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Search underway for person who drove at Boston police officer, prompting them to shoot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:49:26 GMT

Police continue to search for a person who drove at a Boston police officer Tuesday night, prompting them to fire a single shot through the windshield of the vehicle.Police say a driver in a rented SUV drove at the officer near the intersection of Wachusett Street and Eldridge Road around 8 p.m.Officers could be seen investigating a taped-off car at a second scene near the Forest Hills MBTA station in Jamaica Plain. Investigators say they’ve recovered a piece of clothing and caught the suspect on surveillance video.The officer was uninjured in the incident.No additional information was immediately available.Anyone with information about the incident is urged to call Boston police.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Boston police investigating crash on Columbia Road with life-threatening injuries

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:49:26 GMT

Boston police are responding to a crash with life-threatening injuries and motorists are advised to seek alternate routes while the investigation unfolds.The crash on Columbia Road prompted the closure of the street between Glendale and Hamilton, according to police.No additional information was immediately available.https://twitter.com/bostonpolice/status/1666384245772759040This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Young Pats fan gets special surprise from Mac Jones after injuring arm

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:49:26 GMT

A young New England Patriots fan whose jersey was ruined after he broke his arm on the playground got a special surprise and a message from the QB.Ashton Turmel, of Delaware, was playing on the playground when he broke his arm and ruptured a major artery in his arm. As he was being rushed to the hospital, paramedics were forced to ruin his favorite Tom Brady jersey.The doctor who saved his arm, Dr. E.J. Caterson, also a Pats fan, reached out to his former colleagues at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Soon after, Ashton received a personalized message from Mac Jones and a signed Mac Jones jersey from the team.

Smoke and Showers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:49:26 GMT

Temps climbed into the mid 70s yesterday, which was certainly a welcomed change of pace, but we also had to deal with scattered afternoon storms and a smoky sky. With a high level of smoke making it’s way down to ground level, at times the air quality was poor/unhealthy for southern New England. While the density of the smoke today is not as high as yesterday, residual smoke is creating a haze to the sky and prompting another air quality alert for today. Temps today run 65-70 this afternoon with more clouds than sun, and occasionally, a passing sprinkle/shower. The rain showers are hit or miss, so not all towns will see one. The thunder threat is lower today vs. yesterday too. Tomorrow, pretty much a repeat pattern. Friday too. We will have a bit of a higher chance for scattered showers/storms to pop-up Friday vs. the next couple days, but the flavor of the day is the same. Saturday, not too many changes are in storm as highs run 65-70 and a few more isolated storms pop. With...

Police investigating after 2 people shot in Lawrence

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:49:26 GMT

An investigation is underway after two people were wounded in a shooting in Lawrence early Wednesday morning.Officers responding to a report of shots fired in the area of the Blue Lounge on the corner of Canal and Amesbury streets found two males suffering from apparent gunshot wounds, according to Lawrence police. They were taken to Lawrence General Hospital with what were considered non-life-threatening injuries.No additional information was immediately available.Anyone with information is urged to call Lawrence police.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Howie Carr: Taxachusetts – it’s back

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:49:26 GMT

Why are we still here in Massachusetts?Because we’re not all there.Someone told me that joke recently, and it seemed appropriate for what’s going on. I mean, everything has been spiraling out of control here for quite some time. But it seems to be getting worse, crazier, not making any sense whatsoever.Just to take one example – nip bottles of alcohol. There’s a movement to outlaw the little mini-containers, and I get it.Winos chug them – the smaller the bottle, the larger the problem. They increase litter. And perhaps worst of all, they’re easy to hide and drink while you’re driving.Remember what they found in Rep. David “Sleepy” LeBouef’s wrecked car when he was lugged for driving legless last year — multiple containers of Dr. McGillicuddy’s non-prescription Wild Grape elixirs.So you can understand why it might be good public policy to get rid of nips. Yet at the same moment, some legislators on Beacon Hill are pushing to allow barrooms to sell mixed drinks to go.How does th...

Six things we learned from the Orioles’ first 60 games

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:49:26 GMT

In the major leagues, 60 games is still a relatively unreliable sample size.Great players have had unspectacular 60-game stretches, and bad ones have put up stellar stats across that sample. Just a few years ago, however, 60 games was all there was.Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Major League Baseball held a 60-game season, in which the rebuilding Orioles went 25-35 before losing 110 games in 2021. For the Orioles in 2020, José Iglesias hit .373, Renato Núñez was on a full-season pace to hit 32 home runs and Chance Sisco had a better OPS than Austin Hays.Given those examples, it’s safe to assume the numbers the Orioles have put up thus far — whether good or bad — are far from set in stone. Through 60 games this year, Baltimore is 37-23 — 12 games better than its start in 2022 and its first time above .500 at this point since 2017.That doesn’t mean, of course, that nothing can be gleaned from the first two-plus months of the season. Here...

Diamond jubilee: How to have a ball in London during the Cubs vs. Cardinals series

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:49:26 GMT

Baseball might be America’s favorite pastime, but the rest of the world wants in on the fun, too. Since 1996, when Major League Baseball took the San Diego Padres and the New York Mets to Mexico for a three-game series, the brand has been expanding its global reach with games in Australia, Japan, Puerto Rico and soon (it’s rumored) South Korea and the Dominican Republic.In 2019, the MLB brought the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees across the pond for the league’s first European game. And now, after a three-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, the London Series is back June 24-25, and this time our own Chicago Cubs will square off against the St. Louis Cardinals, the start of a three-year contract through 2026 (with the 2025 game set in Paris).The games are hosted at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park’s London Stadium, home to West Ham Football Club (hands up if you’re a “Ted Lasso” fan), in East London. It’s an area that, prior to...

Rishi Sunak goes to Washington with Ukraine, economy and AI on agenda for Biden meeting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:49:26 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The war in Ukraine was top of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s agenda Wednesday as he started a two-day trip to Washington carrying the message that post-Brexit Britain remains an essential American ally in a world of emboldened authoritarian states. The U.S. and U.K. are the two biggest military donors to Ukraine, and the war will be the focus of Sunak’s meeting Thursday at the White House with President Joe Biden. The breaching of a major dam in southern Ukraine, which sent floodwaters gushing through towns and over farmland, has given the subject added urgency. Neither Washington nor London has officially accused Russia of blowing up the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, but Sunak told reporters during his flight to Washington that it would “demonstrate the new lows that we would have seen from Russian aggression.”Britain and the U.S. are lead players in an international effort to give Ukraine F-16 fighter jets, and talks are also likely to include extra air defense measu...

Former ByteDance executive says Chinese Communist Party tracked Hong Kong protesters via data

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:49:26 GMT

HONG KONG (AP) — A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns the popular short-video app TikTok, says in a legal filing that some members of the ruling Communist Party used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong.Yintao Yu, formerly head of engineering for ByteDance in the U.S., says those same people had access to U.S. user data, an accusation that the company denies.Yu, who worked for the company in 2018, made the allegations in a recent filing for a wrongful dismissal case filed in May in the San Francisco Superior Court. In the documents submitted to the court he said ByteDance had a “superuser” credential — also known as a god credential — that enabled a special committee of Chinese Communist Party members stationed at the company to view all data collected by ByteDance including those of U.S. users.The credential acted as a “backdoor to any barrier ByteDance had supposedly installed to protect data from the C.C.P’s surveillan...