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Hundreds take part in annual Run to Home Base in Boston to support service members

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:17:52 GMT

Hundreds of area runners laced them up for a good cause Saturday for the 14th annual Run to Home Base, which culminates at Fenway Park and raises money for veterans and active duty service members.Many wearing red, white, and blue, some in full uniform, ran to the historic ballpark to raise awareness and money for veterans struggling to return home from the battlefield. Home base was formed after a team visit to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in 2008 after the World Series champs were honored at the Red Sox.The partnership between the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital has helped 30,000 veterans and active service military members since then at no cost. Military members like Kevin Trujillo, who returned home from Afghanistan in 2014 after his 10th deployment.“I was going through a tough time,” he said. “It’s meant everything to my family. My family is everything.” Organizers say the goal for this year’s run is ...

Police investigating after car slams into CVS in Boston

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:17:52 GMT

Police are investigating a crash in Boston on Saturday that sent a vehicle careening into a CVS pharmacy and a person to the hospital.The crash occurred on Blue Hill Avenue just after 1 p.m. Firefighters say the victim was treated on the scene.The cause of the crash remains under investigation. This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Pattern change brings nice weather

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:17:52 GMT

After several weeks of being stuck in an active pattern, a dry pattern is expected to move in for the next several days. The jet stream is expected to retreat north and remain in “zonal flow” (west to east) which will allow for some calmer, drier days ahead. Sunday’s forecast is one of the nicest days of the week, with sunshine expected, lower humidity, and highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s!We remain dry through Monday, but an isolated storm or two is possible on Tuesday as a quick-moving system passes by.After Tuesday, it’s right back to the dry pattern, but the heat builds in as a strong high pressure system makes its way north and east from the Southern Plains.

Orioles rally in 9th to beat Rays, 6-5, and reclaim sole possession of AL East lead

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:17:52 GMT

The Orioles have claimed sole possession of first place in the American League East twice in the past three days.The first time, they scored three runs in the fourth inning, blew that lead, retook it with small ball and held on thanks to Félix Bautista. The second time, they scored five runs in the fourth inning, blew that lead, retook it with small ball and held on thanks to Bautista.The Orioles on Saturday defeated the Tampa Bay Rays, 6-5, in a battle for AL East supremacy behind Grayson Rodriguez’s solid start, manager Brandon Hyde’s decisions in the ninth inning and Ryan O’Hearn’s game-winning RBI single.In his second start back in the big leagues, Rodriguez allowed two runs in 5 2/3 innings for the second-best outing of his young career. Hyde tapped Adam Frazier and O’Hearn to pinch-hit in the ninth, and both came through with base knocks. After Frazier’s leadoff single, veteran catcher James McCann, who hit a two-run double in the fourt...

Chris Sale talks teammates, trade deadline, top prospects

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:17:52 GMT

At this point, Chris Sale is as used to watching the Red Sox from the sidelines as any fan who’s followed the team over the last four years.Tommy John surgery, several fractures, and now, shoulder inflammation, have cost him more than two full seasons of his career. Since mid-August 2019, when he landed on the injured list for what turned out to be the rest of the season, he’s only made 22 regular-season starts totaling 107 ⅓ innings. He missed all of ’20 after undergoing Tommy John in April of that year, and didn’t return until August ’21 nearly two years to the day of his last start in ’19. A rib stress fracture pushed his ’22 season debut back to mid-July, when, in the first inning of his second start, a line drive fractured his pinky. While he recovered from that injury and subsequent surgery, he fractured his wrist. That required a second surgery and ended his season after just 5 2/3 innings.This year, the lefty made it through his firs...

