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Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:50:47 GMT

Food prices ease for the first time since 2020. Here’s what’s getting cheaper

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:50:47 GMT

(CNN) — Grocery prices finally dipped in March, falling for the first time since September 2020, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Of six major grocery food group indexes, three fell from February to March. The meats, poultry, fish and eggs index fell 1.4%, pulled down by another month of large decreases in egg prices.Fruits and vegetable prices fell 1.3%, and dairy products ticked down 0.1%. The other indexes, for non-alcoholic beverages, cereals and bakery products and all other groceries, went up.While the monthly decline is a relief, groceries are still expensive on an annual basis. In the year through March, grocery prices jumped 8.4%, outpacing overall inflation of 5%. Menu prices went up 8.8% in that time.Over the course of the year, a number of grocery items notched large price increases. Eggs rose 36%, margarine went up 33.4%, flour got 17.5% pricier, potatoes went up 9.7%, cheese rose 8.2% and milk went up 5.5%...

Police investigate discovery infant remains

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:50:47 GMT

REVERE, Mass. (AP) — The human remains found outside of an apartment building north of Boston have been determined to be those of an infant girl was at or close to full-term, state police said Wednesday.Revere police responded to the building in the city at about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday after a man found the remains, state police said.According to broadcast reports, the remains were found inside a trash bag near some trash cans. State police assigned to the Suffolk district attorney’s office also responded to the scene.The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner conducted an examination of the infant and the cause and manner of her death are pending, police said. The investigation is ongoing.No additional information was released.Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact police.Massachusetts has a baby “safe haven” law, that allows parents to surrender infants up to 7 days old at a hospital, police station, or staffed fire station without facing crimi...

Remains of infant girl found outside Revere apartment building

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:50:47 GMT

Police have determined that the body of an infant girl was found outside a Revere apartment building Tuesday night.Revere police officers responded to the apartment block along Dolphin Avenue near its intersection with Henry Street shortly after 6:20 p.m. Tuesday after an adult had reported possible human remains near the walls of the building, according to the Massachusetts State Police.The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner took custody of the remains that night. Just before 3:40 p.m. Wednesday, the MSP shared that the medical examiner determined that the remains were those of a “female infant, who was at or close to full-term, and who likely was white or light skinned.”The cause of death has not yet been determined and is pending an investigation by the State Police and Revere Police.Investigators ask that anyone with any information contact State Police detectives at 617-727-8817.This is a developing story.

Celtics vs. Hawks schedule released: Dates, tip times for first-round NBA playoff series

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:50:47 GMT

The NBA announced the dates and times of the best-of-seven first-round series between the Celtics and Hawks, with the second-seeded C’s beginning their chase for a championship with Saturday’s Game 1 at TD Garden.The Celtics learned their opponent after the Hawks upset the Heat in Tuesday night’s play-in game to determine the Eastern Conference’s No. 7 seed. Boston went 3-0 against Atlanta this season, though one of the games was Sunday’s regular-season finale when both teams rested their starters.The winner of the Celtics-Hawks series will play the winner of the 76ers-Nets series in the second round.The Celtics and Hawks have met 12 times in the postseason, with the C’s taking 10 of those series. The last series came in the 2016 first round, when the Hawks beat the Celtics in six games. The last time the C’s won the championship in 2008, they defeated the Hawks in seven games in the first round.The full series schedule is listed below. All games will be broadcasted on NBC Sports Bo...

TV Tinsel: Goodall reflects on her work, which now has inspired a fictional series for families

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:50:47 GMT

Luaine Lee | Tribune News ServiceJane Goodall has inspired animal lovers all over the world through her innovative work with primates. Now her work has sparked a television series, “Jane,” for Apple TV+. The series is about a 9-year-old girl who is inspired by the works and words of Goodall. Along with her good friends, David and Graybeard the chimpanzee, she launches a series of flamboyant adventures to help save a Noah’s Ark assembly of wild creatures.The 10-episode series, aimed at families, premieres on Friday and is graced by Goodall’s approval via Jane Goodall Institute’s Andria Teather.When we spoke some months ago, Goodall told me it was when she was a little girl that she first became entranced with the wild kingdom. “Tarzan and Dr. Doolittle fascinated me, and ‘The Jungle Book,’ ‘Call of the Wild,’ every book I had was about animals,” she recalled.“I had a nanny, I was about 6 at the time, she stayed on when my sister was born, and she saved up coupons. Those days you real...

