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‘No place like home’: DC native brings ‘The Wiz’ back to National Theatre with outreach to DC students

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:09 GMT

After traveling to Oz, Dorothy famously clicked her heels together to declare, “There’s no place like home.”A Broadway producer is now saying the same thing as she brings the iconic stage musical “The Wiz” home to the National Theatre in the nation’s capital this Thursday through Sunday.“We are so excited,” co-producer Marjuan Canady told WTOP. “I’m a native Washingtonian. I attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts many years ago. One of the performers in ‘The Wiz’ was my former classmate in the musical theater program, Allyson Kaye Daniel, so this show has really been a reunion for us. We just love seeing each other in rehearsal and all of the shows so far, so it’s been a lot of fun just to reconnect with her.”Tuesday’s opening night falls on the exact 45th anniversary of “The Wiz” opening in movie theaters on Oct. 24, 1978. The stage version premiered in Baltimore on Oct. 21, 19...

Gaza hospitals overwhelmed, doctor trying to get supplies to those in desperate need

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:09 GMT

A Palestinian journalist comfort his niece wounded in an Israeli strike on her family home in Nusseirat refugee camp, in a hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Mahmoud)As the Israel-Hamas war rages on, one Chicago doctor who has a team working on the ground in Gaza gives WTOP an account of what they are seeing.Dr. Zaher Sahloul, president of U.S.-based MedGlobal, says his team in Gaza is trying to get healthcare supplies to those in desperate need.“One hospital in the United States in Chicago has more ICU beds and more ventilators than the whole Gaza Strip,” said Sahloul on Sunday.“They are piling the dead bodies outside the hospital,” he told WTOP. “They’re worried about contaminating water sources with the decomposing bodies. And I’ve seen videos of emergency rooms full of patients on the floor. They were operating on patients without anesthesia at some major hospitals, and others.”A Palestinian medic carries a b...

Oilers star Connor McDavid to miss 1 to 2 weeks with upper-body injury

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:09 GMT

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — The Edmonton Oilers are expected to be without star forward Connor McDavid for 1 to 2 weeks due to an upper-body injury.McDavid, who has totaled two goals and six assists in five games this season, was injured during a 3-2 overtime loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday night. He missed the last few minutes of the third period and didn’t play in the extra period.The Oilers announced his expected absence on Sunday.McDavid won the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player after recording a career-high 153 points last season.The Oilers (1-3-1) next play at Minnesota on Tuesday night before hosting the New York Rangers on Thursday night to open a four-game homestand.___AP NHL: https://www.apnews.com/hub/NHLSource

MLB playoffs 2023: Game 7 of ALCS in Houston; Nola and Phillies look to close out Arizona in NLCS

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:09 GMT

Three teams are one win from the World Series heading into Monday’s playoff doubleheader.First, the Philadelphia Phillies look to close out Arizona at home when they send Aaron Nola to the mound with a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven NL Championship Series.Then it’s a decisive Game 7 in the ALCS as three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer and the Texas Rangers face Cristian Javier and the defending champion Astros in Houston. Road teams are unbeaten in this Lone Star State showdown, only the second time in baseball history the home side has dropped the first six games in a best-of-seven postseason series. The other time it happened, Scherzer started Game 7 in Houston as well — pitching for the Washington Nationals as they defeated the Astros to win the 2019 World Series.“Seems a little odd nobody is winning at home,” Rangers designated hitter Mitch Garver said. “And I would like for it to stay that way.” Texas, one of six major league teams without a World Series titl...

‘Be on alert’: Police searching for man in connection with Gardner homicide

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:09 GMT

Authorities are warning the public to be on alert as they search for an “armed and dangerous” man in connection with a the death of a woman in Gardner on Sunday morning who was found in a home with four young children inside, officials said.Aaron Pennington, 33, of Gardner, is being sought in connection with the death of a woman on Cherry Street. Her name has not been released.Investigators say four children, ages 2, 5, 7, and 9 were inside the home at the time and left to get help. The children are now in the custody of the Department of Children and Families, according to the Worcester district attorney’s office.Pennington is described as being a white man with blonde hair, blue eyes, who is about 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing about 175 pounds. He is believed to be driving a white 2013 BMW model 320 with a MA Veteran plate 8A30.Anyone with information is asked to call Gardner police at 978-632-5600. If you see Pennington do not approach him, as he is potentia...

