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Boston firefighters rescue 2 residents from heavy blaze, 12 residents displaced

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:10:44 GMT

Boston firefighters rescued two residents from a heavy fire late Sunday night before the firefighters quickly knocked down the Dorchester blaze.Twelve residents have been displaced following the 2-alarm blaze at 309 Adams St., and one of the residents was transported to a hospital by Boston EMS.At around midnight, firefighters responded to the heavy fire on the third floor of the three-family building.“Companies were able to rescue 2 residents from the 3rd floor,” Boston Fire tweeted. “One resident was rescued using a 35 foot ground ladder and the other was rescued by the aerial ladder.”“A great job by the 1st due companies to get multiple lines and ladders to the building to contain the fire to the 3rd floor, and rescue the residents,” the fire department added. “The heavy fire and smoke was quickly knocked down.”Damages were estimated at more than $500,000 following the fire.The Red Cross of Massachusetts and neighborhood assistance ...

Little Italy fire prompts road closures near airport

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:10:44 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A shed in Little Italy caught fire Monday morning, prompting road closures in the area.The blaze was reported at 6 a.m. in the 2100 block of India Street, near Hawthorne Street, according to San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.No one was injured and no residents in any of the neighboring condo buildings were evacuated, fire officials say. 1 shot downtown; police searching for gunman Hawthorne Street was closed from Columbia Street to Kettner Boulevard.Investigators were still looking into what caused the flames.Check back for updates on this developing story.

18-year-old killed in North County rollover crash

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:10:44 GMT

ESCONDIDO, Calif. -- An 18-year-old was fatally injured in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Escondido last week, according to authorities.Escondido police said the young adult was traveling southbound on North Center City Parkway on the afternoon of May 24 when his vehicle left the road, traveled up an embankment and rolled over several times.Preston Stubblefield, an 18-year-old high school student, was identified by the San Diego County Department of the Medical Examiner as the driver of the vehicle.During the rollover, the medical examiner said Stubblefield was ejected from the vehicle. No other vehicles were involved in the collision. Man killed in Chula Vista crash identified Escondido police arrived on the scene, located south of North Nutmeg Street, around 1:15 p.m. Stubblefield was then escorted to a nearby hospital in critical condition, the medical examiner said.Despite efforts by medical personnel, he succumbed to his injuries a little over a day later and was pronounc...

Uganda’s president signs into law anti-gay legislation with death penalty in some cases

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:10:44 GMT

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s president has signed into law anti-gay legislation supported by many in this East African country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad.The version of the bill signed by President Yoweri Museveni doesn’t criminalize those who identify as LGBTQ, a key concern for some rights campaigners who condemned an earlier draft of the legislation as an egregious attack on human rights. But the new law still prescribes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality,” which is defined as cases of sexual relations involving people infected with HIV, as well as with minors and other categories of vulnerable people.A suspect convicted of “attempted aggravated homosexuality” can be imprisoned for up to 14 years, according to the legislation. Parliamentary Speaker Anita Among said in a statement that the president had “answered the cries of our people” in signing the bill. “With a lot of humility, I thank my colleagues the Members of Pa...

Davenport officials: No deaths confirmed, no known people trapped in Iowa building collapse

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:10:44 GMT

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — There were no confirmed fatalities and no known people still trapped the morning after a six-story apartment building in the eastern Iowa city of Davenport partially collapsed, authorities said Monday. Davenport Fire Chief Michael Carlsten said at a news conference Monday that workers searched for survivors throughout the night and rescued one person from the six-story building — bringing the total number of people rescued by fire officials to eight. An additional 12 people were escorted out by fire crews when they first responded to the collapse on Sunday evening. “No known individuals are trapped in that facility,” Carlsten said. Authorities have not released how many people were injured or provided details on the nature of their injuries. Carlsten did say that the person who was rescued overnight was in the hospital.Rescue teams, including K-9 units, were inside the building all night.“When something like this happens here, and tragedy strikes, our re...

