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Police track down driver in deadly Lynn hit-and-run

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:11 GMT

Police have identified a driver who they said was involved in a hit-and-run crash in Lynn that left a 55-year-old woman dead on Wednesday, officials announced. Lynn officers responded to the incident just after 6 a.m. Wednesday on Route 107 northbound between Ida and Cooper Streets.Police said the woman was struck in a crosswalk in the area. Within hours of the crash, officials said detectives using city surveillance cameras had identified the driver and located the damaged car in Boston inside a parking garage in the area where the man behind the wheel worked. The driver had not been charged as of Wednesday afternoon. “The investigation has to continue,” Lynn Police Lieutenant Mike Kmiec said. “There’s obviously parameters that we have to follow with regards to what you can arrest somebody for,” Kmiec continued. “There’s obviously misdemeanor charges involved that, if they’re not occurring in our presence, there will be a summons at a later date.”Lynn polic...

Matt Damon, Casey Affleck seen in Quincy as movie filming continues

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:11 GMT

Filming of the movie “The Instigators” resumed Wednesday in the Boston area, with actors Matt Damon and Casey Affleck spotted outside a bar in Quincy. Film equipment was spread out in the area along Granite Street.  Cell phone video captured images of Damon getting his hair touched up during activity in the area.“The Instigators” follows two crooks who go on the run with their therapist when a robbery goes wrong. The film brought crews to Boston last week, with filming at multiple locations including City Hall Plaza, in Back Bay and in Fort Point.

Stoughton middle school student taken to hospital after consuming marijuana edible

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:11 GMT

A middle school student in Stoughton was taken to a hospital Wednesday after officials said the student ate a marijuana edible and got sick.Students at O’Donnell Middle School told 7NEWS a shelter-in-place announcement was made around 1 p.m. In an email sent to students and staff, officials said there was no safety threat. Instead, officials said the shelter-in-place announcement was made because officials wanted to clear hallways while a student received medical attention.Police said a school resource officer was at the building and responded. An ambulance was also sent. 7NEWS reached out to the school district but had not heard back as of around 5 p.m.Police said an investigation was ongoing as of Wednesday afternoon into where and how the student got the edible.

Red Sox Opening Day first pitch forecast: Winter-like wind chill around 32 degrees; Fenway flyover planned

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:11 GMT

As Red Sox players take the field at chilly Fenway Park for the season opener, a few might be wishing they were still enjoying the Florida warmth.Sox fans should bundle up for Opening Day against the Baltimore Orioles, with the National Weather Service predicting a winter-like wind chill of around freezing for first pitch at 2:10 p.m. Thursday — feeling more like football than baseball weather.The Boston-area high temp is expected to be 40 degrees, with the feels-like temp in the low 30s during the unseasonably chilly day. Wind gusts could hit 25 mph throughout the afternoon. At least it will be dry and sunny.It was significantly warmer during the NHL Winter Classic on Jan. 2, when Logan International Airport recorded a high temp of 52 degrees.Ahead of that hockey game at Fenway, there was a flyover that triggered alarm across the region. Thursday’s baseball game will also have a flyover.“The longtime tradition of a flyover on Opening Day will be maintained with tw...

Lawmakers say Fed lax before bank failure

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:11 GMT

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers accused top bank regulators Wednesday of dawdling as Silicon Valley Bank hurtled toward the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history and questioned whether tougher regulations would have made a difference.Regulators closed the bank March 10, shaking the U.S. financial system and triggering fears of a broader banking crisis. But Federal Reserve supervisors had first raised questions about Silicon Valley’s risky practices far earlier — in 2021 — and had warned the bank’s management about them in the fall of that year.“That doesn’t sound like a very urgent supervisory process,” Rep. French Hill, an Arkansas Republican, said at Wednesday’s hearing of the House Financial Services Committee into the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and of New York-based Signature Bank on March 12. Signature Bank’s collapse was the third-biggest in the nation’s history.In response to the crisis, some Democrats are calling for stricter...

