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Antelope returned to western Mass. zoo five weeks after escape from enclosure

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:54 GMT

A antelope is back at the Lupa Zoo in Ludlow, officials said, five weeks after she escaped her enclosure earlier this year. Officials said the antelope, known as “Mary,” escaped when her enclosure was damaged during a storm. On their Facebook page on April 6, the Lupa Zoo said a male antelope inside the enclosure stayed put. Mary, the zoo said, “went for a walk” and had since been seen moving through Ludlow and nearby Wilbraham.Zoo officials had been tracking Mary since her escape and finally found her Saturday night, according to the Hamden County Sherriff’s Department.In his department’s statement on Sunday, Hamden County Sheriff Nick Cocchi noted the efforts of Lupa Zoo Director of Facility Development and Animal Care Wally Lupa for his work to help bring Mary back to the zoo. “I’m incredibly pleased this story has a happy ending, and that is due to the entire Lupa Zoo staff working tirelessly to bring her home safely,” Cocchi said. “Wally mostly...

Dramatic dashcam video shows spinout crash on I-93 North in Boston

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:54 GMT

New dashcam video shows the moment a car hit another vehicle and sped off, sending the other vehicle spinning across I-93 north in Boston last week.Mike Ercolini captured the video and recently spoke with 7NEWS about the incident.The crash happened near the ramp to the Tobin Bridge in Charleston on Thursday. In dashcam video, a driver can be seen hitting the back of an SUV. Ercolini said the woman behind the wheel in the SUV lost control and began spinning across three lanes of traffic, nearly getting hit by an 18-wheeler truck before coming to rest at the Tobin offramp. “Classic PIT maneuver — hit her right by the rear tire, kept going, pushed into her, she rolled across the front of him and you just see her spinning out,” Ercolini said.Ercolini said he just bought the dashcam a few months ago. He continued, saying it was only when he got home and watched the video that he realized the driver who caused the crash had no interest in stopping. “The person knew they hit som...

RB Travis Dye looks to ‘make the most out of’ NFL opportunity with the Jets

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:54 GMT

Travis Dye has dealt with adversity during his life and football career.Getting through those difficulties is likely why the running back has been successful throughout high school and college and now has ended up on an NFL roster.On Friday, the Jets signed Dye as an undrafted free agent as he took part in the team’s rookie minicamp hoping to land a spot on the main roster.“I’m very blessed to have this opportunity,” Dye told the Daily News. “I want to make the most out of it.“This is a great place, I love this place, I love these facilities, I love the coaches. I just want to run with it.“Coach [Robert] Saleh is a great dude, great coach. Coach [Taylor] Embree, he’s a great dude as well, I’ve known him for a very long time. The coaches have been great and I love it here.”As the youngest of five children, Dye had to fight for everything he received, on and off the football field. Dye comes from a football family as his brot...

Massachusetts Guardsman Jack Teixeira’s federal detention hearing set to resume after alleged leaks; more of his Discord posts reported

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:54 GMT

Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira is set to return to court this week, as the 21-year-old IT tech tries to get released from federal detention after he allegedly leaked military secrets.Teixeira, of North Dighton, is expected to be in federal court on Thursday afternoon.“Continued detention hearing for Army National Guardsman Jack Teixeira has been set for this Thursday, May 11 at 2pm in federal court in Worcester,” the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office tweeted on Monday.During the previous detention hearing, Teixeira’s lawyers said he should be free before trial and offered that he could remain under home confinement at his father’s home in North Dighton.Federal prosecutors argued that Teixeira’s access to firearms and the potential that he is still in possession of classified information makes him a risk to release. The judge, David H. Hennessy, took the arguments under advisement.The E-3/Airman First Class stationed at Otis ...

Tips on how to store your beer to maintain the flavor

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:54 GMT

Fresh beer has a vibrancy and brightness that’s simply unmatched. “Fresh beer is like live music,”  Moonlight Brewing founder Brian Hunt once said. “Stale beer is like listening from the parking lot.”The best beer hits a sweet spot shortly after being brewed, allowed to ferment and mature to peak perfection. For some beers, that’s fresh off the tank, while others may take a little longer. When it’s ready, you just know. But that perfect window only lasts about three weeks, before the flavors begin to change.Of course, beer is made to remain tasty for as long as possible. Hops have preservative properties. Pasteurization can help extend the life of your beer and so does refrigeration. But even with modern brewing technology, a beer’s shelf life is finite. Your beer starts to degrade the moment it’s bottled, canned or kegged, even before it’s trucked to a distributor, who in turn delivers it to a bar, restaurant or market. Once it’s in your hands, it’s critical that you store your bee...

