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Local driver describes moment falling thermos shattered windshield on Storrow Drive

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:25 GMT

A local driver shared his story Friday after he said a large metal thermos shattered his windshield on Storrow Drive in Boston. Speaking with 7NEWS, Frank Lucas said he was crossing under a bridge near Massachusetts Avenue when he saw something fall from above. Lucas said he called 911. When state police arrived, he said they found the thermos that had either been thrown or dropped from the bridge in the area. The thermos ultimately shattered the entire passenger side of Lucas’ windshield.Though Lucas had some glass on him, he said he was alone in the car at the time and was not hurt. “I’m thinking somebody is looking after me, because my wife wasn’t in the car,” he said. “Thank God for safety glass,” he continued.Lucas said the incident happened around 11:30 a.m. Friday morning. By 3 p.m., he said he was on his way home with a new windshield thanks to the help of a group of workers and a local windshield repair shop.

Missing girl found safe after being ‘inadvertently placed’ on wrong transportation van at Brockton school

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:25 GMT

Brockton police said a 7-year-old girl was found safe Friday after she was put on the wrong transportation van at a local school. Police in an initial post on social media near 5:15 p.m. asked for the public’s help in efforts to find Alicia Vitoria Goncalves Teixeira. A police spokesperson in a subsequent statement confirmed Teixeira was soon found at a Boys & Girls Club location. Brockton police said Teixeira had been last seen in the parking lot of Angelo Elementary School off North Main Street before she was “inadvertently placed on an unknown private transportation van.” Police did not say how the mistake happened and did not provide any further information.The Brockton Public Schools issued its own statement Friday, saying Teixeira “was found and is safe.”“She boarded an incorrect bus that transported her to a local child care institution where she remained until reunited with her family,” the district said.This is a developing st...

Ho, Ho, Ho

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:25 GMT

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas … in the malls for sure where Santa seems to be showing up a lot.Boston’s 9-month-old Ekieda Korli reaches for Santa’s beard while he gets his photo taken at the Prudential Center in Boston on Friday. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)Santa leans closer to Newport’s 2-year-old Marsden Mclaughlin to hear what she’d like for Christmas this year before getting her photo taken at the Prudential Center in Boston on Friday. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)Santa hangs out at the Prudential Center taking souvienir photos. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)Boston’s Chloe Karamitis smiles as she tells Santa what she’d like for Christmas. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)Christopher Gutierrez of Manzi Appraisers & Restoration with a restored angel statue at the Old North Church. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald) 

Local Massachusetts teachers group demands state union retract ‘inflammatory’ cease-fire resolution

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:25 GMT

Another local teachers union is demanding the Massachusetts Teachers Association rescind an “inflammatory” resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.The Bedford Education Association disassociated itself from the resolution this week, following the same action as the Newton Teachers Association whose president referred to the MTA statement as “antisemitic dog-whistling.”“The Bedford Education Association rejects the presumption that it is within the scope of our state and local associations’ mission to take a position on geopolitical affairs,” part of the BEA motion states. “Furthermore, the BEA rejects anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and all other expressions of religious and cultural intolerance.”Hyperlocal The Bedford Citizen first reported the resolution on Thursday, highlighting how some “Jewish residents contacted officers of the Bedford association and requested that they repudiate the statement, which they felt was one-sided, inflammatory, and with...

Norwood Police shoot woman they say came at them with a gun

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:25 GMT

A Norwood Police officer shot a gun-wielding woman in the parking lot of a storage business there Friday afternoon, police said.“We hope that she’s going to be ok. We also are tending to the officers who are present at the scene to make sure that they’re going to be ok,” Norwood Police Chief William Brooks said at a press conference he held at around 3 p.m. outside the Extra Space Storage location on Morse Street where the tense interaction took place just an hour or so beforehand.The unnamed woman, who Brooks described as “middle-aged” and who “had recently been living in Norwood,” was still alive at the time Brooks spoke with the media.As Brooks told it, the woman was in some kind of interaction inside the storage business with another man when she drew a gun on him and then the man called 911 a little before 1 p.m. The woman exited the building and walked into the parking lot as she held the gun to her own head, which is how Brooks — who said he was on scene throughou...

Lucas: Come on Biden, hit the Houthis hard!

