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Waltham residents come together to discuss frustrations with Eversource after surge

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:23:47 GMT

Waltham residents came together Tuesday night to discuss their frustrations with Eversource with city leaders after a power surge caused smoke and fire problems across the community.“I just don’t know what happened,” said Raimondo Alonge, whose home caught fire on Monday after the surge. Alonge was among the dozens of Waltham residents who shared their experiences from the surge, which included losing appliances, electrical damage, and other issues.But the bigger message was the lack of communication, with residents saying they want answers about what happened.Along said Eversource gave him and his tenants $100 gift cards but he’s looking for more support from the utility company.“That’s not going to recuperate all the memories, my mother’s things and my things and my wife’s things… it’s priceless that stuff… and I don’t feel safe now,” he said.

Former Patriots quarterback Ryan Mallett has died in an apparent drowning

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:23:47 GMT

DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Former Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett, who also played for New England, Houston and Baltimore during five seasons in the NFL, has died. He was 35.Mallett died in an apparent drowning, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. Mallett was a football coach at White Hall High School in his native Arkansas, and the school district also confirmed his death in a post on its website on Tuesday.Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek said the university “lost an incredibly special person.”“Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends and teammates of Ryan Mallett,” Yurachek posted on Twitter.Mallett played for the University of Michigan for one season before finishing his college career at Arkansas. He passed for 7,493 yards and 62 touchdowns in two seasons with the Razorbacks.Mallett was selected by New England in the third round of the 2011 NFL draft. He appeared in four games with the Patriots during the 2012 season, complet...

Garrett Whitlock gets crushed as Red Sox lose to Marlins 10-1

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:23:47 GMT

Garrett Whitlock has shown this year he’s capable of being an effective starting pitcher, but so far he’s lacked the consistency that made him such a dominant weapon out of the bullpen.Case in point, his forgettable showing Tuesday night.Whitlock got rocked in the series-opening 10-1 loss to the Miami Marlins, who tagged the Red Sox starter for six runs on 11 hits over a laborious 4.2 innings of work. Whitlock allowed a pair of home runs, including a two-run shot by Bryan de la Cruz in the first and later a solo homer by Jean Segura in the fifth, and struggled to keep the Marlins off the base paths.The Marlins kept pushing even after Whitlock came out, and by the end they’d recorded 19 hits, the most allowed in a game by the Red Sox since allowing 21 against the Toronto Blue Jays on Oct. 1 last season.Whitlock started off on a strong note, becoming the first person to strike out Marlins leadoff hitter Luis Arraez in nearly two weeks, but then things quickly went so...

Maine lawmakers are a single vote from approval of bill to allow later abortions

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:23:47 GMT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine House voted Tuesday night to enact a bill to expand access to abortions, putting the proposal one final vote away from going to the governor for her signature. The Senate, which supported the bill in an initial vote Tuesday, must cast a final vote on the legislation that’d give the state one of the least restrictive abortion laws in the country.The House vote, 73-69, capped an emotional day that included demonstrators against the bill holding signs, singing hymns and chanting “kill the bill!” in the State House hallways.Current state law bans abortions after a fetus becomes viable outside the womb, at roughly 24 weeks, but allows an exception if a mother’s life is at risk. The bill would allow later abortions if deemed medically necessary by a doctor. Opponents said the proposal goes too far.“This bill is so extreme that the very thought of it being enacted crushes my soul,” said Rep. Tracy Quint, R-Hodgdon, one of about 30 lawmakers to speak on the H...

2,700 people tricked into working for cybercrime syndicates rescued in Philippines

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:23:47 GMT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police backed by commandos staged a massive raid on Tuesday and said they rescued more than 2,700 workers from China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and more than a dozen other countries who were allegedly swindled into working for fraudulent online gaming sites and other cybercrime groups.The number of human trafficking victims rescued from seven buildings in Las Pinas city in metropolitan Manila and the scale of the nighttime police raid were the largest so far this year and indicated how the Philippines has become a key base of operations for cybercrime syndicates.Cybercrime scams have become a major issue in Asia with reports of people from the region and beyond being lured into taking jobs in countries like strife-torn Myanmar and Cambodia. However, many of these workers find themselves trapped in virtual slavery and forced to participate in scams targeting people over the internet.In May, leaders from the Association of Southeast Asia...

