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Russian missile hits Ukrainian apartment building, killing 1

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:50 GMT

By KARL RITTER (Associated Press)KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile struck an apartment building in the center of Kramatorsk on Tuesday, killing at least one person and wounding seven others in one of Ukraine’s major city strongholds in its eastern Donetsk region as it fights against Moscow’s invasion, officials said.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a video showing gaping holes in the façade of the low-rise building that bore the brunt of the strike.The Ukrainian general prosecutor’s office and regional Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko also reported on the attack, posting photos of the building with mounds of rubble in front of it. The impact damaged nine apartment blocks, a kindergarten, a local bank branch and two cars, Kyrylenko said. The war, which erupted after Russia’s launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, has brought heavy civilian casualties. Tuesday’s victims were among at least seven civilians killed and 30 wounde...

Team USA needed Tim Anderson’s bat in the lineup — so the shortstop switched to second base in win over Canada

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:50 GMT

Mark DeRosa needed Tim Anderson’s bat in the lineup.Canada started a left-hander in Monday’s World Baseball Classic matchup and the Team USA manager wanted to play both Anderson and Trea Turner.The only issue? Both are shortstops — Anderson for the Chicago White Sox and Turner for the Philadelphia Phillies.DeRosa asked Anderson if he’d shift to second base.“I was open for it,” Anderson said. “It’s a matter of just getting comfortable and I got comfortable as the game went on. And I was able to complete the task.”Anderson showed he’s very comfortable on the big stage too, going 2-for-3 with a triple, one RBI, one walk and two runs in a 12-1 victory in a crucial Pool C game at Chase Field. With a lead of at least 10 runs, the contest was called in the seventh per the rules of the first round of the tournament.Anderson has excelled in the postseason and has collected a hit as a starter in the All-Star Game. He ended the inaugu...

Patriots WR Jakobi Meyers leaving for 3-year deal with AFC West team, per report

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:50 GMT

For the first time in four seasons, the Patriots will have a new leading receiver in 2023.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Retired Patriots captain Devin McCourty buys 37 billboards to thank fans New England Patriots | Source: Patriots expected to re-sign DT Carl Davis to 1-year deal New England Patriots | Patriots re-signing CB Jonathan Jones, one of their top free agents New England Patriots | Patriots trading TE Jonnu Smith to Falcons for late-round pick New England Patriots | Patriots free agency tracker and grades: Jets pursuing potential Pats WR target, two defenders re-sign The Raiders have signed Pats wideout Jakobi Meyers to a 3-year, $33 million deal with $21 million guaranteed, according to reports. Meyers was viewed as the best receiver in free agency. The 26-year-old led the Pats in receiving yards every year since his rookie season of 2019.Last season, Meyers caught 67 passes for 804 ...

Storm watch: Radar and Massachusetts power outage map

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:50 GMT

Weather watchers in the Central Massachusetts are already reporting snow totals in excess of 9 inches in Fitchburg and 13 inches in Ashby.Meanwhile, power outages total over 66,000 statewide with the majority of issues in the central and western parts of the state.The Massachusetts Department of Transportation said in a 10 a.m. update that it had over 900 pieces of equipment out on the road and that speed restrictions were in place on the Mass Pike from the New  York border to Millbury.Keep track of the storm on the National weather Service radar below. Utility maps tracking local outages are also embedded below. National Grid outage mapEversource outage map Unitil outage map   

DA proposes app to find shelter beds for homeless

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:50 GMT

SAN DIEGO — A proposed app by San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan would locate open shelter beds for homeless people.The San Diego County Board of Supervisors is set to vote on the proposal Tuesday, which would allocate $300,000 dollars to develop the app.More details on the plan will be revealed during an 8 a.m. joint news conference Tuesday with officials from the DA's office, the Board of Supervisors, the San Diego Regional Task Force on Homelessness and the San Diego Rescue Mission.The news conference will "announce a game-changing new initiative that’s addressing the intersection of homelessness and crime through the development of an app that can quickly locate suitable shelter beds for individuals experiencing homelessness, improving on the process that’s currently in place," said the DA's office.The proposed app would follow a similar model that the DA has utilized to find beds for victims of domestic violence and human trafficking.In a letter sent to the board...

