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Andre Braugher Died of Lung Cancer, His Publicist Says

Andre Braugher, the Emmy-winning actor who died this week at 61, was diagnosed with lung cancer a few months ago before succumbing to the disease, his longtime publicist, Jennifer Allen, said on Thursday. When Ms. Allen confirmed his death this week, she said he had died after a brief illness. A 2014 profile by The New York Times Magazine said that Mr. Braugher was intensely private and “stopped drinking alcohol and smoking years ago.” Though he had an expansive career, Mr. Braugher was best known for his roles as a stoic, composed police officer on “Homicide: Life on the Street,” the 1990s NBC police procedural, and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” the Fox sitcom that later moved to NBC.

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Author readings around Boston through Dec. 16

(” Everything Possible ”) will read his new children’s book at 6:30 p.m. at the Medford Public Library at an event hosted by All She Wrote Books

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Baltimore Sues A.T.F. Over Access to Gun Data

The City of Baltimore is suing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for blocking access to data on guns used to commit crimes — information it said was essential for targeting gun violence and identifying sellers who flood the city with weapons. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, the city’s lawyers argued that the A.T.F. had adopted an overly narrow interpretation of legislation enacted in 2003 by congressional Republicans, at the urging of the National Rifle Association. The law blocked public access to gun trace data collected by the federal government on weapons recovered at the nation’s crime scenes. The so-called Tiahrt Amendment, named for its sponsor, former Representative Todd Tiahrt, Republican of Kansas, prevents the use of federal funding to release information on traces logged in the federal firearms tracing database — amounting to a blackout on public disclosure. A spokeswoman for the A.T.F. did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The bureau’s lawyers are skeptical that the legal challenges to the Tiahrt Amendment will succeed in appellate court, according to officials with knowledge of the situation.

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Watch former Celtics guard lay into Grizzlies during slow start

The Grizzlies’ slow start to the season met just its latest loss as they dropped to 3-13 on the season. They lost a blowout 119-97 game to the Timberwolves as they fell behind as many as 26 points Sunday. While Memphis has endured droves of injuries, the slow start has put them in a deep hole if it wants to make the playoffs. The Grizzlies were the No. 2 seed in the playoffs over the last two seasons, but they’re in dangerous territory at the bottom of the West. $200 INSTANT BONUS DRAFTKINGS MASS CLAIM OFFER BET $5, GET $200 BONUS BET FANDUEL MASS CLAIM OFFER BET $50, GET $250 BONUS CAESARS MASS CLAIM OFFER $1,000 FIRST-BET BONUS BETMGM MASS CLAIM OFFER MA only. 21+. Gambling Problem? If you or a loved one is experiencing problems with gambling, please call 1-800-327-5050 or visit gamblinghelplinema.org for 24/7 support. LiveChat with a GameSense Advisor at GameSenseMA.com or call 1-800-GAM-1234 MA Gambling Helpline. MA only. 21+. Gambling Problem? If you or a loved one is experiencing problems with gambling, please call 1-800-327-5050 or visit gamblinghelplinema.org for 24/7 support. LiveChat with a GameSense Advisor at GameSenseMA.com or call 1-800-GAM-1234 MA Gambling Helpline. The Grizzlies weren’t competitive Sunday against the Timberwolves, who continued their hot start. Former Celtics guard Marcus Smart could be seen laying into his Grizzlies teammates during a timeout as they stumbled in the blowout. Take a look at the video here. Smart is currently sidelined with a foot injury for at least the next few weeks. That injury forced him to miss the Celtics’ win over the Grizzlies in what would’ve been his first matchup against his old team. Smart is also just one name among many unavailable Grizzlies, including guys like Steven Adams, Brandon Clarke, Xavier Tillman and more. Of course, Ja Morant is also serving his 25-game suspension to start the season. Part of why the Grizzlies traded for Smart in the offseason was because they needed point guard help early. But with Smart also sidelined, it’s put the Grizzlies in a tough spot. Regardless, the losses continue to pile up for a team looking to get healthy and right.

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Israel-Hamas War Israeli Government Says It Will Uphold Cease-Fire if Hostages Are Freed

The Newton Teachers Association announced Thursday night that educators won’t be in school on Friday — the union’s members voted to go on strike. The union announced the vote’s outcome on Facebook in a live stream showing a planned rally, where it was announced that 98% percent of membership voted in favor of going on strike. The Newton Teachers Association said it believes Newton has “more than enough money” to increase pay and hire more support staff and social workers, to address the “student mental health crisis,” and to establish a “humane paid family leave for all educators,” according to a Thursday press release.

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3 firefighters injured battling Falmouth house fire; 1 flown to Boston hospital

Flames tore through a home on Cape Cod on Sunday, injuring three firefighters, including one who had to be flown to a Boston hospital after a heroic rescue. Neighbors called 911 just after 1 p.m. Sunday to report the fire at the Rivers Edge home, and fire investigators from the state fire marshal's office responded to support the Falmouth Fire Department on scene. "Watching the Patriots game, we could smell smoke, looked out the window and saw flames shooting from the roof," neighbor Rick Hamilton said. #BREAKING: Two firefighters injured, including one airlifted to MGH, battling house fire in #Falmouth. Chief says firefighters had to rush into basement after firefighter fell thru the floor. @NBC10Boston pic.twitter.com/UeYpphDifI — Eli Rosenberg NBC10 Boston (@EliNBCBoston) December 17, 2023 Get New England news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox. Sign up for NECN newsletters. Falmouth's fire chief says the first firefighters on scene busted down the front door, when one of them fell through the floor, into the basement. The fire chief detailed the brave rescue, saying firefighters rushed into the home's smoky basement and got the firefighter out to safety. "Very smoky area with still some fire in the basement, and his PASS alarm went off, and they were able to locate him and successfully remove him from the building," Falmouth Fire chief Timothy Smith explained. "Fire crews did one heck of a job not only getting him out of the building, and one of their comrades being injured, but then having to turn and to work on extinguishing the fire." The firefighter was taken by Falmouth ambulance to a nearby field where Boston MedFlight was waiting to fly him to Massachusetts General Hospital. According to the state fire marshal's office, he suffered significant and traumatic injuries but is expected to survive. He was in stable condition at MGH on Sunday night. Two other firefighters were also injured and are expected to be OK. One hurt their shoulder, and another hurt their knee and was being treated at Falmouth Hospital. "Terrible, terrible, nobody wants to see anybody hurt, they work too hard too hard in Falmouth," one woman said. No one was home at the time of the fire. Neighbors tell NBC10 Boston that the homeowners spend winters in Florida. The fire chief said early indications are that the blaze started in the basement. The cause remains under investigation.

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Mass. State Lottery winner: Woman wins $25K a year for life with random numbers

A woman from Massachusetts won a $25,000 a year for life lottery prize with random numbers she’s been repeatedly playing for just the past six months, the Massachusetts State Lottery said. Sonia Firme, of Dracut, matched the first five numbers on the “Lucky for Life” ticket she bought for the drawing on Jan. 2. The winning numbers for the drawing were 10, 24, 40, 44, 48 and Lucky Ball: 11. Firme told the lottery she’s going to continue to play the numbers, which she’d selected at random six months ago, after her win. The winner claimed her prize on Jan. 4, and chose the cash option to receive a one-time payment of $390,000 before taxes. Firme said she’s going to use the prize to buy a house. Firme bought the winning ticket at A&A Liquors and Market, located at 115 Hampson St. in Dracut. “Lucky for Life” drawings are seven nights a week.

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Syracuse vs. USF, Boca Raton Bowl: How to watch, TV channel, live stream

Ezekiel Elliott stepped up when the New England Patriots needed him most. With Rhamondre Stevenson out with an injury, Elliott had his biggest game of the season in Thursday night’s win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. He posted a season-high 140 yards from scrimmage. He ran the ball 22 times (another season-high) and led the team with seven catches on the day. BET ANYTHING GET $250 BONUS ESPN BET CLAIM OFFER MASS 21+ and present in MA, NJ, PA, VA, MD, WV, TN, LA, KS, KY, CO, AZ, IL, IA, IN, OH, MI. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-Gambler. But the most important number Elliott posted in the box score was: 1. That’s the number of tackles he made. “Probably made one of the most important plays in a game when he tackled that guy on the interception,” offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien said. “That was a great hustle play. Can’t say enough about Zeke and what he’s brought to the team this year.” That tackle moments after Bailey Zappe’s interception to Mykal Walker in the second half. Elliott quickly switched from offense to defense, tracking down the Steelers linebacker and likely preventing a touchdown. You can check out the play here. Elliott can be seen tracking down the defender like he was shot out of a cannon, blowing past Patriots teammates to make the play. If Elliott doesn’t make that play, Walker likely has a pick-six there. The tackle may have been the difference in the game. Four plays after the pick, the Patriots defense stuffed the Steelers on fourth down, keeping the lead at 21-10. With the final score being a tight 21-18 margin, it’s easy to see how a pick-six may have swung the game. O’Brien heaped praise on Elliott for his effort on the play -- and translating what the Patriots practice into onfield results. “He’s a football player. So he realizes the play’s never over. So he plays to the echo of the whistle and he’s a football player. So he knew that right there that turned into a defensive play for him. He had to go chase the guy down. When you watch it on film, he took a really good angle on the play. We practice that. We do drills like that and I think that that paid off for us. Obviously, with our defense, they were able to hold them there to no points.”

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Why China and Boeing Still Need Each Other

As a result, Boeing has redistributed dozens of jets earmarked for Chinese airlines to other customers. Boeing is holding 85 Max planes in storage awaiting delivery to Chinese carriers, for which the planes were even painted years ago. Those are among 250 aircraft in Boeing’s inventory, most of which the company said it expected to deliver by the end of next year. China is a crucial market for Boeing. Before the pandemic, about a third of Boeing’s 737s were being delivered to the country. Over the next two decades, Boeing projects, China will account for 20 percent of global airplane demand. This means China will need an estimated 6,500 single-aisle planes like the 737 Max and more than 1,500 larger, twin-aisle planes, such as Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, Boeing said. The Max was banned globally for 20 months after it was involved in two fatal crashes in late 2018 and early 2019, killing 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Passenger flights aboard the Max resumed in much of the world by early 2021, but China was the last major country to clear the plane to fly again. The first Max passenger flight there was in January, and all 95 Max planes in China are now back in service. While Boeing’s sales and deliveries to China have diminished greatly, the company hasn’t been shut out. Boeing sold a handful in 2020 to a Chinese leasing company, ICBC Leasing, which also took delivery of a dozen Max jets in 2021 and 2022. Boeing has also sold and delivered dozens of 777 freighters to customers in China in recent years. In the three years since the Max began flying again, Boeing has received more than 2,100 new orders worldwide for the jet, not including cancellations. During an air show in Dubai this month, the company announced more than 200 additional orders, about a third of those for the Max. That sales momentum, faith in the company’s ability to accelerate deliveries and other recent positive news have helped to lift Boeing’s share price more than 15 percent this month.

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For These TV Procedurals, the Formula Still Works

In “Ferrari,” Adam Driver looms like a colossus as Enzo Ferrari. Driver is tall and rangy, but he looks even bigger here — wider, too — partly because Enzo wears boxy suits with linebacker shoulders so broad they nearly scrape the edges of the frame. The most famous man in Italy aside from the Pope, Enzo makes blood-red racecars with sexy curves and supercharged engines. The Commendatore, as he’s called, looks more like a tank. He seems an ideal vehicle for Michael Mann, a filmmaker with his own line of beautiful obsessions. Set largely in 1957, the movie “Ferrari” focuses on an especially catastrophic year in Enzo’s convoluted life. He makes some of the most coveted cars in the world: There’s a king impatiently waiting in Enzo’s office not long after the story takes off. (That royal personage, who’s short, is anxious that, this time, his feet will reach the pedals easily.) All the world wants something from Ferrari, who in turn seems to care only about his racecars, ravishing red beasts that roar out of his factory near his home in Modena and into the world’s fastest, most lethally dangerous races, where records, machines and bodies are routinely broken. What makes those cars and Ferrari run permeates the movie, which opens with the young Enzo (Driver) behind the wheel, racing and all but flying. The jaunty, propulsive jazz on the soundtrack give the scene inviting charm (you’re ready to jump in Enzo’s car, too), as does the smile that spreads across his face. It’s one of the few times he cracks one. Soon after, the story downshifts to an older Commendatore, now gray and imperial and facing bankruptcy as he struggles both with work and two households with two very different women. One greets him on an especially angry morning by firing a gun at him, which does get his attention. Death stalks Enzo and this movie, which energetically gathers momentum even as Mann busily juggles the story’s numerous parts and warring dualisms. Written by Troy Kennedy Martin, the film is based on Brock Yates’s cleareyed 1991 biography “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine,” if only in strategic part. (Martin also wrote the original, car-centric caper film “The Italian Job.”) While the book traces its subject (and brand) from cradle to beyond the grave, the movie condenses the auto maker’s life into a brief, emblematic period and a series of dramatic oppositions, including two sons, one living and one dead, as well as the road cars that Enzo sells and the racecars that are his life’s passion.

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FanDuel promo code: Vikings-Bears, NBA $150 bonus offer

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RMV reports big increase in licensed drivers in first 6 months of new law - Boston News, Weather, Sports

BOSTON (WHDH) - Since a new immigrant license law went into effect six months ago, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles has seen a large increase in new drivers obtaining driver’s licenses and learner’s permits. The Work and Family Mobility Act allowed residents to obtain a driver’s license regardless of immigration status. The law went into effect on July 1, and since then the RMV has issued 91,961 new learner’s permits and 54,952 new, first-time driver’s licenses to Massachusetts residents. This represents a 244 percent increase in new learner’s permits and a 120 percent increase in new driver’s licenses. “Since the Work and Family Mobility Act was implemented in July, thousands of Massachusetts residents have been able to get licenses helping provide access to friends, families, and their communities,” said MassDOT Secretary and CEO Monica Tibbits-Nutt in a statement. To accomodate this increase, the RMV increased the number of staff, service hours, and testing locations. “The RMV and its employees have worked hard to meet the challenge of increased demand for appointments and credentials under the Work and Family Mobility Act,” said Registrar Colleen Ogilvie in a statement. “We are grateful for the support from advocates and community leaders throughout this process, and we are continuing to improve each step of our process.” (Copyright (c) 2023 Sunbeam Television. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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Bill Belichick lands first coaching interview after leaving Patriots

After 24 years in the AFC East, it appears that Bill Belichick could be heading south. On Monday, the Atlanta Falcons announced that they interviewed Belichick for their vacant head coach position. Belichick, 71, still hopes to coach after agreeing to mutually part ways with Patriots owner Robert Kraft last week and it didn’t take long for another owner to reach out. There is some history between Belichick and the Falcons. Atlanta owner Arthur Blank saw firsthand what a Belichick-led team is capable of when the Patriots overcame a 28-3 deficit to beat the Falcons in Super Bowl LI. During that game, Blank went down to the field in the second half where he thought he’d see his team win a championship up close. Instead, he witnessed the Patriots overcome the biggest deficit in Super Bowl history. BET ANYTHING GET $250 BONUS ESPN BET CLAIM OFFER MASS 21+ and present in MA, NJ, PA, VA, MD, WV, TN, LA, KS, KY, CO, AZ, IL, IA, IN, OH, MI. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-Gambler. When the Patriots received their Super Bowl rings, the team decided to put 283 diamonds in each one. That didn’t sit well with Blank, who told the New York Times that he complained to Kraft about the rings. “I said to Robert, ‘You didn’t have to do the 28-3 in the ring,” Blank said. “It kind of pissed me off.” Clearly, Blank doesn’t hold a grudge against Belichick. The interview on Monday marked Belichick’s first head coaching interview since 2000 when he eventually landed the job with the Patriots. After winning six Super Bowl titles, it felt obvious that Belichick would have some interest around the NFL. The Falcons are searching for a new head coach after firing Arthur Smith after three straight losing seasons. Atlanta has interviewed and requested a laundry list of other candidates: Raiders interim head coach Antonio Pierce, Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn, Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris, Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, Texans offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik, Ravens defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald, Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan, 49ers defensive coordinator Steve Wilks, Panthers defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero, and Ravens assistant head coach Anthony Weaver. The Falcons are coming off three 7-10 seasons and it seems like their owner might be looking for an experienced head coach. Belichick would certainly give them that. After Belichick and Kraft opted to part ways, the Falcons were one rumored team to be interested along with the Carolina Panthers. There are also rumors about Belichick going to Dallas in the event Cowboys owner Jerry Jones fired Mike McCarthy. In the event Belichick heads to Atlanta, the Patriots might very well see their former coach. The Falcons are scheduled to visit Gillette Stadium during the 2025 NFL season. That year could coincide with Belichick passing Don Shula for the most coaching wins in NFL history.

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Powerball: See the winning numbers in Wednesdays $20 million drawing

It’s time to grab your tickets and check to see if you’re a big winner! The Powerball lottery jackpot continues to rise after one lucky winner in Michigan won $842 million in the January 1 drawing. Is this your lucky night? Here are Wednesday’s winning lottery numbers: 30-31-38-48-68, Powerball: 08, Power Play: 10X Double Play Winning Numbers 08-09-17-31-56, Powerball: 23 The estimated Powerball jackpot is $20 million. The lump sum payment before taxes would be about $10.1 million. The Double Play is a feature that gives players in select locations another chance to match their Powerball numbers in a separate drawing. The Double Play drawing is held following the regular drawing and has a top cash prize of $10 million. Powerball is held in 45 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The Double Play add-on feature is available for purchase in 13 lottery jurisdictions, including Pennsylvania and Michigan. A $2 ticket gives you a one in 292.2 million chance at joining the hall of Powerball jackpot champions. The drawings are held at 10:59 p.m. Eastern, Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. The deadline to purchase tickets is 9:45 p.m.

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Harvards Governing Board Nears Resolution on Presidents Future

Harvard’s governing board on Monday was nearing a resolution that would allow its president, Claudine Gay, to remain in her job, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. But those discussions were ongoing as of late Monday night. An announcement was expected on Tuesday. Harvard’s board has said nothing about Dr. Gay’s future or the festering controversy which began nearly a week ago over the way she equivocated when answering questions about antisemitism on campus in a congressional hearing. Dr. Gay’s testimony plunged the Harvard community deeper into one of its biggest crises in years. The dilemma over the future of Dr. Gay — the university’s first Black president — is fraught, forcing the school to reckon with difficult questions of race, religion and tolerance. On and off campus, the debate over whether Dr. Gay was fit to continue leading the university raged. Groups of donors, alumni and students ratcheted up a pressure campaign to oust Dr. Gay as her supporters banded together to try to save her job. About 700 members of Harvard’s faculty, in addition to hundreds more alumni, came to her defense in several open letters.

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700 Paintings, 45 Galleries: A Guide to the Mets New European Wing

Let the light in. Five years after the Metropolitan Museum of Art set off on a major renovation of its galleries for European painting, the super-prime real estate at the top of its grand staircase is open again. Up in the attic, the architects Beyer Blinder Belle have replaced 30,000 square feet of skylights for the first time since the Truman administration. Down in the galleries, the Met’s designers have widened the rooms, rearranged the sightlines, shellacked the walls purple and blue. The curators have reassembled the whole painting collection for the first time since 2018, shuffled across 45 new galleries and bathed in beautifully tempered light. The work was done in two phases, so visitors got a taste of the even, shadowless lighting when the Met presented an abbreviated showcase in a fraction of these galleries in 2020. (When it comes to light, this New Amsterdam institution definitely leans more Dutch than Italian.) Turns out, the new efforts at illumination are not only above your head. For more than a century, the Met had organized these paintings by national school, with all the Italian pictures on one side, all the Dutch ones on the other. Come now, and you’ll encounter the whole continent’s art along a single chronological pathway, starting from the early Renaissance in central Italy and ending about 500 years later in France and Spain. This new display wanders back and forth across the Alps, zigzags off-piste, and in a few places jumps into the modern age. A Bacon, a Beckmann and a Kerry James Marshall are hiding in here. Duccio’s break-the-bank Madonna and Child, painted in Tuscany around 1300, now shares a case with Ingres’s painting of the same subject from 1852. You’ll see new acquisitions, not least by women of the 17th and 18th centuries, and freshly cleaned favorites, above all Rembrandt’s “Aristotle With a Bust of Homer,” gleaming through melancholy.

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Opinion | One Year In and ChatGPT Already Has Us Doing Its Bidding

As a society, we’ve clearly benefited from promising A.I.-based technologies; this year I was thrilled to read about the ones that might detect breast cancer that doctors miss or let humans decipher whale communications. Focusing on those benefits, however, while blaming ourselves for the many ways that A.I. technologies fail us, absolves the companies behind those technologies — and, more specifically, the people behind those companies. Events of the past several weeks highlight how entrenched those people’s power is. OpenAI, the entity behind ChatGPT, was created as a nonprofit to allow it to maximize the public interest rather than just maximize profit. When, however, its board fired Sam Altman, the chief executive, amid concerns that he was not taking that public interest seriously enough, investors and employees revolted. Five days later, Mr. Altman returned in triumph, with most of the inconvenient board members replaced. It occurs to me in retrospect that in my early games with ChatGPT, I misidentified my rival. I thought it was the technology itself. What I should have remembered is that technologies themselves are value neutral. The wealthy and powerful humans behind them — and the institutions created by those humans — are not. The truth is that no matter what I asked ChatGPT, in my early attempts to confound it, OpenAI came out ahead. Engineers had designed it to learn from its encounters with users. And regardless of whether its answers were good, they drew me back to engage with it again and again. A major goal of OpenAI’s, in this first year, has been to get people to use it. In pursuing my power games, then, I’ve done nothing but help it along. A.I. companies are working hard to fix their products’ flaws. With all the investment the companies are attracting, one imagines that some progress will be made. But even in a hypothetical world in which A.I.’s capabilities are perfected — maybe especially in that world — the power imbalance between A.I.’s creators and its users should make us wary of its insidious reach. ChatGPT’s seeming eagerness not just to introduce itself, to tell us what it is, but also to tell us who we are and what to think is a case in point. Today, when the technology is in its infancy, that power seems novel, even funny. Tomorrow it might not.

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Munich Came Out 18 Years Ago but Is the Best Movie About Israel Right Now - The New York Times

Watching movies is what I do — for decades as a film critic and for even longer than that, before and since, as a regular human. As a critic, I’m trained to study and coolly interpret the language of filmmakers. Off the clock, I watch to be diverted or to be dazzled, to be comforted or to escape, to be challenged or to try to better understand the world, filtered through someone else’s art. Sometimes this habit has helped me feel well equipped to deal with what’s going on in the world, sometimes less so. Since Oct. 7, I have felt underequipped. That date has become shorthand for a monstrosity perpetrated against Israelis — and in the months that have followed, Israel has retaliated by killing Palestinians, including countless children, in numbers more awful than the heart can hold. In these past months, despair has hung on my doorpost alongside my mezuza, and moviegoing has felt like thin solace. Still, I look. There have been a number of memorable movies this year that speak to historical atrocities and tragedies. “Oppenheimer,” for one, does a pretty stunning job of conveying our human capacity to blow up the planet. “The Zone of Interest,” about the life of a concentration camp commandant and his wife living next door to Auschwitz makes the sickness that Hannah Arendt identified as the banality of evil impossible to ignore. But as I’ve been looking to better comprehend the current moment in the Middle East, the best film I have found is one that came out on Dec. 23, 2005. I’m talking about “Munich,” one of Steven Spielberg’s bleakest, most adult dramas, which — despite five Oscar nominations — was largely considered a misfire when it was released. Today, though, “Munich” reverberates with deep meaning and gravitas. Rewatching the film in this moment reminds us that art can sometimes prick the conscience where hours of political commentary only deaden and that historically based movies are never only about the period in which the story is set or even when the work was made. Movies morph and shift constantly, offering new insights and solaces in relation to the time in which we watch them.

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Mixtapes, T-Shirts and Even a Typeface Measure the Rise of Hip-Hop

For the last year, celebrations of hip-hop’s first five decades have attempted to capture the genre in full, but some early stars and scenes all but disappeared long before anyone came looking to fete them. Three excellent books published in recent months take up the task of cataloging hip-hop’s relics, the objects that embody its history, before they slip away. In the lovingly assembled, thoughtfully arranged “Do Remember! The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes,” Evan Auerbach and Daniel Isenberg wisely taxonomize the medium into distinct micro-eras, tracking innovations in form and also content — beginning with live recordings of party performances and D.J. sets and ending with artists using the format to self-distribute and self-promote. For over a decade, cassettes were the coin of the realm in mixtapes, even after CDs usurped them in popularity: They were mobile, durable and easily duplicated. (More than one D.J. rhapsodizes over the Telex cassette duplicator.) Each new influential D.J. found a way to push the medium forward — Brucie B talks about personalizing tapes for drug dealers in Harlem; Doo Wop recalls gathering a boatload of exclusive freestyles for his “95 Live” and in one memorable section; Harlem’s DJ S&S details how he secured some of his most coveted unreleased songs, sometimes angering the artists in the process.

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Land taken from Boston homeowners in 1970s now being used to ease housing crisis

Decades after plans to build a new highway through Roxbury and Jamaica Plain resulted in the destruction of hundreds of homes, three developers are on their way to adding more than 1,400 affordable homes to the neighborhood. At 250 Centre St., 110 new mixed-income apartments were recently completed, the most recent milestone 15 years in the making. Hundreds more will be added over the next few years.

