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M-DCPS, BCPS announce AP Psychology will be available for students after Florida Department of Education reverses decision

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

After the Florida Department of Education reversed their decision to limit an Advanced Placement Psychology class from being taught in public high schools, several South Florida counties announced that the course will be available for the students in the upcoming academic school year.The course has been taught in Florida for nearly 30 years.“We firmly believe that offering AP Psychology is the right thing to do,” said Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Peter Licata.“Miami-Dade Public Schools will be offering AP Psychology for the ’23-’24 school year,” said Miami-Dade County Schools Assistant Superintendent Lisette Alves. Advanced Placement Psychology will be taught in Miami-Dade and Broward County Public Schools this upcoming year, school district officials confirmed on Wednesday.“I think that’s amazing; it’s the right thing to do,” said Karla Hernandez-Mats, president of United Teachers of Dade.“There’s nothing wrong w...

Bell homers twice, Bryan De La Cruz’s HR in 9th helps Marlins rally late for 5-4 win over the Reds

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

CINCINNATI (AP) — Josh Bell homered twice and drove in four runs, Bryan De La Cruz hit the go-ahead shot in the ninth and the Miami Marlins rallied late for a 5-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday.Trailing 4-1, Bell hit a game-tying three-run home run in the eighth inning before De La Cruz led off the ninth by going the opposite way to right field against Alexis Diaz (3-4). Bell gave the Marlins a 1-0 lead with a second-inning solo shot.Graham Ashcraft pitched seven impressive innings, Christian Encarnacion-Strand homered and drove in three runs for the Reds, who have lost eight of their past nine games.Spencer Steer also homered and Joey Votto had three hits for the Reds.Tanner Scott (6-4) pitched the eighth for the win. David Robertson allowed a hit before striking out Elly De La Cruz for his 17th save in 21 tries and third for the Marlins since being acquired in a trade with the New York Mets.Ashcraft extended his recent run of effective outings, allowing one run and ...

French MEP Véronique Trillet-Lenoir dies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, an oncologist and French member of European Parliament with the Renew Europe group, has died at the age of 66. The prominent health-focused MEP sat on the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, as well as the public health subcommittee. She was also co-chair of the MEPs Against Cancer group. Announcing her death on X (formerly known as Twitter), Stéphane Séjourné, president of Renew, said that he had learned “with infinite sadness” of Trillet-Lenoir’s death. “A model of integrity, Véronique had made the health of Europeans and our health security her fight, based on her university experience and her career,” he said.Séjourné described Trillet-Lenoir as a “woman of commitments” full of humanity, benevolence and generosity. “Her struggles now become ours. We will commit to it with the same strength and the same determination,” said Séjourné.Fellow Renew MEP Monica Semedo posted on X that Trillet-Lenoi...

At least 6 killed in wildfires that devastated parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui, official says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) — A wildfire tore through the heart of Maui on Wednesday with alarming speed and ferocity, destroying dozens of homes and businesses in a historic tourist town, killing at least six people and injuring at least two dozen others, and forcing panicked residents to jump into the ocean to flee the flames.Fire was widespread in Lahaina Town, including on Front Street, a popular shopping and dining area, County of Maui spokesperson Mahina Martin said by phone early Wednesday.Photos posted by the county overnight showed a line of flames blazing across an intersection and leaping above buildings in the town center that dates to the 1700s and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Aerial video from after sunrise revealed entire blocks of buildings reduced to ash and thick smoke in the air.“Do NOT go to Lahaina Town,” the county tweeted hours before all roads in and out of West Maui’s biggest community were closed to everyone except emergency personnel....

