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Health officials launch investigation after geese, swans found dead along shore in Swansea

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:47 GMT

Health officials are launching an investigation into why a large number of geese and swans are being found dead along the shore of the Cole River in Swansea.For weeks, the birds have been turning up along the shore and in people’s yards. One resident told 7NEWS she has counted at least half a dozen dead swans within the past week alone. “This water used to be full of them and now we’re find them day and night,” resident Joan Duffy said. The Swansea Board of Health has sent some of the birds out to be tested for avian flu, which was recently detected in Rhode Island. Local health officials say the state has told them there are no human transmissible cases of avian flu in the region right now. Neighbors are devastated to see an iconic part of Swansea dying. “They’re not dying out in the water, they’re dying out on land,” Duffy added. “They’re coming to us for help and we need to help them.”Residents say they hope offici...

1 injured after tree crashes down on farm in Westport

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:47 GMT

A man was injured after a tree crashed down on a farm in Westport on Thursday. The man was sitting on a tractor and working on the trees when one crashed down on him. He was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Authorities say the incident was an extremely close call.

Boston pub where Marine was stabbed to death set to reopen under new name

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:47 GMT

The Boston pub where a bouncer is charged with killing a Marine is set to reopen under new name.The Sons of Boston bar got the approval from the City of Boston License Commission to reopen as “Loyal Nine.”The bar was cleared to reopen in February, but has remained closed since the board suspended its liquor license in April 2022. The decision came after one of the bar’s bouncers allegedly stabbed 23-year-old Daniel Martinez, a United States Marine, to death on March 19, 2022. The bouncer, Alvaro Larrama, 38, was charged with murder and the marine’s family is suing the bar.

Thursday’s high school scores and highlights

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:47 GMT

THURSDAY’S HIGHLIGHTSBASEBALLIn the Patriot League, Jake Cipullo struck out eight over fine innings, Jack Quigley went 2-for-4 with a homer and four RBI and Connor Finn went 3-for-3 with 5 RBI as Silver Lake slugged its way to an 11-1 victory over Scituate. … Junior captain Gabe Knudsen pitched a complete game with 10 strikeouts and added a bases clearing double as Hanover doubled up Whitman-Hanson 6-3.In nonleague play, Ethan Lee and Oliver Thibeault combined to strike out 11 in six innings and Jake Gilbo went 4-for-4 with two RBI while Zach Gilmore went 3-for-3 with another two driven in as Gloucester (2-0) took down Matignon 13-3. … Ryan Kane, Liam Kinneen and Alex Parisi combined on a two-hitter as BC High (1-1) won 9-1 over Lowell.John Bingham and Barrett Adams each cranked two-run homers as Dover-Sherborn (1-1) defeated Norton 12-3 in Tri-Valley League play.BOYS LACROSSEWill Whitney and Frank Forrest led the offense with four goals each as Dedham/Norwood defeated Needham 16-6 ...

Howie Carr: Federal Bureau of Incompetence strikes again

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:47 GMT

It could have been worse for the Delta Airlines pilot (or pilots) who were “detained” by the Boston FBI for 45 minutes Tuesday night in the latest colossal screw-up by the local G-men.It could have been much worse.The FBI could have detained the pilots the same way they detained the four guys from the North End named Peter Limone, Joe Salvati, Louie Greco and Henry Tameleo.The G-men “detained” those guys for 35-plus years, in prison, for a murder they didn’t even commit. Two of them were even “detained” on death row for years, and two died in prison after the FBI allowed them to be convicted, even though they knew they were innocent.Of course the FBI is now trying to deflect criticism from its latest black eye, saying it was in fact just assisting a Department of Defense exercise in, you know, role-playing.But the reality is summed up in the 11-second sound cut the Boston Police Department released about their dispatch of a police cruiser to the incident late Tuesday night or early ...