Oilpatch restarts production that was shut in due to Alberta wildfires

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:10:44 GMT

CALGARY — Crescent Point Energy Corp. said Monday it has resumed production at its operations that were shut in due to the Alberta wildfires.The Calgary-based company was one of a number of oil and gas producers that was forced to temporarily halt output in the Kaybob Duvernay region earlier this month as wildfires blazed in central and northern Alberta. At one point, analysts estimated that more than 200,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day of production was shut in across Alberta.But as the situation improves, some companies have been able to resume operations. Crescent Point said that over the past week it has brought back on stream the full 45,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) of Kaybob Duvernay production that had been put on hold.It says no damage has occurred to the company’s assets.On Monday, Paramount Resources Ltd. also said it has restored the majority of production that it had temporarily curtailed. Paramount said it has fully resumed operations in the...

Russia strikes Kyiv in daylight after hitting Ukraine’s capital with series of nighttime barrages

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:10:44 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Explosions rattled Kyiv during daylight Monday as Russian ballistic missiles took aim at the Ukrainian capital, hours after a more common nighttime barrage of the city by drones and cruise missiles.Russian forces fired 11 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv at about 11:30 a.m. (0830 GMT; 4:30 a.m. EDT), according to Ukraine’s chief of staff, Valerii Zaluzhnyi. All of them were shot down, he said, and puffs of white smoke could be seen in the blue sky over the city from street level.Debris from the intercepted missiles fell in Kyiv’s central and northern districts during the morning, landing in the middle of traffic on a city road and also starting a fire on a building’s roof, the Kyiv military administration said. At least one civilian was reported hurt.The blasts unnerved some locals, already under strain after being awakened by the night attack.“After what happened last night, I react sharply to every siren now. I was terrified, and I’m still trembling...

South American’s presidents gather in Brazil for first regional summit in 9 years

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:10:44 GMT

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — South America’s leaders will gather in Brazil’s capital on Tuesday as part of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s attempt to reinvigorate regional integration efforts that have previously floundered amid the continent’s political swings and polarization.Analysts say Lula senses an opportunity for integration because of the political affinities of the region’s current governments and appears to want to test leaders’ willingness to cooperate through a revived Union of South American Nations, or Unasur.First established 15 years ago in Brazil’s capital during the second presidential term of Lula, a former trade unionist, the regional bloc sought to integrate the 12 South American nations culturally, socially, politically and economically. Unasur’s promotor was late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who saw it as means to counteract U.S. influence in the region and the group had a reputation among some as having a lefti...

Sudan army, rival force under pressure to extend truce after mediators show impatience with breaches

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:10:44 GMT

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s warring sides were under pressure Monday to extend a shaky cease-fire in their battle for control of the country, after two key international mediators signaled impatience with persistent truce violations.In a joint statement Sunday, the United States and Saudi Arabia called out Sudan’s military and its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, for specific breaches of a week-long truce that is to expire Monday evening rather than issue another general appeal to respect agreements.Sudan descended into chaos after fighting erupted in mid-April between the military, led by Gen. Abdel- Fattah Burhan, and the RSF, commanded by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo. The fighting has killed at least 866 civilians and wounded thousands more, according to the Sudan Doctors’ Syndicate, which tracks civilian casualties. The toll could be much higher, the medical group said.The conflict has turned the capital, Khartoum, and other urban areas into battlefields, forcing near...

‘Red Velvet,’ ‘Alice in Wonderland’ lead Dora Mavor Moore Awards nominations

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:10:44 GMT

TORONTO — “Red Velvet,” a play about the first Black actor to star on a London stage, has garnered a leading six nominations in the general theatre division at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards.The Crow’s Theatre show nabbed nods in categories including best play and best director for Cherissa Richards.The dramatization of the real-life story of Ira Aldridge, a Black man who starred in “Othello” in 1833, also garnered recognition for Allan Louis, who is nominated for best leading performance, and Amelia Sargisson, who’s in the running for best performance in a featured role.Also vying for best production are “Uncle Vanya,” another Crow’s Theatre production; Soulpepper’s “‘da Kink In My Hair” and “our place,” a co-production from A Cahoots Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille.Top musical contenders include “Alice In Wonderland,” from Bad Hats Theatre presented by Soulpepper, which is up for ...