Court gives the rights to the works of Argentine literary giant Borges to his widow’s nephews

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:23:47 GMT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A court has granted the rights to the works of the late Jorge Luis Borges, considered Argentina’s most internationally significant author of the 20th century, to five nephews of the author’s widow who died in March.Borges’ wife, Maria Kodama, had devoted much of her life to fiercely protecting his legacy and it surprise many in Argentina’s literary circle that she did not leave a will, even though she was battling breast cancer.The absence of a will had put the rights to his works into limbo. But on Tuesday a court in Buenos Aires ruled that the five nephews would receive the rights “in their capacity as universal heirs.”Borges died in 1986 at age 86 and left Kodama, a translator and writer whom he had married earlier that year, as his only heir. They never had children. She died March 26, also aged 86.Kodama’s longtime lawyer, Fernando Soto, said in April that Kodama’s nephews went to court to declare themselves her heirs after her death, seeking to g...

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani interviewed in Jan. 6 investigation, AP source says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:23:47 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, who as a member of Donald Trump’s legal team sought to overturn 2020 presidential election results in battleground states, was interviewed recently by investigators with the Justice Department special counsel’s office, according to a person familiar with the matter.The interview was conducted voluntarily and was not done before a grand jury, said the person, who insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. The person would not say what questions investigators asked.The interview is an additional sign of busy investigative activity by special counsel Jack Smith as his team of prosecutors scrutinizes efforts by Trump and his allies to undo the results of the election in the weeks before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Smith filed a separate case earlier this month charging Trump with illegally retaining classified documents at his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago.As a lawyer for Trump, Giuliani pushed bogus legal challenges to ...

That’s no pizza: A wall painting found in Pompeii doesn’t depict Italy’s iconic dish

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:23:47 GMT

MILAN (AP) — A still-life fresco discovered recently in the Pompeii archaeological site looks like a pizza, but it’s not, experts at the archaeological site said Tuesday. They noted that key ingredients needed to make Italy’s iconic dish — tomatoes and mozzarella — were not available when the fresco was painted some 2,000 years ago. Tomatoes were only introduced to Europe from the Americas a few centuries ago, and some histories have it that the discovery of mozzarella led directly to the invention of pizza in nearby Naples in the 1700s. The image is instead believed to be a focaccia covered with fruit, including pomegranate and possibly dates, finished with spices or a type of pesto, experts said. In the fresco, it is served on a silver plate and a wine chalice stands next to it.The contrast of the frugal meal served in a luxurious setting, denoted by the silver tray, is not unlike modern-day pizza, “born as a poor-man’s dish in southern Italy, which has won over the wo...

CP NewsAlert: Amber Alert cancelled after six-year-old twin sisters found safe

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:23:47 GMT

An Amber Alert issued by Montreal police for six-year-old twin sisters has been lifted after the girls were found safe.More coming.The Canadian Press

'Terrifying': Hundreds of teens takeover Lakeview, damage property

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:23:47 GMT

CHICAGO — Hundreds of teens swarmed the streets in Lakeview Monday night, causing disorder and destruction in the neighborhood. It's the latest takeover in the city that has left residents and local leaders searching for solutions. The teen poured off the Chicago "L" train at the Belmont Red Line stop, shutting the roadway for several hours in a scene that unfolded just after 10 p.m. Illinois set to create state run insurance marketplace, rate review "They were jumping on cars, breaking glass, throwing things. I know my personal automobile was used as a bar for people," said a concerned resident who did not wish to be identified. The resident shared video with WGN News that shows kids surrounding a police car, with some even jumping on the vehicle.The woman said that's when she called 911. “I was told that there was nothing they could do," the woman said. "They were so overwhelmed at the moment that there were just way too many calls coming in."Chicago police officers worked...