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Dog-friendly 5K in Natick raises money for dog charities

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:54:02 GMT

Area runners and their four-legged friends made their way to Natick on Sunday to take part in a dog-friendly 5K aimed at raising funds for dog charities. The 6th annual Jr’s Paws For a Cause dog-friendly 5K drew a crowd of runners, many of whom were joined by their dogs, to raise money for Project Samana, Kyles Legacy Canine Cancer program and local dog rescue Shultz Guest House and Ruff Tales. For more information visit: http://jrspawsforacause.com.

‘Baseball is a crazy game, man’: Chicago White Sox snap their 10-game skid with a 7-run, 9th-inning rally

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:54:02 GMT

Andrew Vaughn knew it was gone once he connected.Goodbye, baseball. Goodbye, losing streak. Goodbye to the ties to 1948.The Chicago White Sox snapped a 10-game skid in improbable fashion, scoring seven runs in the ninth inning to stun the Tampa Bay Rays 12-9 in front of 17,049 on Sunday at Guaranteed Rate Field.Vaughn capped the remarkable rally with a game-ending three-run homer to left field against reliever Garrett Cleavinger.“I was just trying to put the ball in play,” Vaughn said. “We had great at-bats that inning, guys were getting on base, we were scoring runs and my sole purpose up there was to keep the line rolling.”He did more than that, not that he remembers much in the immediate aftermath of making contact. Vaughn said he blacked out and didn’t recall rounding the bases.But he remembers touching home and the celebration that ensued.“I’ll have a nice little shiner tomorrow,” he said with a smile. “Don’t matter (w...

Army identifies soldiers killed in Alaska helicopter crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:54:02 GMT

SEATTLE — The U.S. Army identified the three soldiers who were killed when two helicopters collided in Alaska while returning from a training mission.The helicopters were headed to Fort Wainwright from a mission in the Donnelly Training Area when they crashed at 1:39 p.m. Thursday, about 50 miles east of Healy.The U.S. Army announced Friday that it has grounded aviation units for training after 12 soldiers died within the last month in helicopter crashes in Alaska and Kentucky.“The move grounds all Army aviators, except those participating in critical missions, until they complete the required training,” the Army said in a statement.Killed in Thursday’s crash were Chief Warrant Officer 3 Christopher Robert Eramo, 39, of Oneonta, New York; Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kyle D. McKenna, 28, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Warrant Officer 1 Stewart Duane Wayment, 32, of North Logan, Utah.A fourth soldier was injured and was taken to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and was li...

First Republic up in air as feds juggle bank’s fate

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:54:02 GMT

NEW YORK — Regulators continued their search for a solution to First Republic Bank’s woes over the weekend before stock markets were set to open Monday.San Francisco-based First Republic has struggled since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in early March, as investors and depositors have grown increasingly worried that the bank may not survive as an independent entity for much longer. The bank’s stock closed at $3.51 on Friday, a fraction of the roughly $170 a share it traded for a year ago.First Republic has been seen as the most likely next bank to collapse due to its high amount of uninsured deposits and exposure to low interest rates.Gary Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs president who served as President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation “would prefer to sell the bank in its entirety than in pieces.”“What will most l...

BPS introduces Shaw-Taylor and Sumner-Philbrick merger proposals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:54:02 GMT

BPS has released official proposals for the first two of a series of controversial mergers addressing an enrollment plunge and structural changes in upcoming years — forging ahead as parent and community pushback continues.“These are not the only merger proposals that will come before this body in the years to come,” Superintendent Mary Skipper said ahead of the proposal presentation at the school committee Wednesday. “I think we’ve spoken about the declining enrollment. And we’ve spoken about the need to roll out inclusion. So there’ll be much driving in the years to come, us looking at how we can through mergers, and sometimes closures, start to right-size our system.”The proposals, which will likely come up for committee vote in May, outline plans to combine the Pauline A. Shaw Elementary School and Charles H. Taylor Elementary School in Dorchester and Charles Sumner Elementary School and John D. Philbrick Elementary School in Rosli...