Bystanders step in to help driver after rollover wreck involving MBTA truck in Dorchester

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

An MBTA service truck was involved in a rollover crash in Dorchester Wednesday afternoon. Video from Sky7HD shows a crowd of people helping the driver get out of the truck, which was on its side in the middle of Dorchester Avenue. The driver was able to get out of the passenger side as bystanders held the door open.The crash was close to the Ashmont Station. No other information was immediately available.This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist and songwriter of The Band, dies at 80

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

By Hillel Italie, Associated PressRobbie Robertson, The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” mined and helped reshape American music, has died at 80.Robertson died surrounded by family, a statement from his manager said.From their years as Bob Dylan’s masterful backing group to their own stardom as embodiments of old-fashioned community and virtuosity, The Band profoundly influenced popular music in the 1960s and ’70s, first by literally amplifying Dylan’s polarizing transition from folk artist to rock star and then by absorbing the works of Dylan and Dylan’s influences as they fashioned a new sound immersed in the American past.Robbie Robertson is presented with Toronto’s Key to the City while attending the “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band” press conference during the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival at TIFF ...

Robbie Robertson, soul of The Band, dies at 80

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

Robbie Robertson, The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” mined and helped reshape American music, has died at 80.Robertson died surrounded by family, a statement from his manager said.From their years as Bob Dylan’s masterful backing group to their own stardom as embodiments of old-fashioned community and virtuosity, The Band profoundly influenced popular music in the 1960s and ’70s, first by literally amplifying Dylan’s polarizing transition from folk artist to rock star and then by absorbing the works of Dylan and Dylan’s influences as they fashioned a new sound immersed in the American past.The Canadian-born Robertson was a high school dropout and one-man melting pot — part-Jewish, part-Mohawk and Cayuga — who fell in love with the seemingly limitless sounds and byways of his adopted country and wrote out of a se...

Peabody man found guilty of shooting wife to death in Everett in 2018

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

A Peabody man was found guilty of shooting his wife to death with a shotgun a month after she had filed for divorce in 2018.Ersilia Cataldo Matarazzo, 50, had filed for divorce from her husband Emilio Matarazzo on Nov. 15, 2018, and moved out of the couple’s Peabody home to live with her parents on Central Avenue in Everett.On Dec. 19, 2018, Emilio Matarazzo — angered by the divorce and fearful that she was having an affair, according to prosecutors — shot her to death as she sat in her car, ready to leave for work as a secretary at St. Anthony’s Parish in Everett.On Tuesday, a Middlesex Superior Court jury found Emilio Matarazzo guilty of first-degree murder. The sentencing is scheduled for Thursday.“Intimate partner violence continues to be a significant public safety and public health issue. Ms. Cataldo Matarazzo had been subjected to a long history of abuse that escalated when she tried to leave the defendant,” Middlesex DA Marian Ryan said in a statement following the verdict.“...

Massachusetts again could see a tornado after 2 twisters, heavy rain may spark more flooding

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

After two tornadoes touched down on Tuesday, there will be yet another twister threat on Thursday for southeastern Massachusetts.According to the National Weather Service, there is some potential for an isolated tornado in the same areas that saw them on Tuesday. A brief tornado hit Mattapoisett on the South Coast, and then a twister touched down in Barnstable on Cape Cod.“It should be a similar set up as we saw on Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean it will necessarily pan out in the same way,” Bill Leatham, meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Boston office, told the Herald ahead of Thursday.“The combination of this tropical environment and spin in the atmosphere can bring the risk for brief tornadoes,” he added. “The risk is there, and we’ll be monitoring it later on Thursday.”So far this year, four tornadoes have been confirmed in the Bay State — doubling the annual average of two tornadoes. The Tuesday tornadoes ...

COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising, fueled by heat and waning protection

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

By Matthew Griffin, Bloomberg News COVID-19 hospitalizations are creeping up in the U.S. for the first time this year as extreme heat keeps people indoors and protection against infection fades.COVID hospital admissions rose 43% in the last week in July from a low in the week ending June 24, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. While they’re still lower than at any other point over thee past three years, public health officials across the country are urging caution about increases.As COVID-19 becomes more established, experts say occasional bumps in cases and hospital admissions will likely continue — though the virus’s future course isn’t set in stone. It still poses a threat to older people and those with compromised immune systems, they caution, and can cause lingering long COVID symptoms even among those without risk factors.It’s not a “full-blown, terrifying global outbreak, but nor is it gone,” said Jesse Goodman, a professor of medicine at Georgetown ...