AP wins public service, photo Pulitzers for Ukraine coverage

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:54 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism Monday, in public service and breaking news photography, for coverage of the Ukraine War that included startling images of Russia’s siege of Mariupol.AL.com, of Birmingham, Alabama, won two Pulitzers, in local reporting and commentary. The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and the Washington Post also won two awards each.The New York Times was honored with an international reporting award for its coverage of Russian killings in the Ukranian town of Bucha. Pulitzers were also given for work surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion standard, the government’s policy of child separation at the border, and welfare spending in Mississippi.For its public service award, the Pulitzers cited the work of AP videojournalist Mstyslav Chernov, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, video producer Vasilisa Stepanenko and reporter Lori Hinnant. For nearly three weeks, AP had the only i...

Grace Bumbry, 1st Black singer at Bayreuth, dies at 86

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:54 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany’s Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top stages, has died. She was 86.Bumbry died Sunday at Evangelisches Krankenhaus, a hospital in Vienna, according to her publicist, David Lee Brewer. She had a stroke on Oct. 20 while on a flight from Vienna to New York to attend her induction into Opera America’s Opera Hall of Fame. She was stricken with the plane 15 minutes from landing, was treated at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens and returned to Vienna on Dec. 8. She had been in and out of facilities since, Brewer said Monday.Bumbry was born Jan. 4, 1937, in St. Louis. Her father, Benjamin, was a railroad porter and her mother, the former Melzia Walker, a school teacher.She sang in the choir at Ville’s Sumner High School and won a talent contest sponsored by radio station KMOX that included a scholarship to the St. Louis In...

S&P/TSX composite edges higher on tech and battery metals, U.S. markets mixed

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:54 GMT

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index edged higher Monday led by gains in technology and battery metals, while U.S. markets were mixed.Markets were in “wait and see mode” Monday ahead of key economic data expected later in the week, said Craig Fehr, investment strategist at Edward Jones.The S&P/TSX composite index was up 43.12 points at 20,585.15.In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 55.69 points at 33,618.69. The S&P 500 index was up 1.87 points at 4,138.12,while the Nasdaq composite was up 21.50 points at 12,256.92.The volatile market last week was driven by the latest Federal Reserve announcement as well as jobs reports in the U.S. and Canada, Fehr noted. The spotlight this week is the U.S. inflation data to be released Wednesday, he said.Between that and Canada’s next look at inflation data to be released on May 16, soon investors will have the “full inflation picture,” said Fehr.A lot is hinging on inflation data, as has been the case for many of in...

Oakland 2nd California diocese to seek bankruptcy over abuse

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:54 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland filed for bankruptcy Monday due to hundreds of new child sex abuse claims, becoming the second diocese in California to do so. The San Francisco Bay Area diocese faces more than 330 lawsuits brought under a California law allowing claims that would have otherwise expired, Bishop Michael C. Barber said in a letter posted to the diocese’s website. Most of them allege abuse that dates back to the 1980s and earlier, according to Barber, and by priests who are no longer active in ministry or deceased. He said a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization would ensure “a fair and equitable outcome for survivors” and allow the church to continue its work. SNAP, a survivors’ network for clergy sex abuse victims, criticized the bankruptcy filing, calling it a ploy to keep information hidden. In a statement, it said the Oakland diocese could sell off property to compensate victims. “The Diocese of Oakland is morally bankrupt, but the...

Vermont bans owning, running paramilitary training camps

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:54 GMT

Vermont on Monday made it a crime to own or operate paramilitary training camps in the state after Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed legislation introduced in response to a firearms training facility built without permits that neighbors called a menace.Violators face up to five years in prison or a fine up to $50,000 or both, according to the law. It prohibits a person from teaching, training, or demonstrating to anyone else the use, application, or making of a firearm, explosive, or incendiary device capable of causing injury or death that will be used in or in furtherance of a civil disorder. It also bans a person from assembling with others for such training, instruction or practice. The gun violence prevention group led by former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, of Arizona, who was forced to give up her political career when she was disabled in a 2011 assassination attempt, praised Vermont’s law. “Today, Vermont joins 25 other states that prohibit firearms training for anti-g...