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Police investigating after man allegedly threatens MBTA passengers with mini baseball bat

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:29 GMT

MBTA transit police asked for the public’s help Monday after they said a man allegedly entered a train with a mini-baseball bat and threatened passengers. Police said the incident happened on Sunday night around 9 p.m. at the Charles/MGH station on the Red Line. Police said the man began to threaten passengers, “stating he would give everyone a ‘beating.’”Transit police shared photos of a man, describing him as a person of interest in the case. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 617-222-1050. 

Boston police investigate stabbing at park in Roxbury

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:29 GMT

An investigation was underway Monday after a stabbing at a park on Ruggles Street in Roxbury, police said.Police said the incident happened Monday afternoon . One person was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

No charges for officers in Jayland Walker police shooting

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:29 GMT

By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER (Associated Press)AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio grand jury declined to indict eight police officers who fired 94 shots in the death of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man who fired at least one round at officers during a car and foot chase last summer, the state’s attorney general announced Monday.Walker was shot 46 times in a hail of gunfire that lasted just under seven seconds and roiled yet another city amid heightened tensions with police over the killing of a Black man that started with a routine traffic stop. Akron’s mayor and police chief urged residents Monday to protest peacefully, acknowledging that many are angry with the shooting last June that Walker’s family has called brutal and senseless.“Turn toward one other and not on each other,” said Mayor Daniel Horrigan.Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said the state’s investigation found that Walker jumped out of his still-moving car, ran from police...

Kuwait crown prince says parliament will be dissolved again

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:29 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s crown prince has said its parliament again will be dissolved and new elections planned for the country after a court decision reinstated lawmakers from 2020. Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmed Al Jaber made the announcement Monday in an address to the nation as the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan draws to an end this week. He called the decision the will of the Kuwaiti people, according to the state-run KUNA news agency. Sheikh Meshal cited a Kuwaiti law allowing its emir to dissolve parliament, though it was him making the speech in the place of the country’s 85-year-old ruler, Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah. In March, Kuwait’s Constitutional Court threw out a 2022 election for parliament, citing “discrepancies” in the decree dissolving the 2020 parliament for its ruling. That briefly reinstated the former lawmakers. It wasn’t immediately clear if the order Monday took effect immediately, though analysts had expected parliament...

CBC ‘pausing’ its use of Twitter after ‘government-funded media’ label applied

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:29 GMT

TORONTO — CBC/Radio-Canada said it is “pausing” its use of Twitter, a day after its main account was labelled “government-funded media” by the social media platform.“Twitter can be a powerful tool for our journalists to communicate with Canadians, but it undermines the accuracy and professionalism of the work they do to allow our independence to be falsely described in this way,” CBC media relations director Leon Mar said in a statement announcing the change Monday afternoon.“Consequently, we will be pausing our activity on our corporate Twitter account and all CBC and Radio-Canada news-related accounts.”Mar added in an afternoon email to The Canadian Press that Twitter did not consult the public broadcaster before applying the label Sunday and thus, CBC has sent a letter to Twitter asking the company to re-examine the designation.Twitter updated CBC’s label to “70% government-funded” Monday evening, after a user on the platform ...

Court throws out Berkeley, California’s ban on natural gas

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:29 GMT

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday overturned Berkeley, California’s first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, agreeing with restaurant owners who argued the city bypassed federal energy regulations when it approved the ordinance.The measure, which took effect in 2020 to cheers from environmentalists, was intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming. With some exceptions, it banned new residential and commercial buildings from installing natural gas piping in favor of electrical lines. A lawsuit by the California Restaurant Association claimed the regulation violated federal law that gives the U.S. government authority to set energy-efficiency standards for appliances such as stoves, furnaces and water heaters.The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rejected a lower court judge’s decision two years ago that had upheld the Berkeley ordinance. In her 2021 decision, U.S. District Judg...

Judge seals Alec Baldwin settlement terms in fatal shooting

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:29 GMT

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The judge hearing the wrongful death lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin and an array of producers and crew linked to a fatal film set shooting agreed Monday to seal from public view the terms of a proposed settlement agreement in the case that benefits the son of slain cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.The New Mexico judge said the right to privacy for Hutchins’ 10-year-old son overrides obligations for public disclosure and ordered that settlement documents and approval hearings be sealed in the civil lawsuit that argues that Baldwin and other film crewmembers ignored industry gun safety standards on the set of the Western film “Rust” ahead of the 2021 shooting.“What is driving my decision is really the interests of the minor child. And that is one of the very most powerful reasons to seal a matter,” District Court Judge Bryan Biedscheid said in a videoconference hearing of the Santa Fe-based court.Baldwin, an actor and coproducer of the film, was po...

Twenty-year-old charged with murder following stabbing death of teen on B.C. bus

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:29 GMT

SURREY, B.C. — A 20-year-old man from Burnaby, B.C., has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a teenager on a Metro Vancouver transit bus last week.Seventeen-year-old Ethan Bespflug was killed on a bus in Surrey, B.C., last Tuesday. The province’s integrated homicide investigations team says 20-year-old Kaiden Mintenko was arrested Sunday and the charge was laid on Monday.Police say they are still working to determine the exact nature of the relationship between Bespflug and Mintenko but can confirm this was not a random attack.The teen’s family has said Bespflug’s mother realized something was wrong when she tracked her son’s phone to a hospital in New Westminster. When she arrived she was told he had died. The teen’s murder is among a series of violent incidents on commuter buses and trains in several Canadian cities recently. B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said Monday that he has spoken to his federal counterpar...

Police: Man charged with attempted murder after ax attack in Arlington Heights parking garage

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:29 GMT

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. — A man has been charged with attempted murder after he ran over another man with a bicycle, then hit him with an axe in an Arlington Heights parking garage early Sunday morning, according to the Arlington Heights Police Department.Mitchell Nowak, 50.Mitchell Nowak, 50, was charged with one count of attempted murder Monday in Cook County district court, which is a class X felony that carries a 6-30 year prison sentence, if convicted.Police said they were called to an underground parking garage in the 0-100 block of South Evergreen Avenue around 6:35 a.m. after a disturbance could be heard by a 911 telephone operator on an emergency call.When police arrived on scene, they found a man lying on the ground who was able to identify the offender who attacked him as a person he knew, giving police a description of Nowak. Dog attacks CPD officer on South Side, officer fires shots Police said the victim was asleep in the underground parking structure when an offende...

'We're so scared right now': Indiana couple caught in downtown Chicago violence

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:29 GMT

CHICAGO -- A husband and wife drove from Indianapolis to see the sights on a warm spring weekend in Chicago, but their Saturday night ended with their minivan being attacked by an angry mob of young people and the husband hospitalized."For 4 hours after the incident my husband and I were just shaking,” the wife told WGN.The Indiana woman was a passenger in the car, while another relative was in the back seat and her husband was at the wheel as they drove near the Chicago Cultural Center. Weekend violence in the Loop worries businesses as summer nears “Suddenly a mob of teens between 16 and 18-year-olds began climbing and hitting our truck,” she said. "We even saw them get on top of a bus.”The husband was treated at a hospital for cuts; but his wife says the injuries are more emotional than physical."We're so scared right now,” she said. "We don't want to step out of the house.”WGN is not identifying the couple for their safety. The family is now back home in Indiana."One of our da...