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Taunton man to be arraigned on kidnapping, attempted rape charges following incident in cemetery

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:50:33 GMT

A Taunton man is set to be arraigned in Taunton District Court Monday on kidnapping and attempted rape charges following an incident in the Mayflower Hill Cemetery on Saturday afternoon, officials said.Officers responding to multiple reports of a rape in the Broadway cemetery around 2:41 p.m. spoke with a woman who said she had been attacked in the cemetery, forced her to leave with him, and then fled on foot, according to Taunton Police Chief Ed Walsh.Following an investigation, William Perez, 21, of Taunton, was arrested Sunday on charges including indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or over, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault with a dangerous weapon, assault with intent to commit rape, and kidnapping.The victim was taken by Brewster Ambulance to an area hospital to be treated for her injuries. Her condition is unknown at this time.

Rain Tapers… For Now

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:50:33 GMT

Some big rain totals dropped across the area over the weekend with a soaking rain Saturday night and some drenching downpours late yesterday and last night. All said and done, many towns and cities logged in 2-3″ of rain with some locally higher totals around MA/RI border. We start today off with a few light showers, patchy fog and patchy drizzle in the morning, before clouds break for some sun. Temps today will be milder, in the low to mid 60s as southerly winds prevail. Although a spot shower is possible inland this afternoon, most of the day is rain-free for the little league games. Hopefully the fields are too waterlogged. Tomorrow, we’ll fall right back into the pattern of chillier air and scattered showers. A pattern that’ll last several days, with the coolest air Thursday and Friday. No day is an all day washout, as scattered showers drop 0.25-0.50″ totals through the rest of the week. A milder pattern starts to take shape this weekend as we dry out. 7...

Orioles reset: Baseball’s latest pitching craze is sweeping through Baltimore

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:50:33 GMT

Ryan Mountcastle doesn’t remember the first time he heard the term “sweeper,” but he hasn’t forgotten the first one he faced.“It was just, like, the craziest thing I’d ever seen,” the Orioles first baseman said.Normally, for Mountcastle to decide a breaking ball was going to make its way to a hittable area, he would see whether it started between him and the strike zone. But when then-Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Chaz Roe deployed his sweeper against Mountcastle during spring training in 2020, he had to look far more inside.“I’d have to have it start at my butt,” he said. “It was bizarre.”The name “sweeper” has gained prevalence of late, but in truth, the pitch that carries the name has existed for years. Baseball Savant, Major League Baseball’s hub for Statcast data, reidentified thousands of sliders over the past decade as sweepers, a slower variant of that classic breaking ball with far more ...

Granite State voters too independent for Trump, Shaheen says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:50:33 GMT

New Hampshire’s former governor and senior U.S. Senator says that Granite State voters are tired of the 45th President’s legal woes and perpetual falsehoods about the 2020 election, which he repeated last week during a campaign rally in Manchester.“I think, fundamentally, people disagree with him on the issues that he supported as president and continues to support,” U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said.The Granite State’s 78th governor was speaking with WCVB hosts Sharman Sacchetti and Ed Harding for the pair’s Sunday politics show On the Record, when she said former President Donald Trump’s recent remarks in the Queen City reflect his own beliefs and ideology much more than they do those of the historically independent minded voters of the first-in-the-nation primary state.“New Hampshire believes that women should have our own control of our bodies and that reproductive rights should be the decisions of women. Donald Trump doesn’t believe that,” she said. “People in New Hampshire believe...

Lucas: Climate vandals miss the mark with Beacon Hill SUV attack

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:50:33 GMT

If Eddie Markey were a true Green New Deal warrior, he would have deflated a few Beacon Hill SUV tires himself.He might have even led the mob of climate change vandals—called Tyre Extinguishers—who deflated the tires of 43 SUVs a week ago that were parked tightly overnight on streets adjacent to the State House.But perhaps the 76-year-old junior U.S. Senator was too busying holding an Earth Day press conference with Rep.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the reintroduction of the Green New Deal Resolution.“The Green New Deal isn’t just a resolution,” Markey said, “it is a revolution.”Perhaps the vandals heard him. These left-wing loonies called the SUVs “massive killer vehicles,’’ which even in their wildest dreams showed that they never came across a U.S. M1 Abrams tank.So, in the middle of the night, the group stealthily went after SUVs parked on Mt. Vernon Street, Pickney Street, Brimmer Street, Cedar Stret, Otis Place and David G. Mugar Way.They posted flyers on the vehicles which sa...

