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Tornado watch issued for most of Massachusetts, flash-flood warning until 8:30

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:57 GMT

Keep your eyes to the sky today!An “atmospheric river” first brought the state a tornado warning today — one at 9:15 a.m. again at 10:30 a.m. — and a tornado watch for most of Massachusetts until 3 p.m. and a flash-flood warning until 8:30 p.m.As of 5 p.m. the National Weather Service told the Herald they had not verified any tornado touching down in Massachusetts.Today’s tornado watch (NWS)According to the National Weather Service, all of Connecticut and sections of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and southern Maine fall under that watch. The rain has now moved into Suffolk County.The rest of Massachusetts and Vermont — basically the whole northeast — is under a thunderstorm and flood watch on and off into tomorrow. That’s a mix of “torrential rainfall,” hail, wind suddenly gusting and driving that could be perilous.That unyielding atmospheric river is moving northeast with western Mass, Vermont and New Hampshire in for more ...

Teamsters president says he’s asked the White House not to intervene if UPS workers go on strike

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:57 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the Teamsters said Sunday that he has asked the White House not to intervene if unionized UPS workers end up going on strike. Negotiations between the delivery company and the union representing 340,000 of its workers have been at a standstill for more than a week with a July 31 deadline for a new contract approaching fast. The union has threatened a strike if a deal is not reached by the time the collective bargaining agreement expires. Asked during a webcast with members Sunday on whether the White House could force a contract on the union, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien said he has asked the White House on numerous occasions to stay away. “My neighborhood where I grew up in Boston, if two people had a disagreement and you had nothing to do with it – you just kept walking,” O’Brien said. “We don’t need anybody getting involved in this fight,” he said. The Teamsters represent more than half of the Atlanta-based company’s workforce in the largest privat...

Georgia suspect in 4 killings fatally shot, gunfire exchanged and 2 officers hurt, authorities say

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:57 GMT

HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Officers shot and killed a man wanted in four weekend killings near Atlanta during an exchange of gunfire, and a sheriff’s deputy and a police officer were injured trying to take the suspect into custody, authorities said.Henry County Sheriff’s spokesperson Syntonnia Moore said Andre Longmore was shot during an intense manhunt for the 40-year-old man. The exchange of gunfire came a day after Saturday morning’s shootings rocked a quiet subdivision of Hampton, south of Georgia’s main city.Moore said law enforcement forces killed Longmore in a nearby area of Clayton County, adding a Henry County sheriff’s deputy and a Clayton County police officer were injured in the attempt to arrest Longmore. Moore said she had no update on the officers’ conditions. Deputy U.S. Marshal Van Grady confirmed gunfire was exchanged, adding of Longmore: “He fired on law enforcement and they returned fire.” Earlier, before the shooting of the suspect, ...

Fewer than 2,000 Hydro-Québec customers without power after storms caused new outages

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:57 GMT

MONTREAL — Fewer than 2,000 Hydro-Québec customers were without power late Sunday afternoon, as the utility continued to repair outages after a major storm on Thursday along with new outages caused by additional thunderstorms.As of Sunday morning, fewer than 2,000 clients who lost power due to Thursday’s storm were still without electricity, but thousands of other customers had lost power as other storms passed through the province on Saturday night and Sunday, said hydro spokesman Francis Labbé.Those storms were bringing strong winds and rain, he said. “That will make vegetation make contact with our grid and that will provoke outages. Sometimes it’s just a a safety measure, the grid protects itself when it feels there is a a fluctuation in the tension, but sometimes there are more severe damages,” he said in an interview Sunday.“Our crews are intervening here and there to repair things, but sometimes more work has to be done.”The remaining areas...

Hsieh Su-Wei and Barbora Strycova win second women’s doubles title together at Wimbledon

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:57 GMT

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan and Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic won their second Wimbledon doubles title as a pairing by beating Elise Mertens of Belgium and Storm Hunter of Australia 7-5, 6-4 Sunday on Centre Court.Hsieh converted their second match point with a backhand as the 2019 champions broke in the final game of the second set.Strycova came out of retirement this year after giving birth to a son, and said she expects this to be her last Wimbledon.“I couldn’t ask for a better finish,” Strycova said. “Last year I texted Su-Wei, ‘Let’s try to play Wimbledon 2023 just to come back and feel the atmosphere. There is no COVID anymore.’ She was like, ‘Yeah, let’s do that. Let’s just have fun.’ Here we are with the trophy. It’s crazy.”Hsieh has now won the women’s doubles title the last three times she played at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament — she also teamed up with Mertens to lift the trophy in 2021. The 2020 edition was canceled because of...

