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Some Virginia Democrats say livestreamed sex acts a distraction from election’s real stakes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:45:32 GMT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — More Virginia Democrats on Tuesday cast the controversy surrounding a legislative candidate who livestreamed herself performing sex acts as a distraction from the stakes in this fall’s elections, while stopping short of fully championing her continued campaign.Neither the state party nor the House Democratic caucus has publicly called for Susanna Gibson to end her campaign after it was revealed last week that she had sex with her husband in live videos posted on a pornographic website and asked viewers to pay them money in return for carrying out specific sex acts. But neither group has publicly declared how much support — financial or otherwise — Gibson can expect moving forward. “Our focus is and has always been on flipping the House and taking back the majority. The MAGA Republicans are continuing to try to distract us while working to implement their plan to ban abortion and roll back the rights and freedoms of all Virginians,” House Democratic Caucus ...

11-year-old boy reported missing in Chelsea reunited with his family after hourslong search

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:45:32 GMT

An 11-year-old boy living with autism was found safe in Cambridge on Tuesday night after his sudden disappearance prompted a large police search.Susant Thapa, who is nonverbal, was reported missing around 2 p.m. from his home on Washington Avenue, according to state police.Thapa was found in Cambridge by Cambridge police around 7 p.m. State police say they believe he traveled to Cambridge aboard a bus.Standing outside their home in Chelsea Tuesday night, Susant’s family thanked the police and all those who helped search.No additional information was immediately available.https://twitter.com/massstatepolice/status/1704273664445673490?s=12&t=ZpiU5SVKWOX8-Eru9y2MRAThis is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

WATCH: New video shows fight in stands prior to fan’s death at Gillette Stadium

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:45:32 GMT

Gillette Stadium officials say they are “heartbroken” by the death of a fan as law enforcement continues to investigate an incident in the stands during Sunday’s Patriots game against the Miami Dolphins.A Massachusetts State Police spokesperson said EMTs responded to the 308/309 section of Gillette Stadium near midfield shortly before 11 p.m., during the fourth quarter of the game after a 53-year-old man suffered “an apparent medical event.”The spokesperson said the man was taken to Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, where he was pronounced dead.In addition to EMTs, the state police spokesperson said Foxboro police also responded to the incident. The spokesperson said state police detectives were “investigating the facts and circumstances of the man’s death, including the sequence of events prior to the medical incident” as of Monday afternoon.The Norfolk County District Attorney’s office in a separate statement Monday identified the man who died as Dale Mooney of Newmarket...

WATCH: Driver nearly hits tunnel ceiling while driving with basketball hoop on car in Boston

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:45:32 GMT

A driver was caught on camera narrowly avoiding hitting the ceiling of a tunnel in Boston while driving with a basketball hoop attached to the back of their car.The driver was spotted making the risky move on the Mass. Pike in video shared with 7NEWS.No additional information was immediately available.

Hazing allegations under investigation at King Philip Regional HS in Wrentham

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:45:32 GMT

An alleged hazing incident has prompted an internal investigation at King Philip Regional High School in Wrentham. The school district sent a letter to parents Tuesday letting them know upperclassmen on the school’s varsity football team had organized boxing matches between 10th grade students while the players were attending Camp Mataponi in Naples, Maine last month.Senior Class President Ian Knott said he’s disappointed to learn of the allegations.“It’s unfortunate to hear,” he said. “This was a very one-off event. Pretty much everyone gets along. I’ve barely heard of any sort of bullying across the school. I was very surprised to hear this.”The letter from the school says no one was hurt and no coaches were present during the boxing matches. The letter continued,” Although there were individual students who took a greater lead in orchestrating the hazing/boxing, there were many people involved and the behavior was so widesprea...