Jeremy Renner gives emotional first interview since being critically injured in snowplow accident

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:11 GMT

Jeremy Renner remembers all of the pain he experienced after being critically injured by his snowplow three months ago, he said in an emotional first interview since the accident.The “Avengers” actor suffered a collapsed lung, a broken clavicle and shoulder, eight broken ribs and multiple broken bones in his face and legs when his 14,000-pound snowplow ran over him on Jan. 1. ABC released a preview clip Wednesday of Renner’s conversation with Diane Sawyer about the incident.“I was awake through every moment,” Renner, 52, says in the interview, which is set to air April 6 at 10 p.m.Renner was injured near his Reno-area home when he attempted to stop the moving snowplow from hitting his nephew, the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office in Nevada said in a January report.“I’d do it again, because it was going right at my nephew,” Renner told Sawyer.The interview marks the most detailed account of the accident by Renner, who has chronicled his recovery on social media. In January, Renner tweet...

Ticker: Adidas drops BLM trademark challenge; Mortgage rates ease to 6-week low

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:11 GMT

Adidas is withdrawing its challenge to a Black Lives Matter trademark application featuring three parallel stripes, two days after it contested the image with the U.S. Trademark Office.Adidas had submitted a notice of opposition with the office Monday, saying in the filing that it took issue with Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s application to trademark the use of three parallel yellow stripes on various items such as clothing and bags.By Wednesday, the sneaker giant said it had changed its mind.“Adidas will withdraw its opposition to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s trademark application as soon as possible,” the German athletic gear company said in a statement.It did not provide any further details as to why it was withdrawing the application, but the company recently lost a trademark battle with fashion designer Thom Browne.Mortgage rates ease to 6-week lowU.S. mortgage rates edged down to a six-week low of 6.45%, helping dr...

Column: The Cure’s Robert Smith took on Ticketmaster … and won

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:11 GMT

The decades-long case of The American People vs. Ticketmaster has gained an unlikely ally in Robert Smith.Earlier this month, the goth rock icon announced his band the Cure was hitting the road for a summer tour. And bucking the current pricing trends that have resulted in $5,000 seats for Bruce Springsteen, the 63-year-old Smith vowed there would be no dynamically priced or platinum tickets for the shows, which are priced “to benefit fans.” Would-be ticket buyers were told to sign up for Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program, which supposedly adds a layer of protection to ward off bots and scalpers.Ross Raihala(Dynamically priced tickets are akin to airline seats and hotel rooms in that the higher the demand, the higher the ticket price. Ticketmaster calls them platinum tickets, although they don’t come with any extra perks and they’re not necessarily great seats in the first place.)Some folks were delighted when they were actually able to snag seats for the Cure at reasonable prices...

You're not imagining it: San Diego has been colder than average this year

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:11 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- It's been a brisk year for San Diegans, with lowest average temperatures breaking 52-year records, according to data from the National Weather Service.NWS says 2023 has the lowest average temperature in the region for the period from Jan. 1 to March 27 (55.9 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1971 (55.6 degrees Fahrenheit). Chance of thunderstorms, scattered showers forecast for San Diego America's Finest City has seen winter storm after winter storm in 2023 and there's no doubt about it -- the days have been chilly. In fact, NWS says the average daily high in 2023 (63.0 degrees Fahrenheit) for the same dates is the lowest since 1950 (61.5 degrees Fahrenheit).More information, including graphs, on San Diego temperatures can be found here. Meanwhile, NWS has forecast cooler temperatures for much of the coast and valleys Wednesday and Thursday this week. On top of that, a Winter Weather Advisory will go in effect at midnight Wednesday night for the mountain areas, keeping in lin...

York Catholic school board, parents respond after some argue against safe space stickers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:11 GMT

Some teachers use safe space stickers to signal acceptance to the 2SLGBTQ+ community, but in York Region, certain parents with the Catholic school board are denouncing them, saying the ​stickers are not in line with their religious beliefs.At a York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) meeting on Wednesday, one mother of a transgender son expressed outrage over the comments made by other parents on the safe space stickers.“I am finding it difficult to comprehend why a gesture which is intended to show respect and love and to protect those who are in desperate need of our protection, the essence of Christianity, is being met with such vitriol and condemnation. It has shaken me to the core,” said Dina Mayr as she defended her son.“I submit to you that it is precisely that because we are Catholic that we need to do better and see more of this.”Police were called to the school board meeting in February to disperse parents who were heckling speakers and making h...