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Lawmakers secure funding to restore, weatherize Old South Meeting House

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:55:50 GMT

Sen. Ed Markey celebrated the federal funding secured to repair and weatherize the Old South Meeting House in an event on Friday. The $480,000 will help with the preservation and conservation of the building as the meeting house battles corrosion from flood and water damage. The weatherization is imperative as the climate crisis worsens corrosion to the building’s frame and foundation.“I went to work with Sen. Warren and Congresswoman Pressly to make sure we would insert the funding so that the restoration, the repairs and ultimately the resiliency that is going to be needed for the 21st Century is built into this building,” Markey said at the event.The Old South Meeting House, where the Boston Tea Party was organized, is one of the city’s most treasured historical landmarks.

NH man accused of causing son’s death faces murder charge

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:55:50 GMT

A New Hampshire man accused of burning his son and causing his death has been indicted on a murder charge. 25-year-old Murtadah Mohammad is facing a second-degree murder charge returned by the Hillsborough County Grand Jury for allegedly assaulting his 7-year-old son and burning him with hot liquid and a hot pan. Mohammad had previously been charged with assault and is being held without bail. The first and second degree assault charges also allege he whipped his son with a cord. Mohammad is also changed with falsifying physical evidence for allegedly deleting data from his cellphone and staging a false scene.His son Jaevion Riley was left in a coma after being found with injuries including burns in January. He died a week later.

Christian Gonzalez learning from ‘heavyweight’ matchup in Patriots training camp

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:55:50 GMT

While some Patriots coaches were hesitant to shower too much praise on the team’s 2023 rookie class, co-wide receivers coach Ross Douglas didn’t hold back when it came to first-round pick Christian Gonzalez’s daily practice matchups with wide receiver DeVante Parker.Parker, who’s 6-foot-3, 215 pounds, has gotten the better of Gonzalez on contested catches this summer in training camp. Gonzalez, who’s 6-foot-2, 205 pounds, has held his own and made things competitive, however.“When you watch Gonzo go up against DP, it’s like two heavyweight fighters,” Douglas told reporters Friday during a video conference call. “DP’s made a living so far in his career making those type of contested catches.”Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Patriots coaches respond to Jack Jones leaving Thursday practice New England Patriots | Patriots’ Mac Jones, Bill O’Brien enjoying strong QB-coach relati...

Trump pleads not guilty to second round of charges in classified documents case

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:55:50 GMT

Former President Donald Trump removed the need to fly to Florida next week when he pleaded not guilty Friday in a paper filing to three new charges brought against him in a superseding indictment related to his handling of classified documents after he left office.In doing so, he waived a court appearance in Fort Pierce that was scheduled for Aug. 10 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Shaniek Mills Maynard.Trump, 77, personally appeared in a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to plead not guilty to a third federal indictment brought against him by prosecutors. The long-awaited indictment brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith, whose office also brought the documents case, alleges the former president orchestrated an illegal attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to President Joe Biden.Following that plea, Trump boarded his private jetliner and flew back to New Jersey, where he is spending the summer.The not-guilty plea entered in the South Flori...

Colorado fugitive who was captured in Florida was leading a posh lifestyle and flaunting his wealth

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:55:50 GMT

A career fraudster who escaped from a federal prison in Colorado nearly five years ago was captured this week while moving into a $1.5 million house near the ocean on Florida’s Gold Coast, federal officials said Friday.Federal marshals arrested Alan Todd May, 58, at the house in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday while movers unloaded a U-Haul truck. He was wearing a Rolex watch at the time of the arrest, and drove a high-end Mercedes, according to investigators who had been surveilling him. It was an anonymous tipster who led authorities to May — who was living under the name “Jacob Turner” — after spotting a published photo of him at a posh fundraiser. The photo, which showed him wearing a pink shirt, pink blazer and pink-tinted glasses, was published on the website of the Palm Beach Daily News.This fugitive wasn’t exactly keeping a low profile.May “was living a lavish lifestyle where he was flaunting his wealth in high society down in south Florida,” Katrina Crouse, chief deputy U.S. mar...

