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Boston Mayor Wu petitions Beacon Hill for 250 liquor licenses

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:11:40 GMT

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu appeared before state lawmakers Monday to lobby for a home rule petition that would allow the city to issue 250 new liquor licenses in specific neighborhoods over the next five years.By tying non-transferable licenses to 10 ZIP codes, the legislation seeks to remedy inequities created by the city’s current structure, which allows licenses to be transferred from the targeted neighborhoods to wealthier areas like the downtown and Seaport, Wu told a joint legislative committee.“We have a system now where some neighborhoods have more than 60 liquor licenses, and some have fewer than 10,” Wu said. “It is those neighborhoods that are often home to lower-income residents, residents of color, where there are hardly any sit-down restaurants, if at all.”This is due in part to a lack of available licenses. When a bar or restaurant shuts down, the license is sometimes sold by businesses on a so-called secondary market.Driven by high demand, the cost of these privately s...

BC split end Ryan O’Keefe in the fast lane to recovery

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:11:40 GMT

Boston College wide receiver Ryan O’Keefe had a short hospital stay for what at first appeared to be a long-term injury.BC coach Jeff Hafley delivered the good news about O’Keefe during his weekly press briefing on Monday morning at the Yawkey Center. O’Keefe suffered an immobilizing neck injury at 14:07 of the fourth quarter of Saturday’s 27-24 victory over Virginia at Alumni Stadium.O’Keefe was awaiting a wide receiver screen pass on the BC 33 when he was violently set upon by Cavaliers’ cornerback Malcolm Greene. Both players required medical attention, but O’Keefe was taken from the field on a stretcher and transported to Mass. General Hospital.“Ryan is doing well and he is on the road to recovery,” said Hafley. “It was really good to see him Sunday, it was good to have him around his teammates and he came to practice but obviously didn’t practice.“The guys were really excited to see him and I was excited to see him. I thought our doctors and our trainers deserve a lot of credit...

Bruins notebook: Charlie Coyle eager to bump up

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:11:40 GMT

The climb for Charlie Coyle to this point in his career has been long and steady. But here he is, on the precipice of being a top-six centerman.Now he’s just got to grab it.With the retirement of both Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci, Coyle and Pavel Zacha are now the Bruins’ top two centers this season and it is still a very much unanswered question as to how the team will fare with that structure. But Coyle was a workhorse for the B’s last year. He was second to only David Pastrnak in total minutes played among Bruin forwards, third in even-strength ice time among B’s forwards and led all B’s forwards in penalty-killing time.His 16-29-45 totals were the highest since coming to Boston (his career high was 18-38-56 in 2016-17 in Minnesota) and it was the fifth time in his career that he played all 82 games.It was the kind of season that put him in a good mind frame to take this next step in his career.“It’s huge,” said the 31-year-old Coyle on Mo...

Fire damages apartment complex in Golden Hill

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:11:40 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Firefighters on Monday are working to put out a fire at an apartment complex in the Golden Hill neighborhood.The fire occurred around 4:30 p.m. at 2622 Broadway, according to San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. Campland on the Bay storage facility erupts in flames SkyFOX was over the location where flames could be seen bursting out of the windows. Around 4:50 p.m., the flames appeared to subside.Check back for updates on this developing story.

Colorado man arrested on suspicion of killing a mother black bear and two cubs

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:11:40 GMT

HOWARD, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of killing a mother black bear and two cubs in the Rocky Mountains a few hours southwest of Denver, authorities confirmed Monday.Colorado Parks and Wildlife, which had learned about the illegal killing through anonymous reports and social media posts, found the bears’ bodies Friday on state land, according to the agency’s press release.The following day, wildlife officers searched a nearby home with a warrant, discovering evidence that the bears had been shot there on Sept. 25, the release said.The man was arrested on suspicion of illegal destruction of wildlife, a felony, and misdemeanors including unlawful possession and waste of game meat, and unlawful killing of wildlife without a license.Speaking broadly about anyone who illegally injures or kills wildlife, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson Bill Vogrin wrote in the release that “convictions could result in fines and surcharges ranging from...

