The woman arrested outside the courthouse where jurors are weighing the case of Lindsay Clancy has been identified as Dawn Light, a self-described “true crime junkie” who said she was trying to record the accused killer mother as she left the building.

Light, 56, of Sutton, was arrested outside Plymouth District Court at about 3:40 p.m. Tuesday and charged with intimidation of a witness, jurors or a person providing information in connection with criminal proceedings, Massachusetts State Police said.

She returned to the same courthouse Wednesday for her own arraignment, while the jury continued deliberating Clancy’s fate.

During the hearing, Light was formally charged with aggravated intimidation, and prosecutors requested that bail be set at $50,000 cash.

Prosecutors said state police discovered Light inside her car in a restricted section of the parking lot. When questioned, she allegedly denied that she had been filming or taking photographs.

However, police said when they confiscated Light’s phone they found a file containing a video of the jurors leaving the courthouse in the deleted folder.

‘Court officers were able to confirm she was filming the jurors,’ the prosecutor said.

Light pleaded not guilty and her defense attorney argued she was not intending to get pictures of the jury.

‘This is a complete misunderstanding – [she] was seeking a picture of Ms Clancy,’ the lawyer said.

The judge ruled she will not be held on bail, but ordered her to stay away from the courthouse, the jury and any witnesses, as well as instructed her to not share any photos or videos related to the incident. 

She is due back in court for a pretrial hearing on October 15. 

As she left the courthouse on Wednesday, Light was swarmed by the media.

She was very defensive, claiming she wanted to see Clancy and wasn’t filming the jury.

When asked why she was filming, she said ‘I wasn’t.’ Then she said, ‘I just wanted to see Lindsay.’

At one point she said, ‘Leave me alone.’ 

Light, who described herself as a ‘true crime junkie,’ has insisted she was not trying to intimidate anyone, but only wanted to film Clancy as she left the courthouse.

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‘That’s the long and the short of it. I don’t know how I intimidated anyone,’ Light told CT Insider.

She claimed that when she realized she was not filming Clancy, she quickly lowered her phone and then was approached by a court employee.

According to Light, the employee asked her if she worked at the courthouse, and when she said no, the staffer as for her driver’s license and phone.

When she refused to hand over her phone, the employee called over a state trooper who confiscated the device and arrested her.

Light told the newspaper that she has attended several days of Clancy’s trial, as well as other high-profile cases such as Karen Read and Alex Murdaugh’s trial.

Light’s arrest came on the same day that the Clancy jury told the judge they were at a standstill.

Tuesday morning, the panel of 12, nine women and three men, told Judge William Sullivan they could not reach a unanimous verdict, but he ordered them to keep deliberating.

‘Members of the jury, I’ve got your question, and the question is, “After many hours of deliberation we are unable to come to a unanimous decision,”‘ Sullivan said.

He acknowledged the length of the trial, but ordered the jury to continue deliberations and sent them back.

At the end of the day, the jury asked to be excused, and the judge agreed. 

The jury must reach a unanimous decision on whether Clancy is guilty of murder, manslaughter or not criminally responsible for her actions.

If the jury cannot reach a verdict, the judge will eventually be forced to declare a mistrial.

The group has not been sequestered during discussions.

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Travis Kelce bought a waterfront Ohio mansion for $5.35 million in March, securing the Lake Erie estate months before marrying Taylor Swift at Madison Square Garden in July.

The newly renovated Bratenahl property had first hit the market with a $5.99 million asking price, and the sale officially closed on March 2, according to listing records reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

Dating back to 1895, the expansive 21,140-square-foot compound sits on 3.5 acres of lakefront land and includes eight bedrooms, eight full bathrooms, three half baths and a five-car garage.

For Kelce, a Cuyahoga County native who grew up only a short drive away in Cleveland Heights, the location carries a personal connection. Its proximity to a private airstrip may also prove practical for a high-profile couple managing a real estate portfolio that has already grown into the double digits.

Swift entered the marriage with an impressive property collection of her own, including a Manhattan condo and homes in Rhode Island, Nashville and California, while Kelce already owned a residence in Kansas City.

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David Ayers, who brokered the deal alongside Nick Zawitz of The Agency Cleveland, said the Gilded Age property blends old world charm with a serious glow-up. 

“Meticulously restored original details paired with its exceptional modern amenities has created a truly rare Great Lakes estate,” Ayers told The Post in a statement. “We’re thrilled for the new owners and so excited for Cleveland.”

