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ETFO reaches tentative agreement with province

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:42 GMT

The Elementary Teachers Federation Ontario (ETFO) has reached a tentative agreement with the Ontario government, averting a strike for roughly 80,000 teacher and occasional teacher members at English speaking public schools in the province. Members had previously voted 95% in favour of strike action, with union leaders saying they would continue to push for a deal at the bargaining table. ETFO President Karen Brown said in a statement that the union was committed to keeping cuts out of the agreement during what became the longest run of bargaining in the union’s history. “After 14 months of central bargaining, we’re pleased to be able to bring forward a tentative agreement to our teacher and occasional teacher members that protects their collective agreement entitlements and also addresses key bargaining goals,” said ETFO President Karen Brown.“We remained focused on getting government cuts off the table and on addressing members’ working conditions, which ar...

76-year-old allegedly put vehicle in reverse, struck Florida car show worker after dispute

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:42 GMT

LADY LAKE, Florida (WESH) — A 76-year-old man is accused of hitting a worker at a car show on purpose.Anthony Guerra is facing charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after the incident.Words like belligerent and aggressive were used to describe Guerra’s behavior towards staff in the arrest report.“They have these car shows every so often,” said Lady Lake police Chief Steven Hunt. “They go off without a hitch routinely. So this was something very unique.”It all started just before 4 p.m. on Saturday in the Spanish Springs section of The Villages. The victim, who was part of The Villages entertainment staff, was told a man was being “belligerent” with other staff over entry into a car show.“Evidently, tempers flared a little bit,” Chief Hunt said.Seventy-six-year-old Anthony Guerra was asked to leave the event. And after Guerra put his car into reverse:“It appears deliberately struck the staff member, causin...

‘A new beginning’: Orlando family beams in new home after eviction forced them to live in parking lot

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:42 GMT

ORLANDO, Florida (WESH) — At the beginning of November, Lynette Colon and her family of four children were sitting in a parking lot with all their worldly possessions piled up on a trailer. They had been evicted from an Orlando mobile home park that is in the process of being sold.“I feel like the worst mother in the world. I feel like I’m failing my kids,” Colon previously said.Now, Colon is beaming in her new apartment.“I cry when I wake up and say, ‘I can’t believe,'” Colon said.After hearing about the Colon family’s story, the community came together to help them out, some even paying for a hotel so the family would have a place to lay their heads at night.Knowing the eviction was coming, Colon had applied for an apartment and was on the waiting list. Luckily, the approval came through in record time.Colon’s daughter, Hillary, now has her own room. Furthermore, her 10-year-old son has made new friends with whom he likes...

Hollywood Police seek help from public in locating missing 20-year-old with autism

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:42 GMT

Hollywood Police are seeking help from the public in locating a missing 20-year-old with autism.Isaiah Medina was last seen in the 6400 Block of Charleston St. in Hollywood, wearing a blue shirt and jeans.If you have any information on Isaiah’s whereabouts, please contact the Hollywood Police Department.

Starting from behind: EU vies to gain ground in green tech race

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:42 GMT

STRASBOURG — The race to control the technology of tomorrow is on, and Europe is desperately playing catch-up. The European Parliament on Tuesday passed the Net-Zero Industry Act, a bill to encourage more technology like solar cells and wind turbines to be made in the EU. Lawmakers hailed the result as a mighty signal of Europe’s intent to keep pace with global powers like the U.S. and China, which are both throwing money at green technology manufacturers. The Parliament also recently approved fresh legislation to get Europe mining more of the minerals needed for those green technologies.“That’s good news for the climate, it’s good news for the European economy and it’s a clear answer to the Americans,” Christian Ehler, a German MEP from the center-right European People’s Party who helped lead the negotiations, said Tuesday after the vote. But the EU faces tough global competition and a late break from the starting blocks. The U.S. has already approved $369 billion in incentiv...