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Maine state official who removed Trump from ballot was targeted in swatting call at her home

Crime Maine state official who removed Trump from ballot was targeted in swatting call at her home Shenna Bellows was not home when the swatting call was made, and responding officers found nothing suspicious. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows speaks at the inauguration of Gov. Janet Mills, Jan. 4, 2023, at the Civic Center in Augusta, Maine. A swatting call was made Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, to the home of Bellows. A man called emergency services saying he broke into a house in Manchester, Maine, which turned out to be Bellows' home. No one was home at the time, and responding officers found nothing suspicious. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File) AP A fake emergency call to police resulted in officers responding Friday night to the home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just a day after she removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause. She becomes the latest elected politician to become a target of swatting, which involves making a phone call to emergency services with the intent that a large first responder presence, including SWAT teams, will show up at a residence. Bellows was not home when the swatting call was made, and responding officers found nothing suspicious. Advertisement: Suspects in swatting cases are being arrested and charged as states contemplate stronger penalties. Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was the target of a swatting attempt at her Georgia residence on Christmas morning, the congresswoman and local police said. A man in New York called the Georgia suicide hotline claiming he had shot his girlfriend at Greene’s home and was going to kill himself. Police said investigators were working to identify the caller and build a criminal case. Another New York man was sentenced in August to three months in prison for making threatening phone calls to Greene’s office in Washington, D.C. While the Maine Department of Public Safety did not share a suspected motive for the swatting attempt against Bellows, she had no doubts it stemmed from her decision to remove Trump from the ballot. The swatting attempt came after a conservative activist posted her home address on social media. “And it was posted in anger and with violent intent by those who have been extending threatening communications toward me, my family and my office,” Bellows told The Associated Press in a phone call Saturday. A call was made to emergency services from an unknown man saying he had broken into a house in Manchester, according to the Maine public safety department. Advertisement: The address the man gave was Bellows’ home. Bellows and her husband were away for the holiday weekend. Maine State Police responded to what the public safety department said ultimately turned out to be a swatting call. Police conducted an exterior sweep of the house and then checked inside at Bellows’ request. Nothing suspicious was found, and police continue to investigate. “The Maine State Police is working with our law enforcement partners to provide special attention to any and all appropriate locations,” the public safety statement said. Bellows said the intimidation factors won’t work. “Here’s what I’m not doing differently. I’m doing my job to uphold the Constitution, the rule of law.” Beyond Bellows and Greene, other high-profile politicians who have been swatting call targets include U.S. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. Bellows said she, her family and her office workers have been threatened since her decision to remove Trump from the ballot. At least one Republican lawmaker in Maine wants to pursue impeachment against her. “Not only have there been threatening communications, but there have been dehumanizing fake images posted online and even fake text threads attributed to me,” said Bellows, who has worked in civil rights prior to becoming secretary of state. Advertisement: “And my previous work taught me that dehumanizing people is the first step in creating an environment that leads to attacks and violence against that person,” she said. “It is extraordinarily dangerous for the rhetoric to have escalated to the point of dehumanizing me and threatening me, my loved ones and the people who work for me.” She said the people of Maine have a strong tradition of being able to disagree on important issues without violence. “I think it is extraordinarily important that everyone deescalate the rhetoric and remember the values that make our democratic republic and here in Maine, our state, so great,” she said. The Trump campaign said it would appeal Bellows’ decision to Maine’s state courts, and Bellows suspended her ruling until that court system rules on the case. The Colorado Supreme Court earlier this month removed Trump from that state’s ballot, a decision that also was stayed until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether he would be barred under the insurrection clause, a Civil War-era provision which prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office. Thiessen reported from Anchorage, Alaska.

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Biden Plans Speech Casting Election as a Fight for Democracy

President Biden is returning to the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Friday to try to define the 2024 presidential election as an urgent and intensifying fight for American democracy. Mr. Biden is expected to use a location near the famous Revolutionary War encampment of Valley Forge and the looming anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to cast preserving democracy as a foundational issue to the 2024 campaign, according to a senior Biden aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the remarks. The address, which builds on previous speeches about safeguarding American institutions and combating political violence, represents a bet that many Americans remain shaken by the Jan. 6 attack and Donald J. Trump’s role in it. Leaning on a phrase used by America’s first president, George Washington, around the time he commanded troops at Valley Forge, Mr. Biden is expected to suggest that the 2024 election is a test of whether democracy is still a “sacred cause” in the nation, the aide said.

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Mast snaps aboard historic Maine schooner, killing 1 and injuring 3

The top portion of a mast snapped toppled on a historic excursion vessel, killing one person and injuring others aboard the Grace Bailey schooner off the coast of Maine, officials said Monday. One person died from injuries and three people were transported to hospitals on Monday, the Rockland Fire Department said. A helicopter transported one of the three injured, while the other two were transported via ambulances, fire officials said. Images posted online showed the vessel with its main mast splintered. The Grace Bailey is part of the state's so-called windjammer fleet, a collection of historic sailing vessels that take people on excursions up and down the coast. According to the Portland Press Herald, the schooner is partly owned by actor Marc Evan Jackson, star of shows like "The Good Place" and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine." Get New England news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox. Sign up for NECN newsletters. The Grace Bailey is 118 feet long and can carry 29 passengers, according to an official website. It was built in Long Island, New York, in 1882.

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Recent homes sales in Greater Boston (Nov. 22)

Real Estate News Recent homes sales in Greater Boston (Nov. 22) . Adobe Stock ABINGTON 73 Thicket St. One-family ranch, built in 1950, 534 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 7,752-square-foot lot. $321,000 ACTON 18 Washington Drive. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1980, 2,647 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 37,291-square-foot lot. $935,000 3 Brookside Circle. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1961, 2,246 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 22,273-square-foot lot. $625,000 24 Brewster Lane #24 Condo Town House, built in 1991, 1,349 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $590,000 8 High St. #D2 Condo Town House, built in 2008, 1,308 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $510,000 142 Butternut Holw #142 Condo Town House, built in 1972, 1,540 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths. $426,000 118 Parker St. #11 Condo/Apt, built in 1970, 820 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $230,000 ALLSTON 37 Aldie St. #2 Condo free-standng, built in 1910, 755 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 755-square-foot lot. $508,000 Advertisement: AMESBURY 110 Congress St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1990, 2,998 square feet, 9 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 143,312-square-foot lot. $910,000 16 Lakeshore Drive. One-family cottage, built in 1951, 925 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 6,000-square-foot lot. $690,000 11 Atlantic Ave. Two-family two family, built in 1880, 2,186 square feet, 10 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 8,700-square-foot lot. $660,000 2 Washington St. #2 Condo duplex, built in 1900, 1,450 square feet, 8 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths. $370,000 45 Macy St. #301A Condo/Apt, built in 1973, 746 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $279,900 ANDOVER 6 High Meadow Road. One-family Colonial, built in 2007, 4,876 square feet, 10 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 44,148-square-foot lot. $2,100,000 11 Blueberry Circle. One-family Colonial, built in 1980, 3,723 square feet, 12 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 57,194-square-foot lot. $1,520,000 284 N Main St. One-family Colonial, built in 1994, 4,127 square feet, 10 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 35,689-square-foot lot. $1,450,000 3 Deerberry Lane. One-family Colonial, built in 1968, 5,182 square feet, 12 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 36,272-square-foot lot. $1,440,000 101 Holt Road. One-family antique, built in 1740, 3,517 square feet, 12 rooms, 6 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 64,735-square-foot lot. $1,405,000 10 Robert Drive #10 Condo Town House, built in 2020, 3,150 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 4 baths. $1,350,000 261 River Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1992, 4,675 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 43,821-square-foot lot. $1,285,000 33 Smithshire Est One-family Colonial, built in 1980, 3,537 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 31,503-square-foot lot. $1,205,000 17 Rutgers Road. One-family split entry, built in 1968, 3,983 square feet, 10 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 49,606-square-foot lot. $785,000 24 Flint Circle. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1985, 2,628 square feet, 9 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 10,145-square-foot lot. $760,000 Advertisement: 1 Donald Circle. One-family split entry, built in 1966, 1,976 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 46,174-square-foot lot. $580,000 26 Sutherland St. One-family ranch, built in 1952, 1,909 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 11,600-square-foot lot. $500,000 16 Balmoral St. #416 Condo/Apt, built in 1925, 882 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $385,000 16 Balmoral St. #110 Condo/Apt, built in 1925, 833 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $343,000 ARLINGTON 39 Beverly Road. One-family ranch, built in 1958, 4,085 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 19,254-square-foot lot. $2,300,000 185 Wachusett Ave. One-family old style, built in 1925, 1,308 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 7,013-square-foot lot. $2,100,000 122 Spy Pond Pkwy One-family raised ranch, built in 1967, 2,217 square feet, 8 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 7,362-square-foot lot. $1,850,000 22-24 Belknap St. #22 Condo. $1,700,000 152 Hutchinson Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1940, 3,189 square feet, 8 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 12,676-square-foot lot. $1,600,000 117 Newport St. One-family old style, built in 1925, 1,812 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 4,704-square-foot lot. $930,000 51 Burch St. One-family ranch, built in 1958, 960 square feet, 4 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 6,098-square-foot lot. $909,000 31 Virginia Road. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1951, 864 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 7,187-square-foot lot. $835,000 35 Forest St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1951, 1,764 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 7,013-square-foot lot. $831,800 7 Berkeley St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1955, 1,548 square feet, 7 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 5,750-square-foot lot. $825,000 509 Summer St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1951, 1,152 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 5,053-square-foot lot. $700,000 Advertisement: 84 Beacon St. #86 Condo. $685,000 ASHLAND 96 Independence Lane. One-family Colonial, built in 2002, 2,198 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 15,246-square-foot lot. $1,082,000 91-93 Homer Ave. Three-family conventional, built in 1900, 3,164 square feet, 9 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 10,019-square-foot lot. $695,000 263 Cordaville Road. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1957, 1,729 square feet, 6 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 21,344-square-foot lot. $560,000 17 E Bluff Road #17 Condo Town House, built in 1985, 1,812 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths. $530,000 109 Homer Ave. One-family conventional, built in 1900, 2,004 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 11,326-square-foot lot. $406,000 373 Eliot St. One-family ranch, built in 1964, 1,296 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 20,038-square-foot lot. $205,000 BEDFORD 1 Prescott Place. One-family Colonial, built in 2006, 3,364 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 15,934-square-foot lot. $1,585,000 42 Roberts Drive #42 Condo Town House, built in 1953, 782 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $399,999 25 Genetti St. #25 Condo. $388,000 BELLINGHAM 922 S Main St. One-family ranch, built in 1963, 1,908 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 35,026-square-foot lot. $650,000 88 Pickering Ave. One-family Colonial, built in 1989, 2,124 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 48,308-square-foot lot. $635,400 131 S Main St. One-family old style, built in 1931, 1,854 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 21,200-square-foot lot. $560,000 BELMONT 85 Clifton St. One-family Colonial, built in 1920, 6,404 square feet, 16 rooms, 8 bedrooms, 6 baths, on 69,824-square-foot lot. $2,775,000 36 Leicester Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1935, 1,947 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 6,315-square-foot lot. $1,765,000 210-212 Payson Road. Two-family old style, built in 1910, 3,470 square feet, 13 rooms, 7 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 9,400-square-foot lot. $1,755,000 78 Oliver Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1941, 2,020 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 6,746-square-foot lot. $1,100,000 111 Beech St. #2 Condo. $510,000 BEVERLY 17 Everett St. One-family Colonial, built in 1919, 2,440 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 10,860-square-foot lot. $1,605,750 3 Lawnbank Road. One-family ranch, built in 1955, 1,504 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 11,750-square-foot lot. $1,300,000 Advertisement: 5 Boyles St. One-family Colonial, built in 1970, 3,244 square feet, 10 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 47,830-square-foot lot. $1,156,000 8 Meadow Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1986, 2,580 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 14,559-square-foot lot. $1,105,000 15 Sherman St. Two-family two family, built in 1926, 3,106 square feet, 10 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 13,425-square-foot lot. $975,000 23 Wellesley Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1958, 3,048 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 12,000-square-foot lot. $835,000 576 Cabot St. One-family Colonial, built in 1910, 2,190 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 8,200-square-foot lot. $685,000 18 Brimbal Ave. One-family raised cape, built in 1982, 1,729 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 18,220-square-foot lot. $665,000 23 Bosworth St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1948, 2,064 square feet, 7 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 7,543-square-foot lot. $650,000 1 Beach St. #4 Condo/Apt, built in 1900, 1,401 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $625,000 26 Heather St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1952, 1,328 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 9,896-square-foot lot. $570,000 60 Rantoul St. #310N Condo/Apt, built in 1988, 946 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $370,000 91 Dodge St. One-family Colonial, built in 1910, 2,315 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 6,650-square-foot lot. $250,000 BILLERICA 47 Fieldstone Lane. One-family Colonial, built in 2021, 3,196 square feet, 7 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 44,867-square-foot lot. $1,300,000 218 Rangeway Road #261 Condo Town House, built in 2004, 2,613 square feet, 3 baths. $720,000 212 Allen Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1953, 2,032 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 22,420-square-foot lot. $710,000 29 Mulcahy Lane. One-family gambrel, built in 1981, 1,898 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 10,594-square-foot lot. $670,000 13 Shane Lane. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1975, 2,083 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 41,794-square-foot lot. $650,000 3 Savage Ave. One-family split entry, built in 1968, 1,618 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 17,818-square-foot lot. $650,000 37 Bridge St. #101 Condo Town House, built in 2015, 1,632 square feet, 4 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths. $645,000 3 Sandberg Road. One-family split level, built in 1962, 1,596 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 24,071-square-foot lot. $590,000 Advertisement: 267 Salem Road. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1968, 1,344 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 15,120-square-foot lot. $565,000 3 Cunningham Lane. One-family bngl/cottage, built in 1941, 1,443 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 8,134-square-foot lot. $555,000 14 Phillip Road. One-family ranch, built in 1960, 1,632 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 15,075-square-foot lot. $550,000 166 Bridle Road. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1953, 1,082 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 10,800-square-foot lot. $550,000 28 Pondover Road #28 Condo Town House, built in 1976, 1,015 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 29,285-square-foot lot. $525,000 11 Lindsay Road. One-family ranch, built in 1956, 1,636 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 16,380-square-foot lot. $520,000 60 Rangeway Road. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1960, 1,700 square feet, 6 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 59,895-square-foot lot. $475,000 65 Forest Park Ave. One-family split entry, built in 1969, 1,460 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 15,000-square-foot lot. $370,000 6 New St. One-family ranch, built in 1940, 1,296 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 5,000-square-foot lot. $337,000 20 Kenmar Drive #180 Condo/Apt, built in 1979, 610 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $265,000 BOLTON 134 Long Hill Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1999, 3,093 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 65,340-square-foot lot. $870,000 348 S Bolton Road. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1950, 2,082 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 69,696-square-foot lot. $770,000 BOSTON 50 Park Plz #50 Office condo, 768,658 square feet, on 768,658-square-foot lot. $319,000,000 150 Seaport Blvd #150 Condo. $6,400,000 323 Commonwealth Ave. #10 Condo row-middle, built in 1880, 560 square feet, 2 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 560-square-foot lot. $5,500,000 323 Commonwealth Ave. #1 Condo row-middle, built in 1880, 510 square feet, 1 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 510-square-foot lot. $5,500,000 323 Commonwealth Ave. #2 Condo row-middle, built in 1880, 390 square feet, 1 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 390-square-foot lot. $5,500,000 323 Commonwealth Ave. #3 Condo row-middle, built in 1880, 500 square feet, 1 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 500-square-foot lot. $5,500,000 323 Commonwealth Ave. #4 Condo row-middle, built in 1880, 680 square feet, 2 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 680-square-foot lot. $5,500,000 Advertisement: 323 Commonwealth Ave. #5 Condo row-middle, built in 1880, 680 square feet, 2 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 680-square-foot lot. $5,500,000 323 Commonwealth Ave. #6 Condo row-middle, built in 1880, 600 square feet, 2 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 600-square-foot lot. $5,500,000 323 Commonwealth Ave. #7 Condo row-middle, built in 1880, 670 square feet, 2 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 670-square-foot lot. $5,500,000 323 Commonwealth Ave. #8 Condo row-middle, built in 1880, 610 square feet, 2 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 610-square-foot lot. $5,500,000 323 Commonwealth Ave. #9 Condo row-middle, built in 1880, 690 square feet, 2 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 690-square-foot lot. $5,500,000 505 Tremont St. #414 Condo mid-rise, built in 2003, 2,193 square feet, 6 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 2,193-square-foot lot. $4,000,000 73 Mount Vernon St. #4PH Condo low-rise, built in 1899, 2,303 square feet, 8 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths. $3,900,000 2 Avery St. #23C Condo high-rise, built in 2000, 2,707 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 2,707-square-foot lot. $3,325,000 566 Columbus Ave. #611 Condo. $3,250,000 30 Concord Sq #2 Condo. $2,750,000 300 Pier 4 Blvd #4A Condo mid-rise, built in 2017, 1,035 square feet, 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 2 baths. $2,347,500 400 Stuart St. #22B Condo high-rise, built in 2009, 1,372 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 1,372-square-foot lot. $2,300,000 17 Gloucester St. #6 Condo row-end, built in 1886, 1,598 square feet, 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 1,598-square-foot lot. $2,108,000 220 Commonwealth Ave. #1&2 Condo row-middle, built in 1860, 1,545 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 1,545-square-foot lot. $2,000,000 8 W Hill Place #3 Condo row-middle, built in 1930, 1,380 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 1,380-square-foot lot. $1,850,000 903 Beacon St. #3 Condo. $1,694,000 566 Columbus Ave. #102 Condo. $1,675,000 100 Belvidere St. #5E Condo high-rise, built in 2001, 972 square feet, 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 2 baths, on 972-square-foot lot. $1,400,000 32 Traveler St. #710 Condo mid-rise, built in 2015, 1,089 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $1,376,000 234 Causeway St. #1205 Condo high-rise, built in 1899, 1,267 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 1,267-square-foot lot. $1,325,000 80 Broad St. #1002 Condo high-rise, built in 2006, 1,220 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 1,220-square-foot lot. $1,170,000 32 Traveler St. #506 Condo mid-rise, built in 2015, 873 square feet, 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $1,100,000 Advertisement: 191 Saint Botolph St. #2 Condo row-middle, built in 1880, 995 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 995-square-foot lot. $1,025,000 349 Commonwealth Ave. #1B Condo row-middle, built in 1890, 1,140 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 1,140-square-foot lot. $940,000 55 Lagrange St. #1002 Condo. $925,000 135 Marlborough St. #3 Condo mid-rise, built in 1880, 765 square feet, 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 765-square-foot lot. $900,000 400 Stuart St. #16L Condo high-rise, built in 2009, 589 square feet, 2 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 589-square-foot lot. $865,000 49 Revere St. #5 Condo row-middle, built in 1899, 733 square feet, 5 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 733-square-foot lot. $841,000 135 Seaport Blvd #1612 Condo high-rise, built in 2018, 495 square feet, 1 rooms, 1 bath. $830,000 57 Fulton St. #7 Condo row-middle, built in 1850, 1,082 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 1,082-square-foot lot. $820,000 133 Seaport Blvd #1221 Condo high-rise, built in 2018, 513 square feet, 2 rooms, 1 bath. $799,000 109-119 Beach St. #3C Condo mid-rise, built in 1899, 1,055 square feet, 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 1,055-square-foot lot. $777,000 236 Beacon St. #5B Condo mid-rise, built in 1869, 960 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 960-square-foot lot. $775,000 31 Mercer St. #2 Condo. $770,000 304 Sumner St. #1 Condo. $740,000 70 Lincoln St. #L516 Condo mid-rise, built in 2006, 741 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 741-square-foot lot. $725,000 110 Stuart St. #23I Condo high-rise, built in 2009, 512 square feet, 2 rooms, 1 bath, on 512-square-foot lot. $625,000 80 Mount Vernon St. #12 Condo row-middle, built in 1850, 362 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 362-square-foot lot. $569,000 BOXBOROUGH 1044 Liberty Square Road. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1989, 2,903 square feet, 8 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 93,218-square-foot lot. $1,015,000 520 Burroughs Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1964, 2,160 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 39,204-square-foot lot. $888,000 59 Waite Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1975, 2,504 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 60,984-square-foot lot. $880,000 114 Summer Road #114 Condo Town House, built in 2004, 1,777 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $585,000 72 Macintosh Lane #72 Condo Town House, built in 1978, 1,535 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. $550,000 Advertisement: 49 Cortland Lane #49 Condo Town House, built in 1978, 1,397 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $460,000 BOXFORD 10 Main St. One-family Colonial, built in 2005, 4,486 square feet, 10 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 5 baths, on 125,017-square-foot lot. $1,365,000 4 Chandler Road. One-family Colonial, built in 2003, 3,040 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 99,752-square-foot lot. $870,000 5-A Endicott Road. One-family ranch, built in 1955, 2,051 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 96,268-square-foot lot. $730,000 BRAINTREE 453 Pond St. Three-family mlti-unt blg, built in 1920, 3,467 square feet, 12 rooms, 6 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 44,431-square-foot lot. $1,025,000 61 Barstow Drive. One-family Colonial, built in 1978, 1,976 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 15,904-square-foot lot. $883,500 63 Bellevue Road. One-family old style, built in 1890, 1,658 square feet, 8 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 9,418-square-foot lot. $705,000 414 John Mahar Hwy #A213 Condo/Apt, built in 2011, 1,470 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths. $620,000 592 West St. One-family old style, built in 1900, 1,582 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 27,922-square-foot lot. $607,000 65 Sherbrooke Ave. One-family old style, built in 1922, 1,352 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 6,299-square-foot lot. $502,000 284 Allerton Commons Lane #284 Condo/Apt, built in 1995, 1,354 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $499,000 501 Commerce Drive #3106 Condo/Apt, built in 2004, 1,044 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths. $445,000 439 Pond St. #9 Condo/Apt, built in 1974, 767 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $275,000 BRIDGEWATER 30 Calthrop Drive. One-family Colonial, built in 2000, 3,646 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 43,566-square-foot lot. $950,000 31-33 Mount Prospect St. Two-family duplex, built in 1898, 2,992 square feet, 12 rooms, 7 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 17,840-square-foot lot. $640,000 34 Beaver Dam Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1997, 1,872 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 54,676-square-foot lot. $622,000 510 Hayward St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1974, 1,512 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 16,300-square-foot lot. $555,811 1164 High St. One-family ranch, built in 1956, 1,566 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 37,800-square-foot lot. $535,000 Advertisement: 39 Fremont St. One-family conventional, built in 1900, 2,800 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 17,550-square-foot lot. $405,000 180 Main St. #6109 Condo/Apt, built in 1970, 962 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $302,000 180 Main St. #E124 Condo/Apt, built in 1970, 969 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $255,000 BRIGHTON 2400 Beacon St. #401 Condo mid-rise, built in 2006, 2,042 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 2,042-square-foot lot. $2,295,000 12 Bigelow Circle #2 Condo free-standng, built in 1895, 1,330 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 1,330-square-foot lot. $649,500 16 Leamington Road #1 Condo row-middle, built in 1910, 1,451 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 1,451-square-foot lot. $600,000 15 Rushmore St. #17A Condo. $500,000 BROCKTON 267 Spring St. One-family Colonial, built in 1910, 3,242 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 11,400-square-foot lot. $650,000 132 Dover St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1925, 2,258 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 10,533-square-foot lot. $600,000 479 Pleasant St. One-family Colonial, built in 1892, 1,444 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 7,789-square-foot lot. $560,000 124 Dixon Road. One-family split level, built in 1972, 1,420 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 11,199-square-foot lot. $530,000 30 Sprague St. One-family Colonial, built in 1925, 1,398 square feet, 7 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 5,959-square-foot lot. $525,000 60 12th Ave. One-family raised ranch, built in 2000, 1,660 square feet, 9 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 24,002-square-foot lot. $500,000 135 Anne Marie Drive. One-family ranch, built in 1962, 1,664 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 12,524-square-foot lot. $491,500 135 Deanna Road. One-family ranch, built in 1971, 1,688 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 10,001-square-foot lot. $475,000 51 Robert Road. One-family ranch, built in 1957, 1,452 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 14,100-square-foot lot. $450,000 88 Maplewood Circle. One-family split level, built in 1967, 1,464 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 13,051-square-foot lot. $450,000 91 Thatcher St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1932, 1,398 square feet, 6 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 6,913-square-foot lot. $425,000 212 Southfield Drive. One-family ranch, built in 1971, 1,316 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 10,001-square-foot lot. $405,000 Advertisement: 437 Howard St. One-family Colonial, built in 1925, 902 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 9,169-square-foot lot. $344,900 17 Ida Ave. One-family split level, built in 1970, 1,278 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 10,001-square-foot lot. $310,000 17 Denise Terrace. One-family ranch, built in 1955, 1,203 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 11,199-square-foot lot. $272,000 77 Colonel Bell Drive #1 Condo/Apt, built in 1985, 1,075 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $265,000 BROOKLINE 147 Kent St. #3 Condo. $2,800,000 46 Verndale St. One-family Colonial, built in 1915, 2,320 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 6,164-square-foot lot. $2,150,000 32 Columbia St. #32 Condo decker, built in 1915, 1,523 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 1 bath. $1,800,000 57-59 Highland Road. Two-family decker, built in 1960, 2,374 square feet, 11 rooms, 6 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 5,929-square-foot lot. $1,510,000 100 Bellingham Road. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1942, 2,560 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 16,544-square-foot lot. $1,420,000 128 Gardner Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1907, 1,104 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 6,586-square-foot lot. $1,420,000 80 Park St. #65 Condo high-rise, built in 1961, 1,592 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. $1,320,000 12 Gibbs St. #3 Condo low-rise, built in 1920, 1,696 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. $1,170,000 185 Davis Ave. #7 Condo low-rise, built in 1895, 1,418 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $890,000 566 Heath St. #1 Condo decker, built in 1840, 1,196 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $830,000 231 Rawson Road #6 Condo row-middle, built in 1905, 947 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $715,000 19 Winchester St. #207 Condo high-rise, built in 1968, 698 square feet, 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $535,000 BURLINGTON 9 Lexington St. One-family Colonial, built in 2014, 5,418 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 21,528-square-foot lot. $1,755,000 10 Carol Ave. One-family Colonial, built in 2018, 2,916 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 10,000-square-foot lot. $1,350,000 37 Locust St. One-family split entry, built in 1972, 3,475 square feet, 8 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 20,151-square-foot lot. $941,500 16 Phyllis Ave. One-family garrison, built in 1957, 2,158 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 20,000-square-foot lot. $903,000 Advertisement: 3 Arbor Court #3 Condo Town House, built in 1987, 1,406 square feet, 7 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths. $820,000 15 Arbor Court #15 Condo Town House, built in 1987, 1,406 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths. $810,000 CAMBRIDGE 22 Fairmont Ave. #22 Condo, built in 1891, 1,398 square feet, 9 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths. $3,025,000 134-136 Hancock St. #134 Condo. $2,600,000 33 Hurlbut St. One-family victorian, built in 1894, 2,893 square feet, 10 rooms, 6 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 5,784-square-foot lot. $2,525,000 62 Gorham St. One-family victorian, built in 1892, 1,828 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 3,365-square-foot lot. $1,910,000 171 Lake View Ave. One-family victorian, built in 1884, 1,991 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 3,999-square-foot lot. $1,740,000 28 Upton St. One-family row-end, built in 1871, 1,448 square feet, 8 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 1,659-square-foot lot. $1,700,000 107-1/2 Inman St. #3 Condo family flat, built in 1902, 1,100 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $1,115,000 26 Chestnut St. #26 Condo Town House, built in 1989, 1,377 square feet, 10 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $1,015,000 9 Harrington Road. One-family conventional, built in 1891, 1,120 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 2,449-square-foot lot. $980,000 8 Newton St. #1 Condo family flat, built in 1916, 1,094 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $935,000 2 Earhart St. #203 Condo/Apt, built in 2006, 955 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $908,000 149 Bishop Richard Allen Drive #B Condo/Apt, built in 1854, 1,050 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $905,000 143 Pleasant St. #2A Condo family flat, built in 1994, 1,240 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $860,000 1572 Massachusetts Ave. #33 Condo/Apt, built in 1850, 817 square feet, 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $833,333 1643 Cambridge St. #56 Condo/Apt, built in 1960, 745 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $700,000 22-1/2 Sherman St. #22H Condo two story, built in 1891, 1,069 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath. $700,000 5 Arlington St. #34 Condo/Apt, built in 1930, 633 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $635,000 1105 Massachusetts Ave. #3B Office condo Condo/Apt, built in 1970, 619 square feet, 4 rooms. $590,000 31 Wheeler St. #103 Condo/Apt, built in 2007, 625 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $539,000 Advertisement: 395 Broadway #L4E Condo/Apt, built in 1935, 537 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $515,000 CANTON 5 Strawberry Lane. One-family contemporary, built in 1989, 4,274 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 45,738-square-foot lot. $1,435,000 352 York St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1934, 1,958 square feet, 8 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 74,052-square-foot lot. $1,001,000 50 Coppersmith Way #111 Condo. $888,926 23 Mohawk Road. One-family raised ranch, built in 1968, 4,012 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 33,900-square-foot lot. $875,000 50 Coppersmith Way #114 Condo. $804,479 50 Coppersmith Way #202 Condo. $720,531 15 Revolution Way #2005 Condo. $600,000 200 Revere St. #4310 Condo/Apt, built in 2020, 814 square feet, 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $549,000 2201 Davenport Ave. #2201 Condo/Apt, built in 2006, 992 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $455,000 CARLISLECARVER 26 Cranberry Circle. One-family raised ranch, built in 1972, 1,616 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 44,867-square-foot lot. $605,000 15 Fairway Lndg #15 Condo. $555,675 47 Wenham Road. One-family ranch, built in 2002, 1,080 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 34,412-square-foot lot. $489,000 27 Copper Lantern Lane #27 Condo Town House, built in 2007, 1,794 square feet, 6 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $395,000 46 Pleasant St. One-family contemporary, built in 1985, 1,769 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 71,003-square-foot lot. $327,500 CHARLESTOWN 36 Monument Ave. Two-family row-middle, built in 1860, 2,623 square feet, 10 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 1,807-square-foot lot. $2,550,000 14 Soley St. #14 Condo row-end, built in 1968, 1,060 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $1,000,000 425 Bunker Hill St. #2 Condo row-end, built in 1885, 1,359 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. $890,000 107 Russell St. #1 Condo free-standng, built in 1970, 755 square feet, 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $525,000 22 Belmont St. One-family row-end, built in 1880, 1,432 square feet, 6 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 944-square-foot lot. $200,000 CHELMSFORD 10-12 Tobin Ave. Two-family duplex, built in 1975, 2,120 square feet, 10 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 20,371-square-foot lot. $730,000 24 Whippletree Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1964, 1,768 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 40,000-square-foot lot. $721,000 15 Princess Ave. One-family split level, built in 1960, 1,546 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 15,150-square-foot lot. $640,000 Advertisement: 32 Freeman Road. One-family ranch, built in 1983, 1,518 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 112,385-square-foot lot. $636,000 3 Boyds Lane. One-family raised ranch, built in 1982, 1,284 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 40,000-square-foot lot. $600,000 181 Littleton Road #327 Condo/Apt, built in 1985, 1,085 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 2 baths. $355,000 3 Windemere Lane #3 Condo Town House, built in 2004, 2,066 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths. $235,251 CHELSEA 11 John St. Three-family family flat, built in 1900, 4,440 square feet, 18 rooms, 9 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 4,393-square-foot lot. $1,110,000 5 Medford St. #2 Condo/Apt, built in 1857, 1,050 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $512,000 51 Crescent Ave. #202 Condo. $270,000 COHASSET 241 Jerusalem Road. One-family gambrel, built in 1890, 3,771 square feet, 10 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 5 baths, on 16,900-square-foot lot. $2,200,000 54 Old Coach Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1977, 2,046 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 20,010-square-foot lot. $1,250,000 CONCORD 17 Musterfield Road. One-family contemporary, built in 1982, 3,125 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 5 baths, on 77,026-square-foot lot. $3,000,000 284 Mattison Drive. One-family Colonial, built in 1991, 9,420 square feet, 14 rooms, 6 bedrooms, 8 baths, on 86,098-square-foot lot. $3,000,000 120 Laurel St. One-family contemporary, built in 2014, 3,504 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 12,614-square-foot lot. $1,955,000 188 Independence Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1951, 3,606 square feet, 8 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 22,614-square-foot lot. $1,877,000 315 Hunters Ridge Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1972, 3,710 square feet, 11 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 5 baths, on 122,689-square-foot lot. $1,225,000 31 Highland St. #31 Condo/Apt, built in 1911, 1,598 square feet, 7 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 8,760-square-foot lot. $865,000 177 Williams Road. One-family old style, built in 1955, 1,804 square feet, 7 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 47,916-square-foot lot. $785,000 95 Conant St. #305 Condo/Apt, built in 2006, 1,202 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $640,500 11 Concord Greene #3 Condo/Apt, built in 1977, 1,083 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 1,107,295-square-foot lot. $625,000 28 Concord Greene #7 Condo/Apt, built in 1977, 1,111 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 1,107,295-square-foot lot. $610,000 Advertisement: DANVERS 18 Beaver Park One-family Cape Cod, built in 1948, 2,278 square feet, 6 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 10,530-square-foot lot. $700,000 19 Regent Drive. One-family ranch, built in 1956, 2,675 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 16,183-square-foot lot. $675,000 129 Conant St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1951, 1,491 square feet, 6 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 13,700-square-foot lot. $615,000 44 Conant St. #3 Condo/Apt, built in 1914, 1,024 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $350,000 6 Venice St. #C6 Condo/Apt, built in 1970, 574 square feet, 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $291,000 6 Venice St. #D4 Condo/Apt, built in 1970, 565 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $265,000 DEDHAM 15 Fales Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1910, 2,239 square feet, 8 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 14,098-square-foot lot. $950,000 214 River St. One-family conventional, built in 1880, 2,246 square feet, 12 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 12,225-square-foot lot. $817,000 54 Hillsdale Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1920, 1,386 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 7,860-square-foot lot. $780,000 262 Whiting Ave. One-family conventional, built in 1930, 1,468 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 5,219-square-foot lot. $690,000 50 Sprague St. One-family conventional, built in 1940, 1,685 square feet, 6 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 6,322-square-foot lot. $569,900 75 Durham Road #75 Condo/Apt, built in 1987, 1,224 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 1-square-foot lot. $520,000 24 Riverview St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1946, 1,651 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 9,000-square-foot lot. $490,000 16 Lewis Farm Road #16 Condo/Apt, built in 1956, 720 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $415,000 DORCHESTER 777 Columbia Road. Three-family semi detachd, built in 1905, 4,428 square feet, 18 rooms, 9 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 3,080-square-foot lot. $2,150,000 15 Richview St. One-family Colonial, 1,864 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 8,500-square-foot lot. $1,250,000 76 Centre St. Three-family conventional, built in 1900, 3,520 square feet, 15 rooms, 9 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 4,125-square-foot lot. $1,165,000 125 Devon St. Three-family conventional, built in 1900, 3,774 square feet, 17 rooms, 8 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 4,067-square-foot lot. $1,110,000 99 Adams St. Three-family decker, built in 1905, 4,161 square feet, 18 rooms, 9 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 3,850-square-foot lot. $989,000 Advertisement: 19-21 Moseley St. #5 Condo. $950,000 26 Minot St. Three-family semi detachd, built in 1910, 2,860 square feet, 12 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 2,378-square-foot lot. $870,000 12 Denny St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1950, 1,591 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 3,203-square-foot lot. $835,000 39 Dakota St. Three-family decker, built in 1905, 4,290 square feet, 18 rooms, 9 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 4,488-square-foot lot. $750,000 104 Train St. #3 Condo decker, built in 1910, 1,196 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 1,196-square-foot lot. $585,000 12 Normandy St. #1 Condo. $519,000 96 Buttonwood St. One-family row-end, built in 1890, 1,582 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 1,047-square-foot lot. $505,000 8 Champlain Circle. One-family row-middle, built in 1984, 936 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 1,545-square-foot lot. $440,000 16 Downer Court #B Condo Town House, built in 2004, 1,657 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 1,657-square-foot lot. $430,000 DOVER 161 Walpole St. One-family Colonial, built in 1998, 4,844 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 104,108-square-foot lot. $2,042,000 24 Pine St. One-family Colonial, built in 1939, 2,850 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 69,260-square-foot lot. $1,575,000 DUXBURY 29 Duck Hill Road. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1937, 2,554 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 60,038-square-foot lot. $1,225,000 25 Ledgewood Drive. One-family Colonial, built in 1979, 2,832 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 62,291-square-foot lot. $850,000 41 Carriage Lane #41 Condo/Apt, built in 2015, 1,525 square feet, 6 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $765,000 EAST BOSTON 87 Cottage St. Three-family row-middle, built in 1905, 1,881 square feet, 9 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 836-square-foot lot. $870,000 89 Cottage St. Three-family row-middle, built in 1905, 1,881 square feet, 9 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 836-square-foot lot. $870,000 370 Sumner St. #2 Condo row-end, built in 1900, 1,081 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 1,081-square-foot lot. $780,000 156 Porter St. #328 Condo free-standng, built in 1910, 882 square feet, 2 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 800-square-foot lot. $625,000 141 Chelsea St. #1 Condo. $623,250 137 Falcon St. #3 Condo. $621,000 2-4 Shelby St. #1 Condo. $437,000 309-R Sumner St. #2L Condo. $340,000 Advertisement: EAST BRIDGEWATER 382 Belmont St. One-family raised ranch, built in 1971, 786 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 25,264-square-foot lot. $450,000 64 Brookbend Way W #64 Condo free-standng, built in 2000, 1,116 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $359,900 EASTON 5 Sandy Pond Lane. One-family Colonial, built in 1997, 2,663 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 20,000-square-foot lot. $928,250 136 Black Brook Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1987, 2,136 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 50,965-square-foot lot. $792,000 7 Bradford St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1994, 1,459 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 784,080-square-foot lot. $750,000 1 Galahad Way One-family Colonial, built in 1985, 2,172 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 32,095-square-foot lot. $740,000 8 Island Court #314 Condo. $650,000 8 Island Court #310 Condo. $635,000 262 Prospect St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1984, 1,008 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 58,806-square-foot lot. $530,000 40 Sharron Drive #40 Condo/Apt, built in 1985, 1,080 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $338,200 25 Greenwood Village St. #25 Condo/Apt, built in 1981, 1,140 square feet, 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $279,900 ESSEX 210 Southern Ave. One-family Cape Cod, built in 2022, 4,515 square feet, on 60,984-square-foot lot. $2,250,000 EVERETT 132 Hancock St. Three-family mlti-unt blg, built in 1900, 3,633 square feet, 15 rooms, 8 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 3,990-square-foot lot. $1,010,000 54 Staples Ave. One-family old style, built in 1900, 1,071 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 1,982-square-foot lot. $565,000 120 Wyllis Ave. #221 Condo/Apt, built in 2007, 1,257 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $560,000 87 Madison Ave. #1 Condo. $550,000 111 Hancock St. #111 Condo/Apt, built in 1902, 2,253 square feet, 8 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 3 baths. $475,000 22 Ferry St. #B Condo/Apt, built in 1925, 781 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $333,000 23 Avon St. #1 Condo/Apt, built in 1900, 758 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $325,000 15 Staples Ave. #35 Condo/Apt, built in 1960, 535 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $269,000 FOXBOROUGH 37 Chestnut St. One-family Colonial, built in 2006, 3,468 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 20,569-square-foot lot. $875,000 Advertisement: 54 Railroad Ave. Two-family duplex, built in 1995, 2,496 square feet, 10 rooms, 6 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 17,419-square-foot lot. $743,000 1 Brandon Lane. One-family Colonial, built in 2000, 2,464 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 70,492-square-foot lot. $710,000 16 County St. Two-family family flat, built in 1900, 2,118 square feet, 12 rooms, 6 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 60,909-square-foot lot. $679,900 1 Sears Road. One-family raised ranch, built in 1968, 1,300 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 21,400-square-foot lot. $640,000 421 South St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1967, 1,476 square feet, 7 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 291,777-square-foot lot. $618,000 132 Beach St. One-family ranch, built in 1950, 1,632 square feet, 7 rooms, 1 bedroom, 3 baths, on 27,625-square-foot lot. $592,000 42 Sherman St. Two-family duplex, built in 1935, 2,372 square feet, 12 rooms, 6 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 11,440-square-foot lot. $570,000 101 Beach St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1962, 1,344 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 20,000-square-foot lot. $515,000 170 Central St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1956, 1,344 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 15,000-square-foot lot. $387,000 FRAMINGHAM 25 Oxbow Road #25 Condo Town House, built in 2017, 2,422 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths. $910,000 30 Travis Drive. One-family garrison, built in 1971, 2,628 square feet, 8 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 20,029-square-foot lot. $880,000 94 Oxbow Road #94 Condo Town House, built in 2016, 1,848 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths. $771,000 49 Ledgewood Road. One-family split entry, built in 1970, 1,540 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 29,503-square-foot lot. $750,000 330 Winter St. One-family Colonial, built in 1975, 2,452 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 19,628-square-foot lot. $710,000 10 Campbell Road. One-family split level, built in 2003, 1,290 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 5,820-square-foot lot. $700,000 163 Winter St. One-family conventional, built in 1837, 1,996 square feet, 10 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 11,565-square-foot lot. $669,000 22 Livoli Road. One-family ranch, built in 1962, 1,509 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 20,029-square-foot lot. $601,000 55 Hemenway Road. One-family ranch, built in 1962, 1,218 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 31,590-square-foot lot. $562,000 Advertisement: 14 Victoria Gdn #A Condo/Apt, built in 1999, 1,219 square feet, 6 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths. $560,000 78 Dunster Road. One-family ranch, built in 1953, 964 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 9,522-square-foot lot. $550,000 16 Foster Drive. One-family ranch, built in 1957, 1,439 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 12,140-square-foot lot. $542,000 12 Summer St. One-family Colonial, built in 1919, 1,028 square feet, 7 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 7,200-square-foot lot. $510,000 120 Arlington St. One-family conventional, built in 1925, 1,536 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 2,361-square-foot lot. $430,000 1500 Worcester Road #828 Condo mid-rise, built in 1966, 1,295 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths. $425,000 92 Hastings St. One-family contemporary, built in 1957, 2,295 square feet, 7 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 11,831-square-foot lot. $376,000 1325 Worcester Road #A11 Condo mid-rise, built in 1967, 693 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 2 baths. $287,000 FRANKLIN 5 Catherine Ave. One-family Colonial, built in 1993, 2,631 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 23,196-square-foot lot. $995,000 6 Winterberry Drive. 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One-family Colonial, built in 1998, 2,368 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 27,486-square-foot lot. $851,000 29 Village Way #29 Condo Town House, built in 2017, 2,200 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 4 baths. $840,000 12 Brushwood Hl One-family raised ranch, built in 1964, 1,892 square feet, 7 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 23,431-square-foot lot. $700,000 13 Magnolia Drive #13 Condo Town House, built in 1987, 2,119 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths. $675,000 585 Union St. One-family ranch, built in 1962, 1,276 square feet, 6 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 18,892-square-foot lot. $625,000 71 Oak St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1952, 1,297 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 11,983-square-foot lot. $620,000 172 Highwood Drive #172 Condo Town House, built in 1985, 1,080 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $335,000 670 Pleasant St. One-family raised ranch, built in 1992, 920 square feet, 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 58,458-square-foot lot. $320,000 1612 Franklin Crossing Road #1612 Condo/Apt, built in 1985, 939 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $268,500 Advertisement: GLOUCESTER 1 Old Salem Path One-family Colonial, built in 1973, 2,948 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 5 baths, on 32,265-square-foot lot. $4,500,000 14 Pine St. Two-family duplex, built in 1850, 3,914 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 7,232-square-foot lot. $797,000 24 Walker St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1986, 2,360 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 188,615-square-foot lot. $650,000 60 Holly St. One-family ranch, built in 1992, 1,056 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 21,460-square-foot lot. $630,000 47 Woodward Ave. One-family raised ranch, built in 1971, 864 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 4,900-square-foot lot. $600,000 1050 Washington St. One-family Colonial, built in 1900, 1,565 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 5,900-square-foot lot. $535,000 19 Atlantic Road #30 Condo/Apt, built in 1972, 996 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $515,000 11 Green St. One-family ranch, built in 1965, 736 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 4,500-square-foot lot. $449,000 GRAFTON 122 Magill Drive. One-family Colonial, built in 2016, 3,294 square feet, 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 17,860-square-foot lot. $1,075,000 3 Gershom Drive. One-family Colonial, built in 2000, 2,480 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 62,291-square-foot lot. $885,000 22 Eseks Circle. One-family Colonial, built in 1998, 1,768 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 16,553-square-foot lot. $635,000 161 Brigham Hill Road. One-family conventional, built in 1835, 1,558 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 31,799-square-foot lot. $602,000 12 Azalea Lane #12 Condo Town House, built in 2006, 1,620 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 655,578-square-foot lot. $495,000 16 Milford Road #12 Condo Town House, built in 1989, 1,596 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $380,000 17 Nottingham Road #17 Condo/Apt, built in 1987, 978 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 1,048,054-square-foot lot. $370,000 15 Luka Drive #15 Condo Town House, built in 2017, 1,949 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 221,720-square-foot lot. $217,400 GROVELAND 502 Diane Circle #502 Condo Town House, built in 2002, 1,734 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $220,000 HALIFAX 11 Hayward St. One-family Colonial, built in 2017, 2,672 square feet, 7 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 80,586-square-foot lot. $800,000 501 Thompson St. One-family ranch, built in 1972, 990 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 40,004-square-foot lot. $460,000 Advertisement: 31 12th Ave. One-family ranch, built in 1940, 960 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 10,000-square-foot lot. $440,000 32 4th Ave. One-family ranch, built in 1950, 900 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 14,400-square-foot lot. $400,000 27 Cedar Lane. One-family ranch, built in 1963, 852 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 22,466-square-foot lot. $245,000 HAMILTON 193 Woodland Mead One-family Colonial, built in 1988, 3,554 square feet, 10 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, on 65,776-square-foot lot. $1,325,000 9 Ricker Circle. One-family split entry, built in 1991, 1,218 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 12,001-square-foot lot. $760,000 HANOVER 56 Cedarcrest Road. One-family raised ranch, built in 1971, 1,136 square feet, 7 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 59,677-square-foot lot. $830,000 HANSON 401 Brook St. One-family raised ranch, built in 1973, 1,144 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 30,448-square-foot lot. $519,488 229 Reed St. One-family Cape Cod, built in 1946, 1,711 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 47,480-square-foot lot. $445,000 122 Union Park St. One-family bngl/cottage, built in 1930, 770 square feet, 4 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, on 7,187-square-foot lot. $231,234 HARVARD 9 Eldridge Road. One-family Colonial, built in 1973, 2,084 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 67,518-square-foot lot. $1,100,000 HAVERHILL 1195 Broadway One-family Cape Cod, built in 2008, 2,303 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 253,084-square-foot lot. $875,000 38 Front 9 Drive. 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DeSantis Lobs Most Forceful Attacks Yet Against Trump, Days Before Iowa Caucuses