The mansion buy wasn’t the only headline out of Kelce’s world this week. He and Swift also introduced the world to their new Samoyed puppy Wendy, who made her modeling debut in a Tommy Hilfiger campaign shoot on the roof of the Plaza Hotel. 

Kelce told Vogue the brand needed a dog for the shoot and he didn’t hesitate to volunteer his own. 

“We figured, why not her? She crushed it and actually really fit into that Tommy aesthetic, too,” he said. “Those are some of my favorite shots.” 

Of his new pup, he added simply, “She lights up my day.”

Deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial were expected to continue Wednesday, following a day in which jurors informed the judge they remained divided over whether the Massachusetts mother should be held criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children.

The panel, then in its fourth day of weighing the case, sent a note Tuesday morning to Judge William Sullivan saying it had not been able to reach the unanimous agreement required for either a guilty verdict or an acquittal. Sullivan instructed the jurors to continue deliberating, a standard step in criminal trials when a jury signals it is struggling to come to a decision.

Jurors returned to the deliberation room and continued their discussions behind closed doors for the remainder of the day. Around 3:30 p.m., they asked to be dismissed for the evening and to pick up their deliberations again the next morning.

Clancy, 36, a former labor and delivery nurse, has not disputed that she strangled her children. Her defense has argued that postpartum psychosis drove her actions, while prosecutors maintain she understood what she was doing at the time. She has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.

Throughout the trial, jurors heard from family members and medical professionals about Clancy’s deteriorating mental health in the months leading up to the killings, including her use of multiple medications and a brief stay at a psychiatric facility. Psychiatric experts for the prosecution and defense offered sharply conflicting opinions about her mental state when her children died.

If jurors ultimately can’t agree on a verdict, the judge could declare a mistrial. Prosecutors would then have to decide whether to put Clancy on trial again, drop the charges or try to negotiate a plea deal with her lawyer.

After court ended Tuesday, Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, said he saw it as a good sign that the jury kept working.

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“The fact that they have not said that they’re done is very, very heartening,” he said. “Obviously, they’re working very hard.”

If the jury decides Clancy was criminally responsible for her actions, it could convict her of either murder or manslaughter. If she is acquitted, a judge could still order her confined to a mental health facility if an evaluation determines that she poses a danger to the public.

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A developing storm in the Pacific is drawing fresh attention as forecast models suggest it could track unusually close to the California coast — with some projections even raising the possibility of a direct impact.

Tropical Storm Marie is forecast to intensify into a Category 1 hurricane on Wednesday, bringing sustained winds of more than 75 mph.

The system is currently moving along Mexico’s coastline and is expected to approach the Baja California Peninsula, the narrow 775-mile stretch of land that sits just south of California and the US-Mexico border.

The National Hurricane Center has cautioned that Marie is likely to remain at hurricane strength through Sunday as it moves northward along the West Coast.

New spaghetti models, which show a range of possible storm tracks, indicate Marie has a significant chance of curving toward Southern California, potentially putting areas such as Los Angeles or San Diego in the path of landfall.

The National Weather Service has already warned beachgoers in Los Angeles that there is a high risk for large waves and dangerous rip currents throughout the Labor Day holiday weekend.

Coastal flooding is also predicted to be a concern along beaches and shorelines facing the south this weekend.

A Pacific cyclone has never made landfall in California at hurricane strength. The last tropical storm to make landfall was in September 1997 when Nora crossed from Mexico into the US.

Two major forecasting models, the so-called American and European models, both show multiple tracks which could take Marie towards a historic landfall in Southern California.

Meteorologist Levi Cowan aggregated dozens of these potential routes from the National Weather Service’s Global Forecast System and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts to build the latest spaghetti models.

Those models, seen on Cowan’s website Tropical Tidbits, largely agree that the Pacific Cyclone will continue rolling along the Baja Peninsula through the weekend, but its path after that becomes unclear.

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Roughly half of the predictions show Marie turning east and spiraling into multiple California cities, including San Diego, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Santa Clara and Santa Barbara.

The other half of the current predictions favor Marie continuing to head straight and remaining in the Pacific until it fades. 

It is important to note that forecast models can shift dramatically once storms form and get closer to making landfall. The farther into the future a forecast model tries to predict, the weaker the certainty of it being correct gets.

Meteorologist Sebastian Westerink from the National Weather Service expressed skepticism that Marie would maintain its strength all the way to California, predicting it would weaken in the colder waters closer to the West Coast.

Westerink told the Los Angeles Times: ‘By the time this storm reaches Southern California, it will very likely be below hurricane status and even tropical storm status.’

