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Hawaii works to identify 99 confirmed dead after Maui wildfires as teams search ruins

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:47 GMT

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii officials worked painstakingly to identify the 99 people confirmed killed in wildfires that ravaged Maui and expected to release the first names Tuesday, even as search teams continued to scour neighborhoods reduced to ash for more dead.A week after the deadly blaze that leveled most of historic Lahaina began, many who survived have begun moving into hundreds of hotel rooms set aside for displaced locals.Crews had covered about 25% of the search area, the police chief said Monday. Gov. Josh Green asked for patience and space to do the search properly as authorities became overwhelmed with requests to visit the burn area.“For those people who have walked into Lahaina because they really wanted to see, know that they’re very likely walking on iwi,” he said at a news conference on Maui, using the Hawaiian word for “bones.”Just three bodies have been identified so far and officials will start releasing names on Tuesday, according to Maui...

Police investigating after person shot in Roxbury

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:47 GMT

Boston police are investigating after a person was shot in Roxbury early Tuesday morning.Officers responding to a reported shooting in the area of 62 Bower St. around 1 a.m. found a victim suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, according to Boston police. They were transported to the hospital.Multiple vehicles in the area were damaged in the shooting.No arrests have been made.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Rainy Start

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:47 GMT

After some solid weather to kick off the workweek, we’ve fallen back into unsettled weather to kick off this Tuesday morning. Rain will be widespread this morning with some heavier storms/localized downpours possible near the south coast. While most of the strong/rotating storms stay offshore, a few may get close to the south coast, especially near the Vineyard and Nantucket, so we’ll keep an eye on that for a nearby waterspout or strong winds. In addition, the heaviest rain will likely be near the south coast too with localized street flooding possible. Highs today get stuck near 70 as clouds and patchy drizzle/spot shower linger this afternoon. Spotty showers linger tomorrow, but it’ll be warmer with highs near 80 inland, 70s coast. Thursday looks nice. Friday features more scattered storms before we clear out for the weekend.

Patriots extra points: Veteran LB gets 1-year extension, Bill Belichick updates Mike Onwenu’s status

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:47 GMT

According to ESPN, the Patriots have signed veteran linebacker Raekwon McMillan to a 1-year extension worth up to $2.245 million.McMillan will miss the upcoming season on injured reserve with a knee injury, but should now remain with the team through 2024. McMillan has now had his contract extended twice in the last three years while he rehabs. He started 16 games for the Patriots last season, posting 35 tackles and one sack.McMillan, 27, signed with the Patriots as a free agent in 2021, then missed his debut season because of a torn ACL he suffered that summer.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Patriots training camp Day 20: Mac Jones loses a top target, multiple WRs heat up New England Patriots | Source: Patriots signing free-agent Ezekiel Elliott to 1-year contract New England Patriots | Sources: Patriots expected to sign linebacker Carson Wells New England Patriots | Two theories on Patriots’ recent usage of ro...

Orioles minor league report: Jordan Westburg believes ‘the sky’s the limit’ for fellow infield prospect Connor Norby

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:47 GMT

Later this month, Jordan Westburg will no longer be a prospect.The Orioles’ young infielder, who made his MLB debut June 26, will graduate from such status on Baseball America’s list once he takes his 130th big league at-bat — he’s 14 away. When he does, Westburg will be the Orioles’ third top-100 prospect to graduate this year, joining Gunnar Henderson and Grayson Rodriguez.Westburg is ranked as Baltimore’s No. 4 prospect in the sport’s top-ranked farm system that’s headlined by its infield stockpile. That list of infielders is about five names long, topped by No. 1 overall prospect Jackson Holliday. The last name on the list, however, is a 23-year-old who is putting up good numbers in his first full season at Triple-A, yet has fallen significantly in prospect rankings.Connor Norby entered the season as one of eight Baltimore prospects inside Baseball America’s top 100. At No. 93 overall, he was ranked ahead of infielders Joey O...