Three detained for hit on Spanish right-wing politician

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:42 GMT

Three suspects were detained on Tuesday in connection with an assassination attempt on the former head of Spain’s Popular Party in Catalonia, according to Spanish media reports.Police detained two Spanish men and one British woman in the cities of Lanjaron and Fuengirola in the country’s south, Spanish media reported. The arrests came two weeks after Alejo Vidal-Quadras, who is also the former vice president of the European Parliament, was shot in the face in broad daylight on the streets of Madrid. Police are still searching for a fourth person who is believed to have fired the gun, according to local media reports. POLITICO attempted to reach Spanish police for confirmation but did not receive a response. The attack broke Vidal-Quadras’ jaw in two places, but the politician survived and is making “good progress” in hospital following an operation, Spanish media reported. The assassination attempt is being investigated by Spain’s National Court as a pot...

Preparations underway as mix of rain and snow approaches ahead of Thanksgiving

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:42 GMT

A storm arriving late Tuesday night is expected to bring a mix of rain and snow to New England, potentially having a major impact on holiday travel ahead of Thanksgiving. Snow is expected to give way to rain even in higher elevations in Worcester County by Wednesday morning. Even so, preparations were underway in communities including Leominster Tuesday. “We’re prepping some trucks up in case we have to go out,” said Leominster Department of Public Works Dispatcher Luke Beaulac. Some flakes may start to fly across part of Worcester County between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., with rain drops starting after 10 p.m. across eastern Massachusetts. Rain and snow is expected to increase through the overnight hours before rain transitions to snow in inland areas near 2 a.m. Rain and wind in coastal communities is expected to then continue through the morning before rain tapers off early Wednesday afternoon. Snowfall forecasts from 7NEWS meteorologists as of Tuesday afternoon...

Travel Trouble Tomorrow

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:42 GMT

Tomorrow is the busiest travel day for Thanksgiving and Mother Nature is going to take an already bad situation and make it worse with wet weather rolling through tomorrow morning. It will actually start later tonight and with the chilly air overhead, could start as snow for some of us — mainly the higher terrain. It will then change to rain for everyone during the daylight hours on Monday.Here are some quick takeaways:-It’s a brief few hours of snow in the high terrain and then will flip to rain like the rest of us.-Rain totals should end up around an inch in most places. It will be steadiest and heaviest in the morning so watch for some pockets of ponding if you’re traveling tomorrow morning.-Wind will get gusty on the coast line with gusts up to 50 mph possible, most likely on the Cape and Islands.Rain and snow will begin later this evening, around 9pm. The snow will be confined to just the high terrain, and even there it won’t last for more than a few hou...

Andrew Bailey hired as Boston’s pitching coach after 4 years in role with Giants

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:42 GMT

Andrew Bailey was hired Tuesday as pitching coach of the Boston Red Sox after four seasons in the same role with the San Francisco Giants.He replaced Dave Bush, Boston’s pitching coach for the past four seasons.A two-time All-Star, the 39-year-old Bailey was 16-14 with a 3.12 ERA and 95 saves in eight seasons with Oakland (2009-11), Boston (2012-13), the New York Yankees (2015), Philadelphia (2016) and the Los Angeles Angels (2016-17).He spent 2018 as an Angels coaching assistant and video replay coordinator and 2019 as the Angels bullpen coach. He switched to the Giants to work under manager Gabe Kapler, who was fired after the season and replaced by Bob Melvin.Bailey is director of development for the Strike 3 Foundation, founded in 2008 by Craig Breslow, hired last month as Boston’s chief baseball officer Craig Breslow. The organization raises money for childhood cancer research. Bailey and Breslow were teammates on the 2013 World Series champion Red Sox.

CEO of world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange pleads guilty to money laundering violations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:42 GMT

New York (CNN) — Billionaire Changpeng Zhao and leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal charges in a watershed moment designed to bring order to the often-lawless crypto industry.As part of a coordinated settlement across the federal government, Binance has agreed to pay more than $4 billion in fines and other penalties. Zhao, one of the most powerful figures in crypto, has agreed to step down as CEO from the exchange that he founded.Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, admitted to engaging in anti-money laundering, unlicensed money transmitting and sanctions violations.US officials described this as the biggest-ever corporate resolution that includes criminal charges for an executive.Following a years-long investigation, authorities allege Binance allowed bad actors to freely transact on the platform, enabling everything from child sex abuse and narcotics to terrorist financing for ISIS, Al Qaeda and Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades.Zhao...