This has been updated to reflect news developments. Of all that’s been said and written about the war between Israel and Hamas, nothing has cut through the mental fog quite so brightly as a remark this month from Hillary Clinton on “The View.” “Remember,” the former secretary of state said, “there was a cease-fire on Oct. 6 that Hamas broke by their barbaric assault on peaceful civilians and their kidnapping, their killing, their beheading, their terrible, inhumane savagery.” Those three words — “that Hamas broke” — aren’t trivial. They give the lie to the “Cease-Fire Now” mirage, or imposture, that has become a rallying cry at pro-Palestinian demonstrations. They are at the heart of what the war is about, and the key to how it can end. And they are the bright dividing line between those who would allow Hamas to get away with murder, and those who would refuse. Why should it matter that it was Hamas that broke the cease-fire when Palestinian civilians are being killed in large numbers by Israeli bombs and bullets? Those saying that it shouldn’t matter argue that questions of culpability become secondary, if not irrelevant, when kids’ lives are at stake. If Israel has the power to save those kids by halting its campaign, goes the argument, then it has a moral obligation to do so. But wait: Doesn’t Hamas also have the power? Hamas has a long record of firing those rockets from the vicinity of schools. It has sought to prevent ordinary Gazans from obeying evacuation orders, deliberately putting them at increased risk. It hides in a vast network of tunnels while civilians must fend for themselves above ground. The Israeli government and Hamas agreed on Wednesday morning to a four-day cease-fire in which Hamas would free 50 of the hostages. But Hamas did that only because it’s under intense military pressure. It could get a real and lasting cease-fire for the people of Gaza — and probably safe passage out of the territory for many of its members — in exchange for releasing all the hostages, surrendering its arms and renouncing its rule in favor of some other Arab power. That Hamas has done none of these things isn’t shocking: It’s a terrorist death cult. What’s shocking is that people in the Cease-Fire Now crowd don’t appear to have much interest in making any demands of Hamas equivalent to those they make of Israel. They want Israel to stop firing. But do you often hear them insisting that Hamas return the favor? They want Israel to provide Gaza with humanitarian relief in the form of electricity, fuel and other goods. But I haven’t seen those protesters in the street demanding that Hamas provide Israel with humanitarian relief in the form of immediately freeing all hostages. They claim to want a “free Palestine” for all its people. But I never hear them criticize Hamas’s dictatorship, or its contempt for the civil and human rights of its own people, or its members’ avowedly antisemitic boasts of slaughtering Jews. There is a buried, unwitting compliment to Israel in this asymmetry — an assumption that, as a Western democracy, the Jewish state is susceptible to moral suasion, public shaming, or at least diplomatic pressure in a way Hamas and its patrons in Iran aren’t. Yet that compliment is rarely accompanied with even a gesture of respect for Israel’s grief, or the legitimacy of its grievance with Hamas, or its need to keep its citizens safe, or even its right to exist as a sovereign state. Even when Israel’s notional right to self-defense is briefly acknowledged, every exercise of it is immediately deemed a war crime, whatever the evidence. For Israelis, what “Cease-Fire Now” means is “Surrender Now.” No wonder they decline to heed the call. What about for Palestinians — women, children and noncombatant men for whom the calls for a cease-fire are supposedly intended? Would they benefit? In the short term, of course: Palestinian lives would be saved if Israel held its fire. But a cease-fire wouldn’t spare just civilians. It would spare, and embolden, the main fighting force of Hamas. It would also embolden terrorist allies like Hezbollah. That’s a virtual guarantee for future mass-casualty attacks against Israel, for ever-larger Israeli retaliation, and for deeper misery for the people of Gaza. No Israeli government of any political stripe is going to allow the territory to rebuild so long as Hamas remains in charge. That gives a second meaning to “Cease-Fire Now”: Either a demand for Israel’s total capitulation, or a recipe for a perpetual cycle of violence between a terrorist group sworn to Israel’s destruction and a Jewish state that refuses to be destroyed. Whatever else one thinks of Israel, no country can be expected to sign its own death warrant by indulging those who, if given the chance, would annihilate it. There are good intentions, if also ignorance and shortsightedness, among many of those demanding a cease-fire. But there is also the bottomless cynicism of others who accept, and even celebrate, Hamas as it uses living Gazans as human shields and dead Gazans as propaganda victories. The tragedy of these protests, like so many “antiwar” movements in the past, is that the naïve and earnest are again being manipulated as tools of the cunning and cruel. Instead of Cease-Fire Now, we need Hamas’s Defeat Now. Only on that basis does a lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians alike have any chance to follow.

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In Remote Canada, a College Becomes a Magnet for Indian Students

On a college campus in northern Canada, eight hours by car from Toronto, most of the students who fill the classrooms are from a country half a world away: India. The young men and women stretching on mats in the gymnasium are more likely to be from Punjab or Gujarat, two Indian states, rather than rural Ontario. Hindi and Punjabi drowned out English in the cafeteria’s lunchtime cacophony. In the surrounding city of Timmins, the waiters at two new Indian restaurants do not ask customers how spicy they want their dishes. A shuttered bar named Gibby’s has been reopened as a Sikh temple, or gurdwara, where students from the school, Northern College, gathered on a recent evening. “We feel like we are in India,” said Mehardeep Singh, 20, a general arts and science major, who led a prayer. “In every class, there are only three or four local people. The rest are from India.”

