Editor's note: This page contains a summary of updates on the Karen Read retrial for Thursday, May 15. For the latest updates on the Karen Read trial, visit USA TODAY's coverage for Friday, May 16.

John O’Keefe died from falling backwards and hitting his head on frozen ground, according to a Yale-educated brain surgeon who testified Wednesday in the murder trial of Karen Read. Read, 45, is ...

A former medical examiner testified Tuesday during Karen Read’s second murder trial that she did not think hypothermia contributed to Read’s boyfriend’s death, contradicting the official autopsy ...

Jurors at the Karen Read murder trial in Massachusetts got the closest view yet of the battered body of the man at the heart of the case - a cop whom prosecutors say was hit with Read's SUV and left ...