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Sunshine returns

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:52 GMT

After a gloomy couple days, sunny and dry weather returns to New England Sunday. Temperatures will start cool but range from the upper 60s along the coast, to the low 70s inland for our area by afternoon. If you’re headed to the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk Sunday, it should be nice but a tad cool during the event. If your plans take you to Northern New England, fall foliage is underway with some isolated spots of peak color just starting for some of the mountains. Peak foliage here in Southern New England is a few weeks away but we are starting to see some color in spots. Stay tuned for the updated foliage forecast as the season progresses.

Gunnar Henderson named Most Valuable Oriole in sensational rookie season: ‘That guy gives so much heart’

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:52 GMT

For the second straight year, a rookie has been named the best player on the Orioles.Gunnar Henderson, at just 22 years old, was announced as the Most Valuable Oriole on Saturday, as local media recognized the young star who helped propel Baltimore atop the American League.Before 2022, only two rookies had been named MVO in Orioles history dating back to 1954. Now, Baltimore’s rebuild has paid off, as Henderson follows Adley Rutschman, who won the award last year, as rookie MVOs.“The history of the O’s, being able to be up there with all those guys like Ripken, Robinson, the list goes on, it’s really special,” Henderson said. “To do it in the first year is really awesome as well.”The two former No. 1 overall prospects winning the award is further proof — if any was needed — that the Orioles’ youth movement has arrived and is thriving. Rutschman and Henderson are the two best position players on the best team in th...

Uxbridge makes a statement, blanks Walpole in field hockey clash

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:52 GMT

UXBRIDGE – Any speculation of how it would stack up to the state’s other elites is finally put to rest – the Div. 4 Uxbridge field hockey team can match up with any squad the MIAA has to offer.The No. 12 Spartans (7-0) proved that on Saturday, using a complete team effort to stifle No. 2 Walpole, 1-0, in the first matchup against one another.Uxbridge held the Porkers to three shots on net with tight coverage all game, pairing it with Kendall Gilmore’s tally in the third quarter to extend the program’s unbeaten streak to 61 games.Strength of schedule pinned the back-to-back Div. 4 state champions at No. 6 in the MIAA’s first set of power rankings the day prior. Beating Div. 1’s top-ranked team puts Uxbridge in a much different light.“My sister said this was 30 years in the making … that we finally have the opportunity to actually play (Walpole) and compete with them,” said Spartans head coach Kelly Rosborough. “(That) was the best version of (us). … They work so, so hard that for the...

Boston College tops Virginia with inspired second-half rally

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:52 GMT

Boston College’s coach didn’t need to give the mother of all halftime speeches to rally the Eagles to their first ACC win.Deflated and down 14 after two, the Eagles outscored (20-3) and outgained (256-39) the Virgina Cavaliers in the second half and to secure a 27-24 victory before 41,868.The Eagles (2-3, 1-2) notched their first win against and FBS opponent and exited the basement of the ACC in the process. BC will take a break from league play when it engages the Cadets or Army next Saturday (noon) at West Point.“We have a resilient group that could have laid it down but they didn’t,” said coach Jeff Hafley. “Speeches only go so far and what you say to fire them up and get them to run out of the tunnel, that doesn’t last.“It how resilient they are and trust and believe in the team. Sure, we made some adjustments and we picked up the temp on offense. We came out and played a way better second half.”BC regained the lead on a 42-yard field goal by sophomore Liam Connor with 2:1...

UN to vote on resolution to authorize one-year deployment of armed force to help Haiti fight gangs

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:52 GMT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is scheduling a vote Monday on a resolution that would authorize a one-year deployment of an international force to help Haiti quell a surge in gang violence and restore security so the troubled Caribbean nation can hold long-delayed elections.The U.S.-drafted resolution obtained by The Associated Press on Saturday welcomes Kenya’s offer to lead the multinational security force. It makes clear this would be a non-U.N. force funded by voluntary contributions.The resolution would authorize the force for one year, with a review after nine months.The force would be allowed to provide operational support to Haiti’s National Police, which is underfunded and under resourced, with only some 10,000 active officers for a country of more than 11 million people.The resolution said the force would help built capacity of local police “through the planning and conduct of joint security support operations as it works to counter gangs and improv...