Assault on archaeologist triggers protests in Greece

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:50 GMT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — State-employed archaeologists in Greece launched strike action Tuesday to protest an assault on an archaeologist responsible for the resort island of Mykonos, an attack they say may have been linked to commercial pressure to extend tourism development.Archaeologist Manolis Psarros was beaten by an unidentified man with a possible accomplice in Athens last week and was left unconscious and bleeding in the street. The 53-year-old was taken to a state hospital in the Greek capital.Archaeologists employed by the Culture Ministry staged a five-hour work stoppage to protest what their association described as a “mafia-style attack.”“Our colleague’s … personal life does not justify any such criminal attack and we directly relate it to the cases that he handled on the island of Mykonos,” Despina Koutsoumba, the head of the protesting archaeologists’ association told an online news conference Monday.“In the course of his duties he had dealt with serious cases of v...

German court upholds move to take control of Rosneft units

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:50 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court on Tuesday upheld a government decision last year to put two subsidiaries of Rosneft under the control of German authorities, throwing out complaints from the Russian oil giant.The Federal Administrative Court found that the decision in mid-September to put Rosneft Deutschland GmbH and Rosneft Refining and Marketing GmbH under the administration of Germany’s Federal Network Agency was lawful.The trusteeship, which was initially imposed through March 15, gave German authorities control of three Russian-owned refineries in Germany. Rosneft accounted at the time for about 12% of Germany’s oil refining capacity, importing oil worth several hundred million euros (dollars) every month, according to the German government. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in September that the government was “ensuring that Germany is supplied with oil in the medium and long term as well.” He said that was particularly true of a refinery at Schwedt, on the Polish border northe...

Biden to deliver former President Jimmy Carter’s eulogy

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:50 GMT

President Joe Biden says he plans to deliver the eulogy at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, who remains under hospice care at his home in south Georgia.Biden told donors at a California fundraiser Monday evening about his “recent” visit to see the 39th president, whom he has known since he was a young Delaware senator supporting Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign. “He asked me to do his eulogy,” Biden said, before stopping himself from saying more. “Excuse me, I shouldn’t say that.”Carter, who at 98 is the longest-lived U.S. president, announced Feb. 18 that he would spend his remaining days at home receiving end-of-life care, forgoing further medical intervention after a series of short hospital stays. The Carter Center in Atlanta and the former president’s family members have not disclosed details of his condition, though Biden alluded to Carter’s 2015 cancer diagnosis and subsequent recovery. “I spent time with Jimmy Carter and it’s finally c...

In unusual step, U2 reinterprets 40 of its best-known songs

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:50 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — In reimagining 40 of their best-known songs, U2 recognized that many fans would experience them through earphones connected to a device in their pockets — rather than being belted out onstage.That was one thought behind “Songs of Surrender,”coming out this week. The four men of U2, now either 61 or 62 years old, revisit material written in some cases when they were little more than kids out of Dublin.Particularly in those days, U2 songs were written primarily with concerts in mind. The Edge told The Associated Press in an interview that U2 wanted to catch the attention of people seeing the band for the first time, perhaps in a festival or as an opening act.“There’s a sort of gladiatorial aspect to live performances when you’re in that situation,” he said. “The material has got to be pretty bold and even strident at times. With this reimagining, we thought it would be fun to see intimacy as a new approach, that intimacy would be the new punk rock, as it we...

Prosecutor: No charges in fatal Kansas City police shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:50 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City, Missouri, police officer who fatally shot a man at a convenience store nearly two years ago will not be charged with a crime, following a decision by a special prosecutor.Malcolm Johnson was killed in March 2021. Some civil rights, religious and community activists said the shooting of Johnson, who was Black, was part of a trend of officers in Missouri’s largest city killing Black men. They questioned if officers gave Johnson sufficient time to surrender before shooting him.St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell’s office announced Monday that no charges should be filed, following an investigation by the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Bell’s office took on the case after Jackson County prosecutors cited a conflict of interest.“Given the review of all the evidence, there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer who shot Malcolm Johnson was not acting in lawful self-defense or defens...