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DA: Newton man facing assault to murder charge in wife’s beating death

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:36 GMT

A Newton man is facing a charge of assault with intent to murder in connection with the beating death of his wife in their home on Brookline Street on Saturday night, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office announced.Officers responding to a 911 call reporting an ongoing assault inside the home around 8:20 p.m. found Nancy Hanson, 54, suffering from apparent blunt force injuries, police said. She was taken to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she died. A preliminary investigation suggests her husband, Richard Hanson, 64, hit her with one of more objects multiple times. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has ruled the death a homicide and the cause was blunt force trauma. Hanson was issued a restraining order in Newton District Court on Thursday, July 13, which Newton police were attempting to service. He is being ordered held without bail pending his arraignment tomorrow in Newton District Court.No additional information was immediately available. This is a deve...

Yoshida hits a grand slam and drives in 6 as the Red Sox rout the Cubs 11-5 behind Crawford

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:36 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Masataka Yoshida hit a grand slam and a two-run triple, powering Kutter Crawford and the Boston Red Sox to an 11-5 blowout over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday.Rafael Devers and pinch-hitter Triston Casas also homered for the surging Red Sox, who have won seven of eight. Crawford allowed one hit in six shutout innings.Yoshida launched the second grand slam of his rookie season in Boston’s five-run fifth against All-Star lefty Justin Steele. Yoshida connected for his 11th homer on a 2-0 count after the Red Sox put together four straight hits, extending their lead to 6-0. Rob Refsnyder had an RBI single.Yoshida added a two-run triple in the seventh, and a single in the ninth off catcher-turned-reliever Tucker Barnhart. Yoshida’s streak of eight straight multi-hit games ended Saturday — it was the longest by a Red Sox left-handed hitter since Ted Williams in 1940.Crawford (4-4) struck out nine and walked four.Steele (9-3) allowed six runs and 10 hits over six innings after to...

Orioles complete sweep of Marlins with 5-4 win behind early scoring, Kyle Bradish’s pitching for season-best 8th straight victory

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:36 GMT

After his start Saturday, Kyle Gibson praised the Orioles’ ability to come back in games after they rallied to beat the Miami Marlins after trailing by four runs in the second inning.Baltimore’s bats made sure early Sunday no comeback would be needed, and starting pitcher Kyle Bradish wouldn’t have needed one anyway. The Orioles scored three runs before recording an out, Bradish pitched 7 1/3 shutout innings and the bullpen barely held on in the ninth in Baltimore’s 5-4 win over the Marlins.The triumph completes the series sweep of a Marlins team that arrived in Baltimore with the National League’s second-best record. The sweep is the Orioles’ sixth this season. They are the only team in the majors yet to be swept this season, with the most recent one in May 2022 before Adley Rutschman’s MLB debut.The Orioles, owners of the American League’s second-best record at 57-35, have won a season-high eight games in a row, topping a seven-game ...

Tornado watch issued for most of Massachusetts, flash-flood warning until 8:30

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:36 GMT

Keep your eyes to the sky today!An “atmospheric river” first brought the state a tornado warning today — one at 9:15 a.m. again at 10:30 a.m. — and a tornado watch for most of Massachusetts until 3 p.m. and a flash-flood warning until 8:30 p.m.As of 5 p.m. the National Weather Service told the Herald they had not verified any tornado touching down in Massachusetts.Today’s tornado watch (NWS)According to the National Weather Service, all of Connecticut and sections of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and southern Maine fall under that watch. The rain has now moved into Suffolk County.The rest of Massachusetts and Vermont — basically the whole northeast — is under a thunderstorm and flood watch on and off into tomorrow. That’s a mix of “torrential rainfall,” hail, wind suddenly gusting and driving that could be perilous.That unyielding atmospheric river is moving northeast with western Mass, Vermont and New Hampshire in for more ...

Teamsters president says he’s asked the White House not to intervene if UPS workers go on strike

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:36 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the Teamsters said Sunday that he has asked the White House not to intervene if unionized UPS workers end up going on strike. Negotiations between the delivery company and the union representing 340,000 of its workers have been at a standstill for more than a week with a July 31 deadline for a new contract approaching fast. The union has threatened a strike if a deal is not reached by the time the collective bargaining agreement expires. Asked during a webcast with members Sunday on whether the White House could force a contract on the union, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien said he has asked the White House on numerous occasions to stay away. “My neighborhood where I grew up in Boston, if two people had a disagreement and you had nothing to do with it – you just kept walking,” O’Brien said. “We don’t need anybody getting involved in this fight,” he said. The Teamsters represent more than half of the Atlanta-based company’s workforce in the largest privat...

