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MBTA delays lifting ‘global’ speed restriction on Green Line, other restrictions remain

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:58:37 GMT

The MBTA has announced that it is delaying its plan to lift a global speed restriction in place on the Green Line on Saturday, just over a week after the restriction went into effect last Thursday.  Though officials said they hoped to lift the 25 mile per hour end-to-end Green Line restriction at the beginning of Saturday service, those plans were delayed, the agency said in a statement.In a statement, the MBTA said, “While running a Green Line test train in areas where defects had previously been detected, crews identified speed signs that need to be relocated to implement block restrictions. As result, the global speed restriction will remain in place until this manual process is completed.”Other restrictions will remain in place on sections of tracks across all T lines, continuing to cause headaches for some riders.MBTA Interim General Manager Jeff Gonneville discussed the changes at a press conference Friday afternoon.The T previously announced system-wide speed rest...

Nice Saturday, then a cold and windy Sunday

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:58:37 GMT

7Weather – Good morning! Who’s continuing the St. Patrick’s Day weekend celebrations? It’s a nice morning for it. Temperatures are starting off mild in the mid/upper 40s for MetroWest and the city of Boston. A lot of clouds were around overnight, allowing for this above-average start. Some of those clouds squeezing out sprinkles for the coast, Cape and Islands. Those sprinkles are part of a cold front. We won’t feel the effects of it yet. There’s still mild air above us in the clouds today. A westerly wind will start to pull in the cooler air. The colder temperatures are there back to our west. We’ll feel that waking up tomorrow morning and hold on the chilly feel through Sunday. We wake up tomorrow to temperatures in a range from 25° to near 30°. Temperatures tomorrow will be locked in the 30s. It’ll be windy. Westerly gusts will approach 35-40 mph by the afternoon. That’ll drop wind chill value to the 20s! That’s how you&...

Police investigating violent head-on crash in Wrentham

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:58:37 GMT

Police are investigating a violent head-on crash in Wrentham on Friday that left a woman with serious injuries.A pickup truck crossing Route 140 slammed into a Hyundai, leaving both vehicles severely damaged.A woman was taken to the hospital. The pickup truck driver was uninjured.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Gallery: BU Match Day

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:58:37 GMT

Boston University medical students find out where their residency will be during Match Day

Russia’s Putin visits Crimea following war crimes warrant

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:58:37 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine.Putin visited an art school and a children’s center on Saturday, the day after the International Criminal Court’ issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes. The court specifically accused him Friday of bearing personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine during Russia’s full-scale invasion of the neighboring country that started almost 13 months ago. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move that most of the world considered illegal. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Widespread Russian attacks continued in Ukraine following the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights.Ukraine was attacked by 16 Ru...

Fire officials say six missing after blaze that destroyed Old Montreal building

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:58:37 GMT

Montreal fire officials now say at least six people are missing after a blaze destroyed a building in the city’s historic district Thursday.Investigators had initially said one person was believed to be missing after the fire that injured another nine people.Montreal fire operations chief Martin Guilbault says information recently confirmed from various sources led them to conclude more people were trapped inside when the fire broke out before 6 a.m. Thursday.The cause of the fire remains unknown, and Guilbault told reporters that the investigation is being led by the Montreal police arson squad.Fire officials say two of the nine injured people suffered serious burns and remain in hospital.Montreal fire Chief Richard Liebmann said Thursday there was some confusion over how many people were inside the three-storey Old Montreal building at the time of the fire because several apartments were Airbnb rentals.This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 18, 2023.The ...

One dead, police investigating homicide after shooting in Mississauga

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:58:37 GMT

Peel police are investigating a homicide after one man died as two men were shot outside of an establishment in the Lakeshore and Elizabeth area in Mississauga.Shooting:– Lakeshore and Elizabeth #Mississauga – Reports of two victims have been shot – A vehicle was seen fleeing the area– #PRP has secured the area – No suspect or vehicle descriptions – PR23-0088391— Peel Regional Police (@PeelPolice) March 18, 2023Police responded to reports at approximately 1:00 a.m. that two people had been shot and a vehicle was seen fleeing the area.Both men were taken to trauma centres but one man succumbed to his injuries. Police are awaiting an assessment of the second man.Lakeshore remains closed between Elizabeth and Stavebank and the homicide bureau is investigating.

Google says it will volunteer its top execs to testify at parliamentary committee

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:58:37 GMT

OTTAWA — Google says it will volunteer some of its top executives to testify at a parliamentary committee.In a statement, the company says it aims to work constructively with the heritage committee that is studying the actions of Google after the Silicon Valley giant ran a five-week test that blocked news links to some of its Canadian users.The test was meant to assess the effects of a potential response to Bill C-18, the Liberal government’s controversial Online News Act.A spokesperson says Google will be making their president of global affairs and chief legal officer, Kent Walker and vice president of news, Richard Gingras available to meet with the committee. Both rejected a summons by the committee earlier this month.The head of Google Canada appeared in their place, but Google says it recognizes that MPs on the committee continue to have questions that they wish to have answered. This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 18, 2023. The Canadian Press

Trump says he’ll be arrested Tuesday as DA eyes charges

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:58:37 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump said in a social media post that he expects to be arrested Tuesday as a New York prosecutor is eyeing charges in a case examining hush money paid to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president.Trump said in a post on his Truth Social network early Saturday that “illegal leaks” from the Manhattan district attorney’s office indicate that “THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK.”Messages left Saturday with the district attorney’s office were not immediately returned. Representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to calls for comment.Trump did not provide any details on social media about how he knew about the expected arrest. In his postings, he repeated his lies that the 2020 presidential election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden was stolen and he urged his followers to “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” That language evoked ...

Mostly calm on Paris streets, garbage still piling up

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:58:37 GMT

PARIS (AP) — A spattering of protests were planned in France over the weekend against President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reform, as garbage continued to reek in the streets of Paris and beyond amid a strike by refuse collectors.An eerie calm, returned to Paris Saturday after two nights of thousands-strong protests across the French capital, with one flash point at the elegant Place de la Concorde where angry protesters tossed an effigy of Macron into a bonfire to cheers from the crowd. Police dispersed people with tear gas and water cannons and there were hundreds of arrests. Protesters are trying to pressure lawmakers to bring down Macron’s government and doom an unpopular retirement age increase he’s trying to impose without a vote in the National Assembly. Further protests were planned Saturday in Paris as well as in the cities of Marseille and Nantes, but they were expected to be smaller than in previous days.In Paris’ 12th district Saturday, trash piled up meters...