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Authorities give update following massive Scituate fire that destroyed multiple homes

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:20:00 GMT

Officials commended first responders on Monday a matter of days after a large fire ripped through several homes in Scituate. Calls came in reporting the fire shortly before 8 p.m. Friday on Glades Road near Minot Beach. Five homes were eventually destroyed. Three others sustained damage. SKY7 was over Scituate Monday, showing piles of rubble left behind.“Everyone did a tremendous job,” Deputy Fire Chief Mark Donovan said Monday afternoon. “There was a lot of hard work. It was a long, long duration.” Donovan said light rain arrived toward the end of the night during the fire response. There was also wind. “That can take its toll on you as well,” Donovan said. Cell phone video previously showed flames and the massive response with crews from multiple area communities at the scene creating a glow in the night sky Friday night.Smoke in the area was also, at one point, heavy enough to register on radar.The cause of the fire remained under investigation as of Monday.&n...

Robert Kraft: Lamar Jackson wants to be a Patriot

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:20:00 GMT

PHOENIX — Speaking Monday at the NFL owners meetings, Robert Kraft broke a whopper of a story that his rapper friend Meek Mill texted him last week.“(Mill) said Lamar Jackson wants to become a Patriot,” Kraft told a small group of reporters.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Bill Belichick again doesn’t commit to Mac Jones as Patriots’ starting quarterback New England Patriots | Josh McDaniels ‘excited’ to land ex-Patriot Jakobi Meyers New England Patriots | Bill Belichick deflects questions on Bill O’Brien, Joe Judge and Patriots’ coaching changes New England Patriots | Bill Belichick offers 4-word explanation why should Patriots fans be optimistic New England Patriots | Broncos head coach Sean Payton nixes Jerry Jeudy trade talk Kraft’s response?“I said that’s Bill Belichick’s decision,” Kraft said, deferring to the Patri...

Celtics’ Jaylen Brown named Eastern Conference Player of the Week as strong stretch continues

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:20:00 GMT

Celtics star Jaylen Brown was named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week on Monday after leading Boston to an unbeaten stretch.Brown received the honor for the first time this season and third time in his career. He averaged 31.7 points, 8.3 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game during a 3-0 week for the Celtics in which they dominated the Kings, Pacers and Spurs. On Sunday, Brown had 41 points – his third 40-point game of the season – and 13 rebounds in the Celtics’ 44-point rout of San Antonio, in which they were missing Jayson Tatum.Brown’s recognition comes during a terrific stretch for the two-time All-Star, who’s averaging 32.1 points per game over his last seven and is continuing to make a strong case to be named to an All-NBA team for the first time in his career.“He’s the best shooting guard in the league,” Malcolm Brogdon said after Sunday’s win. “He’ll be All-NBA, he’ll make one of the teams this year. His game really speaks for itself. When J.T. is out, he’s the No. 1 o...

Twitter secret code post turns into hunt for leaker

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:20:00 GMT

Twitter is trying to hunt down the person who leaked proprietary source code that was published online until last week.The code, which forms the basis for the web service’s platform and internal tools, was posted on GitHub — the widely used code repository that’s now owned by Microsoft Corp., a California court filing submitted by Twitter on Friday shows. GitHub Inc. complied with Twitter’s request to remove the data under a copyright infringement claim and posted Twitter’s request online.The account responsible for the posting, named FreeSpeechEnthusiast, signed up on GitHub at the start of the year and appears to have only uploaded the Twitter cache.Twitter is now asking the court to issue a subpoena in an effort to uncover the identity of the user behind that account as well as the names and other information of users who posted, downloaded or uploaded the data. The Elon Musk-owned social network has already asked GitHub for related names, addresses, telephone numbers, emails, so...

Grayson Rodriguez, Orioles’ top pitching prospect, won’t make starting rotation to begin season

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:20:00 GMT

Grayson Rodriguez’s much-anticipated arrival to the major leagues will have to wait, as Orioles manager Brandon Hyde informed the top pitching prospect Monday morning that he would instead begin the season in Triple-A.Rodriguez entered spring training competing for a spot in the rotation, with Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias repeatedly saying in the offseason that he wanted the 6-foot-5 right-hander to break camp in the major leagues.But the Orioles instead chose to send Rodriguez, a consensus top-10 prospect in baseball, back to the minors after the 23-year-old struggled this spring.“Any time you have those type of conversations, it’s not easy. I think, like all of our guys, he handled it like a pro, and we’ll move on from there,” said Hyde, who deferred to Elias for other questions regarding Rodriguez.Elias is scheduled to speak to the media Monday afternoon.In 15 1/3 spring training innings, Rodriguez allowed 17 hits a...

