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Emergency crews respond after 2 people hit and killed by trains in Whitman, Billerica 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:47:25 GMT

Two people were hit and killed by trains in separate incidents in Whitman and Billerica Tuesday night, officials said. In Whitman, MBTA transit police said a teenage girl between the ages of 16 and 19 was hit around 8:30 p.m. roughly 1,000 yards south of Whitman Station. Shuttle buses were replacing service on the MBTA Commuter Rail’s Kingston Line between South Station and Hanson station as the investigation continued. In Billerica, police were still on scene around 11 p.m. Lowell Commuter Rail line service was impacted. Investigations into both incidents were ongoing as of Tuesday night.

Barrero’s grand slam lifts Reds to 9-8 win over Red Sox

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:47:25 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Jose Barrero hit a grand slam to lift the Cincinnati Reds to a fourth straight win with a 9-8 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night.Will Benson had three hits to back Ben Lively (3-2), who pitched 5 2/3 shutout innings. He struck out six for the Reds, who blew it open with a five-run seventh inning.The Reds were 0-for-14 with runners in scoring position until Barrero hit a homer off reliever Joely Rodríguez that was headed out of Fenway Park before bouncing off one of the light standards above the Green Monster in left.Raimel Tapia had three of Boston’s 14 hits and drove in a pair of runs. The Red Sox lost their second straight and have dropped six of eight.Boston scored all eight of its runs in the final three innings, getting five in the ninth but couldn’t quite catch the Reds, who clinched the win when reliever Alexis Diaz struck out Triston Casas for the final out and his 13th save.Barrero, who entered the game in the fourth after TJ Friedl left wi...

Furious rally falls short as Red Sox doomed by early miscues in 9-8 loss to Reds

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:47:25 GMT

By all accounts the game should have been over. The Red Sox offense was no-showing again, Brayan Bello wasn’t sharp, Kiké Hernández had committed two costly errors and Joely Rodriguez had just walked three batters and served up a crushing grand slam to put the Cincinnati Reds ahead 8-0.Yet here the Red Sox were with the tying run at third base and a chance to cap off a stunning ninth-inning rally.In the end the self-inflicted damage proved too much to overcome. The Red Sox scored eight runs in the final three innings but couldn’t get over the hump, with Triston Casas striking out to end the roller coaster 9-8 loss at Fenway Park on Tuesday night.“We made some adjustments a little too late and the game got fast on us,” Rafael Devers said afterwards. “They beat us today but we’ll get back tomorrow and try to get a win.”The late rally came after a moribund stretch that saw the Red Sox effectively give away a game Cincinnati didn’t really ...

Tuesday’s high school roundup/scores: Westford’s Molly Smith wins sectional golf tournament

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:47:25 GMT

Molly Smith of Westford Academy captured the North/Central/West sectional girls golf title Tuesday morning at Cold Spring Country Club in Belchertown, shooting an impressive 71. Isabella Brozena of North Reading, Lauren Connor of Westfield and Alika’ Lavu of Wellesley finished one stroke behind at 72, while Maddie Smith of Westford Academy, Kiera Joshi of Ashland, Victoria Veator of Ursuline all shot 74.Wellesley captured the team title with a score of 333, outdistancing runner up Notre Dame (Worcester) which finished second at 350. Ursuline took third with 362, and Westborough rounded out the top four with a 366.BOYS SOCCERCatholic Memorial named Brian Powers as its new boys soccer coach and Wagner Brito as its associate head coach. A former standout at Middlesex and later at Tufts, Powers is a history teacher at the school. Brito serves as a director of Juventus Academy Boston. He previously served in a similar capacity in the Valeo Futbol Club, where he was recognized for c...

Body found floating near Shelter Island identified

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:47:25 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- The identity of a body found floating near Shelter Island last week was released, local medical officials said.Michael Joseph Herlihy was identified as the deceased, Myra Colon with the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office told FOX 5 Tuesday. The San Diego Harbor Police Department said they received a call about the body on Friday around 8:15 a.m. Video shows several sharks feed on dolphin at Torrey Pines State Beach Authorities then removed the body from the waters. Officers did not find anything suspicious while at the scene, according to law enforcement.Herlihy's manner and cause of death is pending, officials said.Anyone with information related to this incident is encouraged to call Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.

