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Healey administration finds someone crazy enough to take MBTA GM job

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:07:28 GMT

The MBTA’s new General Manager was equal parts jovial and serious sounding promises of readiness to tackle the tough tasks ahead when he joined the governor alongside the Green Line Monday afternoon to announce he would take the helm of the state’s apparently rudderless transportation network.“I’d like to start off by addressing the big elephant in the room: no I’m not a Yankees fan,” the former President of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Long Island Rail Road, Phillip Eng, said at Riverside Station.Eng, who also served as interim president of New York City Transit system, on Monday morning was announced by Gov. Maura Healey and Transportation Secretary Gina Fiandaca as the much anticipated new chief of the MBTA. An engineer from New York with four decades of experience in mass transit, Eng will be relocating to Massachusetts before he starts his new $470,000-a-year job on April 10.“I take great pride in public service and I cherish the opportunity to again work in publ...

Father arrested in death of 7-week-old baby girl

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:07:28 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A father has been arrested after the death of his seven-week-old baby girl, who was found not breathing at a home in the University City neighborhood, authorities said.The incident occurred Mar. 18 around 10 p.m. in the 3700 block of La Jolla Village Drive, when officers responded to a call of a non-breathing infant at a townhome, Lt. Adam Sharki with the San Diego Police Department stated in a news release Monday. While at the scene, police contacted the parents of the infant, a 36-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man, per SDPD. The infant was taken to a hospital, where she died from her injuries three days later, Sharki said. Two arrested in Chula Vista after police pursuit Investigators found that the infant suffered serious traumatic internal injuries that suggested physical child abuse, according to police. Detectives believe the infant's death appears to be a "tragic domestic-related incident where the infant's father inflicted the fatal injuries upon his daught...

Man killed in shooting outside Kaiser office buildings

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:07:28 GMT

SAN DIEGO — One person was killed Monday after a shooting in the Grantville area.According to the San Diego Police Department, a man was shot around 5:50 a.m. outside some Kaiser Permanente office buildings near Fairmount Avenue and San Diego Mission Road.Upon arrival, officers found a man in his late 30s to mid-40s with a gunshot wound to his chest, Lt. Steve Shebloski told FOX 5.Officers rendered first aid on the man until medics arrived. He was then transported to a nearby hospital where he later died, according to police.The Kaiser buildings, which are administrative offices that do no see any medical patients, were closed at the time the of the shooting. 1 injured after City Heights stabbing A large portion of the parking lot was closed off and a heavy police presence was on scene as authorities investigated the area.Police believe the shooting was an isolated incident and that there is no present danger to the surrounding community, Shebloski noted.The incident was under inv...

State, defense request another stay of execution for Glossip

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:07:28 GMT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s top prosecutor and attorneys for death row inmate Richard Glossip both asked a court on Monday to once again delay Glossip’s upcoming execution while his attorneys seek to have his conviction overturned.Attorney General Gentner Drummond and one of Glossip’s attorneys, Warren Gotcher, filed a joint motion for a stay of execution with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. They ask that the execution, currently set for May 18, be delayed until at least August 2024 so that the court can consider a separate motion from Glossip’s attorneys for an evidentiary hearing they suggest could prove his innocence. Shortly after Drummond took office in January, he made available to Glossip’s defense team a box of material that Drummond’s predecessor, John O’Connor, had not permitted them to view. O’Connor had designated the materials, consisting largely of prosecutor’s notes in the case, as “work product,” accor...

In Trump probe, key witness returns, no indictment vote yet

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:07:28 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — A pivotal figure in the hush money payment investigation of Donald Trump returned on Monday to the building where a grand jury has been meeting for months, a repeat appearance suggesting his testimony could be key as prosecutors push toward potential criminal charges.There was still no word on when the panel might vote on a possible indictment of the former president.David Pecker, a longtime Trump friend and the former chief executive of the parent company of The National Enquirer, was back as the grand jury heard testimony in the probe for the first time since last Monday, when a witness favorable to the ex-president appeared. The grand jury is now back on the Trump matter, according to a person familiar with the case who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss secretive proceedings. The ex-president is being investigated over payments during his 2016 campaign to two women who alleged affairs or sexual encounters with him.Trump denies being involved with either o...

