POTTERY BARN LAUNCHES NEW HOME CAPSULE COLLECTION WITH GLOBAL HOSPITALITY BRAND WESTIN HOTELS & RESORTS

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POTTERY BARN LAUNCHES NEW HOME CAPSULE COLLECTION WITH GLOBAL HOSPITALITY BRAND WESTIN HOTELS & RESORTS

2024-06-11 19:55 Last Updated At：20:01

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 11, 2024--

Pottery Barn, a portfolio brand of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE: WSM), the world’s largest digital-first, design-led and sustainable home retailer, announced today a home furnishings product collaboration with Westin Hotels & Resorts. Part of the Marriott Bonvoy’s portfolio of more than 30 extraordinary brands, Westin stands as one of the preeminent wellness brands in hospitality, empowering travelers to maintain their well-being on the road through its premium amenities and dynamic global programming. The new Westin for Pottery Barn collection includes a modern and upscale selection of bedroom furniture, bedding and bath accessories.

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As part of the collaboration between the two brands, Pottery Barn will offer the recently-launched Westin next generation Heavenly® Bed mattress, designed to deliver deep, restorative sleep both on the road and at home. Originally introduced in 1999, the legacy Heavenly Bed not only paved the path to ultimate hotel comfort but fueled customers’ interests to bring their sleep experience home with them, selling hundreds of thousands of beds since its debut. The next generation Heavenly Bed was made with specialized cooling features; superior layers of gel-infused and energy diffusion foams; and uniquely developed silver mesh barrier weave, creating the perfect level of irresistible comfort and firm support.

Every product in the Westin for Pottery Barn collection combines the allure of a luxurious and relaxing hotel stay with the comfort of a personalized and balanced home. The Heavenly Bed Frame is constructed with smooth solid hardwood with a light wood finish and a sleek, curved base that is constructed and contract-grade rated for both residential and commercial designs. The frame, as well as the larger collection, was inspired by Westin Hotels’ new elevated and modern, residential design ethos.

The bedding assortment in the Westin for Pottery Barn collection is designed with rest and relaxation in mind – from the plush top mattress and blended duvet wrapped in smooth cotton to the hypoallergenic firm and soft pillow inserts and the richly-woven down blanket. The collection was created with customers’ preferences and sleep habits in mind, helping to regulate body temperature for a better night’s sleep. Completing the rejuvenating home experience, the lavender scented sleep balm helps put your mind at ease and the bath collection offers a refreshing yet relaxing white tea scented body lotion, hand soap and diffuser.

Guests can experience the mattress, bedding and bath products in Westin hotel rooms, and the complete collection is available for purchase on PotteryBarn.com and WestinStore.com.

“It is a pleasure partnering with Westin Hotels & Resorts on an product collection for bedroom and bath,” said Monica Bhargava, President, Pottery Barn. “Pottery Barn has been working with Westin for over 10 years as an exclusive home furnishings partner for the Heavenly mattress, and our new home furnishings collection provides the restorative and relaxing Westin experience designed for your home.”

To learn more about the Westin Collection at Pottery Barn, please visit potterybarn.com/Westin.

ABOUT POTTERY BARN

Pottery Barn, a member of the Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE: WSM) portfolio of brands, is a premier specialty retailer for casual, comfortable and stylish home furnishings. The brand is dedicated to beautiful ideas for real life, quality products that are crafted to last, sustainability and service. Key product categories include furniture, bedding, bath, rugs, window treatments, tabletop, lighting and decorative accessories. Nearly all Pottery Barn products are designed in-house and are exclusive to its catalogs, stores and website. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About Westin® Hotels & Resorts

Westin Hotels & Resorts, hospitality’s global leader in well-being for more than a decade, empowers guests to transcend the rigors of travel while on the road through the brand’s Six Pillars of well-being: Sleep Well, Eat Well, Move Well, Feel Well, Work Well, and Play Well. At more than 235 hotels and resorts in over 40 countries and territories, guests can benefit from distinct wellness experiences including the brand’s iconic and award-winning Heavenly® Bed, signature WestinWORKOUT® offerings such as its Fitness Studios with TRX fitness equipment and its versatile Gear Lending program featuring the latest in recovery and strength training from Hyperice and Bala, delicious and nutritious menu offerings on their Eat Well menu, and more. For more information, please visit www.westin.com and stay connected on X, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. Westin is proud to participate in Marriott Bonvoy®, the global travel program from Marriott International. The program offers members an extraordinary portfolio of global brands, exclusive experiences on Marriott Bonvoy Moments and unparalleled benefits including free nights and Elite status recognition. To enroll for free or for more information about the program, visit marriottbonvoy.com.