Battenfeld: Dems may give Biden a pass on touching, but Scott Brown didn’t

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:47 GMT

As if Joe Biden needs any more headaches, former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown comes out of the woodwork to remind everyone of Biden’s long, controversial history of inappropriately touching women.Brown, in an interview on a local podcast, rehashed the story of how he had to issue a strong warning to then Vice President Biden to keep his hands off Brown’s wife, Gail Huff Brown.“I told him I’d kick the (expletive) out – I told him to stop, so yes,” Brown said of the incident in the former senator’s swearing in ceremony in 2010.“He didn’t act the way I thought he should, and we called him on it and that’s it.”Asked about the comments in the “Burn Barrel” podcast by the Herald, Brown, the former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, texted: “For us, it’s old news. I called him on it in a humorous way. He got the message. We ended up having a cordial, positive working relationship.”But Brown’s retelling of the story has put the spotlight again on President Biden’s long history of touching wo...

Massive explosion at a gas station in Russia’s Dagestan kills 35 and injures scores more

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:47 GMT

MOSCOW (AP) — A massive explosion at a gas station in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan killed 35 people and injured scores more, Russian officials said Tuesday. Russia’s Health Ministry said 115 people were injured in the blast and subsequent fire, and 35 of them died, including three children. A total of 65 of those injured, including 16 children, remained hospitalized as of midday Tuesday, the ministry said. Eleven people, including two children, were in grave condition. The explosion occurred Monday night on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the region’s capital. A fire started at a car repair shop and spread to a nearby gas station, triggering the blast.Families of the dead will receive 1 million rubles (about $10,000) each and the injured between 200,000 and 400,000 rubles (about $2,000-$4,000), Dagestan’s authorities said. Russian state media said some of those injured would be airlifted to Moscow for treatment. Makhachkala is about 1,600 kilometers (990 miles) s...

Russia unleashes a missile barrage on Ukraine, killing and wounding civilians

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:47 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces unleashed a barrage of missiles on regions across Ukraine in the early hours of Tuesday morning, killing civilians and damaging civilian infrastructure. The barrage came just hours before top Russian military officials and their counterparts from Asia, the Middle East and Africa gathered outside Moscow for a security conference, where the fighting in Ukraine is likely to dominate the agenda. Moscow’s war in Ukraine is nearing the 18-month mark.The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia fired a total of 28 cruise missiles at the country. Sixteen of them were intercepted, the statement said. “Deliberate large-scale attacks on civilians. Solely for the sake of killing and psychological pressure,” presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on X, formerly known as Twitter. Podolyak added that the barrage was “an undeniable manifestation” of Russia’s “terrorist activity, legally documented by numerous destructions and victims.”Six out of seven Russian-l...

The UN and its partners ramp up their appeal for peace and aid at the 4-month mark of Sudan’s war

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:47 GMT

GENEVA (AP) — Twenty United Nations and other international organizations on Tuesday called for peace, access to humanitarian support and respect for human rights in Sudan at the four-month mark of a war that has led to food shortages, death and injury, and sexual violence, among other troubles.Spokeswoman Margaret Harris of the World Health Organization appealed to the global community to do more, saying at a U.N. briefing in Geneva: “The world is ignoring the dire needs.”Sudan was plunged into chaos in April when months of simmering tensions between the military, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, exploded into open fighting in Khartoum and elsewhere. Since then, the U.N and rights groups have accused both the military and the RSF of numerous human rights violations, although both forces have rejected these accusations.In Darfur, the scene of genocidal war in the early 2000s, the fighting has morphed into ethnic viol...

A $500 million deal to restore Gabon’s coast reignites climate finance debate

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:47 GMT

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Gabon will use a controversial financial move to ease its debt burden and restore its oceans at the same time, a leading conservation group said Tuesday.It’s the second-largest deal of its kind to date, and the first on mainland Africa, according to a press release by The Nature Conservancy, the global environmental nonprofit that helped broker the deal.Gabon, an oil-rich Central African nation known for its biodiversity, hosts the world’s largest population of leatherback turtles and myriad other endangered species. By refinancing $500 million of its foreign debt, TNC estimates, Gabon will free up $163 million to expand its protected coastal areas and combat illegal overfishing.“It’s a really interesting way of slightly reducing our debt repayments and also generating money for conservation,” said Lee White, Gabon’s minister of water, forests, sea, and environment. He collaborated with TNC, Bank of America and others to negotiate lower interest rates on Gabon’...