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Food sovereignty movement sprouts as bison return to Indigenous communities

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Egyptian officials said Hamas was preparing to release 14 Israeli hostages Saturday for 42 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, as part of an exchange on the second day of a cease-fire that has allowed critical humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and given civilians their first respite after seven weeks of war. On the first day of the four-day cease-fire, Hamas released 24 of the about 240 hostages taken during its Oct. 7 attack on Israel that triggered the war, and Israel freed 39 Palestinians from prison. Those freed from captivity in Gaza were 13 Israelis, 10 Thais and a Filipino. On Saturday, Hamas provided mediators Egypt and Qatar with a list of 14 hostages to be released, and the list has been passed along to Israel, according to a Egyptian official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to talk about details of the ongoing negotiations. A second Egyptian official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the details. Under the truce agreement, Hamas will release one Israeli hostage for every three prisoners freed, and Israel’s Prison Service had already said earlier Saturday it was preparing 42 prisoners for release. It was not immediately clear how many non-Israeli captives may also be released. Overall, Hamas is to release at least 50 Israeli hostages, and Israel 150 Palestinian prisoners during the four-day truce, all woman and minors. Israel has said the truce can be extended an extra day for every additional 10 hostages freed — something United States President Joe Biden said he hoped would come to pass. Separately, a Qatari delegation arrived in Israel on Saturday to coordinate with parties on the ground and “ensure the deal continues to move smoothly,” according to a diplomat briefed on the visit. The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to do discuss details with the media. The start of the truce Friday morning brought the first quiet for 2.3 million Palestinians reeling and desperate from relentless Israeli bombardment that has killed thousands, driven three-quarters of the population from their homes and leveled residential areas. Rocket fire from Gaza militants into Israel went silent as well. For Emad Abu Hajer, a resident of the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza City area, the pause meant he could again dig through the rubble of his home, which was flattened in an Israeli attack last week. He found the bodies of a cousin and nephew Friday, bring the death toll in the attack to 19. With his sister and two other relatives still missing, he resumed his digging Saturday. “We want to find them and bury them in dignity,” he said. Israeli soldiers stand on Salah al-Din road in central Gaza Strip on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, as the temporary ceasefire went into effect.AP Photo/Hatem Moussa The United Nations said the pause enabled it to scale up the delivery of food, water, and medicine to the largest volume since the resumption of humanitarian aid convoys on Oct. 21. It was also able to deliver 129,000 liters (34,078 gallons) of fuel — just over 10% of the daily pre-war volume — as well as cooking gas, a first time since the war began. In the southern city of Khan Younis on Saturday, a long line of people with gas cans and other containers waited outside a filling station hoping to get some of the newly delivered fuel. As he waited for fuel, Hossam Fayad lamented that the pause in fighting was only for four days. “I wish it could be extended until people’s conditions improved,” he said. For the first time in over a month, aid reached northern Gaza, the focus of Israel’s ground offensive. The Palestinian Red Crescent said 61 trucks carrying food, water and medical supplies headed to northern Gaza on Saturday, the largest aid convoy to reach the area since the start of the war. The U.N. said it and the Palestinian Red Crescent were also able to evacuate 40 patients and family members from a hospital in Gaza City, where much of the fighting has taken place, to a hospital in Khan Younis. The relief brought by the cease-fire has been tempered, however, for both sides — among Israelis by the fact that not all hostages will be freed and among Palestinians by the brevity of the pause. The short truce leaves Gaza mired in humanitarian crisis and under the threat that fighting could soon resume. Amal Abu Awada, a 40-year-old widow who fled a Gaza City-area camp for Khan Younis with her three children earlier in November, ventured out Friday to a U.N. facility looking for food and water, but said there was none available. “We went back empty handed,” she said. “But at least there are no bombs, and we can try again.” FIRST HOSTAGES FREED After nightfall Friday, a line of ambulances emerged from Gaza through the Rafah Crossing into Egypt carrying the freed hostages. The freed Israelis included nine women and four children 9 and under. The released hostages were taken to three Israeli hospitals for observation. The Schneider Children’s Medical Center said it was treating eight Israelis — four children and four women — and that all appeared to be in good physical condition. The center said they were also receiving psychological treatment, adding that “these are sensitive moments” for the families. At a plaza dubbed “Hostages Square” in Tel Aviv, a crowd of Israelis celebrated at the news. The hostages included multiple generations. Nine-year-old Ohad Munder-Zichri was freed along with his mother, Keren Munder, and grandmother, Ruti Munder. The fourth-grader was abducted during a holiday visit to his grandparents at the kibbutz where about 80 people — nearly a quarter of all residents of the small community — are believed to have been taken from. The plight of the hostages has raised anger among some families that the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing enough to bring them home. Hours later, 24 Palestinian women and 15 teenage boys held in Israeli prisons in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem were freed. In the West Bank town of Beitunia, hundreds of Palestinians poured out of their homes to celebrate, honking horns and setting off fireworks that lit up the night sky. The teenagers had been jailed for minor offenses like throwing stones. The women included several convicted of trying to stab Israeli soldiers, and others who had been arrested at checkpoints in the West Bank. According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, an advocacy group, Israel is currently holding 7,200 Palestinians, including about 2,000 arrested since the start of the war. A LONGER PEACE? The war erupted when several thousand Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking scores of hostages, including babies, women and older adults, as well as soldiers. Majed al-Ansari, a spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of Qatar, said the hope is that momentum from the deal will lead to an end to the violence. Qatar served as a mediator along with the U.S. and Egypt. Israeli leaders have said they would resume fighting eventually and not stop until Hamas, which has controlled Gaza for the past 16 years, is crushed. Israel has set the release of all hostages as the second goal of the war, and officials have argued that only military pressure can bring them home. At the same time, the government is under pressure from the families of the hostages to make the release of the remaining captives the top priority, ahead of any efforts to end Hamas control of Gaza. The Israeli offensive has killed more than 13,300 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza government. Women and minors have consistently made up around two-thirds of the dead, though the latest number was not broken down. The figure does not include updated numbers from hospitals in the north, where communications have broken down.

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Firefighters battle fire at home in Chelsea - Boston News, Weather, Sports

CHELSEA, MASS. (WHDH) - Emergency crews were on scene in Chelsea Wednesday evening battling a fire in a home. The fire was burning in the Blossom Street area. SKY7-HD flying over the scene around 6 p.m. captured part of the emergency response, with flames seen burning through the building’s roof. Crews were spotted on the roof, pouring water on flames while they contended with windy conditions in the area. Part of the building appeared to have been boarded up before this fire. Chelsea police in a post on X shortly before 6 p.m. asked community members to avoid the area of Blossom Street and surrounding streets. “Heavy presence of first responders on scene due to fire,” police said. No further information was immediately available. This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates. (Copyright (c) 2023 Sunbeam Television. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed with names out of lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell

During questioning by Sigrid McCawley, the lawyer for Virginia Giuffre, Jeffrey Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg was asked of she knew if Clinton was a friend of Epstein. "I knew he had dealings with Bill Clinton," she said. "I did not know they were friends until I read the Vanity Fair article about them going to Africa together." "Did Jeffrey ever talk to you about Bill Clinton?" McCawley asked. "He said one time that Clinton like them young, referring to girls," Sjoberg said, citing conversations with Epstein. The former president has not been accused of anything improper related to Epstein.

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Why Patriots factored into Mike Vrabels Titans firing (report)

It appears that Tennessee Titans owner Amy Adams Strunk was not happy with the way her former head coach, Mike Vrabel, conducted himself during his Patriots Hall of Fame induction. On Tuesday, Strunk surprised the NFL when she fired Vrabel, who went 54-45 over six seasons in Tennessee. Twenty-four hours later, it appears that the Patriots factored into the decision. According to the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the Titans owner was upset over what Vrabel said during his speech to the Gillette Stadium crowd this season. Strunk was also reportedly unhappy that her coach wouldn’t dispute rumors that he was going to come to the Patriots. “This was Amy Adams Strunk making the decision based on a lot of things,” Rapoport said. “Including what happened when he went to New England for the Hall of Fame thing, Including not dispelling rumors, in-house, that he was going to be Patriots coach. There was a lot there.” BET ANYTHING GET $250 BONUS ESPN BET CLAIM OFFER MASS 21+ and present in MA, NJ, PA, VA, MD, WV, TN, LA, KS, KY, CO, AZ, IL, IA, IN, OH, MI. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-Gambler. As of Wednesday early afternoon, Bill Belichick was still the head coach and general manager of the Patriots. Belichick met with owner Robert Kraft on Monday and was expected to meet again yesterday. It’s unknown what the timetable is for Kraft when it comes to his decision to keep or move on from Belichick. When Vrabel was let go on Tuesday, many thought that he would become a top candidate for the Patriots in the event Belichick was fired, resigned, or left New England. Vrabel’s speech at Gillette Stadium is worth revisiting. On Oct. 22, Vrabel talked at halftime during the Patriots matchup with the Buffalo Bills. He began that speech by saying, “Come on, we’ve got a game to win.” Vrabel also thanked the fans, noting that Gillette Stadium is “unbelievably special.” Then, the former Patriots edge rusher praised the organization. “I don’t want you to take this organization for granted,” Vrabel said. “I’ve been a lot of places, this is a special place with great leadership, great fans, great direction, and great coaching. Enjoy it, it’s not like this everywhere.” Those comments were eye-raising considering Vrabel was the head coach of the Titans. Apparently, the quote was seen or heard by Titans ownership and now, Vrabel is free to join another team. We’ll see if that leads him back to New England.

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Trump Signals Plans to Go After Intelligence Community in Document Case

Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump said in court papers filed on Tuesday night that they intended to place accusations that the intelligence community was biased against Mr. Trump at the heart of their defense against charges accusing him of illegally holding onto dozens of highly sensitive classified documents after he left office. The lawyers also indicated that they were planning to defend Mr. Trump by seeking to prove that the investigation of the case was “politically motivated and biased.” The court papers, filed in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla., gave the clearest picture yet of the scorched earth legal strategy that Mr. Trump is apparently planning to use in fighting the classified documents indictment handed up over the summer. While the 68-page filing was formally a request by Mr. Trump’s lawyers to the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, to provide them with reams of additional information that they believe can help them fight the charges, it often read more like a list of political talking points than a brief of legal arguments.

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F.A.A. to Investigate Exhaustion Among Air Traffic Controllers

The Federal Aviation Administration is planning to form a panel to look into the potential risks posed by exhaustion among air traffic controllers, many of whom have been working round-the-clock schedules that have pushed them to the physical and emotional brink. The F.A.A. expects to announce more details about the three-member panel on Wednesday, said Jeannie Shiffer, a spokeswoman for the agency. Michael Whitaker, the F.A.A. administrator, said at a news conference at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Tuesday that “as far as fatigue goes, we’re taking this issue very seriously.” “We’re looking at launching a group to examine fatigue among air traffic controllers in the very short term to identify if there are risks,” he said, “and if there are, we will act accordingly to mitigate those risks.”

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Medical Notes: Dec. 25, 2023

Local legislators presented a check from the Commonwealth of Mass to the PHIWM SPRINGFIELD - Local legislators presented a $200,000 check from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts (PHIWM) to support its 413Cares initiative, which connects people with the critical resources they need in an online portal. The event took place at PHIWM offices, 127 State Street in Springfield. The check presentation was attended by State Senator Adam Gomez, State Representatives Michael Finn and Carlos Gonzalez, and an aide representing Senator John Velis, along with representatives from organizations partnering with the Public Health Institute on the 413Cares initiative. The funding was secured for 413Cares in the FY2024 state budget as the result of a legislative earmark, sponsored by Representative Finn and Senator Gomez. Funding was secured through the Department of Public Health. Launched in 2019 by PHIWM with the support of Baystate Health, 413Cares.org is an online community resource database for Western Massachusetts. The platform has reached more than 100,000 searches and over 111,000 interactions with programs in the region. Top searches were for housing, food resources and health-related resources. PHIWM has received funding from the Commonwealth in the past two legislative budgeting cycles to support 413Cares, which is managed by PHIWM. Resources from the State have been used to collect data during and after the pandemic and have also been utilized to improve and update the 413Cares.org website, and raise awareness of the resource in the region. This year, the state resources are funding three new regional partners to provide outreach, promotion and support of the platform: Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, Quaboag Hills Community Coalition, and the Hilltown Community Health Center. This is in addition to existing regional partner Community Action Pioneer Valley, funded by Baystate Health. Youth Grief Support Program WILBRAHAM – Rick’s Place provides free, peer grief support groups for youth (ages 5-18) and their caregivers. Rick’s Place offers young people and their families a place to remember their loved ones and to avoid the sense of isolation that such losses can produce Rick’s Place was established in 2007, in memory of Rick Thorpe, who died in Tower Two of the World Trade Center on 9/11. This is for young people and their families from all over Western Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut and offered at no charge. To participate in these free grief support programs provided by Rick’s Place, email info@ricksplacema.org or call 413-279-2010. NAMI online/phone support group HOLYOKE - The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI-WM) of Western Massachusetts would like to inform the public that the NAMI Connection Recovery Support Groups have resumed in a virtual format. Mondays, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Access online with zoom: https://us02web.zom.us/j/88206475051; access by phone, 646-558-8656, meeting ID: 88206475051. Wednesdays, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Access online with zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82690755017; access by phone, 646-558-8656, meeting ID 82690755017. For more information, contact the office or go to namiwm.org/support. For members of the LGBTQIA+ community, Wednesdays, 7:15 to 8:45 p.m. For more information email: triciafitz7@gmail.com. Shiloh SDA Church and The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI-WM) of Western Massachusetts announces a new Family and Friends Support group for black and brown communities. The Black & Brown Family & Friends Support Group meets on the first Thursday of every month. A Zoom link will be provided for participants. For more information, contact the NAMI-WM office at 413-786-9139 or email information@namiwm.org. A diagnosis is not required to attend any group. Anyone with mental health condition is welcome to attend any group without prior registration. NAMI – Western Massachusetts Family Support Group GREENFIELD – The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Western Massachusetts announces that their Family Support Group in Greenfield is resuming in person. The group meets monthly on the last Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Clinical Support Options (CSO), 296 Federal Street, across from Sandri’s Gas Station. In NAMI Family Support Groups, families join a caring group of individuals helping one another by utilizing their collective lived experiences and learned wisdom. Family members can achieve a renewed sense of hope for their loved one living with mental health challenges. NAMI’s support groups are unique because they follow a structured model, ensuring everyone can be heard and get what they need: free, confidential, and safe; designed for adult loved ones of people with mental health conditions; led by family members of people with mental health conditions; no specific medical therapy or treatment is endorsed. For more information, contact the NAMI-WM office at 413-786-9139 or information@namiwm.org. MJD Support Group LUDLOW – The Michael J. Dias Foundation provides education, area resources, peer support, and hope for family members and friends coping with a loved one with a substance use disorder. A support group gathers on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month from 6 to 7:15 p.m. at Our Lady of Fatima Parish Center, 438 Winsor St. anyone needing support is welcome to attend. Masks are required and guests will be seated six feet apart. If you have any questions, contact Maureen at 413-563-6226. Grief support group CHICOPEE – Saint Rose de Lima Grief Support Group meets every Monday except major holidays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. This free weekly grief support group is for people who have experienced the loss of a spouse, partner, family member or friend. All are welcome. The group meets at Saint Rose de Lima Pastoral Center, 15 Chapel St. Online Stroke Support Group SPRINGFIELD - The Springfield College Occupational Therapy (OT) Department offers a free weekly support group for people living with stroke and their caregivers. The group meets in a virtual format on Zoom every Thursday from 3 to 4:00 p.m. Facilitated by Kathy Post, Professor Emeritus, with the assistance of 1 or 2 OT graduate students, the group provides opportunities to meet other stroke survivors from western Massachusetts, and to share challenges, successes, questions, and resources. For further information and the link to the meetings, email Kathy at kpost@springfieldcollege.edu Narcotics Anonymous AGAWAM - To find a local Narcotics Anonymous support group, visit NERNA.ORG or WesternMassNA.org or call 866-NA-HELP-U. Survivors of Suicide Loss EAST LONGMEADOW - Survivors of Suicide Loss, a support group for adults who have lost a loved one to suicide, meets on the 3rd Monday of each month (except major holidays or severe weather) at the Forastiere Smith Funeral Home, 220 North Main St. from 6:30 to 8 p.m. This is a peer-facilitated group. The meetings are open, meaning new members are always welcome. The meeting room is set up to allow for recommended social distancing and attendees are required to bring and wear their own mask while in the meeting room. If circumstances allow, some meetings may be held outdoors. Free accessible broadcast readings SPRINGFIELD - Free 24/7 accessible local news and information is available from Valley Eye Radio for those in the Pioneer Valley no longer able to read independently due to visual and other medical and physical challenges. Contact them at www.valleyeyeradio.org or (413) 747-7337 for details on how to listen from one of their special radios or through their website, smart speakers, cable access channel, or mobile phone.

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Protest group blocks streets in Boston near historic landmarks

SPRINGFIELD — Angered by an article published in an alternative African American paper, Black leaders joined together to call for an apology from the writer, describing his commentary as divisive and “an attack on the entire Black community.” “The ‘Worst’ Article I Ever Wrote” written by Frederick Hurst, the owner of the African American community paper Point of View, slammed at least 11 Black leaders — ranging from city councilors Melvin Edwards and Lavar Click-Bruce to state Rep. Bud L. Williams and Vietnam veteran and organizer Bernard McClusky — for their failure to support his son Justin Hurst when he ran for mayor this year. Most of those who were taken to task attended and spoke at a press conference on Thursday in City Hall. They did not mince words calling the piece “tasteless,” “disturbing,” “infantile” and “vitriolic.” Justin Hurst, who is a 10-year city councilor, finished second among five candidates in the preliminary race for mayor, but Mayor Domenic J. Sarno beat him in the general election in a vote of 12,077 to 8,945. In the article, Frederick Hurst called those who declined to endorse or otherwise support his son sycophants to white leaders, “Uncle Toms” and Black Judases. The article describes a “deep division between the Black masses” and calls out leaders who were “conspicuously absent” when Justin Hurst was campaigning against Sarno, who is white and the city’s longest-serving mayor. “We are calling for the publisher of this paper in his next month’s issue, or even prior to that, to issue a public apology, a retraction of this article,” said Archbishop Timothy Paul Baymon. “If he does not, we are prepared to boycott.” Specifically, Baymon said the group is ready to ask businesses to stop advertising in Point of View and churches to stop distributing the monthly paper. The Pastors’ Council of Greater Springfield is also trying to schedule a meeting with Frederick Hurst. When asked if he would apologize for the four-page commentary, Frederick Hurst said: “Just read my article. It is pretty clear.” He argued if he had to defend each article he wrote, he would do nothing else. “I’ve said everything I wanted to say in the article,” he said. “I’ve written hundreds of articles and I will write more.” While the more than two dozen people who attended Thursday’s event took umbrage with Frederick Hurst’s article, most did not speak ill of Justin Hurst, even though some said they did not support his candidacy for mayor. “I think Justin ran a good race, I really did. I thought he was qualified but he didn’t win it. When you don’t win you start attacking and I don’t think that’s right,” said Robert C. Jackson, a member of the Springfield Board of Police Commissioners, who is best known as Cee. In the article, Frederick Hurst included a list of people — Jackson, state Rep. Bud L. Williams, Jay Griffin and George Bruce, the father of City Councilor Lavar Click-Bruce — saying they “have long ago been compromised by money and the mere illusion of personal and political power and their obsessive love of white people.” He also complained that the city is a majority-minority city that continues to be dominated by a conglomerate of Irish and Italians who he suggests is a mafia. Justin Hurst said he feels his father’s article speaks for itself. “I encourage those interested in its contents to get a copy of the Point of View newspaper and read it for themselves. And once they finish, they should read it again to make sure they have a thorough understanding of it.” The Rev. Talbert Swan, long-term president of the Springfield regional chapter of the NAACP who is bishop of the Vermont Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ, which covers five eastern states, was harshly criticized in the article, with Frederick Hurst writing Swan was certainly not for the NAACP. “This article, this attack, this slander by Rick Hurst is an extension of the Hurst campaign,” Swan said, referring to the elder Hurst by his nickname. “It is an act of a senior man who is behaving like a petulant child because his son lost an election.” Since being named the head of the NAACP some years ago, Swan said it has been his practice to not endorse candidates because the organization is nonpartisan. “I don’t know what makes Rick or anyone else think that we are obligated to support a candidate simply because they are Black,” Swan said. He pointed out that there are plenty of people he would never support even though they are Black, such as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, who represents South Carolina as a Republican. Swan called Hurst a “fine young man” who was worthy of support, but said his failure was in allowing campaign workers speaking on his behalf to “run amuck.” “This campaign tried relentlessly to bully me into an endorsement, but I think those of you who know me know I can’t be bullied,” he said. “As retribution for me not bowing down to the pressure I’ve been attacked relentlessly for 14 months.” Swan said the article went beyond criticizing him and City Councilor Malo Brown, who is a frequent target of the paper. It attacked the entire Black community as well as the Italian, Irish and Hispanic communities, he said. Swan said he was especially horrified with the portions of the article that likened Black people to slaves that “will never stop serving their master” and cannot think for themselves. Several also said the commentary that called Melvin Edwards, a 14-year councilor who is currently the board’s vice chairman, perennially white-loving was especially egregious since his wife of 28 years is white. “It saddens me so much because people work so hard to find excuses to treat each other bad,” Edwards said. Edwards said his family is a multitude of races. His first wife was Black and his second wife is Canadian and brought three children to their family, who he raised since their father died. Edwards said his six children and 15 grandchildren are a multitude of races, including some who are half-Hispanic, and he loves them all equally. “The constitution allows people to speak freely in this country, but it does not give you the right to speak without consequence,” Edwards said. He said it also allows everyone to vote for the candidate of their choice regardless of race. “Whether or not we would have all publicly endorsed Justin Hurst for mayor, he still would have lost,” Edwards said.

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Firefighters Rescue Animals From Burning Home In Fire That Displaced 6 In Boston

Fire crews arrived at 343 Market St. on Sunday evening, Dec. 3, around 10 p.m. to stop the blaze in the attic of the building, the Boston Fire Department said. Photos shared on X, formerly Twitter, show firefighters taking a black cat as well as what appears to be a fish tank to safety. The fire caused more than $250,000 in damages to the home, and around six residents were displaced, according to the department. No one was injured. Another fire happened overnight just a few miles in Allston on Saturday, Dec. 3. Fire crews arrived to put out a heavy fire in a first-floor apartment at 38 Fordham Rd. The fire in Allston was extinguished shortly before 9 p.m. before crews began a secondary search, the fire department said in a social media post. Three adults were displaced, but there were no injuries in the Allston fire. Click here to follow Daily Voice Suffolk and receive free news updates.

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Boston launches coordinated plan to curb gun violence

ISAAC YABLO, Mayor Michelle Wu’s senior advisor for community safety, says a shortcoming of efforts to rein in those responsible for gun violence in Boston has been that “we gave them the wrong diagnosis and therefore [applied] the wrong solution.” He says the nature of gun violence in the city has changed significantly since the bloody days of the 1980s and early 1990s, when city streets were wracked by gang violence that sent Boston’s homicide count soaring. Homicide numbers are down dramatically since that time – the city recorded 40 homicides in both 2022 and 2021 compared with 152 in 1990. But that’s not the only change. Unlike the era of gang-driven violence when lots of perpetrators and victims were in their late teens and early 20s, Yablo said perpetrators and victims of gun violence today are older – and harder to reach through traditional services like job training or connecting them with programs to complete high school. The average age of those shot in Boston so far this year has been 29, said Yablo, and it has averaged at least 25 for nearly a decade. Although there are troubling trends of young people carrying guns, Yablo said they largely are not the ones responsible for actually using them. “The gun violence problem in Boston is not a youth issue,” he said. “It’s older people who have been disconnected from prosocial programming for a while.” He said a lot of them are suffering from mental health issues that they won’t simply “grow out of” without appropriate treatment. Yablo is the point-person for a new city initiative that aims to reduce gun violence through a coordinated effort of police, health workers, and a reconstituted street outreach worker program. The Gun Violence Reduction Management Team plans to hold weekly meetings where its members can share information on trouble that has recently occurred – or that may be brewing, based on what those with their ears to the ground are hearing. At the heart of the effort is a recognition that a tiny number of people are responsible for most of the gun violence in the city, and that it generally occurs in very specific “hot spot” locations. Yablo, with his focus on getting people to turn away from gun violence, prefers to refer to those areas as “opportunity zones.” Zeroing in on gun violence hot spots is not new. But Yablo said a strong bent toward services is something different. “I would say this is the first time in the city’s history where we have had a focus not on locking them up but connecting them with high-quality services so they can desist from gun violence,” he said. The city gained national notoriety for its success in driving down gun violence in the mid-1990s, a carrot-and-stick strategy that combined offering services with the full weight of law enforcement coming down on those persisting with gun activity. But Yablo said the strategy led to many of those involved in violence getting locked up for petty crimes, the effects of which are still being felt today by their children and others who are impacted by incarceration of a family member. Meet the Author Michael Jonas Executive Editor , CommonWealth About Michael Jonas Michael Jonas has worked in journalism in Massachusetts since the early 1980s. Before joining the CommonWealth staff in early 2001, he was a contributing writer for the magazine for two years. His cover story in CommonWealth's Fall 1999 issue on Boston youth outreach workers was selected for a PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Michael got his start in journalism at the Dorchester Community News, a community newspaper serving Boston's largest neighborhood, where he covered a range of urban issues. Since the late 1980s, he has been a regular contributor to the Boston Globe. For 15 years he wrote a weekly column on local politics for the Boston Sunday Globe's City Weekly section. Michael has also worked in broadcast journalism. In 1989, he was a co-producer for "The AIDS Quarterly," a national PBS series produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, and in the early 1990s, he worked as a producer for "Our Times," a weekly magazine program on WHDH-TV (Ch. 7) in Boston. Michael lives in Dorchester with his wife and their two daughters. About Michael Jonas Michael Jonas has worked in journalism in Massachusetts since the early 1980s. Before joining the CommonWealth staff in early 2001, he was a contributing writer for the magazine for two years. His cover story in CommonWealth's Fall 1999 issue on Boston youth outreach workers was selected for a PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Michael got his start in journalism at the Dorchester Community News, a community newspaper serving Boston's largest neighborhood, where he covered a range of urban issues. Since the late 1980s, he has been a regular contributor to the Boston Globe. For 15 years he wrote a weekly column on local politics for the Boston Sunday Globe's City Weekly section. Michael has also worked in broadcast journalism. In 1989, he was a co-producer for "The AIDS Quarterly," a national PBS series produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, and in the early 1990s, he worked as a producer for "Our Times," a weekly magazine program on WHDH-TV (Ch. 7) in Boston. Michael lives in Dorchester with his wife and their two daughters. The new gun violence reduction initiative was hatched following a several-day workshop in Boston this spring led by the Center for the Study and Practice of Violence Reduction at the University of Maryland. The center works with cities across the country to deploy evidence-based approaches to gun violence tailored to their unique set of circumstances. Thomas Abt, the center’s director and one of the country’s leading experts on crime and violence prevention, said what’s notable is that Boston is working to develop new approaches to gun violence even as it remains one of the safer big cities in the country. Baltimore, with a population only slightly smaller than Boston, saw 333 homicides last year, nearly 10 times the Boston toll. “One of the things I admire about Boston is that folks are impatient, they’re not resting on their laurels,” said Abt. He said the hard work of the new initiative now lies ahead. “But I think the plan is on track,” Abt said of Boston’s blueprint.

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U.S.-Led Strikes Spark Outrage in Middle East

Many in the Middle East, including some U.S. allies, condemned the American-led airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen on Friday and warned that they risked causing a broader conflict in the region. The strikes came after a series of Houthi attacks against ships in the Red Sea. The Houthis have said they are targeting Israeli ships and vessels headed to Israel in an effort to support Palestinians in Gaza, who have been under relentless Israeli bombardment for nearly 100 days, although some Houthi targets have had no clear connection to Israel. Israel’s military offensive in Gaza since Oct. 7 has killed more than 23,000 Palestinians, according to the Gazan Health Ministry. The Israeli war came in response to the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, the armed group that controls Gaza, that left some 1,200 people dead, according to Israeli officials. A Houthi spokesman, Mohammed Abdul Salam, said on social media that the group would remain by Gaza’s side. He said there was no justification for the strikes on Yemen because its actions do not threaten international shipping, and vowed that the group would continue to target Israeli ships and those heading to Israel. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Mr. Abdul Salam signaled that Houthi forces would retaliate for the U.S. strikes, saying, “Now, the response no doubt is going to be wider.” Hamas and Hezbollah, which like the Houthis are backed by Iran, also condemned the strikes. Hamas called them an “act of terrorism,” a violation of Yemens sovereignty and “a threat to the security of the region.” Nasser Kanani, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, denounced the strikes as “a violation of international laws” and said they “will have no result other than fueling insecurity and instability in the region.” Even close U.S. ally Oman, which often mediates between the Houthis and international parties, expressed concern, a reflection of the fear that the American-led action would not deter the Houthis but would only inflame regional conflict. “It is impossible not to denounce that an allied country resorted to this military action, while meanwhile, Israel is continuing to exceed all bounds in its bombardment, brutal war and siege on Gaza without any consequence,” Oman’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. In Bahrain, another U.S. ally, people took to the streets on Friday to protest their country’s involvement in the military coalition, according to Bahraini activists who shared pictures of the demonstrations. Amid popular anger over its participation in the coalition, the Bahraini government has not independently acknowledged its role, but was named in the joint statement announcing the strikes. Vivian Nereim and Leily Nikounazar contributed reporting.