A 9-year-old girl who vanished from a New York state park has been found safe, police say

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:11:40 GMT

MOREAU, N.Y. (AP) — A 9-year-old girl who vanished during a family camping trip in upstate New York was found safe Monday following a two-day search, authorities said.Charlotte Sena was located “in good health” and “a suspect is in custody” in connection with her disappearance Saturday evening, New York State Police said in a statement.Authorities didn’t immediately release further details.Hundreds of law enforcement officers, forest rangers and others searched a swath of upstate New York after the girl disappeared while riding her bicycle in Moreau Lake State Park, about 35 miles (60 kilometers) north of Albany, according to state police. Police had said they were worried she was abducted.The girl’s family pleaded with the public for help in finding Charlotte, including providing any tips to the state police.“We just want her returned safely like any parent would,” the family said in a statement. “No tip is too small, please call if you know anything at all.” About 400 people took ...

Gaetz launches effort to bring down McCarthy, but removing the House speaker is no easy task

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:11:40 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — “How would you be different as speaker, compared to Mr. Boehner?” a reporter asked then-House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in September 2015 as the California Republican pursued, and eventually gave up, his first attempt at the speakership. McCarthy laughed while standing next to outgoing Speaker John Boehner — who had just stepped down after facing a threat of removal — and joked that he was from a different generation and wouldn’t be as tan.Eight years later, McCarthy is finding that there are fewer differences between them as he faces a conservative revolt against his speakership.“If somebody wants to remove (me) because I want to be the adult in the room, go ahead and try,” McCarthy told reporters Saturday. And his critics, namely Rep. Matt Gaetz, are attempting to do just that. On Monday, the far-right Republican from Florida announced he was using a procedural tool — called a motion to vacate — to try to strip McCarthy of his office. In a speech...

11 people are dead after Mexico church roof collapses. No more people believed buried in rubble

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:11:40 GMT

CIUDAD MADERO, Mexico (AP) — Father Ángel Vargas was moving pew to pew baptizing children when a tie beam gave way bringing his church’s roof crashing down on dozens of people gathered there, killing at least 11 but sparing himself and some others.Vargas recounted Sunday’s harrowing collapse in northeast Mexico to Radio Formula Monday.“Some people could get out and others no,” said Vargas, who described how the roof did not collapse in some areas like around the altar, allowing himself and others to escape. “It is a terrible experience and it has been even worse because of the fact that people were lost.”Many of those gathered at the Santa Cruz church in Ciudad Madero Sunday afternoon were elderly and children, because there were about five baptisms taking place. The toll could have been much higher, because a short time earlier some 300 people had been in the sanctuary for Mass.State officials said Monday afternoon that 13 people remained hospitalized with two of those in serious c...

New Baltimore police commissioner confirmed by City Council despite recent challenges

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:11:40 GMT

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore City Council on Monday confirmed Richard Worley as the city’s new police commissioner, a leadership change that comes amid an ongoing push for reform of the embattled agency that began after Freddie Gray’s 2015 death.Mayor Brandon Scott nominated Worley to replace Michael Harrison, who announced his resignation earlier this summer, several months before his five-year contract was set to expire. Harrison led the New Orleans Police Department through a similar reform process before moving to Baltimore.While Harrison brought an outsider’s perspective to the job, Worley is a Baltimore native and a longtime department veteran. But critics have questioned whether he is too much of an insider, having served in supervisory positions during problematic periods in the department’s history.They have also expressed concern over two recent high-profile tragedies that unfolded since Worley took over as acting commissioner when Harrison left — including a block party...

Iowa promises services to kids with severe mental and behavioral needs after lawsuit cites failures

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:11:40 GMT

Iowa’s health agency will take steps to develop home and community-based services for children with severe mental and behavioral needs as part of an initial agreement with civil rights groups that filed a class action lawsuit.The lawsuit was filed in January on behalf of three children. It alleges that Iowa has for decades failed to meet its legal obligations to Medicaid -eligible children who should have access to individualized and coordinated care plans, in-home therapy and emergency services.The complaint includes children who have been institutionalized for services that they were previously recommended to receive — and say they were entitled to receive, given the Medicaid Act — in their communities or homes.“There was a desperate need to build a statewide children’s health system with an effective array of services,” said Catherine Johnson, executive director of Disability Rights Iowa. “The complaint that we’ve filed alleges that these services are not available in...