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With Boston Marathon win, Kipchoge would cap running resume

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:22 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Two-time Olympic gold medalist. Twelve-time major marathon winner. World record-holder. And still, Eliud Kipchoge has something to prove.“I think Boston is a game-changer for me,” the world’s greatest marathoner said as he prepared for his debut in the world’s most prestigious road race. “Boston is the oldest marathon ever, and I think actually any serious marathoner should put his or her own feet once — if not a lot in his life — in the Boston streets.”A 38-year-old Kenyan who has been collecting marathon victories since 2013, Kipchoge will make his Boston Marathon debut on Monday in the 127th edition of the world’s longest-running long run. A victory would give him wins in an unprecedented five of the six major marathons. Kipchoge also has run the two fastest marathons ever — and four of the top six — breaking his own world record in September at Berlin with a time of 2 hours, 1 minute, 9 seconds. He also owns the course records in London and Tokyo. That doesn’t even...

Finland advances to 5th-place game in women’s world hockey

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:22 GMT

BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) — Petra Nieminen had three goals and an assist and Finland routed Germany 8-2 on Friday to advance to the fifth-place game in the women’s world hockey championship.Finland will face the winner of the night game between Sweden and Japan.Jenniina Nylund, Julia Liikala, Jenni Hiirikoski, Emilia Vesa and Nelli Laitinen also scored for Finland and Anni Keisala made 20 saves. Sonja Weidenfelder and Theresa Wagner scored for Germany.In the semifinals Saturday, the United States will face the Czech Republic and two-time defending champion Canada will play Switzerland.In the quarterfinals Thursday, the United States beat Germany 3-0, Canada edged Sweden 3-2 in overtime, the Czech Republic topped Finland 2-1, and Switzerland beat Japan 5-1.___ AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Explosiones y tiroteos sacuden Guayaquil

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:22 GMT

QUITO — Tres artefactos explosivos estallaron en la ciudad portuaria de Guayaquil luego de que la embajada de Estados Unidos en Ecuador emitiera un alerta sobre la posibilidad de que se produjeran ataques y horas después se produjo un tiroteo en la cárcel más peligrosa del país en la misma ciudad.La policía informó el viernes en un comunicado que dos explosiones ocurrieron frente a locales comerciales del norte de la ciudad y otra en el centro. Ninguna fue de magnitud y no se reportaron víctimas.La fuerza no dio más detalles de los ataques ocurridos entre la noche del jueves y la madrugada del viernes en Guayaquil, ubicada a 200 millas al suroeste de Quito, donde las autoridades confirmaron más tarde que en la cárcel conocida como Penitenciaría del Litoral se produjo una balacera entre internos que obligó a evacuar al personal administrativo. Hasta el momento no se han dado más detalles. En video: grupo armado masacra a balazos a nueve pescadores en Ecuador ...

Cavs’ Mitchell comes ‘full circle’ to face hometown Knicks

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:22 GMT

CLEVELAND (AP) — The New York Knicks couldn’t land Donovan Mitchell last summer.They’re getting him now. Just not in the way they hoped.Mitchell, in his first season with Cleveland, has pushed the Cavs back into the NBA playoffs for the first time since LeBron James split in 2018 and will face his hometown team in a first-round series loaded with subplots.The juiciest, of course, is Mitchell’s connection to the Knicks, who were on the verge of acquiring him in an offseason trade before the deal collapsed, the Cavs swooped in, and the rest, as they say, is history.On the eve of facing the Knicks, the native New Yorker appreciated how the matchup has a preordained vibe.“Full-circle moment.” Mitchell said Friday as the Cavs wrapped up practice ahead of Saturday’s series opener at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. “This year has been full of full-circle moments for me.”The four-time All-Star guard has quickly transformed the young Cavs, who made the play-in tournament ...

Residents’ next step after historic floods: dealing with insurance

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:22 GMT

Historic flooding in South Florida is bringing headaches for homeowners in more ways than one. Replacing anything that’s damaged is bad enough, and filing an insurance claim may only add to the frustration.The water is slowly receding but still deep in parts of Broward County, as people carry their belongings out in trash bags.It is still so bad that a 7News crew had to go in on a mud buggy to reach homeowner Javier Cabrera.“The water came up to that line,” he said.Cabrera said he was in Boston on business when he looked at his security cameras and saw the devastation.“It was stopping here and didn’t move,” he noted.Both of his cars and home were completely flooded.Asked if he had insurance for the contents of his home, Cabrera responded, “I don’t have content [coverage] because I was not expecting something like this.”Many of these homeowners are down and tired. Fighting insurance companies is the last thing they want to do.R...