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Opinion | What No One at COP28 Wanted to Say Out Loud: Prepare for 1.5 Degrees

That came with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees Celsius,” published in 2018, which gave rise to the climate strikers and the protest group Extinction Rebellion and breathed oxygen into the Sunrise Movement and the Green New Deal. Even those concerned on the sidelines had a clearer sense of just how short the timeline really was: that to avoid really dangerous warming required cutting global emissions almost in half by 2030. We are now halfway through that period, and emissions are higher than they were when the report was published. The report also collated an entire scientific literature about the two warming levels, which has only grown since. Between 1.5 degrees and 2 degrees, it is estimated, more than 150 million people would die prematurely from the air pollution produced by the burning of fossil fuel responsible for that level of warming. Around the world, flooding events that used to arrive once a century, typically marking local cultures or even whole civilizations for generations, would instead strike annually — and in some places more often than that. Going from 1.5 degrees to 2 degrees, most scientists believe, would be a death sentence for the world’s coral reefs. And many believe that, in that range, the planet will lock in the permanent loss of many of its ice sheets, which could bring, over centuries, enough sea level rise to redraw the world’s coastlines. If warming grows beyond those levels, so will its impacts. At 3 degrees, for instance, New York City could be hit by three 100-year flooding events each year and more than 50 times as many people in African cities would experience conditions of dangerous heat, as Bloomberg recently summarized. Wildfires would burn twice as much land globally, and the Amazon would cease to be a rainforest but a grassland. Potentially lethal heat stress, almost unheard of at 1.5 degrees, would become routine for billions at 2 degrees, according to one recent study, and above 3 degrees would impact places like the American Midwest. In some ways, these projections may sound like old news, but as we find ourselves now adjusting to the possibility of a future shaped by temperature rise of that kind, it may be clarifying to recall that, almost certainly, when you first heard those projections, you were horrified. The era of climate reckoning has also been, to some degree, a period of normalization, and while there are surely reasons to move past apocalyptic politics toward something more pragmatic, one cost is a loss of perspective at negotiated, technocratic events like these. Perhaps it was always somewhat fanciful to believe that it was possible to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. But as the writer and activist Bill McKibben has recently suggested, simply stating the goal did a lot to shape action in the years that followed — including by demanding that we all look squarely at what the science told us about what it would mean to fail. Five years on, for all the progress that has been made, those stakes are still the stakes.

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NBC Sports Boston's Week 16 picks: Lopsided action on Patriots-Broncos

After another perfect week, John Tomase has created some space atop the leaderboard. He simply cannot be stopped and now has a three-game lead on Amina Smith and is up 3.5 games on Ted Johnson. Here's a look at the current standings for our 2023 NFL picks contest: Stay in the game with the latest updates on your beloved Boston sports teams! Sign up here for our All Access Daily newsletter. Let's get to this week's picks: Week 16 Trends Fading the Patriots That's what everyone is doing. Which also means they won't be gaining ground on our leader because -- as we know -- Tomase always picks against the Pats. We've got FIVE Broncos backers this week at -7. And no one is betting on the Patriots to keep Sunday night's game within a touchdown. Other lopsided action Jake Browning has made believers out of a good chunk of this group over the past few weeks. He once again has three backers with the Bengals -2 at Pittsburgh. The Steelers are getting no love, even with Mason Rudolph replacing Mitch Trubisky at QB. The Lions have also fallen back into favor after their dominant win last Saturday. Detroit gets two backers at -3 in Minnesota. Jared Goff is back on the road, but still in a dome. Game of the week The best matchup is probably Ravens vs. 49ers on Monday night. However, Miami vs. Dallas is the most popular game to bet in our group. We've got three backers on the Cowboys at +1 and just two on the Dolphins. Ironically, both teams have stunk against teams with winning records, so there's a chance this game ends in a tie or a push.

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How to watch Oxygens Dateline: Secrets Uncovered for free (Jan. 17)

The Oxygen series “Dateline: Secrets Uncovered” airs this Wednesday, Jan. 17 at 8 p.m. ET. Those without cable can watch the new episode in real-time for free through either FuboTV or DirecTV Stream, each of which offer a free trial to new users. In the new episode, “When Courtney Copeland is shot and killed, his mother investigates whether police detectives did enough to try to solve the case.” How can I watch Oxygen’s “Dateline: Secrets Uncovered” for free without cable? You can watch the new episode on FuboTV or on DirecTV Stream, each of which offer a free trial for new users. What is DirecTV Stream? The streaming platform offers a plethora of content including streaming the best of live and On Demand, starting with more than 75 live TV channels. What is FuboTV? FuboTV is an over-the-top internet live TV streaming service that offers more than 100 channels, such as sports, news, entertainment and local channels.

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A School Sheltered Migrants in a Storm. The Hate Calls Poured In.

An angry backlash erupted at a Brooklyn high school on Wednesday, after New York City officials housed about 500 migrant families in an auditorium there overnight because of heavy rains and fierce winds at their shelter site. About 2,000 people were evacuated on Tuesday evening from their tent shelter at a remote former airplane runway in Brooklyn to James Madison High School. Families with children piled onto the floor and into auditorium seats to sleep. By 2 a.m., several families said they were asked to prepare to return to the tents. The evacuation led officials to call a remote day of classes for the more than 3,400 students enrolled at the high school, sparking immediate backlash from politicians and parents that echoed on a national stage. Local elected leaders, right-leaning media personalities and even Elon Musk, the tech billionaire, weighed in to criticize the government response. The outrage was the latest political eruption over the tens of thousands of migrants crossing the southern border in recent months. Republicans have attacked Democrats over how they are managing a crisis that has overwhelmed government agencies.

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What Winning a Golden Globe Looks Like

What Winning a Golden Globe Looks Like Lily Gladstone, Paul Giamatti, Billie Eilish and stars from “Succession,” “Beef” and “The Bear” are captured in their moments of glory. The Los Angeles-based photographer Erik Carter was backstage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, where he photographed Golden Globes winners for The Times. Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture Da’Vine Joy Randolph, ‘The Holdovers’

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Mohawk Trails Addie Loomis, Weston Den Ouden pick up wins in PVIAC Alpine Race No. 2

Mohawk Trail earned first place finishes in the boys and girls PVIAC alpine races on Thursday. Weston Den Ouden took first place in the boys race with a time of 30.38, while Addie Loomis placed first in the girls race with a time of 44.52.

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A Missile, a Rocket or a Satellite? Chinese Flyover Sows Confusion in Taiwan.

Taiwan’s defense ministry issued an urgent alert Tuesday about a Chinese satellite launched on a rocket flying over the island, an alarming message that interrupted the final days of campaigning before a major election and spurred accusations of a political ploy. The alert was sent to mobile phones across the island of 23 million people, where presidential and legislative assembly elections will be held Saturday. In English, the initial alert cautioned there was a missile flyover — an error quickly corrected by Taiwanese officials. “It was a satellite, not a missile,” President Tsai Ing-wen said during a campaign stop in the southern city of Kaohsiung. “Don’t worry.” Taiwan’s defense ministry issued a statement about an hour later, apologizing for the mistake. But by then, the warning had created an awkward scene for the governing Democratic Progressive Party or D.P.P.

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Bus stop shelter removal prompts push to study homelessness in Holyoke

HOLYOKE — After Pioneer Valley Transit Authority and the city of Holyoke removed a bus stop shelter, City Councilor Israel Rivera said he wants the city to further study the reasons behind the removal. Rivera, who chairs the city’s public safety committee, said a bus shelter on the corner of Cabot and High streets was removed over the summer to mitigate “vagrancy on High Street.” The onus is on the public safety committee and the community to ensure that the bus stops are safe, Rivera said, and he wants to create a focus group to investigate what other mechanisms are in place to address homelessness on High Street and how many other bus stop shelters in the city will be removed. Rivera said the bus shelter removal was prompted by several situations where people slept with blankets on the shelter’s bench while a family with children waited for the bus in the elements. It was a situation that Rivera said he had witnessed. “There was one incident within the last two years where a fight broke out at another bus stop,” Rivera said. During a public safety meeting on Nov. 29, Rivera brought the matter forward in an order on the agenda to discuss with Holyoke Mayor Joshua A. Garcia and Holyoke Police Chief David Pratt. Rivera’s order was brought forth as a package and was overshadowed by Garcia’s presentation on his public safety plan known as Ezekiel’s Plan. Also known as Operation Safe Streets, Garcia announced the plan after an Oct. 4 shooting claimed the life of a newborn baby boy on Sargent and Maple streets. Ezekiel’s Plan would have included funding for a new community response division, five additional foot and bike patrol officers and increased funding for the city’s legal and health departments. Holyoke City Council, however, rejected the plan at its Dec. 5 meeting. Meanwhile, Rivera believes the safety concerns that led to the bus stop shelter’s removal are valid, especially because the bus stop sits near a school. He said he also worries about the unintended impact it has had on those who use the shelter for its intended purpose, he said. “It punishes the people who use it for its intended purpose, which is for winter protection from the elements,” Rivera told The Republican. Since the bus stop shelter’s removal, Rivera said he had seen unhoused people hanging out near that bus stop. “It doesn’t solve the problem; it just pushes it down the street,” he said. While there is a variety of different shelters in the area, Rivera doesn’t believe those are the people sleeping at the bus stops, he said. Rivera also said that many of the unhoused sleeping on the streets of Holyoke are not from the city but come to the area to access services or to seek out illegal drugs. “It’s not just a Holyoke issue, it’s a Western Massachusetts issue,” he said. “Holyoke like Springfield, are communities that take on the responsibility to be service providers, so a lot of unhoused people come to Holyoke and Springfield for services.” Rivera said he doesn’t think Holyoke needs more shelters or beds, but rather surrounding communities like South Hadley and Chicopee could help house some of the unsheltered. In the last 18 months, Pioneer Valley Transit Authority has added 15 shelters and removed three across the system for reasons that range from loss of ridership, vehicular damage or environmental conditions, said Brandy Pelletier, a spokesperson at PVTA. The shelter at High and Cabot streets was originally installed as part of ongoing efforts by the transit authority to improve amenities across its system, especially in economic justice neighborhoods, Pelletier wrote in an email. “Unfortunately, this shelter became problematic due to issues with vagrancy. Working in cooperation with Mayor Garcia’s office we attempted to address the issues, with increased police enforcement and outreach activity. Ultimately, after feedback from neighborhood residents, staff, and the community in general, the decision was made to remove the shelter at this time,” Pelletier wrote. “Our goal is always to improve and enhance amenities wherever conditions dictate,” Pelletier wrote. “We will continue to work with the community to assess and reevaluate conditions in this neighborhood.”

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Trump, Attacked for Echoing Hitler, Says He Never Read Mein Kampf

Former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his widely condemned comment that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” rebuffing criticism that the language echoed Adolf Hitler by insisting that he had never read the Nazi dictator’s autobiographical manifesto. Mr. Trump did not repeat the exact phrase, which has drawn criticism since he first uttered it in an interview with a right-leaning website and then repeated it at a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday. But he said on Tuesday night in a speech in Iowa that undocumented immigrants from Africa, Asia and South America were “destroying the blood of our country,” before alluding to his previous comments. “That’s what they’re doing. They’re destroying our country,” Mr. Trump continued. “They don’t like it when I said that. And I never read ‘Mein Kampf.’ They said, ‘Oh, Hitler said that.’”

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How Patriots are handling final say with Bill Belichick gone

FOXBOROUGH — After Jerod Mayo was introduced as the 15th Patriots head coach in the G-P Atrium at Gillette Stadium, both he and owner Robert Kraft read excited opening statements on Wednesday afternoon. Kraft is optimistic about the path ahead and Mayo is eager to get to work. When the time came for questions, the first one was among the most pressing: Who will have final say on Patriots personnel? For the past two decades, that power had belonged singularly to Bill Belichick, who earned total control over New England’s roster after winning his third Super Bowl in 2004. So with Belichick out the door, who will get to make the ultimate decision when the Patriots are on the clock at No. 3 overall in next spring’s NFL Draft? BET ANYTHING GET $250 BONUS ESPN BET CLAIM OFFER MASS 21+ and present in MA, NJ, PA, VA, MD, WV, TN, LA, KS, KY, CO, AZ, IL, IA, IN, OH, MI. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-Gambler. Kraft began by saying this was a day to celebrate Mayo, but then offered a winding and open-ended response. “What we know: We have a lot of people internally who have had a chance to train and learn under the greatest coach of all time and a man who’s football intellect is very special,” Kraft said. “So in the short term, we’re looking for collaboration as our team has a tremendous opportunity to position itself right. Given our salary cap space and in my 30 years of ownership we’ve never been drafting as (early) as we’re drafting. So we’re counting on our internal people whom we’re still learning and evaluating. So we’re going to let that evolve and develop, and before the key decisions have to be made, we will appoint someone. “At the same time, we’ll probably start doing interviews and looking at people from the outside. But my bias has always been, in all our family companies, to try to develop a culture from within where we understand each other. I’ll just give you a little factoid: In the 30 years that we’ve owned the team, this is the third coach that our family has hired. In that period, there have been 244 coaches hired in the NFL. Which means an average of roughly eight coaches per team, which means there’s a turnover every three and a half years in the teams. We like to get continuity in our company. Get the most competent people and then try to build stability. So before we just rush and hire people, we want to understand what we have internally.” Internally, those high-level candidates would be Matt Groh (director of player personnel), Eliot Wolf (director of scouting), Steve Cargile (pro scouting director), Camren Williams (college scouting director) and Patrick Stewart (senior personnel advisor), but it remains to be seen if any of them will leave to join Belichick at his next landing spot. The 71-year-old coach has already interviewed in Atlanta, and will likely be a serious candidate if the Cowboys or Eagles jobs open after embarrassing wild card losses.

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Newton teachers go on strike beginning Friday

Students will be out of class Friday after the Newton Teachers Association voted overwhelmingly for a strike as educators seek a new contract. Teachers in Newton, Massachusetts, have voted to go on strike. The Newton Teachers Association has been locked in a contract battle with the school committee that's been dragged out since October 2022. The district says it's offering competitive compensation for teachers while the union argues the proposed pay raises aren't even keeping up with inflation. Thursday afternoon, the union's president, Mike Zilles, announced that educators had voted overwhelmingly to strike Friday. The Newton Teachers Association has voted overwhelmingly to go on strike. Get Boston local news, weather forecasts, lifestyle and entertainment stories to your inbox. Sign up for NBC Boston’s newsletters. "What I want to announce right now is that 98% of our membership tonight voted yes to begin a strike tomorrow morning," Zilles said. In total, 1,641 teachers voted for the strike. Schools will be closed Friday, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller announced. "The underfunding of schools has created conditions that make it impossible for our teachers to do their jobs," Parents Educator Collaborative founder Alison Lobron said earlier. Last-minute contract negotiations were underway Thursday ahead of a vote on whether teachers for Newton Public Schools should strike, one that the administration has moved to prevent. Follow NBC10 Boston on... Instagram: instagram.com/nbc10boston TikTok: tiktok.com/@nbc10boston Facebook: facebook.com/NBC10Boston X: twitter.com/NBC10Boston "It breaks my heart for our teachers and our families that a strike is being contemplated. The adults belong at the negotiating table, children belong in our classrooms," Fuller said earlier. An update from the teachers' union was expected at a news conference and rally scheduled for 5 p.m. at Newton City Hall. In the meantime, the district went to court Thursday morning to try to stop the strike. Fuller said that if the district needs more funding, Newton will have to pass a Proposition 2½ override, a kind of tax increase. "If we want to increase the funding for the Newton Public Schools, we'll have to convince our voters to do so," she said. But the union and a member of the City Council's finance committee, Bill Humphrey, allege Fuller is choosing to withhold existing taxpayer money from the schools. Get updates on what's happening in Boston to your inbox. Sign up for our News Headlines newsletter. "For a wealthy community like Newton, it is not the responsibility of the educators to take an effective pay cut against inflation in order to subsidize the level of services that this community wants to provide," Humphrey said. If the teachers vote to go on strike Thursday afternoon, as expected, Fuller has said there will be no school in Newton Friday. Parents have been among the people rallying in support of teachers this week.

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The Grim Heartbeat Propelling Killers of the Flower Moon

Early in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” an Osage woman named Mollie gives her gravely unsuitable white suitor, Ernest, a Stetson. It’s a large off-white hat with a bound-edge brim and a wide ribbon around the band. It’s a gift but it feels more like a benediction, and anyone who’s ever watched an old western film (or “Star Wars”) will recognize the symbolism of her largess. Mollie is telling Ernest that she sees him as a good guy, even if the movie has already violently upended the familiar dualism of the white hat vs. black. That dichotomy shapes “Killers of the Flower Moon,” a deeply American story of greed, betrayal and murder told through the anguished relationship between Mollie (Lily Gladstone) and Ernest (Leonardo DiCaprio). It’s around 1919 and Ernest is wearing his World War I uniform when he dismounts a train in Fairfax, an Oklahoma boomtown where luxury cars rumble down dirt roads. He’s come to live with his uncle, William Hale (Robert De Niro), a smooth-talking rancher who, in one breath, asks him if he has seen bloodshed and, in the next, describes the Osage as the finest and “and most beautiful people on God’s earth.” The movie is based on David Grann’s appallingly all-too-true crime book from 2017, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I.” In adapting it to the screen, Scorsese and Eric Roth have dramatically narrowed the role of the F.B.I. to focus on the multiple murders — scores, perhaps hundreds — of Osage members that took place largely in the 1920s on the tribe’s oil-rich reservation in northern Oklahoma. As the 19th century gave way to the 20th, oil made the tribe among the wealthiest people in the world. It also made them the target of numerous white predators. As a 1920 article in Harper’s ominously put it: “The Osage Indians are becoming so rich that something will have to be done about it.” The following year, Congress passed a law that required the Osage to prove they could handle their reserves “responsibly.” If they couldn’t, they were declared incompetent and appointed a guardian; it was a status, as Grann explains, that was usually given to full-blooded Osage like Mollie. It’s instructive then that the first time you see Mollie in “Killers,” she is in an office being asked to state her name by an unseen man. “I’m Mollie Kyle, incompetent,” she says, her face a serene blank. The man is her guardian, yet another smooth talker, though one with a picture of a Ku Klux Klan rider on his wall. When Mollie leaves his office, Scorsese cuts to a shot of her feet on a doormat imprinted with “KIGY,” an abbreviation for “Klansman, I greet you.”

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Five takeaways from the Bruins win over New Jersey

BOSTON — After falling behind 2-0 to the New Jersey Devils a little over a minute into the second period, the Bruins snapped out of their funk and poured in five unanswered goals for a 5-2 victory and second straight win. David Pastrnak provided two goals, which isn’t anything new. Defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk netted two, also, which was more than a little unexpected. Jake DeBrusk followed his two-point night in Buffalo Wednesday with two more points, including his first goal in exactly a month. In net Linus Ullmark stopped 31 of 33 shots against him. BET ANYTHING GET $250 BONUS ESPN BET CLAIM OFFER MASS 21+ and present in MA, NJ, PA, VA, MD, WV, TN, LA, KS, KY, CO, AZ, IL, IA, IN, OH, MI. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-Gambler. Here are five takeaways from the win: 1) Shattenkirk the unlikely scoring star. Kevin Shattenkirk came into the game with two goals this season. Then, in the span of about 20 minutes, he doubled that total. With the Bruins ahead by a goal, 3-2, Shattenkirk took a cross-ice feed from defense partner Matt Grzelcyk and ripped home a wrister from the right faceoff circle. Then, with the Bruins leading by two late in the third, Shattenkirk struck again — this time on the power play, with assists from Brad Marchand and Pastrnak. “He’s gained a lot of confidence in how we want to play,’' said coach Jim Montgomery of the veteran defenseman. “His brain is elite, so it allows him to get into advantageous spots. And that’s what we’re seeing in him, a difference in him now.” The first goal had added significance for Shattenkirk, as it was the 100th of his 14-year career. “It felt great,” said Shattenkirk. “I don’t think I was going into every game expecting to hit (the milestone). I’m not Pasta. If I don’t have a goal in a game, I’m not like, ‘Damn, i didn’t get my 100th goal tonight.’ But you know it’s going to come eventually. I just stuck with it, and once it happened, it’s a great milestone, something I’m proud of. My teammates showed a lot of love for me as well, which is always heartwarming.” 2) There was no panic getting down by two goals. The Devils have a lot of speed up front, and even though they were playing the second half of a back-to-back, showed a lot of jump early, grabbing a lead just 6:03 into the first before adding to the lead in in the first minute of the second period. But the Bruins didn’t get overwhelmed by the deficit. “Loved the response of the bench,” said Montgomery. “We felt like we were playing our game, we felt like we were playing to our identity and we felt like we were playing Bruins hockey. And that played itself out. Players were competing. I thought we were physical tonight. And I thought, because we were physical, our puck support was getting to it. I thought the second period was the best second period we’ve had all season.” Pastrnak said the Bruins’ strategy involved a strong forecheck to wear down the Devils, playing for the second straight night. The gameplan worked, and it didn’t take until the third period for it to manifest itself, either. $200 INSTANT BONUS DRAFTKINGS MASS CLAIM OFFER BET $5, GET $200 BONUS BET FANDUEL MASS CLAIM OFFER BET $50, GET $250 BONUS CAESARS MASS CLAIM OFFER $1,000 FIRST-BET BONUS BETMGM MASS CLAIM OFFER MA only. 21+. Gambling Problem? If you or a loved one is experiencing problems with gambling, please call 1-800-327-5050 or visit gamblinghelplinema.org for 24/7 support. LiveChat with a GameSense Advisor at GameSenseMA.com or call 1-800-GAM-1234 MA Gambling Helpline. MA only. 21+. Gambling Problem? If you or a loved one is experiencing problems with gambling, please call 1-800-327-5050 or visit gamblinghelplinema.org for 24/7 support. LiveChat with a GameSense Advisor at GameSenseMA.com or call 1-800-GAM-1234 MA Gambling Helpline. 3) Charlie McAvoy survives a scare. The Bruins have been dealing with some injuries of late and for a while in the third, it appeared as though they had another when McAvoy, attempting to break up a two-on-one, collided into goaltender Linus Ullmark as he went diving to intercept a pass. McAvoy lay motionless for a bit, and appeared to have been hurt, but eventually skated off and was cleared. “He’s fine,’' said Jim Montgomery. “I think he just had a little bit of a scare with a burner or stinger of some sort. I don’t know where it was. But he’s walking around and he’s happy right now. So we’re good.” 4) Merkulov’s debut a success. Georgii Merkulov made his NHL debut, as the Bruins summoned him from their AHL affiliate in Providence, hoping that he could bring some offense to their bottom six. Merkulov centered the third line, with wings Trent Frederic and James Van Riemsdyk, and while he didn’t collect a point, he acquitted himself well. Merkulov got 15:08 of ice time and recorded three faceoff wins. “Good,” summarized Montgomery. “He did a lot of good things. I didn’t play him (much) down the stretch just because we were looking to close out the game. As soon as we closed out the game (with the fifth goal), I put him back out there. He played a good game.” All betting sites in MA will have promo codes for signing up. Don’t forget to check out BetMGM Massachusetts and DraftKings Massachusetts 5) Pastrnak delivers per usual. It was just another night for the Bruins’ top scorer, who potted two second period goals in the span of less than three minutes. Those tallies gave him 22 goals for the season. On the first one, he slipped behind New Jersey goalie Vitek Vanecek and tucked in a loose puck in the crease. Then, he took a nice backhand feed from Jake DeBrusk while the Bruins enjoyed a man advantage, giving them a 4-2 lead. “You’re on the bench and you’re excited, like, ‘What’s he going to do next?’ “ said Montgomery. “He makes it look pretty nice.”

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Flight Attendant Charged With Secretly Recording Teen On Boston Flight

Crime & Safety Flight Attendant Charged With Secretly Recording Teen On Boston Flight Estes Carter Thompson III, 36, of Charlotte, North Carolina has been charged in connection with the Sept. 2 incident. Thompson is also accused of possessing recordings of four additional minor female passengers using the restroom aboard the plane he had previously worked on, officials said. (Lynchburg Adult Detention Center) BOSTON, MA — The American Airlines flight attendant who was accused in September of secretly recording a 14-year-old girl while she was using the plane's restroom on a flight to Boston has been identified and charged, officials announced Thursday. Estes Carter Thompson III, 36, of Charlotte, North Carolina, is also accused of possessing recordings of four additional minor female passengers using the restroom aboard the plane he had previously worked on, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts. Thompson was arrested in Lynchburg, Virginia Thursday and charged with one count of attempted sexual exploitation of children and one count of possession of child pornography depicting a prepubescent minor, officials said. He will remain in custody pending his initial appearance in the Western District of Virginia and appear in federal court in Boston at a later date, according to officials. According to charging documents, during the Sept. 2 flight, the girl was waiting to use the bathroom in the economy section — where she was sitting with her family — when Thompson encouraged her to use the first-class bathroom instead. Before the girl entered the bathroom, Thompson went in himself and said he needed to wash his hands, officials said. About a minute later, the girl said she was in the bathroom when she noticed an iPhone taped to the toilet with its camera flash on, according to officials. When the girl returned to her seat, she informed her parents of what she saw and showed them a photo she had taken of the iPhone taped to the toilet, officials said. "The victim’s parents reported the matter to other flight attendants onboard, who notified the Captain, who in turn notified law enforcement on the ground," officials wrote in Thursday's news release. "It is alleged that the victim’s father confronted Thompson who, shortly thereafter, locked himself in the lavatory with his iPhone for three to five minutes prior to the flight’s descent," according to officials. During that time, Thompson appears to have wiped his phone clean, officials said. According to a Dec. 1 report in The Associated Press, the girl's family sued American Airlines and said that they had been told that Thompson, who hadn't been publicly named at the time, couldn't be arrested because authorities did not find any incriminating photos or videos when they checked his phone. Meanwhile, officials said Thursday that a search of Thompson’s iCloud account revealed four additional instances between January and August 2023 in which Thompson recorded a minor using the restroom on a plane, officials said. It is unclear at what point this evidence was discovered. "The minor victims allegedly depicted in the surreptitious recordings were seven, nine, 11, and 14 years old at the time," officials wrote in Thursday's news release. "Additionally, over 50 images of a nine-year-old unaccompanied minor were allegedly found in Thompson’s iCloud. The images included photos taken while the minor victim was seated in her seat pre-flight and close-ups of her face while sleeping." All of the children depicted in these images have been identified and their families have been contacted by law enforcement, officials said. Thompson is also accused of storing hundreds of images of AI-generated child pornography on his iCloud account, according to officials. The charge of attempted sexual exploitation of children provides for a sentence of at least 15 years and up to 30 years in prison, while the charge of possession of child pornography depicting a prepubescent minor provides for a sentence of at least five years and up to 20 years in prison, officials said. Both charges also provide for at least five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release, a fine of up to $250,000, and restitution.

