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Warmer weekend with some storms

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:34:44 GMT

It’s been a warm and breezy day! Temperatures will be warmer this weekend. Humidity will come up, and we’ll have a scattered storms. The breeze will fade after sunset. Light wind, lower dewpoints and mainly clear conditions will help temperatures fall into the upper 50s for Worcester County, Merrimack Valley and MetroWest. Temperatures will be in the low 60s for Cape Cod. We’ll have high clouds in the morning. We’ll gain more clouds and humidity through the day as the wind switches out of the south. Highs will be in the 80s. Most of the day is dry. It’ll be a decent beach day.A weak area of low pressure will move into this higher humidity. That’ll help to fuel storms Saturday evening and night. Thunderstorms are most likely to the west and into western Mass from if you’re out from 6-10 p.m. The storms will continue to move west to east into Sunday morning. The greatest threats will be strong wind and lightning. There is a low risk for a brie...

Here’s why the Orioles are likely moving to a six-man starting rotation | ANALYSIS

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:34:44 GMT

After the Orioles acquired Jack Flaherty minutes before last week’s trade deadline, Mike Elias said Baltimore’s rotation doesn’t have much of a “hierarchy.”While the Kyles are the rotation’s leaders — Gibson for his veteran presence, Bradish for his sparkling 3.19 ERA — the difference in expected outcomes doesn’t vary much among the group.Baltimore didn’t acquire a traditional No. 1 starter in the offseason or at the deadline, and compared with the other top teams in the majors, they don’t have a bonafide ace. That fact, though, hasn’t mattered much so far this season, as Baltimore has the best record in the American League and enters its nine-game road trip out west three games ahead of the Tampa Bay Rays atop the AL East.With 47 games remaining, the Orioles’ rotation is expected to look a bit different than their competitors in a new way. Manager Brandon Hyde said Thursday that left-hander Cole Irvin, wh...

Dorchester native Bruce Brown returns to Boston as an NBA champion: ‘You could do it, too’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:34:44 GMT

Basketball has been part of Octavius Nunes’ life ever since the Dorchester native picked the game up as an 8-year-old at his neighborhood’s Boys & Girls Club, where he now serves as athletic director.Related Articles Gallery: Dorchester native and NBA star, Bruce Brown visits campers On Friday, Nunes accomplished a first: He beat an NBA player in knockout. Not just any player, but champion Bruce Brown, a fellow Dorchester native who helped the Denver Nuggets win the Finals in June.“The kids were really excited, a lot of them asking me how I beat an NBA player,” Nunes told the Herald. “Just to show them that everybody has a chance as long as they try hard they can do it, too.”Brown, 26, stopped by the Colonel Daniel Marr Clubhouse on Friday, speaking to roughly 100 campers before taking pictures with them and signing his autograph on basketballs to be put in a trophy case at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester.Then came the fun-filled, spirited round of knock...

As Orioles lease deadline neared, ex-stadium authority chair says John Angelos and Gov. Moore left him in the dark

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:34:44 GMT

As the final moments ticked down on the Orioles’ deadline to extend their stadium lease beyond 2023, the then-chairman of the Maryland Stadium Authority says club chairman and CEO John Angelos left him in the dark about the team’s intentions and Gov. Wes Moore, who had decided to replace him, froze him out.“The only way we found out” that the Orioles declined the five-year option — leaving the team with a hard Dec. 31 deadline to recommit to Baltimore — “was that it didn’t happen at 11:59 p.m.” on Feb. 1, former MSA board chairman Thomas Kelso told The Baltimore Sun.By then it was apparent, Kelso said — from a Jan. 31 letter he had just seen from Angelos to Moore — “that John Angelos was talking directly to the governor and vice versa, and nobody in the governor’s office had been willing to talk to me since it was decided to replace me. So there was no avenue by which I could find out what the governor wan...