Child thrown from carnival ride in Antioch, flown to hospital

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:57 GMT

ANTIOCH, Ill. — A 10-year-old child was thrown from a carnival ride on Sunday in Antioch, according to police.Around 2:40 p.m., police said the child was thrown from a ride at the Taste of Antioch festival.Read more: Latest Chicago news headlinesThe child was flown to a hospital. Their condition hasn't been released.Another kid who was on the ride said the bar for his seat on the Moby Dick ride was coming over his head several times and he had to resecure it."My bar was coming up over my head, so every time I went up because it was going up and I was almost about to fall out, I would slam down to close it so that way I would not fall out," Elliott Johnson said. "Then as soon as it started slowing down and it was about maybe rocking on the floor, I was able to push it up and slide out."Johnson said he then ran to find help for the child. Mayor Scott Gartner used his executive authority to close the rides while a safety review of each ride is completed, according to the police departm...

CPD looking to ID suspects in aggravated assault, catalytic converter theft

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:57 GMT

CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department is looking for the public's help in trying to identify a group of suspects tied to an aggravated assault and attempted catalytic converter theft in the Clearing neighborhood last Monday morning.Suspects CPD is looking to ID in an aggravated assault, attempted catalytic converter theft in the Clearing neighborhood on July 10, 2023.According to CPD, the group of suspects were trying to steal a catalytic converter in the 6000 block of South Mulligan Avenue around 6:25 a.m. when they became aware of the victim's presence and began shooting at them, hitting their vehicle in the process.Police describe the offenders as being Black males, dressed in all black clothing who were wearing face masks in a black sedan with tinted windows. 5 people shot, 1 fatally, in Garfield Park drive-by: CPD If you or someone you know has information that could help lead police to making an arrest and conviction in the investigation of this incident, Area One Violent ...

Unhoused woman dies after being run over by tractor in California park

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:57 GMT

(KTXL) — An organization that supports the unhoused and a family are heartbroken after a landscaping contractor hired by the city of Modesto, California allegedly drove over and killed a woman who was laying in a field of overgrown vegetation."I feel terrible because they killed my daughter," said Christopher Chavez, the father of 27-year-old Christine, who was unhoused and died earlier this month when workers driving a John Deere tractor with a pull-behind mower were cleaning up Beard Brook Park. E & J Gallo Winery, which owns Beard Brook Park, said in a statement that they had acquired the Beard Brook Park property on July 7. “On Saturday, July 8, 2023, a landscaping contractor was hired to perform weed abatement and fire prevention services," the statement continued. "There was an accident at approximately 12:00 p.m. involving the contractor’s tractor and an individual who was not visible and laying in a tall, weeded area. The contractor immediately contacted the Modesto Pol...

Georgia suspect in 4 killings shot and killed, 2 officers hurt during encounter: official

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:57 GMT

HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Law enforcement officers shot and killed a man wanted in the weekend killings of four people near Atlanta, and a sheriff's deputy and a police officer were hurt during the attempt to take the suspect into custody, an official said.Henry County Sheriff's spokesperson Syntonnia Moore said suspect Andre Longmore was fatally shot during a widespread search for the 40-year-old man. The manhunt began shortly after the shootings Saturday morning in a subdivision of Hampton, a community south of Georgia's main city.Moore said law enforcement shot and killed Longmore on Sunday in a nearby area of Clayton County. Moore added that a Henry County sheriff’s deputy and a Clayton County police officer were injured during the attempt to arrest Longmore.Moore said she had no update on the condition of either officer.Developing

Austin Fire, EMS respond to construction worker heat incident on downtown site

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:57 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Fire Department and Austin-Travis County EMS are tending to a construction worker experiencing a heat-related issue on a construction site in downtown Austin Sunday afternoon.AFD officials tweeted late Sunday afternoon they responded to a worker in need of medical attention "from a crane scaffold about 6 stories high" off a downtown construction site. ATCEMS tweeted the call came in around 3:43 p.m. Sunday at 80 Red River Street. The Austin Fire Department and Austin-Travis County EMS are tending to a construction worker experiencing a heat-related issue on a construction site in downtown Austin Sunday afternoon. (Courtesy: Austin Fire Department) The Austin Fire Department and Austin-Travis County EMS are tending to a construction worker experiencing a heat-related issue on a construction site in downtown Austin Sunday afternoon. (Courtesy: Austin Fire Department) The Austin Fire Department and Austin-Travis County EMS are tending to a construction worke...