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Karen Read's second murder trial revives debate over who killed her Boston police officer boyfriend

2025-04-23 01:09 Last Updated At：01:11

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Karen Read’s second murder trial began Tuesday with a prosecutor saying the defendant’s own words will bolster evidence that she killed her police officer boyfriend three years ago and a defense attorney calling the case “the definition of reasonable doubt.”

Read is accused of striking her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, with her SUV in 2022 and leaving him to die alone in the snow outside of a house party in Canton, a suburb about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Boston. She has been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating a vehicle under the influence and leaving the scene.

Prosecutors say Read intentionally backed into O’Keefe after she dropped him off at a house party and returned hours later to find him dead. The defense says that she was a victim of a vast police conspiracy and that O’Keefe was fatally beaten by another law enforcement officer at the party.

A mistrial was declared last year after jurors said they were at an impasse and deliberating further would be futile.

The biggest difference in the current trial is the lead prosecutor, Hank Brennan. Brought in as a special prosecutor after the mistrial, the former defense attorney has represented a number of prominent clients, including notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger.

Brennan began his opening statement Tuesday by describing the firefighter who raced to the scene in near-blizzard conditions and found Read and two other women surrounding O’Keefe’s body on the ground.

“He stepped out into bedlam,” he said.

The firefighter then asked Read what had happened, he said.

“You’ll hear her words, ’I hit him. I hit him. I hit him,” Brennan said. “She admitted what she had done that night.”

Brennan told jurors that “facts and data” will lead them to the truth, and that Read’s own statements will confirm it. He played a clip from a television interview in which Read said, “I mean, I didn’t think I ‘hit him’ hit him, but could I have clipped him? Could I have tagged him in the knee and incapacitated him? He didn’t look mortally wounded, as far as I could see. Could I have done something that knocked him out, and in his drunkenness and in the cold, he didn’t come to again?”

But Defense Attorney Alan Jackson began his opening statement by saying the prosecution’s case was based on a “brazen and flawed assertion that is untethered to the facts and the evidence.”

“John O'Keefe did not die from being hit by a vehicle,” he said. "The facts will show that. The evidence will show that. The data will show that. The science will show that and the experts will tell you that.”

Many of the factors that made the first trial must-see television will feature in the second. Most of the same witnesses are back as are Read’s aggressive defense team and dozens of her supporters camped out near the courthouse — many carrying “Free Karen Read” signs and wearing pink. Read, who has been featured in several documentaries about her case, has become a minor celebrity.

On Tuesday, a few dozen of Read's supporters, many holding American flags, stood in front of the courthouse before moving a block away to comply with a court-ordered buffer zone. Those who were reuniting hugged each other, while others took time to bring newcomers up to speed on the case.

“I'm here for justice,” said Ashlyn Wade, a Read supporter from Canton. “The murderer going to jail and Karen being exonerated, that would be justice.”

The prosecution, however, stands to benefit from a pretrial ruling from Judge Beverly Cannone barring defense attorneys from mentioning potential third-party culprits in their opening statements. They can develop a case against two law enforcement officers but cannot implicate Albert’s nephew, Colin Albert, as they did in the first trial.

“I view it as a blow to the defense strategy but not a knockout punch,” Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said of the ruling. “All the defense needs to do is create reasonable doubt about Karen (Read's) guilt, and that doesn’t require pointing to an alternative perpetrator as a matter of law.”

Jackson called the prosecution's case “the literal definition of reasonable doubt" in his opening statement and said the heavy burden of proof will not be met given that "every piece of this case was handled by a disgraced investigator with a motive to protect his friends”

“By the end of this trial, you’ll conclude that Karen Read is not guilty," he said. “She’s the victim of a botched and biased and corrupted investigation that was never about the truth, folks. It was about preserving loyalty.”

One of the key witnesses will be former State Trooper Michael Proctor. He led the investigation but has since been fired after a disciplinary board found that he sent sexist and crude texts about Read to his family and colleagues. Jackson called him a “cancer” that infected every step of the investigation and characterized him as both the key to the state's case and its Achilles' heel.

Legal experts expect prosecutors to focus on Read's behavior as they did during the first trial — her volatile relationship with O'Keefe and their night of heavy drinking. They also predict the prosecution will lay out a stronger and more coherent case that Read clipped O'Keefe with the back of her SUV and sent him tumbling to the ground — using data from her car, video and stronger expert testimony.

“The Commonwealth will focus on the theme drilled into us since middle school — Drinking, Driving, Deadly Consequences,” Michael Coyne, the dean of Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, said in an email.