A tropical storm has not taken such a path, from the Pacific Ocean straight into the California Coast, in nearly a century, when the Long Beach Tropical Storm landed in 1939.

Meanwhile, hurricanes in California have never been regarded as a real threat due to the California Current bringing much colder water closer to the coast, depriving major storms of the warm ocean water they need for fuel.

At the same time, storms have been regularly blocked from reaching California by prevailing northeast trade winds, which steer eastern Pacific cyclones to the west – towards Hawaii or open water.

Despite their rarity, meteorologists have feared that 2026 could be a historic year for Pacific storms, thanks to the emergence of a potentially record-setting El Niño.

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A prominent think tank says it has identified what appears to be a partly submerged Iranian uranium facility inside the Natanz nuclear complex, one of Iran’s most closely watched nuclear sites.

The reported discovery of the covert facility is fueling fresh questions about whether Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure was fully eliminated during the two U.S.-Israeli-launched wars against the regime in 2025 and 2026.

The Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) announced in late August that it had located an underground Iranian site likely connected to uranium enrichment, which could potentially be used in the production of atomic weapons.

In its report, the institute wrote that “The facility does not appear to have been targeted in the military actions of either 2025 or 2026. Since the June 2025 war no vehicle activity has been observed at the facility in available satellite imagery.”

According to the institute, “The Institute has identified a separately enclosed, partially below-ground, bunkered building at the Natanz Nuclear Complex that was likely intended to serve as uranium hexafluoride… storage facility to support large-scale uranium enrichment at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant. The bunkered structure was constructed between 2010 and 2017, with the bulk of construction occurring between 2015 and 2017.”

It further added that “The lesson for today is that any temporary enrichment ban must include a dismantlement and dissolution of remaining capabilities and must not allow for any type of preparatory activity for the end of a ban.”

Uranium is the crucial material to produce atomic weapons. Iran’s regime is vehemently opposed to the Trump administration’s demands that it stop enriching uranium and hand over its already enriched uranium.

According to another report by the Institute for Science and International Security in April,” From December 2024 to June 2025, a half-year period, Iran almost doubled its stock of 60% enriched uranium to 440 kilograms. This action dramatically increased suspicion that Iran was moving toward a decision to build nuclear weapons, significantly shortening timelines to be able to create a nuclear arsenal with up to ten nuclear weapons.”

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The U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran’s vast nuclear weapons facility during Operation Midnight Hammer in June 2025 significantly set back Iran’s ability to produce atomic weapons and enrich uranium.

Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told News Media that “The report assesses the structure at the Natanz nuclear facility was not targeted during Operations Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury. This raises questions as to why the U.S. and Israel did not target the site. Given that Iran is not allowing IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] inspections of bombed facilities, in contravention of its NPT [Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons]obligations, this will require Washington and Jerusalem to rely on their own intelligence estimates as to this bunkered building.”

Brodsky added, “If it is still intact and can accommodate this kind of enrichment activity, the site should be destroyed in any future strikes. The allowance of such a facility under the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] demonstrates the flaws of the agreement — permitting Iran to retain an industrial scale enrichment program following the sunsets of various provisions — and underscores why zero enrichment in Iran has to continue to be the international demand.”

When asked about the facility and if the IAEA plans to inspect it, Fredrik Dahl, a spokesman for the IAEA, told News Media, that “The building you are referring to is well-known to the Agency as part of the Natanz site that the IAEA regularly inspected prior to mid-2025.”

Asked about the report, Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, told News Media that “First, Iran’s nuclear facilities were totally obliterated during Operation Midnight Hammer. Now, Operation Economic Outcast is severing every remaining economic lifeline sustaining the Islamic Republic of Iran. President Trump has been clear that Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon, and America is entering the endgame with the single greatest financial offensive ever mounted against an adversary.”

Successive U.S. administrations have repeatedly designated the Islamic Republic of Iran since the 1980s as a leading state-sponsor of terrorism.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s announcement last week that the U.S. imposed the economic equivalent of the military campaign that defeated Nazi Germany on the Islamic Republic of Iran could set off a series of events leading to the dissolution of the nearly 47-year-old dictatorship in Tehran, according to experts.

Bessent’s declaration of economic warfare — formally designated Operation Economic Outcast — follows President Trump’s commitment to launch an “economic D-Day” against the clerical regime. The comprehensive U.S. economic pressure point campaign also aims to isolate the regime with respect to its efforts to rebuild its nuclear weapons facility.