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From Roommates to Friends to Turbo Twins

It was Verity Jean Louise Elks who first asked to make things official. Her relationship with Benjamin Oliver Brian Riches had moved quickly. Within weeks of moving to Los Angeles in the spring of 2019, Ms. Elks was fully integrated into her fellow Australian’s social circle. In July, the pair were having drinks at a friend’s house in Oceanside — a surfer’s paradise south of Orange County — when she decided to pitch Mr. Riches on becoming her boyfriend. Initially, he accepted. “‘Guys, me and Benny are in a relationship,’” Ms. Elks recalled telling everyone. “Then on the car ride home, Benny was like, ‘No, no, no. I take it back. I can’t do it.’” It was complicated. Ms. Elks wasn’t just dating Mr. Riches at the time — she was also living with him. Laid off from her public relations job in New York City six months before, Ms. Elks had decided she could not face the East Coast both cold and unemployed. Instead, she returned to Australia, where it was summer, to surf and plot her move to Los Angeles. By the time Ms. Elks returned stateside in April 2019, she had a job secured and a room with a friend of a friend in Venice. That person was Mr. Riches. Mr. Riches, 32, was impressed by her sense of style. “I still remember the first minute I met her,” he said. “I just remember thinking that she was so cool.”

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Big Y leadership passes to 3rd generation; Michael P. DAmour will be president, CEO

SPRINGFIELD – Big Y Foods is passing leadership of the grocery chain down to the third generation of the D’Amour family. Current CEO Charles L. D’Amour will become executive chairman of the board.

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Amherst union, superintendent spar over whether HR staffer should resign

President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power. On the eve of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Mr. Trump’s supporters, Mr. Biden framed the coming election as a choice between a candidate devoted to upholding America’s centuries-old ideals and a chaos agent willing to discard them for his personal benefit. “There’s no confusion about who Trump is or what he intends to do,” Mr. Biden warned in a speech at a community college not far from Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, where George Washington commanded troops during the Revolutionary War. Exhorting supporters to prepare to vote this fall, he said: “We all know who Donald Trump is. The question is: Who are we?” In an intensely personal address that at one point nearly led Mr. Biden to curse Mr. Trump by name, the president compared his rival to foreign autocrats who rule by fiat and lies. He said Mr. Trump had failed the basic test of American leaders, to trust the people to choose their elected officials and abide by their decisions.

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Shuttle buses in use as Mattapan trolley halted for second day

One day after a rescue mission for one disabled Mattapan trolley ended with two more trolleys out of service, shuttles buses remain in use Tuesday on the Red Line’s high speed service that runs through Dorchester, Milton, and Mattapan. According to MBTA spokeswoman Lisa Battiston, maintenance crews are working Tuesday to return the three trolleys to safe working order, and until that happens, passengers will have to use buses as they have since early Monday. It was not known when regular service would resume. According to Battiston, around 6:50 a.m. Monday, a trolley became disabled at the Butler Street station in Dorchester from a mechanical problem.

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Westfield honors cemetery volunteers at monthly lunch for veterans

WESTFIELD — At the monthly veterans lunch in Tiger’s Pride on Dec. 6, Veterans Services Director Julie Barnes and Westfield Graves Officer Gene Theroux honored the eight volunteers who had completed 100 hours of service in Westfield cemeteries, under Theroux’s tutelage. Veterans receiving certificates were Norman Fioroni, Rafael Gonzalez-Colon, Stephen Griffin, Michael Janke, Thomas Johnson, Michael Pagliaro, Mark Platt and Robert Serra. Other volunteers were also recognized who started later and have not yet completed their hours.

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Under-inflated footballs in Patriots-Chiefs prompts strong social media reaction

When MassLive’s Mark Daniels reported that the “K-balls” used in Sunday’s Patriots-Chiefs game at Gillette Stadium, many had the same reaction: “Not again.” Sources told Daniels that the footballs were weighed at halftime after New England players alerted the officials. The balls came in at 11 PSI, rather than the usual 13.5. This comes nine years after the “Deflategate” scandal, which led to the Patriots losing two draft picks, being fined $1 million and losing Tom Brady to suspension for four games. Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, who missed his first field goal of the season in Kansas City’s ultimate Week 15 win, isn’t blaming the footballs for the miss. But once the report dropped, there was plenty reaction on social media. BET ANYTHING GET $250 BONUS ESPN BET CLAIM OFFER MASS 21+ and present in MA, NJ, PA, VA, MD, WV, TN, LA, KS, KY, CO, AZ, IL, IA, IN, OH, MI. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-Gambler. It’s more likely than not that Patrick Mahomes was generally aware that the balls were deflated — Sam Orelowitz (@samorelowitz) December 20, 2023 Remember when the NFL tried to convince the world that Tom Brady ran an elaborate scheme with 2 assistants to let approximately 1 psi of pressure out of footballs? That was fun — Fantasy Football & Betting (@ffgtakez) December 20, 2023 I swear, if the league comes out and blames this on a change in air pressure due to temperature… https://t.co/aO7bsXDOgv — Alex Barth (@RealAlexBarth) December 20, 2023 please i can’t do this again https://t.co/s4SOdawGVM — brianna pirre (@bsp_13) December 21, 2023 Watch everyone who still say the Patriots deflated footballs claim the only reason the kicking footballs were below standard was because of the weather 😂😂😂😂 — Sara Marshall (@smarshxo) December 21, 2023 Tom Brady expected to be suspended for the 2024 season https://t.co/Wuiw3xZc1g — Conor Commentary (@ConorCommentary) December 20, 2023 It’s more likely than not that Patrick Mahomes was at least generally aware of the possibile use of under-inflated footballs https://t.co/fv5Rif8AWQ — Marvin Crawford (@cramar51) December 21, 2023 At the end of the day, Butker’s miss didn’t impact the outcome of the game. Patriots kicker Chad Ryland also missed a field goal in the first half, but he has struggled a bit with field goals this season. The Chiefs now turn their attention to the Las Vegas Raiders, who they host on Christmas Day. While the Patriots take on the Denver Broncos on the road on Christmas Eve.

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Raw Oysters May Have Sickened 200 in Southern California, Officials Say

Gastrointestinal illnesses potentially linked to raw oysters sickened nearly 200 people, according to health officials in Southern California, who urged residents to take extra precautions with shellfish. The illnesses, recorded in Los Angeles County and San Diego, may be associated with oysters imported from a specific harvest in northwest Mexico. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said in a statement on Wednesday that there were “more than 150 suspected local cases of gastrointestinal illness linked to the consumption of raw oysters, likely caused by norovirus.” Officials there warned people to ask restaurants about where they sourced their oysters from, and to avoid eating oysters from Laguna De Guerrero Negro and Laguna Manuela in Baja California, Mexico, and from Bahia Salina in Sonora, Mexico. The department said it was still working to confirm the source of the illness.

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Mass. weather: Heres when you should look out for snow squalls Sunday

If you plan on traveling in Massachusetts Sunday afternoon or evening, you’ll want to be on the lookout for snow squalls. According to National Weather Service forecaster Kevin Kadima, snow squalls are similar to the fast-moving, intense scattered thunderstorms we sometimes experience in the summer. “They’re typically snow showers that just cover a small area, but within the area, it can be snowing pretty hard,” he said. Throughout the afternoon and evening, Bay Staters may see light to moderate snow showers with intermittent squalls of heavy snow, Kadima said. “They move through pretty quickly, so any given location probably won’t see it last for more than 15, 20 minutes,” he said. The snow is expected to hit Western Massachusetts between noon and 1 p.m., before moving on to Central Massachusetts around 3 p.m., Kadima said. Eastern Massachusetts residents should look out for the squalls between 4 and 6 p.m. [1/2] A cold front is on the horizon, bringing scattered rain/snow showers. Be alert to the potential for heavier snow squalls this afternoon. These swift-moving squalls last less than an hour, creating sudden white-out conditions & icy roads within minutes #MAwx #RIwx #CTwx pic.twitter.com/Wboodcgj30 — NWS Boston (@NWSBoston) January 14, 2024 Areas near the coast where the high today is expected to reach 40 degrees may see the precipitation start out as rain before turning to snow, Kadima said. This is most likely to happen in southeastern Massachusetts south of I-95. “If any areas in southeast Massachusetts do get those squalls, they might start out as rain, but they would likely change to snow as the intensity ramped up,” he said. According to the National Weather Service, you may get a snow squall alert on your phone as it passes through your area. If you are driving when this happens, the weather services advises that you slow down, turn on your lights and pull over. “Despite minor snow accumulations, snow squalls can lead to brief yet severe disruptions in travel, historically associated with deadly traffic accidents,” the weather service wrote on social media. “The combination of gusty winds, falling temperatures, and reduced visibility creates dangerous conditions for motorists.” The National Weather Service advises that drivers pull over during snow squalls.NOAA As for snow accumulation, Kadima said, some areas of the state won’t get any, while others may get 1 to 2 inches. The higher elevations in the Berkshires and the Worcester Hills have the greatest chance of receiving significant snowfall. Highs across the state Sunday are expected to reach the mid to upper 30s, but the cold front bringing in the squalls will leave temperatures significantly lower, according to the weather service. It could also cause strong westerly winds with gusts up to 45 mph. The skies should clear across the state by the late evening, and lows overnight are expected to be in the mid teens to low 20s, according to the weather service. Highs on Martin Luther King Jr. Day are predicted to be in the upper 20s and low 30s amid sunny skies. Lows overnight Monday are expected to dip into the low 20s and upper teens, according to the weather service. Then, on Tuesday, upper edge of a storm is predicted to touch Massachusetts, bringing a few inches of snow.

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Opinion | Trump Dreams of Economic Disaster

Did Donald Trump just say that he’s hoping for an economic crash? Not exactly. But what he did say was arguably even worse, especially once you put it in context. And Trump’s evident panic over recent good economic news deepens what is, for me, the biggest conundrum of American politics: Why have so many people joined — and stayed in — a personality cult built around a man who poses an existential threat to our nation’s democracy and is also personally a complete blowhard? So what did Trump actually say on Monday? Strictly speaking, he didn’t call for a crash, he predicted one, positing that the economy is running on “fumes” — and that he hopes the inevitable crash will happen this year, “because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover.” If you think about it, this isn’t at all what a man who believes himself to be a brilliant economic manager and supposedly cares about the nation’s welfare should say. What he should have said instead is something like this: My opponent’s policies have set us on the path to disaster, but I hope the disaster doesn’t come until I’m in office — because I don’t want the American people to suffer unnecessarily, and, because I’m a very stable genius, I alone can fix it.

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Happy Days Got Us Unstuck in Time

Mention “Happy Days” to TV viewers of a certain age (raises hand) and the first thing they remember might be not an episode or a scene or a catchphrase but a lunchbox. I’m specifically thinking of a cool Thermos-brand one — featuring Henry Winkler as the show’s pop-phenom greaser, Arthur Fonzarelli, a.k.a. Fonzie, a.k.a. the Fonz — which luckier ’70s kids than I got to schlep their PBJs to school in and which is now in the collection of the Smithsonian. To remember “Happy Days” is to remember your youth, which was also the function of “Happy Days” when it premiered in 1974. Well, at least it sort of was. Ostensibly the show appealed to grown-ups who were young during its time period — roughly, the mid-50s to mid-60s, over 11 seasons. But some of its most ardent fans were the lunchbox-toters toddling down someone else’s memory lane. Now “Happy Days” is 50 years old. Or is it? Time gets fuzzy when you enter the “Happy Days”-verse. In some ways the series never ended; it was just handed down through the culture like a vintage varsity jacket. It was repurposed as a nostalgia object by the Spike Jonze video for Weezer’s 1994 single “Buddy Holly.” In 1998, “That ’70s Show” set its own reverie, like “Happy Days,” among a gang of teenage friends in Wisconsin. Last year, that series’s sequel, “That ’90s Show,” created a ’90s version of the ’70s version of the ’50s. If all this math is too much, all you need to know is that there are only ever two periods in pop-culture nostalgia. There is Then (simple, innocent, fun), and there is Now (scary, corrupt, confusing). Eventually, Now becomes another Now’s Then, and the cycle repeats. “Happy Days” was nostalgic because the teenagers weren’t smoking weed. “That ’70s Show” was nostalgic because the teenagers were smoking weed. We rock around the clock and around the calendar, returning ever again to the beginning.

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Police: Man accused of killing officer, National Grid worker intentionally tried to hit other officers

Police claim a New Hampshire man facing charges in connection with the death of a Waltham police officer and a National Grid worker also tried to “intentionally” hit other police officers while he was running from officials Wednesday. Peter Simon, 54, of Woodsville, N.H., crashed through a worksite on Totten Pond Road at about 4 p.m. Wednesday, killing Waltham Police Officer Paul Tracey, 58, and a National Grid worker, identified in court as Roderick Jackson, 36, of Cambridge, and injuring two other utility employees, authorities said.

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Terror attack' in Israel leaves 1 dead, more than a dozen injured, police say

Read this article for free! Plus get unlimited access to thousands of articles, videos and more with your free account! Please enter a valid email address. By entering your email, you are agreeing to Fox News Terms of Service and Privacy Policy , which includes our Notice of Financial Incentive . To access the content, check your email and follow the instructions provided. Israeli police say two assailants are in custody Monday following a "terror attack" that has left one person dead and at least 16 others injured in the city of Ra'anana, just north of Tel Aviv. The vehicle ramming attacks unfolded after an assailant stabbed a woman and carjacked her vehicle, police say. Central District commander Avi Biton later announced that two individuals from the same family in the Hebron area of the West Bank, who worked nearby, were taken into custody. "Following an unusual incident currently in Ra'anana, police forces are on the scene, and the circumstances of the incident are being investigated," Israel Police said in a statement, according to The Jerusalem Post. "The public is asked to be vigilant and obey the police officer's instructions." At least 16 people have been injured in the attacks. One woman who was critically injured later died at a local hospital. Three other people are said to be in serious condition. ISRAELI WOMAN, SON KILLED BY ANTI-TANK MISSILE NEAR LEBANON BORDER Images taken at one of the scenes showed a heavily damaged white sedan that appeared to have been driven into a bus stop. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Schools in the area where the attacks happened have been placed on lockdown, The Jerusalem Post reports. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Fox News’ Yonat Friling contributed to this report.

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Northern Lights Could Appear Farther South in U.S., Forecasters Say

A powerful geomagnetic storm could set off a colorful display of the northern lights this weekend, appearing in some sections of the United States where they are not usually visible, weather officials said on Friday. The National Weather Service issued a geomagnetic storm watch for Saturday and Sunday after the agency said it observed multiple coronal mass ejections from the sun on Thursday and Friday. The storm watch came less than a day after the Weather Service recorded the largest solar flare since 2017. The flare, the Weather Service said, temporarily disrupted radio communications for some aircraft. Officials said it was “likely one of the largest solar radio events ever recorded.”

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Murder suspect in Lawrence McDonalds fatal stabbing held without bail

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Springfield Police have arrested a man after he pointed a gun at an officer in a Harriet Street apartment overnight. According to the Springfield Police Department, officers were conducting a follow-up connected to a domestic assault involving a gun and were looking for 30-year-old Joseph Morales-Dejesus when they received permission to enter the apartment he was staying in. When officers arrived at the apartment Morales-Dejesus walked into view with a loaded large-capacity ghost gun with an extended magazine in hand. Police said he pointed it directly at an officer before complying and tossing it away from him. Morales-Dejesus was arrested and charged with the following offenses: Firearm Violation with Three Prior Violent/Drug Crimes Firearm-Armed Assault in Dwelling Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony (Two Counts) Assault with a Dangerous Weapon Carrying a Loaded Firearm without a License Possession of a High-Capacity Magazine/Feeding Device Possession of a Firearm without an FID Card - Subsequent Offense Possession of Ammunition without an FID Card Threat to Commit a Crime Witness Intimidation Authorities also revealed Morales-Dejesus was convicted on firearms charges in 2019, numerous drug distribution charges in 2017 and several domestic related charges in 2020 including assault & battery on a pregnant female. Copyright 2023. Western Mass News (WGGB/WSHM). All rights reserved.

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What It Takes to Save the Axolotl

Xochimilco is a large, semirural district in the south of Mexico City, home to a vast network of canals surrounding farming plots called chinampas. Starting around A.D. 900, this maze of earth and water produced food for the Xochimilcas, a Náhuatl speaking people who were among the first to populate the region and engineer its wetlands. Nowadays in the early mornings, farmers — many of them descendants of Xochimilco’s original inhabitants — can be seen loading canoes with lettuces and flowers grown in the rich sediments dredged from the canals. On weekends, hundreds of brightly colored party boats crowd the waters, full of urbanites seeking escape. The Mexican axolotl — a dusky amphibian with the remarkable habit of neoteny, or retaining its juvenile body type all its life — once thrived in these canals. Though axolotls have been reproduced widely as lab animals and in the aquarium trade, where they are more often pink or yellow thanks to genetic mutations, it is now questionable whether any significant wild population remains. At last count, a decade ago, there were 35 axolotls per square kilometer in the Xochimilco wetlands, down from thousands in the 1990s. Pollution, urbanization and introduced fish species had made life nearly impossible for them. In the early 2000s, Luis Zambrano, an ecologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, or UNAM, was studying the effects of invasive carp when he was tapped by the government to survey axolotls. After decades of steady environmental degradation in Xochimilco, Mexico wanted to know how many axolotls remained in the species’ last stronghold. Axolotls were of deep cultural importance, a feature of the region’s traditional diet and cosmology. And laboratory biologists all over the world, who for more than a century had used axolotls to study tissue regeneration, worried that their animals were becoming inbred, without a wild population from which to draw new bloodlines.

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Couple charged after stealing cart full of tools from Reading Home Depot

A couple is facing charges after it “stole a cart full of tools” from a Home Depot in Reading earlier this month, according to the Reading Police Department. Police Chief David Clark said the 31-year-old man and the 34-year-old woman, both with no known addresses, are being charged with larceny under $1,200. In addition, the man is being charged with receiving stolen property and possession of a Class D substance with intent to distribute. The couple walked out of the Home Depot at 60 Walkers Brook Drive with the cart of tools on Tuesday, Dec. 12, Clark said in a statement Friday. Employees described the vehicle the duo left in, and police found the vehicle abandoned close by. The stolen tools, some of which were in plain sight, were found inside the vehicle as well, according to Clark. The couple was arrested on Thursday, Dec. 14. During their arrest, officers found more merchandise and numerous baggies of marijuana packaged for resale. Authorities are still trying to determine if this merchandise, most of which had tags and security devices on it, was stolen as well. The man and woman will be arraigned in Woburn District Court at a later date, Clark said. The investigation is ongoing.

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How to watch NCIS: Sydney new episode Tuesday, Nov. 21 for free on CBS

The CBS series “NCIS: Sydney” continues with a new episode this Tuesday, Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on the network. For those without cable, but who want to watch the show as it airs on CBS, they can do so for free through either FuboTV and DirecTV Stream. Both platforms offer a free trial for new users. You can also watch the series for free by signing up for Paramount+, which offers a 7-day-long free trial. “With rising international tensions in the Indo-Pacific, a brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multinational taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet,” according to FuboTV in a description of the series. “Led by NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey and Sgt. Jim ‘JD’ Dempsey, the team of Americans and Aussies must quickly learn to trust each other, overcoming and harnessing their differences to solve each case,” it added. “Though jurisdictional tussles and culture clashes make for a rocky start, Mackey comes to respect JD’s nose for the truth, and JD comes to respect her maverick style.” “Meanwhile, sassy AFP Constable Evie Cooper and endlessly curious Special Agent DeShawn Jackson form a fast friendship, while curmudgeonly forensic pathologist Dr. Roy Penrose meets his match in the brilliant young forensic scientist Bluebird ‘Blue’ Gleeson,” according to FuboTV. The new episode is titled “Snakes in the Grass,” according to FuboTV, which added in a description “When a Navy compliance officer is found dead in a waterhole from a snakebite, the team works to uncover the origin of the rare, deadly taipan that is uncommon to the area where the officer was discovered.” You can watch a trailer for the series below or by clicking here to watch on the NCIS YouTube channel. How can I watch “NCIS: Sydney″ on CBS for free without cable? The show is available to watch on CBS for free through either FuboTV or DirecTV Stream, both of which offer a free trial. Both offer free trials to new users. You can also watch it for free by signing up for Paramount+, which offers a 7-day-long free trial. What is FuboTV? FuboTV is an over-the-top internet live TV streaming service that offers more than 100 channels, such as sports, news, entertainment and local channels. What is DirecTV Stream? The streaming platform offers a plethora of content including streaming the best of live and On Demand, starting with more than 75 live TV channels. DirecTV also offers a free trial for any package you sign up.

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Saturdays high school football scores and highlights