UN envoy says Sudan’s warring sides agree to negotiate

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:50:33 GMT

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s warring generals have agreed to send representatives for negotiations, potentially in Saudi Arabia, the United Nations’ top official in the country told The Associated Press on Monday, even as the two sides clashed in the capital despite another three-day extension of a fragile cease-fire. The talks would initially focus on establishing a “stable and reliable” cease-fire monitored by “national and international” observers, Volker Perthes said. A string of temporary truces over the past week has de-escalated fighting only in some areas, while in others, fierce battles have continued to drive civilians from their homes and push the country into a humanitarian crisis.Perthes cautioned that logistics for talks were still being worked out. So far, only the military has announced it is prepared to join negotiations, with no public word from its opponent, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Any talks would be the first major sign of progress since fighti...

Sixties Scoop drama ‘Little Bird’ among May streaming highlights

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:50:33 GMT

Here’s a roundup of standout TV series and films debuting on subscription streaming platforms in May:“Little Bird”Named Esther Rosenblum when she was adopted by a Jewish family as a young child, Bezhig Little Bird still remembers a life years earlier with her birth family. Now in her 20s, some memories of her past are faint and traumatic. But as her wedding day approaches, she feels an urgency to trace her roots. Leaving behind her fiancé, she embarks on a journey that leads her from Quebec to the Canadian prairies as she seeks answers on how her familial ties were cut by the federal government as part of the Sixties Scoop. Unflinching and sometimes brutally violent in how it portrays the treatment of Indigenous peoples by Canadian police and foster care, this six-episode drama is likely to stoke conversations and serious reflection. Following the final episode on June 30, Crave and APTN Lumi will release “Coming Home,” a documentary film with historical context on the Sixties...

Man who lost wife, son in Texas mass shooting tells story as search continues

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:50:33 GMT

CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — Wilson Garcia hadn’t even asked his neighbor to stop shooting his gun.People in their rural town north of Houston are used to people firing their weapons to blow off steam, but it was late Friday night, and Garcia had a month-old son who was crying.So, Garcia said, he and two other people went to his neighbor’s house to “respectfully” ask that he shoot farther away from their home.Mass shooting survivor Wilson Garcia sheds a tear as he talks about his wife and son, who were killed in Friday's shooting, Sunday, April 30, 2023, at a vigil for his son in Cleveland, Texas. The search for a Texas man who allegedly shot his neighbors after they asked him to stop firing off rounds in his yard stretched into a second day Sunday, with authorities saying the man could be anywhere by now. The suspect fled after the shooting Friday night that left multiple people dead. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)“He told us he was on his property, and he could do what he wanted,” Garcia ...

Week starts with sunshine, ends with storms

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:50:33 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- After not one but three severe weather events last week, this week will start much quieter (& warmer!)We start the new work week with afternoon highs in the mid-80s under a mainly sunny sky. Humidity will gradually begin to increase as our winds spin more out of the southeast, but dry skies can be expected areawide.Tuesday and Wednesday will be one in the same - partly sunny, warm and muggy. It's possible we see fog developing in the morning hours, but temperatures will still return to the 80s each afternoon.By Thursday, our first in a series of disturbances will roll in. Showers and storms will be possible Thursday afternoon with the potential of a severe risk late day. Details are still fuzzy at this point in time but be sure to stay with KXAN as we fine tune the forecast.Rain chances will continue through the upcoming weekend, and although no day looks like a total washout, it'll be a good idea to keep the umbrella on standby.Late week rain chancesMay is typi...

Court unseals search warrant affidavits in T. Denny Sanford child pornography investigation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:50:33 GMT

Investigators found that images of nude underage girls were transmitted on an email account they linked to billionaire South Dakota philanthropist T. Denny Sanford, documents unsealed Thursday showed, but they were unable to prove who sent them or where that person was at the time.Sanford’s attorney said in a statement that the newly released documents contain only allegations and “various individuals had documented access to the electronic devices at issue, including signs of hacking.”Sanford, South Dakota’s richest man and a University of Minnesota alumnus, was not charged after the state attorney general’s office said its investigation into child pornography allegations found no prosecutable offenses within its jurisdiction.Sanford’s attorneys fought to keep the affidavits used to issue search warrants sealed, but the Sioux Falls Argus Leader and ProPublica argued they should be made public and the state Supreme Court ruled this month that they would be unsealed.Sanfo...