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Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas … in the malls for sure where Santa seems to be showing up a lot.Boston’s 9-month-old Ekieda Korli reaches for Santa’s beard while he gets his photo taken at the Prudential Center in Boston on Friday. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)Santa leans closer to Newport’s 2-year-old Marsden Mclaughlin to hear what she’d like for Christmas this year before getting her photo taken at the Prudential Center in Boston on Friday. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)Santa hangs out at the Prudential Center taking souvienir photos. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)Boston’s Chloe Karamitis smiles as she tells Santa what she’d like for Christmas. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)Christopher Gutierrez of Manzi Appraisers & Restoration with a restored angel statue at the Old North Church. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald) 

Local Massachusetts teachers group demands state union retract ‘inflammatory’ cease-fire resolution

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

Another local teachers union is demanding the Massachusetts Teachers Association rescind an “inflammatory” resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.The Bedford Education Association disassociated itself from the resolution this week, following the same action as the Newton Teachers Association whose president referred to the MTA statement as “antisemitic dog-whistling.”“The Bedford Education Association rejects the presumption that it is within the scope of our state and local associations’ mission to take a position on geopolitical affairs,” part of the BEA motion states. “Furthermore, the BEA rejects anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and all other expressions of religious and cultural intolerance.”Hyperlocal The Bedford Citizen first reported the resolution on Thursday, highlighting how some “Jewish residents contacted officers of the Bedford association and requested that they repudiate the statement, which they felt was one-sided, inflammatory, and with...

Norwood Police shoot woman they say came at them with a gun

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

A Norwood Police officer shot a gun-wielding woman in the parking lot of a storage business there Friday afternoon, police said.“We hope that she’s going to be ok. We also are tending to the officers who are present at the scene to make sure that they’re going to be ok,” Norwood Police Chief William Brooks said at a press conference he held at around 3 p.m. outside the Extra Space Storage location on Morse Street where the tense interaction took place just an hour or so beforehand.The unnamed woman, who Brooks described as “middle-aged” and who “had recently been living in Norwood,” was still alive at the time Brooks spoke with the media.As Brooks told it, the woman was in some kind of interaction inside the storage business with another man when she drew a gun on him and then the man called 911 a little before 1 p.m. The woman exited the building and walked into the parking lot as she held the gun to her own head, which is how Brooks — who said he was on scene throughou...

Lucas: Come on Biden, hit the Houthis hard!

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

Joe Biden ought to put Kamala Harris in charge of standing up to Yemen.It will show that he is not going to be pushed around by the Houthis anymore.And we are not talking about Hootie and the Blowfish, either.We are talking about real ragtag Houthis in Yemen who, backed and trained by Iran, are bombarding commercial ships in the Red Sea that are bound for Israel. Iran supplies the missiles and drones they are firing.Joe Biden looks at the event, confused and helpless.Were he to give the assignment to Harris, the vice president would deal with the Houthis the way she demolished the Mexican cartels after Biden named her border czar. (Yeah. Right.)Still, she could not do worse than all the other government officials Biden has sent to the Mideast to cope with the fallout from the Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza.Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and National Security advisor Jake Sullivan have met with everybody in the region — Benjamin Netanyahu in I...

Starr: Dodgers “fully throttle” Red Sox with $325 million Yamamoto contract

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

The promise of a “full throttle” Red Sox offseason, already an unrealistic dream, was officially broken on Thursday night, when Jack Curry of YES Network broke the news that the Los Angeles Dodgers had won the Yoshinobu Yamamoto sweepstakes.It’s the latest in a string of enormous, historic offseason transactions by the Dodgers, and the latest in a long line of Red Sox disappointments.Yamamoto completes an Orion’s belt of shining new stars; already in the last two weeks, the Dodgers gave Shohei Ohtani a record $700 million while also trading for and extending Rays star Tyler Glasnow.According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, Yamamoto’s is a 12-year, $325 million deal. There’s no deferred money, a $50 million signing bonus and player opt-outs after the ’29 and ’31 seasons. The Dodgers must also pay a $50.6 million posting fee to Yamamoto’s Nippon Professional Baseball team, the Orix Buffaloes. It’s not only unprecedented for the posti...