Tabor bent but didn’t break. Having seen a 32-7 halftime lead cut to three, the Seawolves (3-0) took charge in the final quarter. Huge Djeumeni ripped off a 30-yard TD run for his fourth score, then Tim Bengston put the finishing touches on a 46-29 win over Rivers by sprinting 76 yards to paydirt. Elsewhere in the ISL, Qur’an McNeil ran for two scores and threw for two more as Milton Academy (2-1) defeated Thayer Academy, 27-20. … Brooks (1-2) defeated St. Mark’s, 20-6, behind Darnell Pierre’s 161 yards on the ground and a touchdown. … Jordan Summers returned a kick 93 yards for a score and also caught a TD pass as Belmont Hill (2-1) beat St. Sebastian’s, 36-23. Hudson Weidman threw for two scores and ran for two more as Pingree (3-0) defeated Canterbury 33-14 in the Evergreen League. Sidney Tildsley threw for 130 yards and three touchdowns, while adding 57 rushing yards and a fourth score as Shawsheen (5-0) defeated Greater Lowell 31-0 in the Commonwealth Athletic Conference. Davin True ran for three scores and caught a TD pass as Marshfield (3-2) beat Silver Lake 41-0 in the Patriot League. … Will McNamara caught eight passes for 171 yards and two scores, while adding eight tackles and a strip sack which resulted in a touchdown as Pembroke (2-3) defeated Quincy, 41-8. Henry Redgate had 157 all-purpose yards and a pair of touchdowns as Wellesley (2-3) defeated Framingham 26-7 in the Bay State Conference. Daniel Cordeiro ran for 236 yards and three touchdowns, while adding 45 receiving yards and a fourth score as St. John Paul outlasted Atlantis Charter/Westport in triple overtime, 46-40. In a nonleague matchup, Jack Spear tossed a pair of touchdowns and added one on the ground to lead Swampscott (3-1-1) past Northeast, 24-0. THURSDAY RESULTS Bourne 21, Monomoy 8 Canton 33, Oliver Ames 20 Chelmsford 24, Lowell 17 Franklin 28, Taunton 27 Hopkinton 21, Medfield 14 Mansfield 31, Sharon 14 Medford 20, Somerville 0 Methuen 38, North Andover 21 Natick 35, Newton North 21 Norwood 25, Holliston 24 Plymouth South 34, North Quincy 7 FRIDAY’S RESULTS Abington 21, Sandwich 2 Andover 50, Brockton 20 Archbishop Williams 21, Cathedral 18 Ashland 35, Westwood 15 Barnstable 14, Nauset 0 (forfeit) Bedford 49, Acton-Boxboro 0 Bellingham 21, Dedham 20 Belmont 36, Lexington 7 Bishop Feehan 70, Arlington Catholic 0 Blue Hills 20, Southeastern 14 BC High 24, Malden Catholic 14 Bridgewater-Raynham 14, Durfee 0 Brookline 28, Boston Latin 22 Cambridge 42, Boston English/New Mission 0 Cardinal Spellman 28, Bishop Fenwick 14 Central Catholic 35, Haverhill 0 Catholic Memorial 41, Xaverian 38 Carver 42, Cohasset 39 (ot) Concord-Carlisle 49, Newton South 35 Dartmouth 48, Falmouth 0 Dennis-Yarmouth 48, Nantucket 7 Dover-Sherborn 40, Medway 33 Dracut/Innovation 20, Chelsea 6 Duxbury 41, Plymouth North 13 Everett 48, Revere 6 Fairhaven 49, Case 6 Foxboro 31, Stoughton 7 Greater Lawrence 28, Lynn English 18 Greater New Bedford 49, Seekonk 0 Hanover 42, Scituate 28 Hingham 25, Whitman-Hanson 14 King Philip 52, Attleboro 0 KIPP 38, Lowell Catholic 28 Lawrence 20, New Bedford 19 Lincoln-Sudbury 27, Wayland 0 Lynn Classical 34, Malden 0 Lynnfield 42, Ipswich 0 Manchester-Essex 63, Lynn Tech 22 Marblehead 20, Masconomet 0 Mashpee 32, Martha’s Vineyard 8 Middleboro 21, East Bridgewater 6. Milford 33, North Attleboro 13 Milton 10, Needham 9 Newburyport 47, Hamilton-Wenham 20 North Reading 45, Triton 0 Norton 35, Millis 0 Norwood 25, Holliston 24 O’Bryant 18, East Boston 16 Old Colony 38, Holbrook/Avon 8 Old Rochester 21, Dighton-Rehoboth 7 Quabbin 20, Ayer-Shirley 14 (ot) Peabody 27, Leominster 14 Pentucket/Georgetown 21, Essex Tech 18 Randolph 20, Hull 9 Reading 35, Arlington 20 Rockland 23, Norwell 21 Roxbury Latin 12, Noble and Greenough 0 Roxbury Prep 14, Keefe Tech 2 Salem 55, Saugus 20 St. John’s Prep 35, St. John’s (Shrewsbury) 0 St. Mary’s (Lynn) 16, Bishop Stang 14 Somerset Berkley 56, Apponequet 46 South Shore 42, Cape Tech 6 Stoneham 44, Watertown 0 Walpole 31, Shrewsbury 6 Wareham 30, Upper Cape 0 West Bridgewater 40, Tri-County 12 Westford Academy 27, Waltham 16 Weston 38, Latin Academy 6 Weymouth 28, Braintree 14 Whittier 38, Nashoba Tech 30 Wilmington 29, Burlington 25 Winchester 17, Melrose 12 Winthrop 35, Gloucester 0 Woburn 36, Wakefield 3 SATURDAY’S GAMES Belmont Hill 36, St. Sebastian’s 23 Billerica 13, Tewksbury 6 Brooks 20, St. Mark’s 6 BB&N 43, Governor’s Academy 27 Danvers 28, Beverly 0 Diman 29, Bristol-Plymouth 8 Groton 27, Middlesex 9 Lawrence Academy 34, St. George’s 0 Marshfield 41, Silver Lake 0 Milton Academy 27, Thayer Academy 30 Pembroke 41, Quincy 8 Pingree 33, Canterbury 14 St. John Paul 46. Atlantis Charter/Westport 40 (3 ot) St. Paul’s 12, Dexter Southfield 9 Shawsheen 31, Greater Lowell 0 Swampscott 24, Northeast/Mystic Valley 0 Tabor 46, Rivers 29 Wellesley 26, Framingham 7 Worcester Academy 48, Austin Prep 2 BELMONT HILL 36, ST. SEBASTIAN’S 23 Belmont Hill (2-1) 13 10 6 7 – 36 St. Sebastian’s (2-1) 0 13 3 7 – 23 BH – Jordan Summers 18 pass from Rèis Little (kick failed) BH – Marcus Griffin 31 run (Nick Ascione kick) BH – Tommy Rupley 1 fumble return (Ascione kick) SS – George Kelly 2 run (run failed) SS – Tedy Frisoli 26 pass from Ty Ciongoli (Cooper Bolton kick) BH – Nick Ascione 32 field goal SS – Cooper Bolton 20 field goal BH – Jordan Summers 93 kick return (kick failed) BH – Marcus Griffin 2 run (Ascione kick) SS – Kaelan Chudzinski 2 pass from Ty Ciongoli (Bolton Kick) BILLERICA 13, TEWKSBURY 6 Billerica (5-0) 0 7 6 0 – 13 Tewksbury (4-1) 0 6 0 0 – 6 TE – Hunter Johnson 4 run (kick failed) BI – Steven Gentile 1 run (Michael Schein kick) BI – Gentile 1 run (kick failed) BROOKS 20, ST. MARK’S 6 Brooks (1-2) 7 6 0 7 – 20 St. Mark’s (0-3) 0 6 0 0 – 6 BR – Jack Sumner 9 pass from Henry Hebert (Jasper Johnson kick) SM – Ben Howard 47 pass from Henry Colon (kick failed) BR – Jagger Carreiro 1 pass from Hebert (kick failed) BR – Darnell Pierre 31 run (Johnson kick) BB&N 43, GOVERNOR’S ACADEMY 27 BB&N (2-1) 7 22 0 14 – 43 GOVERNOR’S (1-2) 7 14 0 6 – 27 GO – Nicholas Berglund 9 run (Hawk Stickney kick) BB – Brett Elliott 21 pass from Henry Machnik (Snoonian kick) GO – Hunter Kingsbury 21 pass from Berglund (Stickney kick) BB – Bo MacCormack 80 kickoff return (Snoonian kick) GO – Corey Aubuchon 30 pass from Berglund (Stickney kick) BB – MacCormack 22 run (MacCormack run) BB – MacCormack 6 run (Snoonian kick) GO – Aubuchon 18 pass from Berglund (conversion failed) BB – Machnik 1 run (Snoonian kick) BB – Sam Kelly 25 pass from Machnik (Snoonian kick) MARSHFIELD 41, SILVER LAKE 0 Silver Lake (0-5) 0 0 0 0 – 0 Marshfield (3-2) 14 27 0 0 – 41 MA – Tor Maas 4 run (Thomas Kelly kick) MA – Davin True 11 run (Kelly kick) MA – True 22 pass from Maas (kick failed) MA – True 9 run (Kelly kick) MA – Nic Cupples 13 run (Kelly kick) MA – True 2 run (Nick Drosopoulos kick) MILTON ACADEMY 27, THAYER ACADEMY 21 Milton Academy (2-1) 0 14 13 0 – 27 Thayer Academy (1-2) 0 8 0 12 – 20 MI – Qur’an McNeill 7 run (Jonah Selter kick) TH – Malachi Mcclean 3 pass from Arnaud Dugas (Angel Perez-Gonzalez pass from Dugas) MI – McNeill 11 run (Selter kick) MI – Kash Kelly 27 pass from McNeill (kick failed) MI – Kelly 21 pass from McNeill (Selter kick) TH – Nate Austin-Johnstone 45 run (conversion failed) TH – Perez-Gonzalez 11 pass from Dugas (conversion failed) PEMBROKE 41, QUINCY 8 Pembroke (2-3) 14 6 14 7 – 41 Quincy (2-3) 0 0 0 8 – 8 PE – Nick Carbone 32 fumble recovery (Ben Voelkl kick) PE – Will McNamara 54 pass from Owen Pace (Voelkl kick) PE – McNamara 70 pass from Pace (kick failed) PE – Will Johnson 12 run (Voelkl kick) PE – Johnson 21 run (Voelkl kick) QU – Gabe Rodrigues 47 run (Rodrigues rush) PE – Riece Dunton 51 run (Voelkl kick) ST. PAUL’S 12, DEXTER SOUTHFIELD 9 St. Paul’s (2-1) 0 6 6 0 – 12 Dexter (3-1) 7 0 0 2 – 9 DE – Santana Cardoso 4 fumble recovery (Luke Hoganson kick) SP – Teigan Pelletier 57 pass from Daniel Sullivan (kick failed) SP – Michael Seward 8 run (kick failed) DE – Safety SHAWSHEEN 31, GREATER LOWELL 0 Shawsheen (5-0) 7 14 7 3 – 31 Gr. Lowell (2-3) 0 0 0 0 – 0 ST – Ryan Copson 16 pass from Sidney Tildsley (Jared Bishop kick) ST – Tildsley 3 (Bishop kick) ST – Dyllon Pratt 37 pass from Tildsley (Bishop kick) ST – Pratt 29 pass from Tildsley (Bishop kick) ST – Bishop 37 field goal SWAMPSCOTT 24, NORTHEAST 0 Swampscott (3-1-1) 6 12 6 0 – 24 Northeast (1-4) 0 0 0 0 – 0 SW – Liam Keaney 9 pass from Jack Spear (rush failed) SW – Henry Beuttler 7 run (rush failed) SW – Jack Hazel 15 pass from Spear (rush failed) SW – Spear 30 run (rush failed) WELLESLEY 26, FRAMINGHAM 7 Framingham (3-2) 7 0 0 0 – 7 Wellesley (2-3) 20 0 6 0 – 26 WE – Henry Redgate 47 pass from Bobby Shanahan (Bronin Maccini kick) FR – Kick return (kick good) WE – Redgate 36 run (Maccini kick) WE – Robby Broggi 48 pass from Shanahan (kick failed) WE – Jake Broggi 49 interception return (kick failed) WEST BRIDGEWATER 40, TRI-COUNTY 12 Tri-County (3-2) 6 0 0 6 – 12 West Bridgewater (3-2) 6 27 7 0 – 40 TC – Matt Pinto 3 run (conversion failed) WB – Ty Holmes 12 run (conversion failed) WB – Christian Packard 14 run (Jacob Smith kick) WB – James Harris 5 run (Smith kick) WB – Harris 2 run (conversion failed) WB – Luke Destrampe 27 pass from Harris (Smith kick) WB – Packard 45 run (Smith kick) TC – Pinto 5 run (conversion failed)

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Plans for revamped White Stadium include a restaurant with a bar

The group working to bring a women's professional soccer team to Boston will soon file detailed renovation plans for turning the dilapidated White Stadium into a state-of-the-art soccer arena to be shared with Boston Public Schools and the general public - to be opened in time for the start of the 2026 National Women's Soccer League season. In a "letter of intent" filed with the BPDA this week, Boston Unity Soccer Partners says part of its plans will include new 14,000-square-foot structures in the "Grove area" next to the stadium that will include a restaurant and bar, along with an area to sell souvenirs and related items and an area for "open space community activities." The new Grove-area facilities will be open year round, the group says, in part for use in public events. Under an agreement with the city, which owns the stadium, the group and the city will split renovations to the stadium itself. Boston Unity says it will extensively renovate and remodel the grandstand on the west side of the stadium to include not just seating areas but player locker rooms, food preparation and sales areas, a concourse and an area for the media. In addition to the restaurant, the Grove area will also get a video scoreboard. The city Public Facilities Department: Will be providing the soccer playing field and the athletic track and field areas; re-constructing the East Grandstand (and its spectator viewing areas; concourse; lavatories; locker-rooms; office/administrative areas; storage and other related facilities); and rehabilitating certain other areas and facilities on the White Stadium Parcel on behalf of the City. White Stadium filings and meeting schedule. Earlier: Roxbury, Jamaica Plain residents want assurances their streets won't be clogged by suburbanites driving into town to see women's soccer at White Stadium

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Willie Ruff, Jazz Missionary and Professor, Dies at 92

Willie Ruff, who fashioned an unlikely career in jazz as a French horn player and toured the world as a musical missionary in the acclaimed Mitchell-Ruff Duo while maintaining a parallel career at the Yale School of Music, died on Sunday at his home in Killen, Ala. He was 92. His death was confirmed by his niece Jennifer Green. Mr. Ruff, who was also a bassist, played both bass and French horn in the duo he formed with the pianist Dwike Mitchell in 1955, which lasted until Mr. Mitchell’s death in 2013. They opened for many jazz luminaries, including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Sarah Vaughan; played countless concerts in schools and colleges; and toured foreign countries where jazz was little known or even taboo. In 1959, they flouted edicts against music that the Soviet Union deemed bourgeois, performing an impromptu set in Moscow while on tour with the Yale Russian Chorus. Their concerts in China in 1981 were considered the first jazz performances there since the Cultural Revolution.

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Restaurant News for the Week Ending November 26, 2023

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Tell us: Should Boston have a guaranteed basic income program?

Tell Us Tell us: Should Boston have a guaranteed basic income program? Boston officials proposed a program that would provide a temporary guaranteed income program for low-income residents. Mabell Acevedo participated in Cambridge’s RISE program, that gave her a monthly cash stipend, with no strings attached. (Photo by Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff) Last week, Boston city councilors and officials from Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration held a hearing to discuss a guaranteed basic income pilot program for low-income Bostonians. Guaranteed income involves “routine cash payments that are often unconditional or with very limited conditions,” according to Elijah Miller, the director of policy for the city’s Office of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion, who spoke at the hearing. “The goal is to get people the cash they need on a regular basis where it’s predictable, it’s reliable and allows people to improve their situations,” he said. The proposal is still in the early stages of consideration, but it would help the nearly one in five Boston residents who are living below the poverty line. Advertisement: Just under 19% of Boston residents are living in poverty, and the child poverty rate is 27.7%, according to Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara, who sponsored the hearing. Women between the ages of 18 and 24 are the largest demographic living in poverty in the city, and most of those living in poverty are people of color. “We know that poverty is a policy failure, as we have seen so many times, that requires a policy solution,” Lara said Wednesday. “I think that, as a council, and as a city, we have a responsibility to ensure that we’re taking care of our most vulnerable residents.” Similar programs have been piloted in two Greater Boston cities, and have shown promising results. In 2020, more than 2,200 households facing food insecurity in Chelsea were selected by lottery to receive $400 a month for nine months. Sixty-five percent of the funds were spent on food and the program “largely achieved its goals,” a 2022 report from the Harvard Kennedy School found. The city continued the program from January through March 2023. And in Cambridge, a pilot program sent direct payments of $500 to 130 single-parent, low-income families. The program, which started in 2021, continued in 2023 and is set to cover roughly 2,000 low-income families. Advertisement: “The program has been really successful so far. We’ve been hearing from other cities around Massachusetts asking for advice for starting their own program,” Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui said at the hearing. However, the proposal has faced skepticism from local officials like City Council President Ed Flynn. Flynn said Boston needs “to ensure that we provide basic city services and public safety for our constituents,” and that the “city needs to prioritize paying better salaries for our city employees in order for us to find and maintain talent” before putting funding toward a guaranteed income program. “We would need significant funds for a universal basic income program. At this time, I don’t think we should experiment with the program,” he said. Meanwhile, Mayor Wu has expressed concern that the proposed pilot doesn’t go far enough. In appearances on WBUR’s “Radio Boston” and B87FM’s “Notorious in the Morning,” Wu questioned the need to run a pilot program at all, given the proven success of the Chelsea and Cambridge programs. “Of course, people use money on things that they need in their daily lives. We know that. We don’t need to test it anymore, we don’t need to pilot this or that,” Wu said on B87FM. Advertisement: “How do we get something that we can actually sustain and scale and touch everyone? For me, I want to make sure that’s actually infrastructure building rather than dropping in some resources which will be very, very helpful for those small groups of families who can access it but then evaporate because the pilot ends,” Wu said on WBUR’s “Radio Boston.” Proponents of the program said funding could come from philanthropic partners, nonprofits, and contributions from universities and medical facilities in Boston, though there are questions about how sustainable long-term funding would be. Should Boston have a guaranteed basic income program? Tell us by filling out the form or e-mailing us at [email protected], and your response may appear in a future Boston.com article.

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Whats open and closed in Massachusetts on New Years Day 2024

If you’re the kind of person who wakes up on New Year’s Day without a hangover and ready to leave the house, this list is just the thing for you. Here’s what’s open and closed in Massachusetts on New Year’s Day 2024. Government City and town offices: Closed State offices: Closed Registry of Motor Vehicles: Closed State and local courts: Closed Federal courts: Closed Finance Banks: Closed. Most ATMs will remain open. Stock market: Closed Alcohol Massachusetts liquor stores: Open; hours may vary per location Connecticut liquor stores: Closed Shopping Auburn Mall: Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Holyoke Mall: Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hampshire (Hadley) Mall: Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Natick Mall: Open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Big Y: Open regular hours Stop & Shop: Open regular hours Market Basket: Open 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Price Rite: Open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Star Market: Open Walmart: Open 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Target: Open 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. Wegmans: Open regular hours Safeway: Open, hours vary by location Costco: Closed CVS: Open, hours vary Walgreens: Open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Aldi: Closed Whole Foods: Open, hours vary Trader Joe’s: Closed Parcel services Post offices: Closed FedEx: Closed; no regular pickup and delivery UPS: Closed Transportation Pioneer Valley Transit Authority: PVTA will operate on a Sunday schedule. Additionally, beginning Jan. 1, no fares or passes will be needed for PVTA bus and paratransit services on Saturdays and Sundays. UMass Transit: UMass Transit has no services on most routes; B43 will operate on a No School Sunday schedule. R29 will operate on a weekend schedule. Worcester Regional Transit Authority: There will be no fixed-route bus or paratransit service. MBTA:

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3 Contentious Exchanges at the College Antisemitism Hearing

On Tuesday, the presidents of three leading American universities — Claudine Gay of Harvard, Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania — were at the center of a contentious congressional hearing on antisemitism on college campuses. In one of the most notable exchanges, the leaders of the schools were pressed on whether they discipline students calling for the genocide of Jews. Their responses — “It is a context-dependent decision,” Ms. Magill answered at one point — drew widespread criticism. But the administrators faced a barrage of other pointed questions at the hearing of the House Education and Workforce Committee, mainly from Republicans, who adopted a prosecutorial tone as they pushed for more definitive answers. Here are some of those exchanges: On chants for intifada on Harvard’s campus In one instance, Representative Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, pressed Ms. Gay over whether the university condoned chants of “intifada” on its campus.

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Storm to miss most of New England, but we wont escape a bitterly cold weekend

Boston police arrested one person Sunday afternoon after four people were stabbed at a DoubleTree hotel in Dorchester, according to police. The victims were taken to a hospital and are still being evaluated, but their wounds are believed to be non-life-threatening, a Boston police spokesperson said. Read more: Man found stabbed on Gove Street in Boston dies at hospital Officers found the victims at the hotel after they were called to 240 Mount Vernon St. for a report of a stabbing a little after 4:20 p.m. Sunday, police said. They also took a suspect into custody, but it is unclear if that person has been charged in connection with the stabbing. Everyone involved was an adult, police said. Authorities have not identified the suspect or the victims. Read more: Boston police identify teen found stabbed to death in alley as Angel Vega No further information about the stabbing has been released. Hilton Hotels, which owns and operates DoubleTree hotels, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday. There have been at least two fatal stabbings in Boston in the last few weeks. On Dec. 11, 18-year-old Dorchester resident Angel Vega was found stabbed to death in an alleyway in Roslindale. On Friday, a man who has not yet been identified died of stab wounds after being found by police in East Boston.

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Opinion | The Church, Living in Christmas Past

My mom loved Christmas so much, she would sometimes leave the tree up until April. She dyed a sheet blue for the sky behind the crèche and made a star of tin foil. The cradle would stay empty until Christmas morning; when we tumbled downstairs, the baby would be in his place, and the house would smell of roasting turkey. Mom always took it personally if you didn’t wear red or green on Christmas, and she signed all the presents “Love, Baby Jesus,” “Love, Virgin Mary” or “Love, St. Joseph.” (My brother Kevin was always upset that Joseph got short shrift, disappearing from the Bible; why wasn’t he around to boast about Jesus turning water into wine?) We went to midnight Mass back then, and it was magical, despite some boys wearing Washington Redskins bathrobes as they carried presents down the aisle for Baby Jesus.

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House Republicans Target Biden by Focusing on His Sons News Conference

Twelve hostages who had been held captive by Hamas since its Oct. 7 attack on Israel were released today, as the cease-fire entered a fifth day and appeared to be holding. Not long afterward, the Israeli authorities said they had released another 30 imprisoned Palestinians. The release of the hostages came just hours after the two sides accused each other of violating their truce for the first time since it went into effect last Friday. Israel said that explosive devices were detonated near its troops in two places in northern Gaza. Hamas said its fighters had engaged in a “field clash” provoked by Israel. But neither side suggested that it might pull out of the agreement. Here’s the latest. Officials have raised their expectations that both sides will agree to more short extensions. The truce has succeeded in freeing dozens of hostages — a central Israeli objective — while also allowing aid into Gaza and giving Palestinians a break from the hostilities. But the longer that dynamic lasts, the greater Israel’s conundrum: Each daily prisoner release boosts Hamas’s popularity, and a long pause slows the momentum of Israel’s invasion, endangering its stated goal of removing Hamas from power. In the U.S., administration officials say they have warned Israel to fight more surgically. Also, President Biden has faced anger among supporters and even from some staff members over his solidarity with Israel.

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Mass. State Lottery winners: 2 $100K prizes won or claimed same day

Two $100,000 lottery prizes were won or claimed in Massachusetts on Friday. One of the winning tickets was sold at Lanzilli’s Fuel on Bennington Street in East Boston. The $100,000 prize was won during Friday’s night’s “Mass Cash” drawing, according to the Massachusetts State Lottery’s website. The winning numbers were 11, 12, 17, 30 and 31. The other $100,000 prize was won from a “$100,000 Extra Play” scratch ticket bought for $2 at Mahant Border Bets & Butts in Attleboro. In Mass Cash, the odds of winning $100,000, the top prize in the game, are one in 324,632. To play, participants must select five numbers between one and 35, either manually or randomly by using the lottery computer system. Each play costs $1. Drawings are done every day at 9 p.m. In $100,000 Extra Play, the odds of winning $100,000, also the top prize in the game, are one in 2.016 million. The winners of the $100,000 prizes were not the only lucky lottery players in Massachusetts this week. On Friday, the winner of the Mass Millionaire Holiday Raffle grand prize claimed his $1 million reward. On Thursday, there were five $100,000 prizes won or claimed, with four won during the daily Mass Cash drawing. On Wednesday, a $500,000 grand prize was claimed from a crossword-style scratch ticket game. On Tuesday, a player won a $25,000-a-year-for-life prize from the multi-state drawing game “Lucky for Life,” and on Monday, New Year’s Day, a player who went to a sandwich shop won a $100,000 prize. Every day, the State Lottery posts online a list of all the winning lottery tickets worth at least $600 sold or claimed in Massachusetts. There were 849 total tickets worth at least $600 sold or claimed Friday, including 21 in Springfield, 26 in Worcester and 60 in Boston.

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Brazils Congress Weakens Protection of Indigenous Lands, Defying Lula

The economy is good, but Americans feel bad about it. Or do they? The more I look into it, the more I’m convinced that much of what looks like poor public perception about the economy is actually just Republicans angry that Donald Trump isn’t still president. Last year was a very good one for the U.S. economy. Job growth was strong, unemployment remained near a 50-year low and inflation plunged. Some reports I’ve seen suggest that this favorable combination was somehow paradoxical and contrary to economic theory. In fact, however, it’s exactly what textbook economics says to expect in an economy experiencing an improvement in its productive capacity. And I do mean textbook economics. Here’s a figure from one of the leading introductory economics textbooks — OK, Krugman and Wells, seventh edition (forthcoming) — on the effects of adverse and favorable “supply shocks”:

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St. Marys opening 20-2 run spurs 55-32 win over Pioneer Valley Christian Academy

WESTFIELD - The St. Mary’s High School boys basketball team may have just found their secret weapon or at least one of them. St. Mary’s guard-forward Patryk Lech scored 14 points, including three 3-pointers to help the Saints stop a two-game slide and turn back Pioneer Valley Christian Academy, 55-32, Wednesday night at Westfield Intermediate School.

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How to watch the new episode of Bravos Below Deck Mediterranean for free

The new episode from season 8 of Bravo’s “Below Deck Mediterranean” will air on Monday, Jan. 8 starting at 9 p.m. EST. For those without cable, the show can be streamed on platforms like FuboTV and DirecTV. Both platforms offer a free trial for new users interested in signing up for an account. Sling is available as well for streaming. You can also stream it the next day on Peacock. “Between friends with benefits and open relationships, there’s no shortage of boat-mances and boat break-ups. When disagreements impact productivity and former friendships start to implode, Sandy is faced with a wave of difficult decisions,” Bravo wrote about the show. In the new episode, “the bosun’s texting with a familiar chief stew turns into a damage control crisis; the chef faces a culinary challenge with a blindfolded dinner; Illness strikes the lead deckhand.” How can I watch the newest episode of “Below Deck Mediterranean”? Viewers looking to stream can do so by using FuboTV, Sling or DirecTV Stream. Both FuboTV and DirecTV offer free trials when you sign up and Sling offers 50% off your first month. You can also stream it the next day on Peacock. What is FuboTV? FuboTV is an over-the-top internet live TV streaming service that offers more than 100 channels, such as sports, news, entertainment and local channels. What is DirecTV? The streaming platform offers a plethora of content including streaming the best of live and On Demand, starting with more than 75 live TV channels. DirecTV also offers a free trial for any package you sign up.

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Opinion | A Warning About Donald Trump and 2024

If in 2016 various factions of the electorate were prepared to look beyond Mr. Trump’s bombast in the hope that he might deliver whatever it was they wanted without too much damage to the nation, today there is no mystery about what he will do should he win, about the sorts of people he will surround himself with and the personal and political goals he will pursue. There is no mystery, either, about the consequences for the world if America re-elects a leader who openly displays his contempt for its allies. Mr. Trump’s four years in the White House did lasting damage to the presidency and to the nation. He deepened existing divisions among Americans, leaving the country dangerously polarized; he so demeaned public discourse that many Americans have become inured to lies, insults and personal attacks at the highest levels of leadership. His contempt for the rule of law raised concerns about the long-term stability of American democracy, and his absence of a moral compass threatened to corrode the ideals of national service. The Republic weathered Mr. Trump’s presidency for a variety of reasons: his lack of prepared agenda, the disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic and the efforts of appointees who tried to temper his most dangerous or unreasonable demands. Most important, it survived because of the people and institutions in his administration and in the Republican Party who proved strong enough to stand up to his efforts to undermine the peaceful transfer of power. It is instructive in the aftermath of that administration to listen to the judgments of some of these officials on the president they served. John Kelly, a chief of staff to Mr. Trump, called him the “most flawed person I’ve ever met,” someone who could not understand why Americans admired those who sacrificed their lives in combat. Bill Barr, who served as attorney general, and Mark Esper, a former defense secretary, both said Mr. Trump repeatedly put his own interests over those of the country. Even the most loyal and conservative of them all, Vice President Mike Pence, who made the stand that helped provoke Mr. Trump and his followers to insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, saw through the man: “On that day, President Trump also demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution,” he said. There will not be people like these in the White House should Mr. Trump be re-elected. The former president has no interest in being restrained, and he has surrounded himself with people who want to institutionalize the MAGA doctrine. According to reporting by the Times reporters Maggie Haberman, Charlie Savage and Jonathan Swan, Mr. Trump and his ideological allies have been planning for a second Trump term for many months already. Under the name Project 2025, one coalition of right-wing organizations has produced a thick handbook and recruited thousands of potential appointees in preparation for an all-out assault on the structures of American government and the democratic institutions that acted as checks on Mr. Trump’s power.

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Former Celtics guard could return from injury after absence

The Grizzlies already got some reinforcements with Ja Morant back into the lineup after a brutal start to the season. They could return another crucial member of the team after former C’s guard Marcus Smart hasn’t played a game in more than a month. Smart is questionable on the injury report ahead of the Grizzlies’ game against the Pelicans on Tuesday, so there’s a chance he could play soon. Smart hasn’t played in a game since Nov. 14 because of a foot sprain that has kept him out for the past 16 games. BET ANYTHING GET $250 BONUS ESPN BET CLAIM OFFER MASS 21+ and present in MA, NJ, PA, VA, MD, WV, TN, LA, KS, KY, CO, AZ, IL, IA, IN, OH, MI. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-Gambler. The Grizzlies have struggled to the tune of a 9-19 record this season. However, they are on a three-game win streak with Morant back with the team after serving his 25-game suspension. Now, it’ll be interesting to see how Smart figures into the Grizzlies’ plans going forward. The guard has averaged 12.5 points, 2.5 rebounds and 5.0 assists in his 11 games for Memphis this season. But Morant is a huge piece of what the Grizzlies do, so how Smart fits with him will be the question in the next few games and weeks. Regardless, it’s a huge plus that Smart is healthy enough after the foot sprain kept him out for weeks. The guard missed his first game against the Celtics because of that injury. The Grizzlies do travel to face the Celtics in Boston on Feb. 4, so that’ll be Smart’s first game against his told team as he long as he stays healthy.

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Interactive map: Thousands without power across Mass. due to storm

Thousands of New Englanders lost power Saturday morning as a powerful storm impacts the region. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency reported 3,396 customers without electricity as of 9:30 a.m. About 12,000 New Hampshire electric customers were also without power on Saturday morning. Get Boston local news, weather forecasts, lifestyle and entertainment stories to your inbox. Sign up for NBC Boston’s newsletters. Vermont has 23,000 customers without power and Maine 2,100. Rhode Island has about 10,000 homes without electricity, and Connecticut another 700 customers with no power.