Georgia suspect in 4 killings fatally shot, gunfire exchanged and 2 officers hurt, authorities say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:36 GMT

HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Officers shot and killed a man wanted in four weekend killings near Atlanta during an exchange of gunfire, and a sheriff’s deputy and a police officer were injured trying to take the suspect into custody, authorities said.Henry County Sheriff’s spokesperson Syntonnia Moore said Andre Longmore was shot during an intense manhunt for the 40-year-old man. The exchange of gunfire came a day after Saturday morning’s shootings rocked a quiet subdivision of Hampton, south of Georgia’s main city.Moore said law enforcement forces killed Longmore in a nearby area of Clayton County, adding a Henry County sheriff’s deputy and a Clayton County police officer were injured in the attempt to arrest Longmore. Moore said she had no update on the officers’ conditions. Deputy U.S. Marshal Van Grady confirmed gunfire was exchanged, adding of Longmore: “He fired on law enforcement and they returned fire.” Earlier, before the shooting of the suspect, ...

Fewer than 2,000 Hydro-Québec customers without power after storms caused new outages

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:36 GMT

MONTREAL — Fewer than 2,000 Hydro-Québec customers were without power late Sunday afternoon, as the utility continued to repair outages after a major storm on Thursday along with new outages caused by additional thunderstorms.As of Sunday morning, fewer than 2,000 clients who lost power due to Thursday’s storm were still without electricity, but thousands of other customers had lost power as other storms passed through the province on Saturday night and Sunday, said hydro spokesman Francis Labbé.Those storms were bringing strong winds and rain, he said. “That will make vegetation make contact with our grid and that will provoke outages. Sometimes it’s just a a safety measure, the grid protects itself when it feels there is a a fluctuation in the tension, but sometimes there are more severe damages,” he said in an interview Sunday.“Our crews are intervening here and there to repair things, but sometimes more work has to be done.”The remaining areas...

Hsieh Su-Wei and Barbora Strycova win second women’s doubles title together at Wimbledon

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:36 GMT

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan and Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic won their second Wimbledon doubles title as a pairing by beating Elise Mertens of Belgium and Storm Hunter of Australia 7-5, 6-4 Sunday on Centre Court.Hsieh converted their second match point with a backhand as the 2019 champions broke in the final game of the second set.Strycova came out of retirement this year after giving birth to a son, and said she expects this to be her last Wimbledon.“I couldn’t ask for a better finish,” Strycova said. “Last year I texted Su-Wei, ‘Let’s try to play Wimbledon 2023 just to come back and feel the atmosphere. There is no COVID anymore.’ She was like, ‘Yeah, let’s do that. Let’s just have fun.’ Here we are with the trophy. It’s crazy.”Hsieh has now won the women’s doubles title the last three times she played at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament — she also teamed up with Mertens to lift the trophy in 2021. The 2020 edition was canceled because of...

Child thrown from carnival ride in Antioch, flown to hospital

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:36 GMT

ANTIOCH, Ill. — A 10-year-old child was thrown from a carnival ride on Sunday in Antioch, according to police.Around 2:40 p.m., police said the child was thrown from a ride at the Taste of Antioch festival.Read more: Latest Chicago news headlinesThe child was flown to a hospital. Their condition hasn't been released.Another kid who was on the ride said the bar for his seat on the Moby Dick ride was coming over his head several times and he had to resecure it."My bar was coming up over my head, so every time I went up because it was going up and I was almost about to fall out, I would slam down to close it so that way I would not fall out," Elliott Johnson said. "Then as soon as it started slowing down and it was about maybe rocking on the floor, I was able to push it up and slide out."Johnson said he then ran to find help for the child. Mayor Scott Gartner used his executive authority to close the rides while a safety review of each ride is completed, according to the police departm...

CPD looking to ID suspects in aggravated assault, catalytic converter theft

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:36 GMT

CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department is looking for the public's help in trying to identify a group of suspects tied to an aggravated assault and attempted catalytic converter theft in the Clearing neighborhood last Monday morning.Suspects CPD is looking to ID in an aggravated assault, attempted catalytic converter theft in the Clearing neighborhood on July 10, 2023.According to CPD, the group of suspects were trying to steal a catalytic converter in the 6000 block of South Mulligan Avenue around 6:25 a.m. when they became aware of the victim's presence and began shooting at them, hitting their vehicle in the process.Police describe the offenders as being Black males, dressed in all black clothing who were wearing face masks in a black sedan with tinted windows. 5 people shot, 1 fatally, in Garfield Park drive-by: CPD If you or someone you know has information that could help lead police to making an arrest and conviction in the investigation of this incident, Area One Violent ...