Attorneys close Karen Read’s murder trial

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Lawyers in the murder trial of Karen Read began giving their closing arguments Friday after weeks of testimony in a highly divisive case in which the prosecution’s theory of jaded love turned deadly is countered by a defense claim that a cast of tightknit Boston area law enforcement killed a fellow police o„cer.

Read, 45, is accused of fatally striking her boyfriend, Boston pol…