When is Padres Opening Day?

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:20:00 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Play ball! The San Diego Padres will open their 2023 season this week.The highly anticipated event comes on the heels of the Padres clinching a National League Championship Series berth in October for the first time since 1998. San Diego ultimately lost to the Philadelphia Phillies in five games. Petco Park named best MLB ballpark by USA Today Petco Park, the surrounding East Village and the rest of San Diego will soon be electric with excitement. Here's what you need to know ahead of the big day.When is Padres Opening Day?Padres Opening Day is on Thursday, March 30 at Petco Park. First pitch is at 1:10 p.m.Who will the Padres play?The Padres will host the Colorado Rockies. That series will continue through the weekend, with games also on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.Who will be starting pitcher?Blake Snell is set to be the starting pitcher. With over 14,000 pitches thrown in his MLB career, this season’s Opening Day will mark Snell’s 160th game as a starting pitcher, ...

Petco Park named best MLB ballpark by USA Today

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:20:00 GMT

SAN DIEGO — With Major League Baseball Opening Day on the horizon, the San Diego Padres are getting some love for their home stadium.Petco Park, located in the heart of downtown San Diego, was named as the best MLB ballpark by USA Today in the 2023 version of their rankings.The ballparks were ranked on the factors of general atmosphere, design, location, amenities, food and character. Jake Peavy, John Moores to be inducted into Padres Hall of Fame Petco Park came in at the top spot for 2016, 2020 and 2022 editions of the USA Today rankings.With a beautiful ballpark centered right in the downtown skyline, plenty of local food and beer options, the great San Diego weather and an exciting team creating a buzz throughout the city, its no surprise that Petco Park ranked highly given the criteria. San Diego Padres: The starting pitcher for Opening Day has been announced "It’s really difficult to imagine any stadium topping Petco Park — it’s simply the best," said USA Today writer...

16-year-old male arrested in Vaughan after carrying replica firearm

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:20:00 GMT

York police have arrested a 16-year-old male following an incident that included possession of a replica firearm in Vaughan.Police responded to a call on Mar. 26 at approximately 6:45 p.m. after a male suspect allegedly threatened an employee of a retail store in the area of Rutherford Road and Highway 400 with what appeared to be a handgun.An airsoft gun was located in the suspect’s possession and he was arrested.The suspect, a 16-year-old male, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a weapon, use of imitation firearm during commission of an offence, uttering threats, and two counts of failure to comply with judicial release order.

Woman wins Juno Award for album based on grandmother’s poetry written in concentration camp

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:20:00 GMT

A Canadian singer-songwriter won her first Juno this year for the “Thieves of Dreams” album based on her grandmother’s poetry written in a concentration camp in the 1940s.Lenka Lichtenberg, whose mother is also a Holocaust survivor, found a series of booklets on her mother’s desk in Prague over five years ago.“I found out that there are poems in my grandmother’s handwriting that are also repeated in this other booklet, which looks nice and worn out.”Lichtenberg’s mother and grandmother were prisoners at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. Her grandfather was a prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp but did not survive the war.She tells CityNews that when she first discovered the poems, Lichtenberg wasn’t sure what to do with them but realized that they were a historical artifact that should be shared somehow.“This is typically in a museum somewhere. And then I thought, Well, that’s great, except that nobody will ...

Feds say direction to bring men in Syria home amounts to ‘wholesale expansion’ of law

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:20:00 GMT

OTTAWA — A judge’s erroneous direction that Canadian officials should secure the release of four men from detention in northeastern Syria amounts to a “wholesale expansion” of the law, a federal lawyer told an appeal hearing Monday.Lawyer Anne Turley said the decision creates a new right to be returned to Canada, or even be rescued by Ottawa, when a citizen finds themselves in trouble abroad, despite no involvement of Canada in the foreign detention.Turley made the argument while asking a Federal Court of Appeal panel to overturn a January ruling by Federal Court Justice Henry Brown.In his decision, Brown said Ottawa should request repatriation of the men in Syrian prisons run by Kurdish forces as soon as reasonably possible and provide them with passports or emergency travel documents. Brown ruled the men are also entitled to have a representative of the federal government travel to Syria to help facilitate their release once their captors agree to hand them over....