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Hurricane Lee barrels through open Atlantic waters as Cat 3 storm

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:52 GMT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Lee charged through warm Atlantic waters Friday night and threatened to unleash heavy swells across the northeast Caribbean. It became the season’s first Category 5 storm before beginning to weaken.Down to a Category 3 hurricane by late Friday, it was not expected to make landfall, but meteorologists warned it would generate dangerous waves of up to 15 feet (5 meters) across the northern coast of Puerto Rico and other nearby islands. Lee was on a path that would take it a couple hundred miles (kilometers) northeast of the Caribbean, and tropical storm conditions were not forecast for the region.“Although the hurricane is incredibly powerful, its wind field is not particularly large,” the National Hurricane Center said.The hurricane was centered about 440 miles (705 kilometers) east of the northern Leeward Islands late Friday. It had maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour (185 kilometers per hour) and was moving west-northwest at 13...

High school roundup/scores: Manchester-Essex blanks Rockport in field hockey play

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:52 GMT

Laila Mears tallied a pair of goals and four others scored, powering Manchester-Essex (1-0) to a 6-0 Cape Ann League field hockey shutout of Rockport.Cat Colvin assisted both Katherine Flaherty and Alyssa Persichetti to help Pentucket (1-1) edge Essex Tech 2-1.Molly Driscoll buried three goals, and Adrianna Williams added two, pushing Watertown’s (2-0) win streak to 55 straight with a 7-0 Middlesex League victory over Lexington. … Clara Sykes notched the first hat trick of the year for Arlington, powering a 4-1 win over Wakefield.In a Tri-Valley League matchup, Charlotte DeMaio scored a pair of goals and added an assist to lead Westwood to a 3-1 victory over Ashland. … Shea Larkee and Morgan Naumann each scored twice, helping Norwood (2-0) beat Hopkinton 5-2 along with Lindsay Rogers’ four assists.Kendal Cusak dished an assist on top of scoring twice, combining with Taylor Carter’s two-goal performance and three assists from Izzy Adams to lift Walpole (2-0) over Bishop Feehan 5-1 in...

Friday’s high school scores, highlights and boxes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:52 GMT

Tate Hoffmeister rushed for 178 yards and two touchdowns on 22 carries as Needham defeated Natick 14-6 in the Bay State Conference.Stu Burnham rushed for 138 yards and two touchdowns as Old Colony defeated Bristol-Plymouth 36-7 in the Mayflower League.Mason Nash took a punt return to the house and rushed for another touchdown, kicking off Jim Kelleher’s 50th and final season under the helm at Abington (1-0) with a 20-7 South Shore League win over Cohasset.Casious Johnson erupted on the ground in the first half for Plymouth South (1-0) turning seven carries into 189 yards and three touchdowns as part of a 42-14 win over Silver Lake in Patriot League play. … … Ryan Nash threw two touchdown passes, including the game winner to Cam Beltramini with 11 seconds left to give Whitman-Hanson a 28-26 win over Pembroke.Demetri Koutsouflakis scored the game-winning touchdown run with 9:49 left to give Winthrop a 13-7 nonleague win over Stoneham. … Ryan Doucette rushed for a pair of touchdowns an...

Friday’s high school scoreboard

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:52 GMT

THURSDAY’S RESULTSCatholic Memorial 41, Mansfield 14Franklin 36, Wachusett 14Greater Lowell 26, Groton-Dunstable 6Hanover 28, Duxbury 18Medford 19, Brookline 7North Middlesex 42, Fitchburg 7 FRIDAY’S GAMESAbington 20, Cohasset 7Acton-Boxboro 28, Lexington 27Ashland 34, Dover-Sherborn 19Attleboro 20, Old Rochester 13Barnstable 49, Brockton 14Billerica 34, Masconomet 14Bishop Fenwick 14, Marblehead 10BC High 28, LaSalle (RI) 21Boston Latin 35, East Boston 14Braintree 20, Hingham 16Burlington 13, Westborough 12Canton 28, Dighton-Rehoboth 0Cardinal Spellman 21, Sandwich 7Case 25, Diman 7Cumberland (RI) 26, Somerset Berkley 14Dartmouth 40, Bishop Stang 0Dennis-Yarmouth 40, Mashpee 38Fairhaven 38, Durfee 13Foxboro 18, Holliston 15Framingham 35, East Longmeadow 7Gloucester 42, Somerville 8GNB Voke 21, Southeastern 6Holbrook/Avon 44, St. John Paul 28Hopkinton 20, Wayland 19King Philip 31, Walpole 0Lawrence 27, Lynn English 0Lynnfield 41, Triton 17Manchester-Essex 40, Ipswich 26Medfield...