7NEWS team members assist with One Boston Day beautification project at Martin’s Park in Boston

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:22 GMT

Members of the 7NEWS team were out at Martin’s Park on Friday to help with a beautification effort at a Seaport District park in member of the marathon bombing’s youngest victim.“I think it’s beautiful,” downtown resident Matt Conway said of the Martin’s Park cleanup. “It really is.” Conway lives close to the park and said he loves visiting with his daughter Lenny. Hannah Love, a marathon runner from Scotland, said the park is a must see for her family. “The kids absolutely love the park,” she said. “So, as soon as we said we were coming back to Boston, we had to come back to this park.”7’s Julliana Mazza was one of the volunteers planting flowers and handing out daffodils at Martin’s Park Friday. The flowers represent a new marathon symbol that has signified hope and resilience since the bombing ten years ago. “It’s our hope that, when people in the community see these daffodils, that they are renewed with a sense of hope and this idea of kind of mov...

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital staffers treated to appreciation event ahead of One Boston Day

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:22 GMT

7NEWS was among the organizations out showing its support to hospital workers at Spaulding Rehabilitation in Boston on Friday, one day ahead of One Boston Day, an annual day of service in the city. 7NEWS and other organizations treated the workers to ice cream and other delicious treats.The hospital was one of many locations that took in patients after the two bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line.7NEWS also teamed up with Spaulding to clean up Mayor Thomas Menino Park, the city’s first fully accessible playground.

Athol man gets more than 5 years in prison for participating in Jan. 6 Capitol riots

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:22 GMT

An Athol man shown in surveillance footage at the riot on the Capitol battering police with a riot shield will spend more than five years in prison for his role in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.“It was just fun, exciting, enjoyable. I mean, we were all — we were just having a relaxed, nice time,” said Vincent Gilespie during his jury trial in December of 2021, as transcribed in a prosecution sentencing memo filed on March 31.On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell in federal court in Washington, D.C., sentenced Gillespie to 68 months in prison, which amounts to five years and eight months, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Gillespie also has to pay a $25,000 fine and $2,000 in restitution.A D.C. jury convicted him on Dec. 23, 2002, on charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers; civil disorder; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. The feds say that more than 1,00...

Crime Briefs: Authorities seek help finding 2 Medford men missing since last month

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:22 GMT

The Middlesex District Attorney’s office said that two men last heard from on March 30 remain missing and they need the public’s help in finding them.Friends and co-workers reported that Pavel Vekshin, 28, and Kiryl Schukin, 37, who lived in an apartment on Locust Street in Medford, missing on April 9, but that they hadn’t heard from them for more than a week beforehand.“Since the time of their reported disappearance, police have been actively investigating this case and believe the men’s cell phones are off,” the DA’s office wrote in a Friday statement, adding that police had located a vehicle belonging to one or both of the men, “their whereabouts remain unknown.”Investigators ask that anyone with any information contact State Police detectives in Middlesex County at 781-897-6600 and/or Medford Police detectives at 781-391-6767.‘Prison’ is the word for California man who threatened Merriam-Webster HQThe 34-year-old California man who wrote threats like “I am going to shoot and bom...

Knicks’ Julius Randle eyeing Game 1 return from ankle injury in first round vs Cavaliers

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:22 GMT

Julius Randle has his eyes on Game 1.The power forward is officially listed as questionable for Saturday’s contest against the Cavaliers, and he’ll warm up pregame with the idea of returning to the lineup, according to ESPN’s Adrian WojnarowskiRandle sprained his ankle on March 29 and the Knicks claimed he wasn’t cleared for contact as recently as Thursday’s practice. Still, coach Tom Thibodeau acknowledged Randle had begun sprinting and he wasn’t worried about conditioning after such a long layoff.“I think he’s done a good job with that,” Thibodeau said. “He’s done a lot of cardio-type stuff. But again, you can do whatever it is, it’s not the same as the intensity of an NBA game. The contact, the strength part of it, the conditioning part of it, that’s where you see it. But whatever he can give us, he’ll give us. I’m confident in that.”Assuming Randle goes through warmups without a setba...