Wisconsin judge orders the release of records sought from fake Trump elector

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:55:50 GMT

A Wisconsin judge on Friday ordered the state elections commission to release all records it has related to one of its Republican members and his role as one of 10 people who posed as fake electors in 2020 for former President Donald Trump.The lawsuit, filed by a union leader represented by the liberal firm Law Forward, sought commission records related to Robert Spindell and comments he made about his role as a fake elector. Spindell is one of three Republican state elections commission members.Fake electors met in Wisconsin and six other battleground states where Trump was defeated in 2020, attempting to cast ballots for the former president even though he lost. Republicans who participated in Wisconsin said they were trying to preserve Trump’s legal standing in case courts overturned his defeat.The role of those fake electors, particularly in Wisconsin, was central to the federal indictment against Trump released this week. Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to trying to overturn ...

Armed man who tried to enter a Jewish school in Tennessee fired at a contractor, police say

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:55:50 GMT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man who tried to enter a Jewish school with a gun fired shots at a contractor there and later pointed his weapon at police before an officer wounded him on a residential street, authorities said.Joel Bowman, 33, went to Margolin Hebrew Academy-Feinstone Yeshiva of the South school in Memphis on Monday and tried to get inside, but he was denied entry, police said on the day of the shooting. Class was not in session, but there were limited staff and construction workers there at the time.In an affidavit, police said Bowman — who had attended the school — walked around its exterior and fired two shots at the contractor, who was not hit. Bowman then fired two more shots outside the school before driving away in a pickup truck, police said. Officers tracked down Bowman a short drive from the school. He exited his truck with a gun in his right hand and pointed the weapon at an officer, who shot him, police said. Bowman was hospitalized in critical conditi...

Extreme weather risk changing Canada’s insurance industry, raising costs

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:55:50 GMT

OTTAWA — Climate change is driving up insurance rates and raising questions about whether private coverage will even be available for some Canadians in the future.The problem could mean the National Flood Insurance Program that Canada is developing to ensure access to affordable overland flood coverage might have to be expanded to wildfires, wind storms and hurricanes in short order.Statistics Canada’s latest inflation report showed home insurance costs were up 8.2 per cent nationally in June, compared with one year earlier. Increases were about 10 per cent in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, and nearly 12 per cent in Nova Scotia.Some of the increase to premiums was due to inflation, but Craig Stewart, vice-president of climate and federal affairs for the Insurance Bureau of Canada, said a big chunk of it was because global reinsurance companies re-evaluated Canada’s risk profile and jacked up their prices.Most companies that sell property insurance in Canada ...

NASA restores contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft after mistake led to weeks of silence

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:55:50 GMT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was back chatting it up Friday after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence. Hurtling ever deeper into interstellar space billions of miles away, Voyager 2 stopped communicating two weeks ago. Controllers sent the wrong command to the 46-year-old spacecraft and tilted its antenna away from Earth. On Wednesday, NASA’s Deep Space Network sent a new command in hopes of repointing the antenna, using the highest powered transmitter at the huge radio dish antenna in Australia. Voyager 2’s antenna needed to be shifted a mere 2%.It took more than 18 hours for the command to reach Voyager 2 — more than 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) away — and another 18 hours to hear back. The long shot paid off. On Friday, the spacecraft started returning data again, according to officials at California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Voyager 2 has been hurtling through space since its launch in 1977 ...

Stock market today: Wall Street falls again to close out its first losing week in four

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:55:50 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell Friday to close out a rare losing week for Wall Street following mixed reports on the U.S. job market and two of the market’s most influential stocks.The S&P 500 sank 23.86, or 0.5%, to 4,478.03. It was the fourth straight drop for Wall Street’s main measure of health after it set a 16-month high at the start of the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also drifted between gains and losses through the day before ending with a loss. It dropped 150.27 points, or 0.4%, to 35,065.62, and the Nasdaq composite gave up 50.48, or 0.4%, to 13,909.24.Treasury yields tumbled in the bond market after a highly anticipated U.S. jobs report said hiring was a touch weaker last month than economists expected, though wages for workers rose more than forecast.The job market is in a precarious place, where investors want a reading that’s neither too hot nor too cold. On one hand, investors want it to remain strong enough to keep the economy out of a long-pr...