Family of US couple kidnapped in Haiti pleads for release

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:07:28 GMT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Nikese Toussaint was at church, so she didn’t see the text message from her sister.All she knew at that point was that their brother and his wife, who live in the U.S., had landed safely in Haiti to visit ailing relatives and prepare for Rara, a colorful and boisterous festival born out of the dark days of slavery.It wasn’t until Toussaint got home and her sister followed up the unread text with a phone call that she learned her warnings had materialized: their brother, an accountant; his wife, a social worker; and another person were snatched off a public bus amid a surge in gang-related kidnappings.Toussaint took a deep breath. Not again, she thought.Seventeen years earlier, gangs had kidnapped two of her cousins in the capital of Port-au-Prince. They were eventually released but remain traumatized.This time, the gang that kidnapped her brother, wife and another person is demanding $200,000 — each.“How are we ever going to come up with that money?” Tou...

Arizona governor: scheduled execution is unlikely next week

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:07:28 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — A vow by Arizona’s governor not to proceed with any executions amid lingering questions about the rights of death row prisoners appears to have paused a scheduled execution next week, even though it hasn’t officially been called off.Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs won a key battle recently when the Arizona Supreme Court concluded a state law didn’t require her to proceed with the planned April 6 execution of Aaron Gunches, even though his execution date wasn’t canceled. Hobbs has vowed no prisoners will be executed until there’s confidence that the state isn’t violating constitutional rights when enforcing the death penalty.Gunches was scheduled to receive a lethal injection for the 2002 killing of Ted Price, who was his girlfriend’s ex-husband. He had pleaded guilty to a murder charge in the shooting death near Mesa, Arizona.Price’s sister, Karen Price, had tried unsuccessfully to get the court to order Hobbs to carry out the execution. Pric...

‘Always remember’: Funeral held for 2 Edmonton police officers killed on duty

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:07:28 GMT

EDMONTON — Two police officers killed in the line of duty were honoured Monday at a regimental funeral with tears and tales of off-key crooning, birdies and beers, laughs and contagious joy.Thousands of officers gathered with family members to say a formal goodbye to Edmonton police Const. Travis Jordan, 35, and Const. Brett Ryan, 30, at Rogers Place arena, the home area of the Edmonton Oilers. “I’ll remember his smile, his wheezy laugh — we’ve been told we laugh the exact same way. I will always remember how excited he was when Brett found out he was going to be a dad, and I know that is one memory I will never lose,” Ryan’s pregnant widow, Ashley, said in her eulogy. “You will live on in baby Ryan and they will know every last detail about how special you were to so many people and, most importantly, to me. I love you forever. I’ll miss you always.”Jordan’s widow, Annie, stood silently beside police chaplain Roy Langer as he read her parting words. “We didn’t have one hard day in ...

4 hospitalized, including child, after car crash in Auburn Gresham

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:07:28 GMT

CHICAGO — A child is among four people in serious-to-critical condition following a crash on the city's South Side. The crash occurred at the corner of W 87th St & S Vincennes Ave., in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood.The victims were taken to Christ Medical Center and the University of Chicago Hospital.No word on what caused the crash. SkyCam9 flew above the scene.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Sunny, cloudy start of week for Chicago

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:07:28 GMT

Tuesday: Partly sunny High: 46  Lakeside: 42.Tuesday Night: Partly to Mostly cloudy Low:  33.Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, 30% chance of rain and snow.  Type of precipitation will hinge on temperatures as a cold front passes through the area, Breezy WNW winds gusting to 25 mph    High: 47 Lakeside: 41.Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy Low: 28.Thursday:  Increasing clouds and winds, SSE winds become breezy with gusts up to 20 mph.  Scattered showers become possible in the afternoon. High: 53.Thursday night:  Mostly cloudy, breezy, 70% chance of showers, some thunderstorms possible Low: 51.Friday: Mostly cloudy, Breezy, rounds of showers and thunderstorms very likely. Chance of rain 90%.  Could see the first 60 degree temp this year. High: 63.Friday Night:  60% chance of showers in the evening, 40% chance overnight, Breezy and cloudy. Low: 38