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Massive tree falls onto street in Dorchester

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:06 GMT

Crews were on scene in Dorchester Thursday after a massive tree fell on a local street. SKY7-HD was over the area on Ballou Avenue around 12:45 p.m. where the tree could be seen lying across the street, close to nearby homes. Wires from utility poles were pulled down and the street was closed off to traffic. Eversource on its online outage map showed one outage in the area of Ballou Avenue as of 12:45 p.m. impacting 433 area energy customers. Eversource said the outage started just after 10 a.m. and listed its cause as “tree limbs.” No further information was immediately available.This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

Chaim Bloom thanks Red Sox in statement following departure

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:06 GMT

Chaim Bloom is no longer chief baseball officer of the Boston Red Sox, but a day after his firing Bloom took the high road and expressed optimism for the club’s future.In a statement issued to multiple media outlets, Bloom thanked the Red Sox for the opportunity to serve as chief baseball officer and the fans for their passion throughout his tenure.“I will always be grateful to John, Tom, Mike, and Sam for trusting me to lead the Red Sox baseball operations department. Every day, I gave my teammates and this organization everything I had, and I never took a second for granted,” Bloom said.“Great things are now in store for the Red Sox. And while I’m sad that I won’t be watching them from the same chair, I will still be very proud.“Red Sox fans, you are the best. Your passion fueled me daily, and added meaning to everything I’ve done here. You very much deserve more championships. And you will get them.”Bloom served just under four seasons as Red S...

Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill isn’t afraid of Patriots double teaming him in Week 2

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:06 GMT

Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill has 24 games with over 100 receiving yards since Week 6 of the 2018 season. None of those have come against the Patriots.Head coach Bill Belichick takes Hill very seriously. And while the Patriots have not been perfect in seven games against Hill, they have at least limited the speedy wideout with double teams and bracket coverage.Hill’s not afraid of a little extra attention.“I’m still going to dominate that no matter what,” he told reporters in Miami this week. “I still got a job to do, and that’s to run my routes. You put two guys on me, one guy on me, or three guys on me I’m still going to run my route to get open.”Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Patriots missing CB Jonathan Jones, two O-linemen at last practice before Dolphins game New England Patriots | Patriots mailbag: Will big-name option fill biggest current need? New England Patriots | Devin McCourty unsurprised but impr...

Ask a travel nerd: Why you shouldn’t bundle your travel

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:06 GMT

By Sally French | NerdWalletBundling is a practice popularized by third-party, online travel agencies, like Expedia, Priceline and Kayak, that encourages booking flights, hotels and rental cars in the same reservation. The option to bundle is also often offered through travel providers (such as when a popup surfaces on an airline’s website asking you to book a rental car, too).Travel is complicated enough, and bundling does not do anything to simplify it. In fact, it only makes it more complicated. Here’s why you should almost never bundle travel.Options are limitedBundling reduces your options to travel partners only. For example, Costco Travel does not currently offer flights with Southwest or Spirit Airlines — removing a large list of potential flights you might otherwise book.Similarly, Southwest Airlines encourages you to book a car with one of its eight car rental partners. And while there are a lot to choose from, some notable car rental companies like Enterprise (which is am...

Trial date set for Karen Read, Mansfield woman accused of killing boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:06 GMT

The Karen Read case finally has a trial date, which was set for March 12.The swell of support for Read, of Mansfield, has become so huge that Massachusetts State Police troopers and local police were in place at the court in Dedham this morning to direct traffic, erect temporary barriers along the sidewalk and even close out access to the court well before today’s hearing would begin because, as a trooper said, “we’re at capacity.”It was no less intense inside the Norfolk Superior courtroom, where Read’s three attorneys delivered impassioned arguments for a medley of requests, chief among them from David Yannetti, Read’s original attorney who appeared at her Stoughton District Court arraignment 19 months ago, who argued that Read have her bail returned and be released on personal recognizance as “expenses continue to mount and indeed would skyrocket” as the case moves forward.“My client is one of the most recognizable defendants ...

