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School resource officer buys bikes for family that recently moved to Swampscott from Ukraine

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:23 GMT

A family from Ukraine recently received a generous gift in Swampscott in the form of new bikes after a school resource officer came across their story.When the family’s children started school, they had no means of transportation. So, they walked. The family’s eldest daughter, though, has leg problems that left her in pain by the time she got to school. The child’s school principal at Swampscott Middle School noticed the situation and sent out a message to staff to see if anyone had a used bike they could donate. Swampscott officer Brian Wilson saw the email and said he didn’t hesitate to help out this family. With funds from an account for his comfort dog, Wilson bought the family three new bikes and a scooter.“I just didn’t hesitate,” Wilson said. “Especially when new to the country, knowing the struggles they were probably going through, it just felt right.” “Sometimes you just know something’s right and that’s what this felt like and I just wanted to do ...

Jasson Domínguez homers in first at-bat as youthful Yankees beat Astros

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:23 GMT

HOUSTON — Hours before Austin Wells and Jasson Domínguez made their major league debuts for the Yankees, the former said the latter wouldn’t be intimated by Justin Verlander, the Astros’ starter on Friday night.“From the first time I played with him, he is unfazed by really anything,” Wells said of Domínguez. “So I mean, for him, facing Verlander, he probably doesn’t even care. It’s just another arm on the mound.”Lo and behold, Domínguez homered off Verlander with the very first swing of his very first at-bat, taking the right-hander into the Crawford Boxes at Minute Maid Park. The 20-year-old’s first-inning, two-run blast off the 40-year-old, future Hall of Famer gave the Yankees a three-run lead after DJ LeMahieu led the game off with a solo homer.The explosive first inning paved the way for a 6-2, series-opening win for the Yankees.Domínguez’s home run also showed why he has received endless ...

Royals pound James Paxton, rout reeling Red Sox 13-2

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:23 GMT

The Kansas City Royals came into Friday losers of six straight, 13 of their last 15 and having gone 9-19 for the month of August. They’d already lost 94 games and are on pace to finish 49-113, which would rank among the worst records in MLB history.You’d think a team like that would be a welcome sight after the week the Red Sox just had, but at this point even the Royals are capable of making Boston’s life miserable.The Royals laid a beating on James Paxton and the Red Sox Friday night, chasing the struggling left-hander after only four outs in what wound up being a 13-2 rout. Paxton allowed six runs over 1.1 innings, including back-to-back solo home runs in the bottom of the first before completely melting down in the second. Salvador Perez led the Royals by going 3 for 5 with two home runs and four RBI, and all told the Royals combined for 17 hits and four homers on the night.It marked the latest in a string of short outings by Boston’s starting pitchers, w...

Typhoon Saola makes landfall in southern China after nearly 900,000 people moved to safety

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:23 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — Typhoon Saola made landfall in southern China before dawn Saturday after nearly 900,000 people were moved to safety and most of Hong Kong and other parts of coastal southern China suspended business, transport and classes. Guangdong province’s meteorological bureau said the powerful storm churned into an outlying district of the city of Zhuhai, just south of Hong Kong at 3:30 a.m. It was forecast to move in a southwesterly direction along the Guangdong coast at a speed of around 17 kph (10 mph), gradually weakening before heading out to sea. On Friday, 780,000 people in Guangdong were moved away from areas at risk as did 100,000 others in neighboring Fujian province. More than 80,000 fishing vessels returned to port. Workers stayed at home and students in various cities saw the start of their school year postponed to next week. Trading on Hong Kong’s stock market was suspended Friday and hundreds of people were stranded at the airport after about 460 flights wer...

Arrest warrant issued for man not complying with conditions of psychiatric hospital

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:23 GMT

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man who police say failed to abide by conditions imposed on him by a psychiatric hospital. Shawn Claydon, 35, was last seen May 3 in the area of Warden Avenue and Eglinton Avenue East. He is known to frequent Scarborough and the downtown, according to police. Claydon is described as being five-foot-10, 150 pounds with a thin build, short black hair and black facial hair. Claydon was accused of aggravated assault in November 2020 for a violent robbery in Scarborough that left a 61-year-old man with a severe head injury and a broken shoulder. However, he was found not criminally responsible in the attack. The arrest warrant was issued by the Ontario Review Board (ORB) in order to bring the individual in question back to a provincial psychiatric hospital.The ORB is an independent tribunal whose responsibility is to review the status of all individuals found unfit to stand trial or not criminally responsible and determine whether the individual co...