Boston police ask for help in search for Roxbury aggravated assault suspect

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:09 GMT

Boston police are turning to the public for help as they attempt to track down a woman wanted for aggravated assault with a knife, officials said.Officers responding to a reported aggravated assault in the area of 218 Blue Hill Avenue on Friday afternoon are looking for a woman who is described as Black, 30-40 years old, who was wearing a gray crewneck shirt, dark gray sweatpants with two white stripes down the leg, and black slides. She is believed to frequent the area of Dewey Street and Blue Hill Avenue.Anyone with information is strongly urged to contact District B-2 Detectives at (617) 343-4275.Community members wishing to assist in this investigation anonymously can do so by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1 (800) 494-TIPS or by texting the word ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463).This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Lucas: ‘Right to shelter’ not meant for migrants

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:09 GMT

Gov. Maura Healey does not have to amend or repeal the state’s “right to shelter” law.All she needs to do is enforce it.The law as written, and passed forty years ago, was never intended to house and feed the explosion of migrants from around the world storming into Massachusetts.It was passed and signed into law by liberal Democrat Gov. Michael Dukakis in 1983 to deal with the relatively small number of homeless families and pregnant women who were residents of Massachusetts, not residents of other states or countries.But the law has not been interpreted or enforced the way it was written. Instead, progressives have proudly waved it as a banner of compassion and an invitation to migrants from around the world to come to Massachusetts where they will be cared for.Liberal Massachusetts is the only state in the union with such a law.The word eventually went out that Massachusetts was a soft touch. So the mostly illegal immigrants came, and are coming, to the point that Healey had to c...

Boston city councilor won’t lose election after Israel-Hamas remarks, observers say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:09 GMT

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson is expected to sail through in next month’s election, but political observers say her comments on the Israel-Hamas war could be a factor in two years if she faces a stronger opponent.Her description of the Hamas terrorist organization as a “militant group” and characterization of the Oct. 7 attack that killed more than 1,400 Israelis as a “military operation” last Wednesday was heavily criticized, but isn’t expected to turn off a majority of voters in District 7, two former city councilors said.“Do I think it’s going to impact her election? Probably not,” Michael McCormack, an attorney who served five terms on the City Council, told the Herald. “I think she wins with so few votes that the people who vote for her are probably just as uninformed as she is with respect to what she filed and her comments.”Also working in her favor is the “very weak” opponent she’s running against, McCormack said, referring to Althea Garrison, a perennial ca...

MLB Offseason: Key dates to know as Red Sox enter pivotal winter

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:09 GMT

Right now all eyes are on the MLB playoffs, and for the next two weeks the focus within the sport will be on who emerges as this year’s World Series champion.But once the Fall Classic ends, the baseball world will quickly shift into offseason mode, and for the Red Sox these coming months could chart the franchise’s course for years to come.When can fans expect to see players start switching teams? How about other big decisions and deadlines that loom once the offseason officially begins? Here’s a quick primer on the offseason schedule and how things should play out this winter.When does free agency begin?Free agency and the trade market officially opens the day after the World Series ends, but free agents cannot sign with new teams until five days afterwards. During that five-day stretch clubs have exclusive rights to sign their own players, which for Boston will include James Paxton and Adam Duvall, along with likely Justin Turner, Corey Kluber and Joely Rodriguez...

Prominent German leftist to launch a new party that could eat into far-right’s support

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:09 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — A prominent German leftist politician has launched plans to form a new party that some observers think could take votes away from the far-right Alternative for Germany.Sahra Wagenknecht on Monday presented her “Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance — for Reason and Fairness.” The aim is to formally launch the party in January, in time for European Parliament elections in June. Three state elections in Germany’s formerly communist east will follow next fall.Wagenknecht offers a combination of left-wing economic policy, with high wages and generous benefits, and a restrictive approach to migration. She also questions some environmentalists’ plans to combat climate change and opposes current sanctions against Russia, which was once Germany’s leading gas supplier, and German arms supplies to Ukraine.Wagenknecht is launching her project at a time when center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s quarrelsome three-party coalition is deeply unpopular. National polls show...