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:25 GMT

Joe Biden ought to put Kamala Harris in charge of standing up to Yemen.It will show that he is not going to be pushed around by the Houthis anymore.And we are not talking about Hootie and the Blowfish, either.We are talking about real ragtag Houthis in Yemen who, backed and trained by Iran, are bombarding commercial ships in the Red Sea that are bound for Israel. Iran supplies the missiles and drones they are firing.Joe Biden looks at the event, confused and helpless.Were he to give the assignment to Harris, the vice president would deal with the Houthis the way she demolished the Mexican cartels after Biden named her border czar. (Yeah. Right.)Still, she could not do worse than all the other government officials Biden has sent to the Mideast to cope with the fallout from the Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza.Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and National Security advisor Jake Sullivan have met with everybody in the region — Benjamin Netanyahu in I...

Starr: Dodgers “fully throttle” Red Sox with $325 million Yamamoto contract

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:25 GMT

The promise of a “full throttle” Red Sox offseason, already an unrealistic dream, was officially broken on Thursday night, when Jack Curry of YES Network broke the news that the Los Angeles Dodgers had won the Yoshinobu Yamamoto sweepstakes.It’s the latest in a string of enormous, historic offseason transactions by the Dodgers, and the latest in a long line of Red Sox disappointments.Yamamoto completes an Orion’s belt of shining new stars; already in the last two weeks, the Dodgers gave Shohei Ohtani a record $700 million while also trading for and extending Rays star Tyler Glasnow.According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, Yamamoto’s is a 12-year, $325 million deal. There’s no deferred money, a $50 million signing bonus and player opt-outs after the ’29 and ’31 seasons. The Dodgers must also pay a $50.6 million posting fee to Yamamoto’s Nippon Professional Baseball team, the Orix Buffaloes. It’s not only unprecedented for the posti...

3 suspects in stabbing of off-duty officer during Best Buy theft in custody, 1 at large

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:25 GMT

Police say three of four suspects in the stabbing of an off-duty police officer at a Scarborough Best Buy store earlier this month are now in custody facing charges, with a fourth suspect still at large.The first arrest came in dramatic fashion on Wednesday when police say they spotted one of the suspects driving a stolen U-Haul truck in the Danforth and Warden Avenues area. Officers tried to make an arrest, but the suspect allegedly abducted a citizen at gunpoint and took off in the U-Haul, sparking a long pursuit that resulted in numerous crashes through parts of the GTA. The abduction victim managed to jump out of the vehicle at one point and was unharmed.Police vehicles finally cornered the suspect, making a daring daylight arrest near Church and Carlton Streets in downtown Toronto.Emergency Task Force officers arrested the driver of a U-Haul truck near Church and Carlton streets in downtown Toronto on Dec. 20, 2023. CITYNEWS/David MisenerJim Dimce Kaluzovski, 47, of Keswick, wa...

REVIEW: The Iron Claw soars as tragically as it can

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:25 GMT

Wrestling is a unique art. It’s a mixture of performance and pain, cheesy acting and serious injury. The sport’s beginnings were nowhere near as popular as it has become nowadays, although it’s always had ardent fans. But one family made the art into a superstardom, and they sacrificed themselves in the process.Harris Dickinson, Jeremy Allen White, and Zac Efron in the Iron Claw, courtesy of Elevation Pictures.The Iron Claw is a biopic about that family, and their contributions to wrestling and kayfabe. Fritz Von Erich (played by Holt McCallany from Mindhunter) is a wrestler who couldn’t quite become a superstar, so he raised his sons to to do that instead. Kevin (played by Zac Efron from High School Musical) is the oldest, Kerry (played by Jeremy Allen White from the Bear) is the strongest, David (played by Harris Dickinson from Triangle of Sadness) plays the crowd the best, and Mike (played by Stanley Simons from Superior) is the youngest. The brothers love...

At a church rectory in Boston, Haitian migrants place their hopes on hard work and helping hands

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:25 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — When Ernseau Admettre decided to leave Haiti and head north with his young family in tow, very little was guaranteed.But the situation in his homeland, beset by poverty and gang violence, had grown so dire that a risky passage to and then across the United States’ southern border offered a kind of hope he said he could never find by staying put.Admettre discovered Boston through the internet and set his sights on Massachusetts, and the trip took the family through several countries including the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Mexico. “We’re going through a very tragic moment in our country. We have no safety. We cannot definitely have all our needs met in Haiti,” Admettre said through a translator Friday. “Leaving Haiti was the best solution to survive.”The Admettres — Ernseau, 43; his wife, Jimene, 36: and their children Elionai, 6, and Gabyana, 2 months — eventually arrived at the Boston International Airport right as winter temperatures were settling ...