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CBS News
13-06-2025
- CBS News
Massachusetts optician harassed for "FRAMED" license plate during Karen Read trial
A Middleboro optician thought her vanity license plate was a cute tongue-in-cheek ode to her job until it became a rallying cry from for Karen Read supporters. Now the owner of the license plate "FRAMED" is getting shouted at and her car vandalized. "I've had people like literally speeding up to me on the highway, to like catch up to my driver side window to give me the thumbs up and stuff," said Lauren Downey. She has had the vanity plate for three years now, but during the Karen Read trial, her supporters have started to have her plate put on banners and wearable merchandise. One man in New Hampshire got the same plate for that state, and he wears it around his neck outside the courthouse. Supporters of Karen Read gather before the murder trial of Karen Read in Norfolk Superior Court, Friday, June 13, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. Mark Stockwell / AP "My husband is over there, and he couldn't believe it," Downey said. "He's seeing the plate in real life. We saw it on t-shirt." The plate has also been all over social media. Car keyed twice The controversy surrounding the trial has carried home with Downey. Twice now, someone has keyed her car because of the plate. She has had people screaming obscenities at her or even run across parking lots to praise her plate. At times, her children are in the car. "People are giving me the middle finger in a parking lot or at an intersection," said Downey. "I would love to think they are that excited over glasses that would be great." Lauren Downey's "FRAMED" license plate. CBS Boston Downey put in for the license plate three years ago. It was supposed to be a play on her job as an optician who helps people find the correct eye glass frames. It also wasn't the only name she submitted. "When you sign up for a vanity plate, you submit for three different options and then the registry chooses which one you receive," said Downey. "I can change my plate, but that may not make sense at this point." The retrial of Karen Read is now in the jury's hands. Downey is waiting until the trial is over before fixing the damage to the car in case something else happens.
CTV News
05-06-2025
- CTV News
NS man found guilty of murder
NS man found guilty of murder A Nova Scotia man has been found guilty of killing a Halifax optician in 2021.
CBC
03-06-2025
- Automotive
- CBC
Family identifies 22-year-old woman as motorcyclist killed on University Bridge crash in Saskatoon
Family have confirmed that 22-year-old Speirious Prokulevich was the woman killed May 29 in a motorcycle crash on Saskatoon's University Bridge. Dustin Prokulevich says his younger sister died on her birthday. "It was her 22nd birthday, yep. We had a barbecue on the 28th for her, so it was nice to spend one last day with her before the tragedy happened," he said in an interview Monday. Dustin said that Speirious loved riding and had recently upgraded to a new bike. "She passed away doing what she loved." The crash between a car and the motorcycle happened at around 7:30 a.m. CST and led to the shut-down of the University Bridge at the peak of Saskatoon's morning commute. Traffic restrictions on the bridge and access streets stayed in place until late afternoon. The crash happened near the downtown end of the bridge, with Prokulevich's bike sliding about 100 metres to a curb on 25th Street. Police are still piecing together all the details of what happened. Dustin said his remaining siblings — two brothers and two sisters — are still coming to terms with their loss. They met at the hospital after the crash. "My family was surrounded around her, we just spent the last couple minutes with her … it was incredibly sad." He said Speirious was working to become a licensed optician and excited by her career prospects and the future. He said she'll be remembered most, though, for her love of family. "She had a special relationship with every single one of her siblings," he said.
Daily Mail
24-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Kim started forgetting faces and bumping into things. She blamed her glasses - then doctors revealed she had dementia. Now they warn of the early sign too many ignore
When Kim Norris began bumping into things, misjudging distances and walking past people she knew without realising, she assumed the problem lay with her new glasses. But when she went to the optician, they assured her the prescription was spot on.
Times
13-05-2025
- Business
- Times
Sex Pistols ask Dundee opticians to change its name
The Spex Pistols is no more. For more than a decade optician Richard Cook has been selling lenses and glasses out of a little shop off Dundee's West Port. He named his modest business after Britain's first big punk rock band, and even mimicked the group's distinctive font in his insists that nobody has ever confused his store for the real Sex Pistols. But that has not stopped the supposedly anarchic group from using the law to force him to come up with a new, less punky Sex Pistols have issued Spex Pistols with a cease and desist letter. 'We don't really have a choice,' Cook said, announcing a new name and look for his shop. 'We just don't make