Blue Jays to open Rogers Centre roof on earliest date ever tonight

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:50:47 GMT

The Toronto Blue Jays will play with the roof open at Rogers Centre for the earliest time on the calendar in history on Wednesday when the club hosts the Detroit Tigers in the second home game of the year.The club announced the roof status just under four hours before game time.The Roof is OPEN tonight Enjoy it, #BlueJays fans! pic.twitter.com/S9qM5zPt4F— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) April 12, 2023The April 12 opening is four days ahead of the previous earliest date — April 16, 2002, against the Boston Red Sox when the Blue Jays lost 14-3. The stadium opened in 1989.Unseasonably warm weather was expected to lift the temperature to a high of 29 C in Toronto on Wednesday, though it will dip for the 7:07 p.m. ET / 4:07 p.m. PT first pitch and as the game goes along.Some were wondering if the roof would be opened for the home opener at the newly renovated stadium on Tuesday when the temperature was cooler, but still above normal. However, GM Ross Atkins said tests still had...

911 calls show chaotic moments during Kentucky bank shooting

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:50:47 GMT

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Frantic calls from witnesses reporting a mass shooting at a Louisville bank were released Wednesday by police — including from a woman who was on a virtual meeting and saw the shooter, as well as one from the man’s mother, who told a 911 operator that her son “currently has a gun and is heading toward” the bank.“I need your help. He’s never hurt anyone, he’s a good kid,” said the woman, who identified herself as the gunman’s mother.None of the callers are identified by name and other information is edited out of the calls, but the first call that came in was from a woman who was on a video call inside the bank. She screams and cries throughout the four-minute call and says there is an active shooter at the downtown branch of the bank.“I just watched it on a Teams meeting,” she says. “We were having a board meeting. With our commercial (lending) team.”“We heard multiple shots and everybody started saying, ’Oh my God and then he came into...

Los Angeles DA files charges against 2 cops in 2020 shooting

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:50:47 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two former Los Angeles-area police detectives have been charged in the 2020 shooting of an unarmed man that left him paralyzed from the waist down, the district attorney said Wednesday.Former Whittier detectives Cynthia Lopez and Salvador Murillo opened fire on April 30, 2020, as Nicholas Carrillo ran from them. Two bullets struck him in the back — one severing his spinal cord — as he climbed a fence to escape. “Although he was lucky to survive, his life was forever changed and he must now begin using a wheelchair,” Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said Wednesday during a news conference.Murillo is charged with two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and two counts of assault under color of authority. Lopez faces two counts of assault under color of authority, one count of shooting into an occupied vehicle and one count of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. Prosecutors filed the charges Tuesday. The detectives were in plainclothes a...

Prairie premiers’ fears about Lametti comments have ‘no grounding in truth’: Trudeau

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:50:47 GMT

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing Prairie premiers of distorting the words of his justice minister after comments David Lametti made at a meeting of Assembly of First Nations chiefs last week.Lametti told the meeting he would commit to “looking at” federal-provincial natural resource transfer agreements, after some chiefs called for Ottawa to repeal the law that gives the four western provinces control over resource development. The premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba released a joint statement asking Trudeau to “immediately retract these dangerous and divisive comments,” saying the agreements are fundamental to the provinces’ economic autonomy. Meanwhile, the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs praised what they took as Lametti’s commitment to review the law. “With First Nations’ rights to self-governance, royalties and compensation for extracting renewable and non...