Wisconsin impeachment review panel includes former GOP speaker, conservative justice

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:06 GMT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices tapped to investigate impeaching newly elected Justice Janet Protasiewicz for taking Democratic Party money accepted donations from the state Republican Party when he was on the court. The former justice, Republican David Prosser, gave $500 to the conservative candidate who lost to Protasiewicz, did not recuse from cases involving a law he helped pass as a lawmaker and was investigated after a physical altercation with a liberal justice.Prosser is one of three former justices tapped by the Republican Assembly speaker to investigate the criteria for taking the unprecedented step of impeaching a current justice. Speaker Robin Vos has floated impeachment because Protasiewicz accepted nearly $10 million from the Wisconsin Democratic Party and said during the campaign that heavily gerrymandered GOP-drawn legislative electoral maps were “unfair” and “rigged.”The impeachment threat comes after Protasiewicz’s win this s...

Video appears to show Rep. Lauren Boebert vaping at ‘Beetlejuice’ show before she was ejected

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:06 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Newly released surveillance video from a Denver theater appears to show Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert vaping during a “Beetlejuice” musical play — the one thing she denied doing while acknowledging earlier this week that she had been kicked out for being disruptive.Boebert and her guest were escorted out of the play Sunday after audience members accused two guests of vaping, singing, using phones and causing a disturbance, according to theater representatives and video from the publicly owned Buell Theater.When the lights were still on and as people were taking their seats around Boebert, she can be seen in the surveillance video talking with her companion. Boebert then reaches beneath her seat and puts an object up to her mouth for a moment before blowing out a cloud of vapor or smoke, the footage first reported by KUSA-TV shows.The footage also shows flashes from Boebert’s phone as she holds it up and appears to take photos of herself during the performance.Bo...

Environment Canada extends hurricane watch to Halifax as Lee creeps closer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:06 GMT

HALIFAX — Boats were being pulled out of the water in Nova Scotia Friday as forecasters warned hurricane Lee could soon bring damaging winds, large waves, flooding and power outages.Jennifer Chandler, commodore at the Chester Yacht Club, said she and her team have been working for days to prepare for what she anticipates will be a “significant storm.” Chester is in Lunenburg County, which with neighbouring Halifax County was added Friday to the list of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick communities under a hurricane watch.“When we get a direct impact, it hits us pretty hard here,” Chandler said in an interview. “Over the last five days, most people have been taking their boats out if they can …. We’ll be lashing down a lot of the gear. We’ve already taken all the furniture off our deck.”Hurricane Lee is expected to move into western Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick on Saturday, bringing heavy rains, high winds, and powerful wave...

RCMP team ‘between contracts,’ unavailable at first for Saskatchewan killings: emails

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:06 GMT

SASKATOON — A specialized RCMP team that deals with high-risk situations was not immediately available to respond to a stabbing rampage and hunt for a mass killer in Saskatchewan because it was “in between contracts,” internal emails show.Documents obtained under freedom of information laws show Ottawa’s Emergency Response Team-Special Activities Group, also known as ERT-SAG, was initially offered to help as Mounties responded the stabbing attacks on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby village of Weldon on Sept. 4, 2022.Chaos descended on the community as Myles Sanderson, 32, moved from home to home, busting down doors and attacking people. Eleven were killed and 17 were injured.Sanderson was arrested four days later and died in police custody.Emails between Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore, the commanding officer of the Saskatchewan RCMP, and other high-ranking Mounties show officers were working to catch up to Sanderson’s erratic movements. His brother...

Jury finds officer not liable in civil trial over shooting death

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:06 GMT

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee police officer who fatally shot a man in 2019 is not at fault or liable for the death, a federal jury found in a civil trial.A U.S. District Court jury in Greeneville reached the verdict Thursday in a lawsuit filed by the family of 33-year-old Channara Tom Pheap, who was fatally shot in 2019 by Knoxville police Officer Dylan Williams.Attorneys for Pheap’s family told the jury he was running away from the officer after a scuffle when he was shot in the back. Williams testified during the trial and said he feared for his life after Pheap wrestled away his Taser and shocked him with it.Claims against the city and former police chief alleging failure to train and supervise, wrongful death and negligence were dismissed shortly before the trial began.Knox County District Attorney Charme Allen ruled Williams’ use of deadly force was appropriate and legal in the months after the shooting. At the time, police said Pheap, who was of Cambodian descent, was...