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Pharmacists prescribe another round of US protests to highlight working conditions

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:28:50 GMT

Drugstore workers around the country started calling in sick Monday to highlight a lack of support from their employers, protest organizers said.The extent and impact of the demonstration, which is planned until Wednesday, were not clear as of Monday afternoon.Pharmacists and technicians for dozens of drugstores had called in sick as of midday, said Lannie Duong, a pharmacist who is helping to organize the protest. She said organizers estimate that “at least hundreds” of pharmacists and technicians — mostly for Walgreens and other big retailers like CVS Health — were involved.Pharmacists say they have been dealing with difficult working conditions for years. Those problems worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, when stores saw waves of people seeking tests, vaccines and treatments.Walgreens spokesman Fraser Engerman said Monday afternoon that the company had to close three of its nearly 9,000 U.S. locations “due to workforce disruptions.”CVS Health spokeswoman Amy Thibault said the ...

911 calls released after small plane crash lands near North Perry Airport

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:28:50 GMT

Urgent 911 calls painted a vivid picture of the moments following a small plane crash near North Perry Airport last Thursday afternoon, as witnesses rushed to help the pilot, who miraculously survived the crash.The 911 calls for help came in quickly.“Hi, I just saw a plane crash,” one caller said. Another caller reported, “I believe a plane just crashed down right now; I just drove past it.”The pilot, who was the sole occupant of the aircraft, informed investigators that he was practicing landing and taking off. When he attempted to switch fuel tanks, the plane lost power, leading to a crash landing just west of 72nd Avenue.The crash site happened to be mere feet from the North Perry Airport’s fire station. Witnesses in the area quickly rushed to aid the pilot while on the phone with emergency dispatch.“Can you get out? Yeah, he’s trying to get out,” one caller said.One witnesses later revealed that they had managed to pull the pilot ...

South Florida caregiver charged with manslaughter in 80-year-old’s death

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:28:50 GMT

Police said a caregiver was arrested in connection to the death of an 80-year-old man in southwest Miami-Dade.According to the arrest report, on Sunday, officers from the Miami-Dade Police Department and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to a call regarding a battery with injuries at the residence, located at 15001 Leisure Drive. Upon arrival, they discovered the victim, an 80-year-old man, unresponsive in a bedroom and pronounced him deceased at the scene.Police said Joan Ramos, the victim’s caregiver, told investigators that he heard a scream from the victim’s bedroom around 1:00 a.m. and went to check on him. According to Ramos, the victim became combative and scratched him. Ramos said he attempted to restrain the victim, resulting in both of them falling and hitting a nightstand in the bedroom.Ramos stated that he waited approximately eight hours to contact emergency services due to his state of shock and realization of his actions. He also allegedly disclosed that &#...

Student threat prompts lockdown at Boyd Anderson High School

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:28:50 GMT

Boyd Anderson High School was placed on lockdown following reports of a student potentially armed with a weapon on campus. Shortly before 3 p.m., Broward County Regional Communications received a report of a possible gun on campus at Boyd Anderson High School. In response, Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputies, along with detectives from BSO’s Threat Management unit, responded to the scene located at 3050 NW 41st Street in Lauderdale Lakes. According to officials with Broward County Public Schools, the situation initially began as a student threatening to harm themselves while on school grounds. In an abundance of caution, the school was placed on lockdown while detectives from BSO’s Threat Management unit conducted their investigation.Currently, BSO deputies are working to clear the campus of any potential threats. No further details have been released at this time. Authorities are actively investigating the situation.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for...

Shrewsbury High School Robotics Team mentor faces child pornography charges

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:28:50 GMT

A mentor for Shrewsbury High School was charged Monday in connection to child pornography charges, federal prosecutors announced.Brian Lingard, 60, of Shrewsbury, allegedly possessed and transported child pornography when earlier this month, he flew from Paris to Boston. Investigators found child sexual abuse material on his phone, including 23 images depicting children under the age of 10, prosecutors allege. Investigators also said they found videos of girls as young as 3 years old.His phone also contained multiple pictures taken surreptitiously of fully clothed girls’ buttocks in what appears to be a school setting, allegedly in Shrewsbury High School according to GPS data. Lingard was the mentor for the Shrewsbury High School Robotics Team as a volunteer since 2013, the superintendent of Shrewsbury Public Schools said in a statement. Superintendent Joe Sawyer also noted that Lingard passed all background checks and never accessed the school’s technology system. “While the U...