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Some areas of northern New England got up to a foot of snow overnight

Most of Greater Boston saw heavy rain and strong winds overnight. But in parts of northern New England, it was a serious snow event. The highest snowfall totals in the region were in Vermont, which saw as much as a foot in some areas. Happy Monday!🤠 We picked up over 10 inches of snow at mid mountain overnight - not a bad way to start the week! pic.twitter.com/2XuF7tHXiB — Sugarbush, Vermont (@Sugarbush_VT) November 27, 2023 Here's a look at snowfall totals across New England, according to the National Weather Service. Get Boston local news, weather forecasts, lifestyle and entertainment stories to your inbox. Sign up for NBC Boston’s newsletters. Maine Madrid: 5.3" Rangeley: 4.7" Dallas: 2.3" Sinclair: 2" Castle Hill: 1.6" Caribou: 1.5" North Brighton: 1" New Hampshire Mount Washington: 8" Littleton: 4.5" Carroll: 2.5" Pittsburg: 2" Lyme: 1.5" Jefferson: 1.3" Whitefield: 1" Lancaster: 1" Vermont Hyde Park: 12" Duxbury: 9.5" North Calais: 9.5" East Warren: 9.5" Stannard: 9" Cabot: 9" Waterbury Center: 8" Smugglers Notch: 8" Worcester: 7.5" East Barre: 7.3" Sutton: 6.5" Stowe: 6.5" South Ludlow: 5.8" Topsham: 5.5" North Waitsfield: 5" Morrisville: 5" Landgrove: 5" Waterbury: 4.8" West Hartford: 4.3" Montpelier: 4.2" West Norwich: 4" Orleans: 3.8" West Burke: 3.5" Countryside Estates: 2.8" Manchester: 2.7" West Arlington: 1.5" South Essex Center: 1"

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Congress Abandons Ukraine Aid Until Next Year as Border Talks Continue

Congress gave up Tuesday on a last-ditch bid to speed through emergency military aid to Ukraine before the end of the year, as negotiators failed to cement a deal that Republicans have demanded tying the money to a crackdown on migration across the U.S. border with Mexico. “It is our hope that their efforts will allow the Senate to take swift action on the national security supplemental early in the new year,” Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, and Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader, said in a rare joint statement. They pledged to address Ukraine aid and border measures alongside military funding to Israel and the Indo-Pacific, promising that “the Senate will not let these national security challenges go unanswered.” The delay punts the fate of Ukraine aid — and the complicated task of drafting new immigration laws — into early next year, when lawmakers will also face the daunting task of striking a broader spending agreement to avert a partial government shutdown by mid-January.

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Boston-based Drizly shutting down its alcohol delivery service

BOSTON — Last call is nearing for Drizly. The Boston-based company confirmed in a post on X that it’s “slowly” shutting down its alcohol delivery service. “All good things must come to an end,” Drizly wrote in a statement. “Orders are still open until the end of March. We’ll be sure to let you know when it’s last call.” Drizly was founded in a Boston College dorm room more than a decade ago when one friend texted another: “Why can’t you get alcohol delivered?” Uber acquired Drizly in October 2021 for about $1.1 billion. At the time Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said, “Uber Eats and Drizly are truly the perfect pairing.” Drizly recommended that customers order beverages on the Uber Eats app when business ultimately shuts down. This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available. Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW ©2024 Cox Media Group

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Highway safety advocates: Mass. traffic laws are improving

Last year, the commonwealth lost 433 people to automobile wrecks on the state’s highways and byways. In Springfield, the city already has four more fatal or serious injury car crashes this year than last, now at 17 crashes, according to data from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Transportation Center. Not only are traffic fatalities a source of grief for thousands of Bay State residents, but these losses also aggrieve taxpayers, totaling about $7.4 billion annually for all needless crashes in Massachusetts. The total cost of crashes per year in the U.S. is $340 billion, according to the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. U.S. taxpayers “essentially pay an annual crash tax of nearly $1,035,” said Catherine Chase, president of the advocacy group, which recently published a 68-page report rating the 50 states on their transportation laws. The ratings come after a countrywide historic high in fatal auto crashes in 2022, the national road safety organization said. In response, the group has identified 16 safety laws that states can adopt to protect drivers, bikers and pedestrians; the group bases its recommendations on state-level data on crashes. In the last year, Massachusetts has improved its scoring from the “danger zone,” or the least provisions implemented, to the “caution zone,” or some provisions implemented, according to the organization’s ratings of laws in place. Safety measures praised The commonwealth has adopted six of the 16 provisions the organization suggests for all state Legislatures: a motorcycle helmet law, a booster seat law, minimum ages for permits and licensing, open container law, texting restriction and a cellphone restriction. Just on Monday, state legislators discussed the possibility of improving several other transportation laws, including seatbelts on school buses and better police detection of impaired drivers. “Distracted driving is one of the leading causes of crashes in the country,” U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said at a press conference Tuesday about the report. Last week in Andover, a 1-year-old baby died in a single-car crash, in which the driver said she lost control of her car. Police said they are investigating if distracted driving was the cause of the crash. Additional measures for which the group advocates include nighttime driving restrictions and offender ignition locks, among others. Built-in safety Michael Knodler, the director of the UMass Amherst Transportation Center, said that Massachusetts has adopted “safe system thinking” into its transportation legislation. “The state is recognizing the value of human life — in drivers, bikers and pedestrians,” he said. “Equal access to safety is a primary focus for the state.” He credited the state with some of its speed management techniques, but also said, “Like anything, there is always room for improvement.” One piece of legislation that Knodler said he thinks the state is hesitating to advance is speed cameras. It’s one of the laws that advocates recommend, according to Tara Gill, the organization’s senior director of state and federal government relations. Despite this, Knodler said the state is close to achieving a lot of the provisions stated in the report. Six states and Washington, D.C., rank in the “good” zone in the report, including New England states Connecticut and Rhode Island. A majority of states, Massachusetts included, fall into the “caution zone.” Light in the darkness When the Biden administration passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a promise for “safer people, safer roads” was made, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “But, implementation is slow and stagnant,” said Chase. “No state has all 16 roadway safety measures.” Markey noted, however, that there’s a “glimmer of hope” from within the hard statistics of automobile fatalities. “Traffic safety deaths have now declined for five straight quarters (nationwide),” he said. “The only acceptable number of fatalities is zero.”

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Valedictorian Project helps give disadvantaged Boston-area students a more level playing field

“I was on my co-op last year for, like, a straight year, so coming back to campus feels kind of nerve-wracking,” said Jasmine Rodriguez, 21. “But I feel more experienced than I did in my first year. I had a lot of anxiety in my first year, but now it’s been really chill.” As about a dozen Northeastern University students went around a conference table talking about their college experiences, voices were soft and answers halting, at least initially. Gradually, though, the students at this check-in meeting last fall began to open up and speak candidly about the challenges and adjustments of college life. Advertisement The students were Black, Latino, and Asian American and ranged from first-years to seniors, mostly from neighborhoods across Boston; the majority were the first generation of their family to attend college. Most were their high schools’ valedictorians — hardworking, smart students who excelled despite lacking the advantages of many peers. That’s where The Valedictorian Project came in. The Boston-based nonprofit was founded in 2020 in response to the Boston Globe’s award-winning 2019 investigative series, The Valedictorians Project, which found that the city’s best and brightest public school students often encounter major obstacles to their academic and professional goals. (The Globe is not involved with the organization.) The Valedictorian Project matches participating high school graduates with peer mentors close to their age and a senior mentor who is an experienced professional in their intended line of work. It also provides a $500 stipend for books and other necessities, and supplemental support through partnerships with other organizations to help students navigate their new lives on campus and choose career paths. “Many of our mentors are first-gen college students themselves,” cofounder and executive director Amy McDermott said in an interview. “Many navigated very similar personal backgrounds to our mentees. I hear often in our mentor interviews, they want to be that person that they wish they had in navigating college.” Advertisement This academic year marks a milestone for the organization, as its first cohort of college freshmen are now seniors. McDermott said the organization began by inviting Boston valedictorians to participate in its first year, then added students from Lawrence in year two, Brockton and Worcester in 2022, and Chelsea last spring. Jasmine Rodriguez took part in a roundtable discussion at Northeastern University for students participating in The Valedictorian Project. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff Mentor John Marley, 30, of Taunton, said the organization helps level the playing field for young people who don’t come from privileged backgrounds. “Students from wealthier families have always had these mentorship relationships, always had these connections, and those things are just unseen,” said Marley, an attorney whose family came to the United States from Jamaica when he was 5. “Unfairly or not ... it’s always advantaged a particular group and class of students over another. And I think they do a good job addressing that.” This academic year, The Valedictorian Project is supporting 140 students, of whom about three-quarters are first-generation college students and roughly 85 percent are people of color, according to McDermott. Besides Northeastern, students in the program attend Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Brown, Yale, Stanford, and other colleges around the country, she said. As a student of color at an expensive private university, Rodriguez said, “You have to physically go out and try to find people that look like you. And I feel like for everyone else, it’s very easy. They find them in their classes. But it’s like, in my classes there’ll be like one other Black or Hispanic person.” Advertisement Rodriguez, a Dorchester native majoring in communications and sociology, recently spent a year as a social media co-op for an organization that supports domestic violence victims. She is drawn to work that will help others, she said, because she saw people in need in her neighborhood and her own family as she grew up. “I saw a lot of people that look like me struggle and go through a lot of things,” she said. “My mom is an immigrant. … We grew up on Section 8 [housing assistance]; we grew up on food stamps and stuff like that.” Ciana Omnis participated in a Northeastern University roundtable discussion for students participating in The Valedictorian Project. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff Ciana Omnis, 20, a third-year industrial engineering major who grew up in Florida, moved to Dorchester at age 14, and was the 2021 valedictorian at Brighton High School. She is the eldest of three children, so she can’t lean on older siblings for advice, she said. Her father, a truck driver who immigrated to the United States from Haiti, didn’t complete high school, she said, while her mother, a health care administrator, completed an associate’s degree but doesn’t yet have her bachelor’s. “I’ve met a lot of people in college who have parents who have done four-year degrees or whatnot, or even other kinds of higher education, so they’re able to get advice from their parents,” Omnis said. “For me, it’s been a bit harder, because I have to kind of figure out certain things on my own.” Advertisement Her mentors help fill that gap, she said, and the program helps her “meet other people who have the same background as me.” After they met through a Valedictorian Project event, John Le, who was the 2022 valedictorian at East Boston High School, became friends with Connor Lashley, the 2022 valedictorian at Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester. “One of the issues is socializing, like making a friend group, because from my experience, from each class you kind of like meet people there, but if you’re not in the same major, you might not be able to maintain a relationship with them,” said Le, 20. The Valedictorian Project, he added, “has really been helpful to meet people at Northeastern and ... find people with similar interests.” Lashley, 19, said his mentors have helped him learn how to network with others in his field and steered him toward scholarship opportunities, and he can count on their support whenever he needs it. “They’re pretty much available the same day if stuff comes up,” he said. Connor Lashley (left) and John Le took part in a roundtable discussion at Northeastern University for students participating in The Valedictorian Project. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff Jeremy C. Fox can be reached at jeremy.fox@globe.com. Follow him @jeremycfox.

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The 14th Amendment Disqualification Was Not Meant for Trump - The New York Times

Challenges to disqualify Donald Trump from the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment are popping up all over the country. On Thursday the secretary of state of Maine ruled that Mr. Trump would be ineligible for the state’s primary ballot, a decision that can be appealed to the state’s Supreme Court. On Wednesday the Michigan Supreme Court ruled narrowly that the state will allow Mr. Trump to stay on the primary ballot but left open a potential future challenge to his inclusion on a general-election ballot. But so far only one — the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that bars Mr. Trump from the primary ballot — has reached the doorstep of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court should take the case and reverse the Colorado Supreme Court ruling and do so for the very reason cited by the Colorado judges. According to the Colorado court (quoting an earlier, unrelated case), Section 3 should be interpreted “in light of the objective sought to be achieved and the mischief to be avoided.” That is exactly right. The Colorado court failed, however, to follow its own advice. When Congress passed the 14th Amendment, there wasn’t a person in the Senate or House who worried about loyal Americans electing a former rebel like Jefferson Davis as president. Instead, Republicans feared that the leaders of the rebellion would use their local popularity to disrupt Republican Reconstruction policy in Congress or in the states. Section 3 expressly addressed these concerns and did so without denying loyal Americans their right to choose a president.

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Keezers, oldest second-hand clothing store in America, opens Springfield location

SPRINGFIELD — There is a Chinese proverb about crossing the river by feeling the stones. And it’s what wife-and-husband team Wenting Jia and Nels Frye say they are doing as they open and refine the Springfield branch of Keezer’s Classic Clothing, the oldest second-hand fashion store in America with its roots going back to 1895. Take a step. Survey the next step. Take another step. And the first big step was for Jia to partner with Dick Robasson — owner of the two Keezer’s locations in Cambridge — to bring the concept to Springfield. “Springfield has space,” she said. “Springfield has space that’s affordable. Springfield has space that’s affordable and near the highway.” Frye added: “We could never do something like this in Boston.” The store, which opened three weeks ago, sits in a former bank office on the first floor of the MassLive Building at 1350 Main St. It is the first store to open in the incubator of new downtown businesses called 1350 Market overseen by Latino Economic Development Corporation. MassLive owns the naming rights to the building where some of its offices are located. Evan C. Plotkin, president and CEO of real estate company NAI Plotkin and a partner in the Masslive Building, said he’s been told by those “hipper” than himself that the clothes are trendy. “We need other retail downtown,” he said. ”I think the vintage clothing store is a really great start. I’m excited about that.” The next step is to refine the concept, building on Keezer’s long history of used and vintage menswear to add women’s clothing, upcycled goods and Jia’s own brand, J.W. Frye, which is a line of decorative objects made of recycled plastics. “There is so little competition it’s hard for me to do market research,” said Jia, who ran vintage clothing stores in Shanghai before coming to America. Keezer’s Springfield location is open from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Robasson — who took over Keezer’s five years ago and moved it from its longtime location near Harvard University — said Jia started as a frequent shopper who helped him sell clothing via a livestream video when the store was closed during the pandemic. Jia and Frye moved to Springfield (Frye grew up in Western Massachusetts) and hatched the idea to locate in Springfield. “It was a good opportunity to expand a little bit,” said Robasson, himself a Haitian immigrant to the United States who worked as a tailor. “So I did visit Springfield a couple of times,” he said. Jia said she visited cities across New England and Pennsylvania looking at revitalized downtowns and business opportunities. “One thing I noticed is that they all had a vintage or upcycled clothing shop, often coupled with an art gallery,” she said. At the Springfield Keezer’s, Jia has coupled used clothing from Keezer’s Cambridge inventory with vintage clothing from her own collection, goods made by local artisans including local makers of goat milk soap and Chef Wayne Hooker’s Big Mamou hot sauce and seasoning. “Someone came in looking for Chef Wayne’s seasoning because they heard it was here,” Jia said. “It’s hot. I tell people if they taste it, and if they regret it, don’t come here and complain!” J.W. Frye recycles plastic into art objects, like vases and display jars, using 3D-printing technology. There are also T-shirts made from recycled plastics. Jia displayed a box of plastic bottle caps, material donated by customers to be made into new products at a factory in New Hampshire. She wants to key into the trend of used clothing and recycled and upcycled goods sold together as a themed retail experience. “That’s the new department store,” she said. “You see that all over Northern Europe.” At Keezer’s, a $1,100 blazer might sell for $120. “Keezer’s has the largest reservoir of used clothing in New England,” Frye said. “It’s an extensive library.” The threads are culled, Robasson said, from shoppers who come in to sell pieces from their collections or from buying whole wardrobes from estates or as people downsize and jettison dressy clothes. “There are never two items exactly the same,” Robasson said. “I might have something in Springfield I don’t have anywhere else.” He said he’s trying to branch into vintage clothes. That is, items that might be older and display a distinctive style. “Of course now we are trying to open a women’s section also,” Robasson said.

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Why Our Great Economy Is Making Young Americans Grumpy - The New York Times

As a part-time commentator on things economic, I’m often asked a seemingly straightforward question: If the economy is so good, why are Americans so grumpy? By many measures — unemployment, inflation, the stock market — the economy is strong. Yet only 23 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the right direction, a strong headwind for President Biden’s approval ratings. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s formidable base of disgruntled voters endures. As I’ve engaged with my many interlocutors, I’ve concluded that voters have valid reasons for their negativity. In my view, blame two culprits: one immediate and impacting everybody, and another that particularly affects young people and is coming into view like a giant iceberg. Both sit atop the leaderboard of reasons for the sour national mood. While inflation has provided the proximate trigger for unhappy feelings, an understandable grimness about our broader economic prospects, particularly for younger Americans, is playing a major part.

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Patriots cornerback Jonathan Jones a nominee for prestigious NFL award

FOXBOROUGH - In January, Jonathan Jones was honored with the Ron Burton Community Service Award. Now the Patriots cornerback has a chance at earning one of the NFL’s most prestigious honors. Jones is this year’s Patriots nominee for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award. The award acknowledges NFL players who excel on the field and demonstrate a passion for creating a lasting positive impact beyond the game in their communities. While Jones said Tuesday he was too young to remember Payton as a player, he is well aware of Payton’s legacy and impact beyond the gridiron. “(The award) wasn’t on my radar, but it’s something you aways hear about and you see,” said Jones, who is preparing for Thursday night’s game with the Pittsburgh Steelers. “Just being a fan of the game, a fan of football, just seeing guys year after get nominated. I just continue to do work, and show up. Not just here in Boston, but in Auburn, and my hometown (Long Beach, California), and all the places that mean a lot to me.” $200 INSTANT BONUS DRAFTKINGS MASS CLAIM OFFER BET $5, GET $200 BONUS BET FANDUEL MASS CLAIM OFFER BET $50, GET $250 BONUS CAESARS MASS CLAIM OFFER $1,000 FIRST-BET BONUS BETMGM MASS CLAIM OFFER MA only. 21+. Gambling Problem? If you or a loved one is experiencing problems with gambling, please call 1-800-327-5050 or visit gamblinghelplinema.org for 24/7 support. LiveChat with a GameSense Advisor at GameSenseMA.com or call 1-800-GAM-1234 MA Gambling Helpline. MA only. 21+. Gambling Problem? If you or a loved one is experiencing problems with gambling, please call 1-800-327-5050 or visit gamblinghelplinema.org for 24/7 support. LiveChat with a GameSense Advisor at GameSenseMA.com or call 1-800-GAM-1234 MA Gambling Helpline. Jones started the Jonathan Jones Next Step Foundation to positively impact the lives of youth in his New England and Georgia communities through education and mentorship. A champion of woman’s causes, Jones also made history as the first male ambassador for iPlay Like a Girl, an organization supporting women and girls in STEM and sports. In February, he revisited the Auburn Sustenance Project, hosting a community fundraiser and packing means for those in need. Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced Jones’ nomination to the team. The veteran cornerback, who has been a stalwart of the Patriots defense in a disappointing season, said he was surprised by the news. “There’s so many guys in this locker room that do so many good things,” he said. “There’s other guys who are deserving as well . . . it’s something you don’t take lightly. There’s so many men before me, not only in this organization, but in the National Football League, that do a lot in their communities, and to be tied to a name like Walter Payton, that’s something (that’s special).” NFL fans can wager online on Massachusetts sports betting with enticing promo codes from top online sportsbooks. Use the FanDuel Massachusetts promo code and the DraftKings Massachusetts promo code for massive new user bonuses.

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Californias Ban on Guns in Most Public Places Is Blocked Again

Housing — and creating more of it — is at the center of a new draft economic development plan Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey introduced this week. "I've said for a long time now, the greatest challenge facing our state really is housing and a lack of housing that people can afford," said Healey on WBUR's Radio Boston Thursday. She broke the plan down to three areas: fundamentals, talent and sectors. In terms of fundaments, Healey named addressing challenges in housing by increasing the production of units to lower costs, and improving the reliability of the MBTA. She touted MBTA General Manager Phil Eng's plan to eliminate slow zones on the transit system by the end of next year. Residents aged 26 to 35 have been leaving the state, citing the cost of living as a major factor, according to an August report from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. Healey says keeping these young workers in the state, and attracting other new residents, is crucial to maintaining and growing the state's economy. "We're going to launch programs to attract college graduates, non-college graduates, immigrants, trades professions, that human talent that has always been a special sauce here in Massachusetts. Let's nurture it. Let's grow that," said Healey. Finally, Healey noted the plan considers what sectors the state wants to lead in in the future. The governor named fields like life sciences, climate technology and applied artificial intelligence, as well as rural economies, tourism and culture. Healey also talked about the more than $3.1-billion supplemental budget that she just signed that provides funding for the state's emergency shelter system, and the state of the MBTA. Click the red play button atop this post to listen to the rest of the interview.

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For the Billionaire Who Has Everything, Consider an Island in the San Francisco Bay

The words “private island” conjure up visions of mai tais, palm trees and solitary afternoons on a white sand beach. Red Rock Island is not that kind of island. It is a six-acre, dome-shaped outcropping that is tricky to reach and even trickier to explore. Its sparse plant life consists of scraggly shrubs and pines, along with thickets of poison oak. Its beaches are rocky, its cliffs steep. Forget mai tais. This island doesn’t have a bar, let alone trails, potable water, electricity or structures of any sort. You can take a private boat there, but it has no dock. You can fly a helicopter there, but it has no landing pad. And for $25 million, it can all be yours. “We believe this is like owning a Leonardo da Vinci or a Rothko,” said Chris Lim, a San Francisco real estate broker who represents the seller. “This is something someone would want in their portfolio like art or a sculpture.”

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Southwick business is ready to install towns 1st electric vehicle chargers

SOUTHWICK — After two and a half years of planning, Valvoline Express Care will soon offer two charging station for electric vehicles. “We’re in the oil changing business, so it might seem counterintuitive to install EV charging stations,” said Ken Scharmann, who owns the business at 657 College Highway with his brother Jeff.

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UMass holds off Siena in final non-conference tune-up

AMHERST – In the final tune-up before beginning Atlantic 10 play, UMass men’s basketball held off Siena, 79-66, at the Mullins Center on Saturday afternoon. The Minutemen (9-3), got an all-around effort from Matt Cross. The senior scored 24 points with five assists and nine rebounds. While Cross played efficiently on offense, his impact on the defensive end fueled the UMass victory. Cross had eight steals. “I have just gone into this year trying to embrace Frank’s (Martin) philosophy of defense,” Cross said. Cross frequently got into passing lanes, disrupting the Saints offense. The turnovers led to UMass outscoring Siena 25-7 on the fast break. UMass had another huge advantage on points from turnovers (26-10). “He’s always putting pressure on you,” Siena head coach Carmen Maciariello said of Cross. “His game is just being a hard hat guy. He does a good job defensively getting in passing lanes. He plays so hard. Playing hard is a commodity. It’s a skill you have to recruit.” Sophomore guard Keon Thompson scored a career-high 21 points for the Minutemen. “The game felt smooth to me,” Thompson said. “It didn’t feel like I forced anything. I just felt confident out there.” Thompson went 7-for-12 from the floor and 6-for-8 from the free throw line. With 4:50 left, UMass called timeout leading 66-60 after the Saints made a small run to get back into the game. Thompson responded, scoring eight straight points to help close out the game. UMass returned home after a long road trip to Hawaii and the home crowd greeted them with 4,036 fans at the Mullins Center, despite the absence of most students due to winter break. “It was good,” Cross said. “We all have been dealing with the whole jet lag thing. Different time zones. We are tired at different parts of the day not sleeping at night. But that’s part of the journey. It was good to finally practice in our gym and play in our arena in front of our fans.” “(The crowd) was good. I love it,” Cross said. “When you win games, people want to come watch. It’s all on us, we gotta keep it going and keep winning. It’s good to see some people in the stands.” UMass had to deal with an ineffective outing from senior center Josh Cohen, who scored five points in 22 minutes. Cohen sat on the bench for most of the second half. “We sign up for a requirement that makes us have to bring a special desire every single day,” Martin said. “He was really bad yesterday and he played that way today. It’s unacceptable.” Siena’s Giovanni Emejuru was a problem on the glass for UMass, especially in the first half. Emejuru finished with 11 rebounds, with eight coming on the offensive glass. Cohen grabbed just three rebounds. “We wouldn’t be 9-3 and have the wins that we have without his (Cohen) desire and spirit,” Martin said. “But that’s his journey.” UMass begins Atlantic 10 play this Wednesday when Duquesne visits the Mullins Center at 7 p.m. “We have been pretty consistent with who we are offensively,” Martin said. “We can’t get sloppy like we did today offensively. We couldn’t score at the rim today. I want to see our guards getting better at driving and making decisions.” Last season, things went south for the Minutemen when they entered conference play. UMass was 9-3 in non-conference play, but stumbled to a 6-12 conference record. “The main goal is to win it all obviously,” Thompson said. “But we have to take it one day at a time. One practice at a time. One game at a time. Eventually I feel like we will see results from that.” The two teams played even for most of the first half. UMass opened a 26-20 lead with a 10-4 run highlighted by consecutive 3-pointers by Rahsool Diggins (10 points) and Jaylen Curry. Anytime the Minutemen started pulling away, the Saints seemed to get a big shot from Michael Eley, who scored 16 points on 7-for-10 shooting in the first half. Eley finished with 30 points on 11-for-22 shooting. Sean Durugordon added 22 points for Siena. UMass went into halftime with a 40-31 lead. Points off turnovers were big in the first half for UMass – with a 14-4 advantage. The turnovers led to some open court opportunities for UMass. UMass moved to 9-1 all-time against the Saints.

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6 Dead and 23 Injured as Tornadoes Tear Through Tennessee

A severe weather system that rampaged through the South on Saturday spawned powerful tornadoes in Tennessee, leaving six people dead and more than 20 injured, buildings in tatters and trees and power lines toppled, officials said. By early Sunday, the hardest hit places appeared to be the northern part of Nashville and Clarksville, in northern Tennessee, where officials reported severe and extensive damage. Emergency crews continued searching for survivors and assessing the extent of the devastation left by the storm, as officials suggested the death toll might rise. More than 52,000 customers were without power in Tennessee. Officials in Montgomery County, which includes Clarksville, said that two adults and one child had died as a result of a tornado in the afternoon, and that 23 people were injured and had been taken to hospitals. “We are still in the search-and-rescue phase of this disaster and will provide updates as we receive confirmation,” the county said on Facebook. Mayor Joe Pitts of Clarksville declared a state of emergency and enacted a 9 p.m. curfew for Saturday and Sunday night.