Attorney general appoints a special counsel in Hunter Biden probe, deepening investigation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:34:44 GMT

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and LISA MASCARO Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday he has appointed a special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe, deepening the investigation of the president’s son ahead of the 2024 election.Garland noted the “extraordinary circumstances” of the matter as he named David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware who had already been probing the financial dealings of President Joe Biden’s son, as special counsel after plea talks in the case broke down.The sudden turn of events raises fresh questions about a case that was all but closed last month, reviving the probe into Hunter Biden on tax evasion and gun charges and giving Weiss broad authority to investigate and report out his findings.It comes as the Justice Department has taken the unprecedented step of indicting former President Donald Trump, who’s Joe Biden’s chief rival in next year’s election, in two separate cases. It also puts questions about Bid...

Missing artifacts flagged by auditor recovered by Canadian Museum of History

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:34:44 GMT

OTTAWA — Five historically significant artifacts that were deemed missing from the Canadian Museum of History during a recent investigation by the auditor general have been recovered, the museum said Friday.The Crown corporation is responsible for both the museum of the same name and the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. In a report published Thursday, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada said the corporation does not have a robust way of keeping tabs on the four million items in the museums’ collections.The audit said the museums had no plan to address a list of 800 items documented as missing between 2012 and 2022, at least five of them with significant historical value. In a statement Friday, the museum said those five items have been found in their vaults since the auditor’s investigation wrapped up.The missing items included three masks, a pair of moccasins and a backrest.The Canadian Museum of History sits across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill and its co...

Woman fatally shot at Home Depot store in Florida, suspect is in custody

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:34:44 GMT

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A man opened fire inside a Home Depot store in the Florida Panhandle on Friday, killing a woman, authorities said.Deputies and police officers responding to the store in Pensacola found the woman fatally shot, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post.The suspect was taken into custody a short time later, according to the sheriff’s office.A spokeswoman for Home Depot said the woman was a third-party contractor.No further details were immediately provided.___This story has been corrected to show that the victim was a third-party contractor and not a Home Depot employee.The Associated Press

Wife of accused Long Island serial killer battling cancer; could sue investigators who searched home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:34:44 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of Rex Heuermann, the man charged with killing at least three women and burying their bodies on a remote coastal highway, is living in a “waking surreal nightmare,” her attorney said Friday, struggling to pay for cancer treatment while living in a house trashed by investigators.At a press conference on Long Island, attorneys for Heuermann’s estranged wife, Asa Ellerup, and his two adult children, announced the family planned to follow a notice of claim, a move that would allow them to eventually sue police for “leaving their home in shambles” while searching for possible evidence.“Their valuables were shattered, their places were destroyed, the places they laid their heads no longer exists,” said Vess Mitev, an attorney who is also representing Heuermann’s 26-year-old daughter, Victoria, and 34-year-old stepson, Christopher Sheridan. “They’re going through a horrific emotional time that none of us can imagine.”Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney has...

TTC rolling out new accessibility features

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:34:44 GMT

The TTC is rolling out new technologies in hopes of making the transit system more accessible to all customers.On new hybrid-electric buses, there will be a subway-style, rear-door exit chime which helps customers who experience low vision with an audible clue that the doors are going to close.This is expected to go into effect this month as the TTC’s transitions to a zero-emissions fleet. After testing its effectiveness and performance, it will become a standard feature on all future vehicles.“Having that additional chime, will give them a sense, a better sense of timing for their exit,” said TTC spokesperson Stuart Green. “You can imagine that if you have vision impairment, you don’t know when the doors are closing without that audible chime, and that’s what they were for on the subway system originally.“So, it’s really just giving people more comfort when they’re riding the system based on their needs,” he added.”We’re trying to ser...

Brazil’s Lula unveils $200 billion infrastructure plan as skeptics caution about spending spree

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:34:44 GMT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday unveiled a plan to spend 1 trillion reais (nearly $200 billion) on infrastructure, energy and transportation over the next four years, part of a larger effort to boost economic growth and employment in Latin America’s largest nation.The Growth Acceleration Program, known under its Portuguese acronym PAC, has been met with skepticism from analysts and investors, who say previous, similarly ambitious programs have included projects that never saw the light of day and opened the door to vast corruption schemes.Funding included in this year’s PAC is expected to go towards infrastructure projects including new highways and ports as well as energy efficiency and urbanization programs in slums.“More than a public investment portfolio, the new PAC is a collective compromise (…) born out of many conversations with governors and mayors,” Lula said at an event in Rio de Janeiro attended by governmen...