Boston’s North End shooting: A history of Patrick Mendoza’s beef with alleged victim

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:17:52 GMT

North End restauranteur Patrick Mendoza stands accused of firing three shots at a man on Hanover Street last week before pedaling away from the scene. That’s his alleged crime, but the beef between the pair, simmering for years, is anything but alleged.A police report filed in the shooting case said that Mendoza, 54, and Rocco Giovanello, 60, have known each other for some 20 years.But their acquaintanceship turned ugly the afternoon of Feb. 5, 2019, when Patrick Mendoza and his brother Frankie Mendoza beat Giovanello with fists, kicks, a glass bottle and even the side mirror to the victim’s silver Ford Explorer at the side of Parmenter Street, according to the police report filed for the incident.It all started, as Giovanello told it to police about a week later, when he and Frankie Mendoza earlier that day “exchanged words” over the latter causing a traffic jam “as he entertained his girlfriend” on Salem Street.By 3:25 p.m., Giovanello said, he was driving down Parmenter toward Sa...

Northeast 7-on-7: New blood at Milton working out

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:17:52 GMT

PEABODY — When it comes to Milton this football season, a lot of the discussion concerns what the Wildcats lost.The quarterback from last year? Gone. Skill players? Also, gone. Basically everyone from one of the state’s best teams? Out, and on to new adventures.But hold on for a minute. On Saturday at Bishop Fenwick, it might be high time to start respecting the Wildcats that are coming back.In the Northeast 7v7 East regional, Milton beat a game Peabody squad in the Open final to make it to New Englands, an event which the Wildcats won last summer.In the Small title, St. Mary’s beat Salem on a last-second bomb.Quarterback Patrick Miller played well for Milton, and watched as his defense picked off three passes in the win over Peabody.“We’re all hard-working kids,” Miller said. “We’re a big family. We’re coming out here, we’re working hard. We’re going to take what the defense gives us, and just keep working hard.”Milt...

Arson suspect arrested after East County motel fire

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:17:52 GMT

LEMON GROVE, Calif. -- A man suspected of deliberately setting fire to a Lemon Grove motel Friday was arrested, authorities said. Carlos Antonio Landa, 39, was identified as the suspect, Sgt. Anthony Portillo with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department (SDSO) said in a news release Saturday. He faces a charge of arson to an inhabited structure stemming from the Lemon Grove incident, as well as assault and arson-related charges in an unrelated incident in the City of San Diego, per SDSO. 2,000-gallon sewage spill forces East Mission Bay closure Around noon Friday, the fire broke out at a motel in the 8000 block of Broadway, according to authorities.When first responders arrived on scene, one of the units was fully engulfed in flames. Firefighters evacuated several units as a precaution while they put out the fire.No injuries were reported.Landa is being held in law enforcement custody. His bail has been set at $250,000.

Actors, union members hold panel on strike, AI technology at Comic-Con

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:17:52 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- The writers and actors strike is making an impact at Comic-Con. Union members and actors participated in a panel to discuss the recent strike. “We’re in an infliction point in history right now, you can choose to fight and die on that hill or you will be summerly executed there,” said Zeke Alton, SAG/AFTRA negotiating member.  “The Performers Perspective” panel put on by the National Association of Voice Actors and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. (SAG/AFTRA) centered around the writers' and actors' strikes. The panel also discussed the strikes in relation to AI technology in entertainment. “It’s a moment where we could either make sure those protections are in place for the humans that are behind those creative works or our likeliness and work and our art will get taken,” actor Ashly Burch said.The Writers Guild of America (WGA) began striking in May against major studios over contracts, including higher pay. &...

Israel’s Netanyahu taken to hospital for heart procedure, placed under sedation

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:17:52 GMT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Sunday he was going to the hospital for an emergency procedure to receive a pacemaker, but vowed to press ahead with his controversial judicial overhaul plan.In a brief videotaped statement released at 2 a.m., Netanyahu said he had been fitted with a monitoring device after being briefly hospitalized last week for what his office had said was dehydration. He said an alarm on the device beeped Saturday night, meaning he needed a pacemaker immediately.“I feel excellent, but I listen to my doctors,” he said.In a short statement, Netanyahu’s office said Israel’s leader would be placed under sedation. A top deputy, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, was to stand in for him.Netanyahu’s office made the announcement as Israel faces widespread street protests over Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul plan. The plan has triggered months of protests, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets Saturday night to d...