3 suspects in stabbing of off-duty officer during Best Buy theft in custody, 1 at large

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

Police say three of four suspects in the stabbing of an off-duty police officer at a Scarborough Best Buy store earlier this month are now in custody facing charges, with a fourth suspect still at large.The first arrest came in dramatic fashion on Wednesday when police say they spotted one of the suspects driving a stolen U-Haul truck in the Danforth and Warden Avenues area. Officers tried to make an arrest, but the suspect allegedly abducted a citizen at gunpoint and took off in the U-Haul, sparking a long pursuit that resulted in numerous crashes through parts of the GTA. The abduction victim managed to jump out of the vehicle at one point and was unharmed.Police vehicles finally cornered the suspect, making a daring daylight arrest near Church and Carlton Streets in downtown Toronto.Emergency Task Force officers arrested the driver of a U-Haul truck near Church and Carlton streets in downtown Toronto on Dec. 20, 2023. CITYNEWS/David MisenerJim Dimce Kaluzovski, 47, of Keswick, wa...

REVIEW: The Iron Claw soars as tragically as it can

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

Wrestling is a unique art. It’s a mixture of performance and pain, cheesy acting and serious injury. The sport’s beginnings were nowhere near as popular as it has become nowadays, although it’s always had ardent fans. But one family made the art into a superstardom, and they sacrificed themselves in the process.Harris Dickinson, Jeremy Allen White, and Zac Efron in the Iron Claw, courtesy of Elevation Pictures.The Iron Claw is a biopic about that family, and their contributions to wrestling and kayfabe. Fritz Von Erich (played by Holt McCallany from Mindhunter) is a wrestler who couldn’t quite become a superstar, so he raised his sons to to do that instead. Kevin (played by Zac Efron from High School Musical) is the oldest, Kerry (played by Jeremy Allen White from the Bear) is the strongest, David (played by Harris Dickinson from Triangle of Sadness) plays the crowd the best, and Mike (played by Stanley Simons from Superior) is the youngest. The brothers love...

At a church rectory in Boston, Haitian migrants place their hopes on hard work and helping hands

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — When Ernseau Admettre decided to leave Haiti and head north with his young family in tow, very little was guaranteed.But the situation in his homeland, beset by poverty and gang violence, had grown so dire that a risky passage to and then across the United States’ southern border offered a kind of hope he said he could never find by staying put.Admettre discovered Boston through the internet and set his sights on Massachusetts, and the trip took the family through several countries including the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Mexico. “We’re going through a very tragic moment in our country. We have no safety. We cannot definitely have all our needs met in Haiti,” Admettre said through a translator Friday. “Leaving Haiti was the best solution to survive.”The Admettres — Ernseau, 43; his wife, Jimene, 36: and their children Elionai, 6, and Gabyana, 2 months — eventually arrived at the Boston International Airport right as winter temperatures were settling ...

Man killed in shooting outside Wheaton pub after apparent argument

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

WHEATON, Ill. — An apparent argument at a popular pub in unincorporated Wheaton on Friday morning ended in a shooting that left one man dead.The DuPage County Sheriff's Office (DCSO) said they responded to a shooting at Rosie O Reilly's Pub, 0N131 Gary Ave., just before 8:45 a.m. on Friday. Witnesses described what seemed like an argument happening inside the pub, which eventually resulted in a fatality.A spokesperson for the DCSO confirmed the homicide, but the identity of the man who died is being withheld, with an autopsy pending from the DuPage County Coroner's Office.Earlier Friday, Rosie O Reilly's owner John Dwyer confirmed to WGN that a man died in the incident. SkyCam 9 also captured images of the aftermath, including spent shell casings scattered across the pavement and deck behind Rosie O Reilly's.The victim was evidently well-known to the owners and patrons of the pub. Described as a friendly guy, WGN was told he leaves behind two children, with another on the way.Dwyer...

The Chicago Masters of the Pizza Toss

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

CHICAGO — From deep dish to tavern style, Chicago is known as one of the country's premiere pizza cities with over 500 restaurants sprawled across the city."Chicago scene offers some amazing choices," said Executive Chef Fabio Viviani of the Bar Siena in West Loop. "From New York Style to Italian style, to Napoleon style. There is every pizza for every mood. Every day of the week. You can find in Chicago."Most bustling pizza businesses say speed is key to delivering the dish, but there are two primary methods to preparing the dough.  A press machine is the modern tool used for speed and to stretch the dough into a uniform thickness. Hand tossing is the traditional way of preparing pizza that has been around for thousands of years. "Pizza is really near and dear to everyone's heart," said Jason Hedin, Executive Chef at The Florentine. "No matter what culture you come from, there is some sort of take on pizza."When it comes to the art of pizza-making, Jaime Gamez, owner of Big G's Piz...