Ex-FBI agent John ‘Zip’ Connolly remains a free man indefinitely

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:47 GMT

Aging ex-FBI agent John “Zip” Connolly can remain a free man in Massachusetts, a Florida parole board has ruled.The prediction that he’d be dead by now has, obviously, been proven incorrect. Still, the Florida Commission on Offender Review is allowing Connolly to convalesce indefinitely with his wife in the Bay State, the Herald has learned. His next review with be in “two to seven years.”Connolly was convicted of second-degree murder in 2008 for wearing his FBI-issued sidearm when he met with mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in Boston to warn him of what businessman John Callahan knew. Bulger was murdered in a West Virginia prison in 2018.Callahan, the former president of World Jai Alai, was shot dead by John Martorano, one of Bulger’s hitmen. Martorano testified he was working for Bulger when he killed Callahan, who was also a friend of his. Bulger wanted Callahan dead because the Boston businessman could implicate them in a 1981 slaying of another World Jai Alai ex...

New MBTA leader dogged by overtime problems

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:47 GMT

Years of rampant overtime abuse and pension fraud at the Long Island Rail Road should have served as a “warning sign” for Gov. Maura Healey, when choosing its former president as the next MBTA general manager, one fiscal watchdog said.Pointing to the soaring payroll costs that already plague the MBTA, MassFiscal spokesman Paul Craney said the public can expect more of the same, or perhaps worse, when Phillip Eng takes the reins of the region’s embattled transit agency on April 10.“I think what’s interesting is that Gov. Maura Healey picked someone that comes from a railroad system that clearly has incredible problems with costs and efficiency, to the point that it is the poster child of an agency that’s doing it wrong,” Craney said.“She didn’t pick someone that comes from a transit agency that is being innovative and efficient in how it’s spending its money.”Craney was referencing past reporting from the New York Times, which first highlighted massive disability fraud at Long Island...

GO Transit expands weekend trains to Brampton, 4 lines to see buses for certain trips

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:47 GMT

For commuters on several GO Transit train lines, they will see multiple schedule changes, and the biggest service adjustment will see all-day, two-way trips between Toronto and Brampton.Beginning on Saturday, Kitchener line trains will be running hourly between Union Station and Mount Pleasant GO station. On weekends, the first trip will be eastbound from Mount Pleasant at 7:49 a.m., and the last trip will be westbound from Union Station and 11:51 p.m. The train trips will shave several minutes off the current journey by bus.There will still be bus trips on the corridor on weekends, with buses beginning or ending mostly at York Mills GO Bus Terminal or Bramalea GO station.ONTARIO BUDGET 2023: No plans yet for TTC, GO Transit co-fares unlike elsewhere in GTAOn weekdays, GO Transit will also be operating two extra morning eastbound trips and an extra afternoon westbound trip on parts of the Kitchener line corridor.When it comes to new bus services, there will also be several changes, ...

Berlusconi says he believes he’ll recover ‘once again’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:47 GMT

ROME (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said he believes he will overcome the lung infection caused by a chronic leukemia that has hospitalized him in intensive care, Italian daily Il Giornale reported on Friday.“It’s hard, but I’ll make it once again,” the 86-year-old media mogul said in a phone call with Il Giornale’s editor in chief, Augusto Minzolini.“I managed, also in delicate and difficult situations, to pull myself up,” Berlusconi added, according to the report. The media tycoon and three-time premier spent a second consecutive night in intensive care at Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital, where his doctors on Thursday signed off on a medical bulletin saying that he has had leukemia “for some time,” but that the cancer of the blood cells is in a “persistent chronic phase.” The statement was the first official word from doctors since Berlusconi was admitted to San Raffaele on Wednesday.“The current treatment strategy envisions treatment of the pulmonary infection” as ...

2 killed in West Bank after Israel strikes Lebanon, Gaza

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:47 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel conducted rare airstrikes in Lebanon and continued bombarding the Gaza Strip on Friday, an escalation that sparked fears of a broader conflict following violence over Jerusalem’s most sensitive site. With tensions running high across Israel and the region, an alleged Palestinian shooting attack near an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank killed two women in their 20s and seriously wounded a 45-year-old, Israeli medics said. The attack, coming after weeks of unusually heightened unrest in the West Bank, suggested that the recent tensions in Jerusalem could be spilling over to the occupied territory. Even as quiet returned to Israel’s northern and southern borders, the early morning Israeli strikes on Lebanon — which analysts described as the most serious border violence since Israel’s 2006 war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants — threatened to push the confrontation into a new phase. Israeli strikes came in retaliation for a major barrage of roc...