Police search for 14-year-old girl missing from home in Lyons

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:23 GMT

LYONS, Ill. — A search is underway for a missing 14-year-old girl who was last seen leaving a school bus near her home in Lyons on Wednesday, according to police.Police in Lyons say Jemyah Ross, who has been missing since 5 p.m. on Aug. 30, was last seen near her home on Joliet Road and Fishermans Terrace. Joliet man charged in connection with teen’s fatal overdose Ross stands 5'5" tall and weighs around 150 Lbs. She has black hair and brown eyes. Police say she also has mental health concerns.According to police, employees with the bus company overheard Ross say that she was going to get something to eat and then go to the West Side with a relative, but her parent said they are unaware of any relative who could be involved or any potential destinations in Chicago. ‘Beyond frightful’: 2 men injured in suburban Metra stairway collapse Police say Ross has not contacted friends or family since her disappearance.Anyone with information on the whereabouts of 14-year-old Jemyah Ross i...

Paul Lisnek on Georgia's election interference case, potential government shutdown

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:23 GMT

WGN Political Analyst Paul Lisnek joined WGN Evening News to discuss several big stories from the week.The topics include the latest on Georgia's 2020 election interference case and a potential government shutdown. Read more: Latest Chicago news headlines

Grandmother living in badly burned house: 'I'm trying'

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:23 GMT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — One grandmother in the Soulsville neighborhood of Memphis is hoping to turn a badly burned house into a home by rebuilding everything one step at a time — she just needs help. The resident of the South Memphis home says it may not look like much now, but she hopes one day this will be somewhere her family can call home. Carol Monagan is living in a home with a 3-year-old grandchild, three other family members and a pet. After a recent fire, the house is missing large portions of its roof, and doesn't have utilities.Monagan is originally from New York, where she used to do construction. She moved to Memphis four years ago to be closer to her fiance’s family after being told by doctors she was sick.“I have mild degenerative arthritis on my spine. I had to have surgery on my knees," said Monagan.After living with family members for a few years and getting her health better, they tried living on their own but were soon evicted.  Confrontation at resta...

New laws go into effect, groups rally against laws now challenged by lawsuits

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:23 GMT

Austin (KXAN) — As nearly 800 Texas laws go into effect Sept. 1, groups in Austin gathered to support one another and speak out against a controversial bill that effects labor in the state.The Workers Defense Project, Texas AFT, and Nonviolent Austin were a few of several groups that demonstrated outside the Governor's Mansion Friday night.The group rallied against HB 2127 the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act, more well known as the Death Star Bill. The law keeps local governments from passing ordinances that are inconsistent with state law.Daniela Hernandez, state legislative coordinator for Workers Defense Project, said the law would remove protections for laborers across the state."It would pre-empt ordinances like the ones that Austin and Dallas have on the books that would require a rest break for construction workers 10 minutes every four hours of work that they do," Hernandez said. Travis County judge: Local preemption ‘Death Star’ bill is unconstitutional The bill did go i...

High school football: Cretin-Derham Hall rolls past Tartan

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:23 GMT

Cretin-Derham Hall senior Miles Bollinger and his teammates got Steve Walsh’s second season as the Raiders’ head coach off to a successful start Friday night.The quarterback threw for a touchdown and rushed for another as his team jumped on top early and went on to roll past Tartan 35-0 on the road at Tartan High School.“I’ve had a year with the playbook,” said Bollinger, who threw for 140 yards in all. “It was a new system last year. I think we’re all more comfortable with each other now.”Walsh, a Raiders alum and longtime NFL quarterback, took over the head coaching job at his alma mater prior to last season. The team finished 2-8 in his first year at the helm.“I didn’t really get onto campus until June 1 (last year),” Walsh said. “So I missed all the winter lifting, all the spring lifting. That’s the time for relationship building with the kids and I missed all that.“It was a brand-new offense, a brand-new defense and just a different level of expectation. We just weren’t r...