MBTA needs ‘all hands on deck,’ board chief says of remote boss revelations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:54:02 GMT

A former MBTA executive and the current head of its budget review agency says revelations that some system managers are living far away from the hundreds of cities and towns serviced by the T does not adequately reflect the response the network requires from its leaders.“A place like the MBTA, where things are clearly not working well, it really needs to be all hands on deck all the time, in person, especially on construction projects and especially out in places like Springfield where they’re making those new Red and Orange line cars that we know are not working properly,” MBTA Advisory Board executive director Brian Kane said.Kane, speaking with WBZ’s Jon Keller for the political analyst’s recurring Sunday segment, said news that several MBTA managers involved in capital improvement projects — all making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year — were on the state payroll despite living nowhere near the construction they were responsible for managing, isn’t necessarily a surprise...

A Shot For Life: First football event scores

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:54:02 GMT

NEEDHAM — At St. Sebastian’s for Sunday’s A Shot For Life Bowl, the organization’s first football event, it was cold, and it was wet. But it was also fun.Lots, and lots of fun.That was the main takeaway for both event organizers and players who took part in the four-team 7-on-7 tournament. Sure, the weather was rainy, but the competition was a blast, and the event was a success.All told, $47,000 was raised for the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Cancer Center.“It’s super fun,” A Shot For Life CEO Mike Slonina said. “All of our players are building off of what our players did before them. If basketball wasn’t successful, we can’t do baseball. If baseball wasn’t successful, we can’t do soccer. If that’s not successful, we can’t do football. These guys, what they’re doing here today is going to live on for a very long time. Half these guys will be back. All underclassmen are welcome back. So it&#...

Tim Bachman, founding member of BTO, dies at 71

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:54:02 GMT

A founding member of the Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Tim Bachman, has died at the age of 71.Randy Bachman confirmed the death of his brother through his manager on Sunday.Tim Bachman’s son, Paxton Bachman, posted on Facebook that his father died Friday, explaining that he got a call last week from the care home where his father was staying, telling him that his dad’s condition had worsened and that later tests revealed cancer throughout his brain.Ryder Bachman Facebook postThe Winnipeg-based BTO released its first album in May 1973 and the band’s second album, Bachman-Turner Overdrive II, released in December 1973, became a huge hit in the U.S. and Canada, with hit singles “Let it Ride” and “Takin’ Care of Business.”Tim Bachman, who played guitar and sang, left BTO in 1974 but had rejoined BTO for tours over the years.His death follows that of his brother Robbie Bachman, another co-founder of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, in January a...

North York restaurant manager facing sexual assault charges

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:54:02 GMT

Police have arrested and charged a North York restaurant manager as part of a sexual assault investigation. Police say they were made aware on Saturday of an assault at a restaurant in the area of Dufferin Street and Steeles Avenue West. Investigators say between May 1, 2022, and April 28, 2023, two female victims claimed they were being sexually assaulted by the manager at the establishment. The police did not release the name of the restaurant. Amir Keshavarzi, 55, of Toronto, has been charged with three counts of sexual assault and uttering threats.Police have released his photo as they believe there may be more victims.

Pope speaks of secret peace ‘mission,’ help for Ukraine kids

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:54:02 GMT

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday revealed that a secret peace “mission” in Russia’s war in Ukraine was under way, though he gave no details, and said the Vatican is willing to help facilitate the return of Ukrainian children taken to Russia during the war.“I’m available to do anything,” Francis said during an airborne press conference en route home from Hungary. “There’s a mission that’s not public that’s underway; when it’s public I’ll talk about it.”Francis gave no details when asked whether he spoke about peace initiatives during his talks in Budapest this weekend with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban or the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Hungary.Deportations of Ukrainian children have been a concern since Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Francis said the Holy See had already helped mediate some prisoner exchanges and would do “all that is humanly possible” to reunite families.“All human gestures help. Gestures of cruelty don’t he...