Denzil Pierre runs wild, powers Xaverian past Everett, 32-21

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:52 GMT

WESTWOOD — Xaverian may have major college football recruits at quarterback and wide receiver, but as long as coach Al Fornaro is leading the Hawks, the thought of them abandoning the run for the pass is silly talk.On Friday night, behind senior back Denzil Pierre, Xaverian ran to its heart’s content in a 32-21 season-opening victory over Everett.Pierre rumbled for 204 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries, while Michigan State-bound quarterback Henry Hasselbeck rushed for three scores.It was uneven at times, but Fornaro will take the victory over a quality opponent and move on.“Very good,’ Fornaro said of Pierre’s play, which also included a two-point rush. “And we had the other guy, Mike O’Connor (54 yards on eight carries) play a little bit. The ability to run the ball does a lot of good things. It keeps it out of their hands. I’m not Woody (Hayes) out of Ohio State, saying three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them ar...

High school football roundup: Needham tops Natick in defensive-minded battle, 14-6

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:52 GMT

Tate Hoffmeister rushed for 178 yards and two touchdowns on 22 carries as Needham defeated Natick 14-6 in the Bay State Conference.Stu Burnham and Max Finney each scored twice as Old Colony defeated Bristol-Plymouth 36-7 in the Mayflower League.Mason Nash took a punt return to the house and rushed for another touchdown, kicking off Jim Kelleher’s 50th and final season under the helm at Abington (1-0) with a 20-7 South Shore League win over Cohasset.Demetri Koutsouflakis scored the game-winning touchdown run with 9:49 left to give Winthrop a 13-7 nonleague win over Stoneham. … Todd Egan posed a dual threat for South Shore, passing for 111 yards and a touchdown while also rushing for two scores and 61 yards as the Vikings pulled away for a 33-12 win over Hull. … Ryan Doucette rushed for a pair of touchdowns and the defense returned two pick-6s to lead Winchester to a 31-0 victory over Newton South.A pair of touchdown completions in the third quarter rewarded a tremendous defensive eff...

TIFF’23: finestkind is a heartwarming film about family, felonies, and fish

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:52 GMT

The Fast and the Furious have told us this what now seems like thousands of times; it’s all about family. In the best case scenarios, family can get you through any measure of tough times or crisis. And that’s why we love them, they’re always supposed to be there for us. But family can be tough as well, and sometimes family is our struggle.finestkind was a fine film about family, with a great lead performance from Toby Wallace. An engaging crime thriller with excellent work from Tommy Lee Jones and Jenna Ortega. #TIFF23— James Mackin @ TIFF 23 (@JamesMackin10) September 9, 2023finestkind is a new film from Brian Helgeland (the director of Legend) about a family in Massachusetts who work in the commercial fishing industry. Two half-brothers who grew up in separate economic conditions reconnect, and the younger (played by Toby Wallace from Babyteeth) wants to join the older’s (played by Ben Foster from Hell or High Water) boat for the summer. He’s g...

Kim Jong Un hosts Chinese and Russian guests at a parade celebrating North Korea’s 75th anniversary

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:52 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea invited visiting Chinese delegates and Russian artists to a paramilitary parade featuring rocket launchers pulled by trucks and tractors, state media said Saturday, in leader Kim Jong Un’s latest effort to display his ties with Moscow and Beijing in the face of deepening confrontations with Washington.The midnight parade in the capital, Pyongyang, which was to celebrate North Korea’s 75th founding anniversary, came amid expectations that Kim will travel to Russia soon for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin that could focus on North Korean arm sales to refill reserves drained by the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine.While China has sent a delegation led by Vice Premier Liu Guozhong to the North Korea’s anniversary celebrations, Russia sent a military song and dance group.South Korean media speculated that the lack of Russian government officials at the festivities in Pyongyang could be related to preparations for a summit between Ki...

Powerful earthquake strikes Morocco, killing hundreds and damaging historic buildings in Marrakech

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:52 GMT

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing hundreds of people and damaging buildings from the historic city of Marrakech to villages in the Atlas Mountains. Men, women and children stayed out in the streets, fearing aftershocks. Morocco’s Interior Ministry said early Saturday that at least 296 people had died in the provinces near the quake. Additionally, 153 injured people were sent to hospitals for treatment. The ministry wrote that most damage occurred outside of cities and towns.The head of the town of Talat N’Yaaqoub, Abderrahim Ait Daoud, told Moroccan news site 2M that several homes in towns in the Al Haouz region had partly or totally collapsed, and electricity and roads were cut off in some places.He said authorities are working to clear roads in the province to allow passage for ambulances and aid to populations affected, but said large distances between mountain villages mean it will take time to learn the extent of the dam...

India hopes for progress on global agenda as G20 leaders meet despite rifts over the war in Ukraine

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:52 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — Leaders of many of the world’s biggest economies prepared to huddle in the Indian capital for the Group of Twenty summit Saturday, though growing global rifts and the absence of key players meant that reaching consensus on the thorniest issues could prove elusive.At least a fifth of G20 heads were not in New Delhi. The leaders of Russia and China opted not to come, ensuring no tough face-to-face conversations with their American and European counterparts over multiple disputes, most acutely the war in Ukraine. Spain’s president couldn’t make it due to COVID-19, and Mexico’s president decided to miss it, too. Host India hoped the proceedings would not be overshadowed by the European war. It wanted to devote more attention to addressing the needs of the developing world — though it is impossible to decouple many issues, such as food and energy security, from the Ukraine conflict.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made giving voice to the G...