asphyxiated or something. And then I hired David Yannetti, I asked him those questions. 'The night of January 29, David, what if, I don't know, what if I ran his foot over, or what if I clipped him in the knee and he passed out and or went to care for himself and threw up or passed out.' And David [said] 'Yeah, then you have some element of culpability.' As the prosecution wound down its case in chief, Read told reporters she would put on a fuller and deeper defense during the retrial than she did at her first trial. On Friday, that began with Matthew DiSogra taking the stand. DiSogra is the director of engineering for the Event Data Recorder lab at Delta V and is an expert in vehicle data. His primary role for the defense was not to counter Welcher's testimony, but to offer a different interpretation of the data taken from Read's SUV. While DiSogra relied on the testing of Welcher's Aperture colleague, Shanon Burgess, he came to a different conclusion. DiSogra told the jury that all the clock variances identified by Burgess created 30 possibilities for when exactly the techstream event identified as a 'backing maneuver' happened relative to the last time O'Keefe locked his phone. It's critical for the prosecution's case that the phone was locked before the 'backing maneuver' ended, because they claim that maneuver is when Read hit O'Keefe with her car. DiSogra explained that of those 30 possibilities, just three showed the phone lock occurring before the end of the event. Since DiSogra was called by the defense, Brennan got his first chance to cross-examine a witness. Jurors saw a different side of the prosecutor, whose experience as a criminal defense attorney was evident during the questioning. Brennan came out swinging. 'Are you trying to offer an opinion suggesting Ms. Read's Lexus never hit John O'Keefe on Jan. 29, 2022?' he asked. 'Is that your opinion?' The opening question set the stage for what was a thorough cross-examination of DiSogra, during which Breannan sought to undermine the accuracy of some of his conclusions. But Alan Jackson, one of Read's lawyers, noted on redirect that all of DiSogra's conclusions were based on the data from Aperture. The defense will call its next witness when the trial resumes at 9 a.m. Monday. MassLive reporter Charlie McKenna contributed to this story. Karen Read trial recap: 1st defense witness provides alternate theory of SUV data Karen Read trial recap: Prosecution rests its case against Read Karen Read trial recap: Sideswipe at 8 mph could've shattered taillight, expert says Karen Read trial recap: Expert dressed like John O'Keefe and used paint to test car crash scenarios Takeaways from week 5 of Karen Read retrial: Clocks, injuries and broken glass Read the original article on MassLive.
Yahoo
2 days ago
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Karen Read's lawyers call first 2 witnesses to testify, say they won't call Trooper Michael Proctor
Embattled former State Police Trooper Michael Proctor played a big role in Karen Read's first trial. It appears that will not be the case this time around. Although Read's defense listed him as a potential witness for her retrial, late Friday afternoon we learned we likely won't be seeing him. On the way out of court, Read's lawyer David Yannetti said it was a 'team decision' to not have Proctor take the stand. Instead, the defense plans to use people Proctor messaged as a way to introduce his crude texts in the trial. Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan fought to keep Proctor's texts out of the retrial altogether. 'It would be distracting, confusing to the jury, and it could be unfair for either side because it will lead to arguments over what it means without a factual basis,' Brennan said. 'I think that's the whole impetus of this objection, so that we will call a witness they they do not have confidence in to call themselves,' Yannetti said. 'It's unheard of in a murder case that you don't call the lead investigator.' In court, the jury heard from a crash expert hired by the defense. He told the jury the prosecution's timeline is wrong and he says that John O'Keefe was still using his phone after the prosecution alleges a collision occurred. The trial will resume on Monday. Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW
Yahoo
3 days ago
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Karen Read's defense set to call its first witness in her retrial in the killing of her Boston police officer boyfriend
Karen Read's defense is set to call its first witness on Friday, marking a new phase in her retrial in the killing of John O'Keefe, her off-duty Boston police officer boyfriend whose body was found buried in the snow outside a home in Canton, Massachusetts, in January 2022. Read – whose first trial ended with a hung jury – has already promised a 'more robust' case than the one her attorneys put on last year, when they called six witnesses for less than two full days of testimony. Their case this time is 'broader and deeper,' Read told reporters last week, saying it will include 'more witnesses' and last at least a week. Prosecutors have accused Read of putting her Lexus SUV in reverse and striking O'Keefe with her vehicle just after midnight on January 29, 2022, after the couple went out with drinking with friends who were gathering for an after party at a home on Fairview Road. But Read's defense argues she has been framed by other off-duty law enforcement who were inside that home, alleging they killed O'Keefe and conspired to frame her. She has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a collision resulting in death. A key question is whether Read will take the stand. She did not testify in the first trial. But jurors in her retrial have already heard from the defendant: Throughout their case, prosecutors – led by special prosecutor Hank Brennan – have played numerous clips taken from interviews Read gave reporters or documentary film crews, working to use her statements against her. 'This is my version of testifying. Doing this film is my testimony,' she said in Investigation Discovery's 'A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read.' (Investigation Discovery, like CNN, is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery) 'I want to say what happened,' she added, 'exactly as it happened.' Prosecutors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts rested their case in chief on Thursday after calling 38 witnesses over more than 20 days of testimony, including the victim's friends and family; members of state and local law enforcement who played a role in the investigation; and experts who analyzed a raft of digital and physical forensic evidence. Notably absent from the prosecution's case was Michael Proctor, the former Massachusetts State Trooper who led the investigation into O'Keefe's death but was dishonorably discharged from the agency earlier this year for sexist and offensive text messages he sent about the suspect. Proctor apologized for the texts during his testimony in the first trial, but Read's defense attorneys used them to paint a picture of a flawed and biased investigation – a strategy they have so far echoed in the retrial. Proctor is included on the defense's list of prospective witnesses, but whether he will testify again remains to be seen. This is a developing story and will be updated.