‘It came out of nowhere’: Chicago Cubs president Jed Hoyer laments team’s recent losing skid

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:45:32 GMT

Halfway across the world, president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer followed the Chicago Cubs’ toughest loss of the season on his phone.Hoyer spent five days in Japan to scout, most notably getting eyes on Orix Buffaloes star right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, 25, who is expected to be posted in the offseason. The overseas trip had been planned for a while so the Cubs can keep an eye on the future as they try to get back into the postseason for the first time since 2020.“It’s a great baseball culture and obviously they have a lot of really good players and making sure that’s a market that we are actively involved in is something that’s really important,” Hoyer said Tuesday.The timing left Hoyer following from the ballpark’s scout seats Sunday morning in Toyko, 16 hours ahead of the Cubs’ 13-inning marathon that culminated in a gut-punching 7-6 walk-off loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks.“It was not one of my gold star moments,”...

Unifor reaches tentative deal with Ford, strike averted

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:45:32 GMT

TORONTO — Unifor says it has reached a tentative deal with Ford Motor Co. that could avoid workers going on strike.The union says the proposed contract will be brought to members shortly for a vote.Negotiations with Ford are expected to set expectations for what workers will get in contracts from General Motors and Stellantis.The tentative deal with Ford comes as U.S. autoworkers continue to strike against Ford as well as at General Motors and Stellantis plants.U.S. autoworkers are pushing for upwards of 40 per cent wage gains, while Unifor has not put out a number, saying only that it wants to see significant increases.Along with higher wages, Unifor says its other key priorities are pensions and issues around job security and the transition to electric vehicles.  This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 19, 2023.The Canadian Press

Michael J. Fox receives 2023 Elevate Prize Catalyst Award at Clinton Global Alliance

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:45:32 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Actor and philanthropist Michael J. Fox won this year’s Elevate Prize Catalyst Award, which the “Back to the Future” star plans to use to further his foundation’s work to find treatments for Parkinson’s disease.Fox, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 29 in 1991, received the award at the Clinton Global Initiative, or CGI, conference on Tuesday in New York. The annual prize, which went to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai last year, includes $250,000 from the Elevate Prize Foundation and support to amplify the winner’s messaging.Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who interviewed Fox onstage at CGI, credited him with research advances in understanding Parkinson’s. “I don’t think this work would have made the progress it has if Michael hadn’t been so open,” she said.Fox said that once he got support from his family after his diagnosis, he did not hesitate about going public with his diagnosis.“There’s such shame associat...

Unifor reaches tentative deal with Ford Motor Company

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:45:32 GMT

Unifor has reached a tentative agreement with Ford Motor Company, the union announced on Tuesday night.The union says the proposed contract will be brought to members shortly for a vote. Negotiations with Ford are expected to set expectations for what workers will get in contracts from General Motors and Stellantis.The tentative deal with Ford comes as U.S. autoworkers continue to strike against Ford as well as at General Motors and Stellantis plants.Unifor members at Ford voted 98.9 per cent in favour of a strike if the bargaining committee failed to secure a new collective agreement.The new deal covers members at Canadian Ford facilities, including members at Ford’s Oakville Assembly Plant and Annex and Essex Engine Plants in Windsor, Ont., among others across the country.“We believe that this tentative agreement, endorsed by the entire master bargaining committee, addresses all of the items raised by members in preparation for this round of collective bargaining,̶...

Why new fighting in troubled Azerbaijan region may herald a new war with Armenia

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:45:32 GMT

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Azerbaijan’s launch of reportedly intense artillery firing in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday raised fears that another full-scale conflict with Armenia could be underway, less than three years after a war that killed more than 6,000 people.Nagorno-Karabakh, with a population of about 120,000, is an ethnic Armenian region of Azerbaijan that has been a flashpoint since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The region and sizable surrounding territories came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by the Armenian military at the 1994 end of a separatist war. Azerbaijan regained the territories and parts of Nagorno-Karabakh itself in fighting in 2020.The latter war ended with an agreement to deploy Russian peacekeepers in the region, but tensions have soared since December when Azerbaijan began blocking the road that connects Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia proper. The artillery firing that Azerbaijan calls an “anti-terrorist operation” started hours...