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Arrests made, guns recovered after 8 people shot near Caribbean festival in Dorchester

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:56 GMT

Police say arrests have been made and weapons have been recovered in connection with a brazen daylight shooting in Dorchester on Saturday that left at least eight people hospitalized and cast a shadow over the city’s annual Caribbean festival. Officers responding to a reported shooting in the area of Blue Hill and Talbot avenues around 7:45 a.m. found all of the victim suffering from what were considered non-life-threatening injuries, according to Boston police.The shooting delayed the beginning of the Caribbean festival, which stepped off and continued as planned. At least two people were arrested and firearms were recovered.Boston Mayor Michelle Wu decried the violence. “It’s just heart-wrenching to hear that a treasured community event has been disrupted by acts of violence from those who had nothing to do with the event and there’s absolutely no excuse for something that is open to the community and part of Boston’s culture and heritage to be talked...

A shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, has left multiple people and the shooter dead, officials say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:56 GMT

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Multiple people were fatally shot Saturday inside a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store, the city’s mayor has told a television station. A city council member says the shooter is dead.Mayor Donna Deegan told WJXT “there are a number of fatalities” inside the store but didn’t give a precise number. Numerous police officers were in the area near Edward Waters University, a small historically Black university.“This is unacceptable,” Deegan told the station. “One shooting is too much but these mass shootings are really hard to take.”Jacksonville City Council member Ju’Coby Pittman told the station the shooter is dead. She did not give details.“My heart is heavy. I am tired of all of the shootings,” she said.Edward Waters University students were being kept in their dorms, the school said in a statement. No students or faculty are believed involved, the school said.Further details were not immediately available. The city says ...

Suspicious death investigation underway in Durham, NH

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:56 GMT

Authorities have launched a suspicious death investigation in Durham, New Hampshire, officials announced.Officers are actively investigating the death of a man at 98 Bennett Road, according to a joint statement from New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella, New Hampshire State Police Executive Major Matthew S. Shapiro, and Deputy Chief David Holmstock of the Durham Police Department. Investigators believe all parties involved have been identified and that there is no ongoing threat to the general public.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Police respond to shots fired in Dorchester

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:56 GMT

Boston police responded to a report of shots fired in Dorchester on Saturday evening, hours after eight people were wounded in a nearby shooting.The shots were reportedly fired in the area of Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road around 5 p.m. No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Boston College athletics committed to community engagement

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:56 GMT

Growing up on Northampton Street in the South End, Kenny Francis says he doesn’t remember seeing student-athletes from Boston College in his community.“That has to change,” said Francis, now BC’s assistant athletics director for student athlete formation and success. “BC is the only Power 5 institution in New England. There is no reason why we shouldn’t have more of a presence in Boston.”The school is committed to changing that narrative, Francis told the Herald on Saturday, as a group of six Eagles football players interacted with the Boston Bengals Pop Warner program at Clifford Playground in Roxbury.With the Eagles’ season set to kick off next Saturday against Northern Illinois at Alumni Stadium, Francis said it’s important for his college’s student-athletes to connect with the Boston community.Giving back to the community continuously, Pat Garwo said, is a goal for the running back because it helps him remember the background he came from.This summer, Garwo, entering his redshir...

Mass and Cass spillover displaces local football program from Roxbury’s Clifford Playground

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:56 GMT

For the second time in three years, the spillover from Mass and Cass has displaced a local Pop Warner football program from practicing at the nearby Clifford Playground.The Boston Bengals held its last practice at the dilapidated park in Roxbury on Saturday for at least this season, with coordinator Domingos DaRosa linking his remaining players up with the Brookline Jamaica Plain Patriots.This comes after the two programs merged in 2021, before the Bengals returned to Clifford last year. Much remains the same. Parents have pulled their children from participating after seeing the park’s disorderly setting festered with needles, human feces and other trash littering the 8-acre recreational space.“It’s just a disappointment to the neighborhood that the city has allowed Mass and Cass to grow, meanwhile it’s killing the community that surrounds the human crisis,” DaRosa told the Herald. “We are creating unseen victims; these kids are unseen.”Initially, DaRosa said he felt confident that...

National Mall hosts thousands for 60th anniversary of MLK’s March on Washington

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:56 GMT

WASHINGTON — Thousands converged Saturday on the National Mall for the 60th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, saying a country that remains riven by racial inequality has yet to fulfill his dream.“We have made progress, over the last 60 years, since Dr. King led the March on Washington,” said Alphonso David, president and CEO of the Global Black Economic Forum. “Have we reached the mountaintop? Not by a long shot.”The event was convened by the Kings’ Drum Major Institute and the Rev. Al Sharpton ‘s National Action Network. A host of Black civil rights leaders and a multiracial, interfaith coalition of allies rallied attendees on the same spot where as many as 250,000 gathered in 1963 for what is still considered one of the greatest and most consequential racial justice and equality demonstrations in U.S. history.Inevitably, Saturday’s event was shot through with contrasts to the initial, historic demonstration. Speakers a...

A shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, that left 3 dead was racially motivated, sheriff says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:56 GMT

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville, Florida, sheriff says that a racially motivated shooter fatally shot three people inside a Dollar General Store on Saturday before killing himself. “Plainly put, this shooting was racially motivated and he hated Black people,” Sheriff T.K. Waters said at a news conference, THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Multiple people were fatally shot Saturday inside a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store, the city’s mayor has told a television station. A city council member says the shooter is dead. Mayor Donna Deegan told WJXT “there are a number of fatalities” inside the store but didn’t give a precise number. Numerous police officers were in the area near Edward Waters University, a small historically Black university. “This is unacceptable,” Deegan told the station. “One shooting is too much but these mass shootings are really hard to take.”Jacksonville City Council...

Riders in various states of undress cruise Philadelphia streets in 14th naked bike ride

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:56 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Hundreds of people in various states of dress — or undress – set out Saturday for a ride through some of Philadelphia’s main streets and sights for the 14th Philly Naked Bike Ride.The annual ride, which started in 2009, is billed as promoting cycling as a key form of transportation and fuel-conscious consumption. It is also meant to encourage body positivity. Organizers stress, however, that participants aren’t required to ride completely in the buff, telling them to get “as bare as you dare.”The course, roughly 13 miles (21 kilometers) this year, changes annually but generally passes city landmarks. This year, bikers went by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, site of the steps featured in the “Rocky” movies, the historic City Hall, tony Rittenhouse Square and the South Street entertainment area. The ride was to end at Independence Hall.Garry J. Gadikian, from Atlantic City, New Jersey, speaking in Fairmount Park at a pre-race get-together, said th...

Chicago Triathlon weekend kicks off at Foster Beach

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:56 GMT

CHICAGO — The Chicago Triathlon kicks off along the lakefront Sunday, but Saturday, two smaller versions set the stage, raising money and spirits, featuring an organization dedicated to eradicating pediatric blood cancers.Kids Tri Chicago and the Chicago Triathlon SuperSprint took center stage Saturday morning at Foster Beach as some of the world's youngest triathletes tested their metal, while the adults got and abbreviated taste test of what is to come Sunday.Brothers Colin and John Hole — ages almost seven and eight — were participating in their first ever triathlon Saturday morning."You can say I’m seven because I’m going to be seven in September," Colin said.When asked what preparation was like for the kids' triathlon, John put it bluntly."Practically nothing," John said. "Except a small mock tri at my house."The two young brothers both completed the race, and said the length of time it took to complete was a bit surprising."Me and John crossed the finish line at the same time ...