‘A shared responsibility’: quotes from Canada’s 3rd Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:52 GMT

People donned orange clothing and gathered by the hundreds across Canada on Saturday to acknowledge the systemic oppression of Indigenous people by marking the third annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The federal statutory holiday recognizes abuses suffered by Inuit, First Nations and Metis people at hundreds of state and church-run residential schools.Here are some excerpts of what was said in honour of the occasion:—“I remember sitting there crying, and I was only seven years old. And my parents were probably thinking, ‘Yeah, our kids are in a better place, they’re safe, they’re looked after, they’re getting an education. But it wasn’t (safe). I was sexually abused by one of the workers, and I never talked about that.” — Tammy Cook-Searson, chief of Saskatchewan’s Lac La Ronge Indian Band—“A lot of us have to understand not just what happened in the past, but the impacts that the past has in very real things today … Whether itR...

Panama Canal reduces the maximum number of ships travelling the waterway to 31 per day

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:52 GMT

PANAMA CITY (AP) — The Panama Canal announced Saturday it will reduce the maximum number of ships travelling the waterway to 31 per day, from 32 in August, due to a drought that has reduced the supply of fresh water needed to operate the locks. That compares to daily averages of 36 to 38 ships per day under normal operation. Nine ships per day will be allowed to use the new, bigger NeoPanamax locks and 22 per day will be handled through the older Panamax locks. The Canal Authority guaranteed a draft of 44 feet for ships, in part because 70% of ships using the waterway need at least that depth.In August, the canal implemented a measure capping the number of ships passing through its locks daily to a maximum of 32.Not enough rain has fallen to feed the watershed system of rivers and brooks that fill lakes, whose waters in turn fill the locks.The watershed also supplies freshwater to Panama City, home to about half the country’s 4 million people.The Associated Press

Hundreds of tenants at 2 North York buildings to join rent strike

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:52 GMT

Deteriorating living conditions and unaffordable rent increases have led more than 100 tenants at two apartment buildings in North York to join other neighbourhood groups in withholding rent from their landlord. The buildings at 1440 and 1442 Lawrence Avenue West are owned by Barney River Investments. Residents claim the private real estate investment and management company has refused to address serious repairs in the buildings while consistently increasing rent above rent control. Conditions are said to be so bad that even Canada Post has refused to deliver mail to the buildings the last three years. “Canada post is saying bed bug infestation in your building and they are not going to deliver mail but for the landlord it’s OK for people to live in these conditions,” said Bruno Dobrusin, an organizer with the York South-Weston Tenant Union. CityNews detected foul smells throughout several floors which appeared to have not been properly cleaned, including garbage s...

State of Texas: 'This is about truth,' Whistleblower case against Paxton cleared to move forward

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:52 GMT

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Two weeks after Attorney General Ken Paxton's acquittal in his impeachment trial, the Texas Supreme Court announced on Friday that the whistleblowers' lawsuit against Paxton can move forward.The lawsuit was filed by former top deputies at the Office of Attorney General who claim they were wrongfully fired by Paxton. The former employees say the firings came after making "good faith" reports to the FBI about alleged actions taken by Paxton for the benefit of Austin-area real estate developer Nate Paul.The ruling from the Texas Supreme Court clears the way for the lawsuit to return to a Travis County trial court. The lawsuit had been on hold after a $3.3 million dollar settlement with the whistleblowers was proposed. Concerns over using taxpayer funds to pay the settlement helped lead to the Texas House investigation of Paxton and subsequent impeachment trial.Nexstar spoke with Blake Brickman, one of the whistleblowers involved in the impeachment trial and lawsuit. ...

Area college football: Last-second goal-line stand preserves Tommies’ 20-14 victory over Dayton

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:52 GMT

St. Thomas needed a last-second goal-line stand to pull out a hard-fought 20-14 victory over Dayton in a Pioneer Football League game Saturday in Dayton, Ohio.The Flyers had the ball at the Tommies’ 4-yard line with 10 seconds left on the clock. But on fourth down, St. Thomas’ Johnson Fallah snuck up behind wide-open receiver Joey Swanson in the end zone and batted away a pass from Dante Casciola, preventing a tying touchdown and preserving the Tommies’ 12th consecutive PFL victory.St. Thomas (3-2 overall, 2-0 PFL) led 20-0 midway through the second quarter, but Dayton (2-3, 0-2) kept clawing its way back into the game.Tommies quarterback Tak Tateoka completed 15 of 23 passes for 100 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions.The St. Thomas defense got 13 tackles from Nick Hand and 12 from Jonathan Bunce, plus interceptions from Grif Wurtz and Kam In.Bethel 37, Gustavus Adolphus 28The Royals (2-2, 1-1 MIAC) scored 20 points in the final 5 minutes and 4 seconds to r...