Passenger killed by truck's cement bags on I-805 identified

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:47:25 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A La Jolla woman who died after being struck by bags of cement that fell from a an overturned truck on a freeway in Clairemont was identified, local medical officials said.Karen Lee Cooper, 72, was announced as the deceased, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office said on its website.The crash occurred Friday afternoon on the Interstate 805 offramp, per California Highway Patrol.According to authorities, a Chevrolet pickup truck carrying a one-ton stake bed was traveling on State Route 52, when the concrete bags from the truck fell from the overcrossing to the eastbound lanes of SR-52 as the truck lost control and overturned. One of the bags struck the windshield of the Mercedes the victim was in. 3-year-old fatally struck by car in Chula Vista Cooper, who was in the front passenger seat of that vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene, CHP said. The medical examiner's office determined her cause of death was due to blunt force injuries.The driver of the M...

Private flight with 2 Saudi astronauts returns from space station with Gulf of Mexico splashdown

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:47:25 GMT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private flight carrying two Saudi astronauts and other passengers returned to Earth late Tuesday night after a nine-day trip to the International Space Station.The SpaceX capsule carrying the four parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico, just off the Florida panhandle, 12 hours after undocking from the orbiting lab.The Saudi government picked up the multimillion-dollar tab for its two astronauts: Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher who became the first Saudi woman in space; and fighter pilot Ali al-Qarni.Barnawi wiped away tears as she wrapped up her experiments and prepared to leave the space station. “Every story comes to an end and this is only the beginning of a new era for our country and our region,” she said Monday. A Knoxville, Tennessee, businessman who started a race car team, John Shoffner, paid his own way to the space station. The ticket-holders were accompanied by retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who now works for the Houston company ...

UN urges Iraq to deliver on reforms and combat corruption — and backs it fight against terrorism

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:47:25 GMT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council encouraged Iraq’s recently formed government to deliver on reforms and combat corruption in a resolution adopted unanimously Tuesday that backs the country’s ongoing fight against the Islamic State, al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.The resolution, which extends the U.N. political mission in Iraq for a year, welcomes last October’s confirmation by Iraq’s Council of Representatives of a new government and Cabinet led by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani after a more than year-long political stalemate that was punctuated by outbreaks of street violence.Twenty years after the U.S. invasion toppled longtime dictator Saddam Hussein and divided the unified country in the heart of the Arab world, Iraq is still seeking stability. In 2014, lslamic State fighters seized Iraqi cities and declared a self-styled caliphate in a large swath of territory in Syria and Iraq. The group was formally declared defeated in Iraq in 2017 following a thr...

‘Irresponsible behaviour’: TTC investigating after firework set off on bus

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:47:25 GMT

Warning: The video shared in the article contains language that some people might find offensive. Discretion is advised.The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) says it’s investigating after video recorded the moments a group of teenagers set off a firework on a bus in broad daylight.The video was published on Twitter and began to circulate online on Tuesday. It shows a young person with a firework in hand on an occupied TTC bus.Meanwhile on the TTC… pic.twitter.com/Bo3M9eEloi— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) May 30, 2023The individual then lights the firework and aims it at the back of the bus, where several people can be seen ducking and frantically trying to evade it. After a few seconds, the firework goes off in the person’s hand, and screams can be heard inside the bus.The person recording the video and many others get off the bus and flees.CityNews has not independently verified the video, but a TTC spokesperson says it is aware of the incident and has opened an investiga...

China factory activity slows, adding to economic strains

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:47:25 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — China’s factory activity decelerated in May, a survey showed Wednesday, adding to signs its economic rebound after the end of anti-virus controls is slowing.A monthly purchasing managers’ index issued by the national statistics agency and an industry group declined to 48.4 from April’s 49.2 on a 100-point scale on which numbers below 50 show activity declining.Chinese manufacturers have been hurt by weakening global demand after central banks in the United States, Europe and Asia raised interest rates to cool inflation.At home, Chinese consumer spending revived after anti-virus curbs on travel and business activity were lifted in December. But the recovery has been weaker than expected.Economic growth accelerated to 4.5% over a year earlier in the three months ending in March, from the previous quarter’s 2.9%. Growth will have to accelerate in coming quarters to hit the ruling Communist Party’s annual target of “around 5%.”The Associated Press