Victim identified in deadly Worcester State University shooting

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:28:50 GMT

Officials on Monday publicly identified the 19-year-old killed in a shooting on the campus of Worcester State University over the weekend.The shooting happened at 2:30 a.m. Saturday and initially prompted a shelter-in-place order. Officials said Worcester State University Police soon responded to the shooting scene where they found two men with gunshot wounds.Officials said a fight led to the shooting. A 19-year-old now identified Randy Armando Melendez Jr. of Southbridge later died of his injuries at a local hospital. A 21-year-old man wounded in the shooting appeared to have non-life-threatening injuries as of Sunday afternoon, according to the Worcester County District Attorney’s office.Melendez Jr.’s stepmother Sashira Belfort shared a statement on Monday, saying “Our son was a great kid – hardworking – who loved being around friends and family.”“He loved spending his spare time at home and with his family,” Belfort continued. “We are going through the hardest time o...

Not So Spooky Halloween

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:28:50 GMT

Mother Nature had a case of the Mondays today with cloudy skies, rain, and cooler temperatures to kick off the week. While the sun may come back tomorrow, temperatures will head the other direction! The rain we had today was all thanks to a cold front and man, it’s a potent one! While we’ll break into almost clear blue skies tomorrow, temperatures will struggle to make it to 50°!The good news for the kiddos trick-or-treating tomorrow is you won’t have to worry about any rain gear! That said it will be chilly, so you’ll probably want a layer or two underneath the costumes. With clear skies and light wind, temperatures will fall pretty quickly. The light wind will be nice so there’s not a wind chill, but clear skies and light wind are what we need for temperatures to drop like a rock. And when you only start in the 40s, it’ll be a quick drop to the 30s tomorrow evening.Whether it’s the cold rain today, or the the chilly temperatures tomorrow, ...

Boston braces for ‘new reality’ of more serious flooding

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:28:50 GMT

Following a summer of flood events that rocked the East Coast, Boston needs to take concrete steps towards flood prevention and mitigation, advocates say.New approaches could include: requiring that landlords inform potential renters of a property’s flooding history, piloting a program to insure low-income families, capturing federal money to retrofit buildings to reduce risk and re-imagining the Interstate 90 redevelopment through Allston/Brighton.“The reality is that climate change is here now, we don’t have any doubt about that,” said Boston City Councilor Liz Breadon, who co-sponsored a public hearing Monday on stormwater management and flood hazard mitigation. “This is our new reality — increased frequency of intense rainstorms. In Allston/Brighton, heavy rainfall flooded Commonwealth Ave., it shut down the T and we had cases of below-grade apartments flooding.”The state’s most recent Statewide Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adapta...

MIAA Statewide Volleyball Tournament Pairings

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:28:50 GMT

MIAA STATEWIDE VOLLEYBALL PAIRINGSDIVISION 1SEEDS: 1. Newton North (20-1); 2. Haverhill (17-1); 3. Barnstable (17-3); 4. Shrewsbury (16-4); 5. Needham (14-3); 6. Andover (17-3); 7. Newton South (15-3); 8. Bishop Feehan (17-3); 9. Belmont (17-2); 10. Franklin (16-2); 11. Natick (10-6); 12. Brookline (13-7); 13. Attleboro (13-6); 14. Acton-Boxboro (11-6); 15. Boston Latin (13-5); 16. Wellesley (11-7); 17. Peabody Veterans (18-2); 18. King Philip Regional (12-8); 19. Methuen (13-7); 20. Winchester (11-9); 21. Chelmsford (13-7); 22. Lexington (12-8); 23. Wachusett Regional (10-10); 24. Lincoln-Sudbury (7-13); 25. Concord-Carlisle (9-11); 26. North Andover (8-11); 27. Plymouth North (13-7); 28. Central Catholic (7-13); 29. Westford Academy (5-13); 30. Quincy (9-13); 31. Springfield Central (6-13); 32. Arlington (6-14); 33. Diman RVT (17-1); 34. Brockton (11-8); 35. Malden (11-9); 36. Everett (10-8)PRELIMINARY ROUND – TBAGAME 1 – Diman at ArlingtonGAME 2 – Everett at Westford AcademyGAME ...

Raises drive deals to end strikes at automakers

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:28:50 GMT

DETROIT — Facing the loss of another $200 million this week to a lengthy strike, General Motors CEO Mary Barra wrapped up her weekend by going to the United Auto Workers’ Detroit headquarters intent on getting a new contract.Joined by manufacturing chief Gerald Johnson at the meeting that started late Sunday, they were able to close a deal with UAW President Shawn Fain and other bargainers early Monday that should end a contentious six-week work stoppage, three people briefed on the matter said Monday.The tentative deal capped a furious few days of agreements that still need to be ratified by 146,000 UAW members at GM, Ford and Jeep-maker Stellantis. Ford agreed to a new contract last week and was followed by Stellantis on Saturday, which raised the pressure on GM to settle for essentially the same terms.All three companies agreed to raise general wages by 25% for top assembly plant workers and add cost of living adjustments that would bring their pay increases to over 30% by ...