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Tornado and Flood Watch today

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:27 GMT

It’s been an active morning with Tornado Warnings across the region. Stay weather aware the rest of the day. As of this writing (11 a.m.) a Tornado Watch is in place for a large portion of New England until 3 pm. This means atmospheric conditions are favorable for the development of severe thunderstorms, capable of producing tornadoes. Any tornados that spawn would be brief and weak, but enough to cause some damage.Torrential downpours leading to flash flooding is also a risk. Numerous Flash Flood Warnings have been in place this morning. A Flood Watch continues through late tonight. The system is tapping into a lot of tropical moisture allowing for heavy rain and extreme rainfall rates 2-3″ possible. The ground is already saturated from recent rain and the intensity of this rain allows for runoff and flash flooding. If you live in an area prone to flooding, do not drive through flooded roadways.The main line of storms continues to move through midday and into the aftern...

Tornado watch issued for most of Massachusetts, all of Connecticut, parts of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine until 3 pm; storm watch at Logan Airport

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:27 GMT

Keep your eyes to the sky today!An “atmospheric river” first brought the state a tornado warning — one at 9:15 a.m. again at 10:30 a.m. — and now a tornado watch until 3 p.m. for most of Massachusetts with a storm watch at Logan Airport.According to the National Weather Service, all of Connecticut and sections of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and southern Maine fall under that watch. The rain has now moved into Suffolk County.The rest of Massachusetts and Vermont — basically the whole northeast — is under a thunderstorm and flood watch on and off into tomorrow. That’s a mix of “torrential rainfall,” hail, wind suddenly gusting and driving that could be perilous.That unyielding atmospheric river is moving northeast with western Mass, Vermont and New Hampshire in for more misery. (Now it has triggered another tornado warning for the Fitchburg area until 10:30 a.m.)Related ArticlesCrime & Public Safety | Early-week flo...

Ongoing Storm repairs, public safety concerns leave thousands without power in Quebec

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:27 GMT

MONTREAL — Hydro-Québec says fewer than 2,000 clients who lost power Thursday due to a thunderstorm are still without electricity, but power has been cut to thousands of Montrealers today for public safety reasons.Around 14,580 hydro customers across the province were without power as of 11 a.m. Hydro-Québec spokesman Francis Labbé says public safety officials requested power cuts in Montreal Sunday morning that affected 8,000 customers, though power was restored to almost half of those during the course of the morning.Labbé says he doesn’t have specific information about why the cuts were requested, but notes they’re usually triggered by gas leaks or cars hitting hydro polls. He says isolated thunderstorms are also leading to new outages in several parts of the province. More than 392,000 hydro customers lost power during Thursday’s storm.  This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 16, 2023. The Canadian Press

Arrests have been made in a human remains trade tied to Harvard Medical School. Here’s what to know

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:27 GMT

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — WHAT HAPPENED?Federal investigators discovered a human remains trade with connections to Harvard Medical School and have arrested people in several states. According to prosecutors, the defendants were part of a nationwide network of people who bought and sold remains stolen from the medical school and an Arkansas mortuary. One of those charged, 55-year-old Cedric Lodge, of New Hampshire, allegedly took dissected parts of cadavers that had been donated to Harvard in a scheme that started back in 2018, prosecutors said. Another person facing criminal charges, Katrina Maclean of Salem, Massachusetts, owned a store that sells “creations that shock the mind” with along with “creepy dolls, oddities and bone art,” according to the store’s social media page.WHO IS FACING CHARGES?The indictment charges Lodge; his wife, Denise; Maclean; Joshua Taylor, of West Lawn, Pennsylvania; and Mathew Lampi, of East Bethel, Minnesota, with conspiracy and interstate transport of st...

Actor, singer and style icon Jane Birkin dies in Paris at age 76

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:27 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Actor and singer Jane Birkin, who made France her home and charmed the country with her English grace, natural style and social activism, has died at age 76.The London-born star and fashion icon was known for her musical and romantic relationship with French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Their songs notably included the steamy “Je t’aime moi non plus” (“I Love You, Me Neither”). Birkin’s ethereal, British-accented singing voice interlaced with his gruff baritone in the 1969 duet that helped make her famous and was forbidden in Italy after being denounced in the Vatican newspaper. The style Birkin displayed in the 1960s and early 1970s — long hair with bangs, jeans paired with white tops, knit mini dresses and basket bags — still epitomizes the height of French chic for many women around the world. Birkin was also synonymous with a Hermes bag that bore her name. Created by the Paris fashion house in 1984 in her honor, the Birkin bag became one of the w...

Clervie Ngounoue of the U.S. and Henry Searle of Britain win the junior singles titles at Wimbledon

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:27 GMT

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Clervie Ngounoue of the United States and Henry Searle of Britain won the junior singles titles at Wimbledon on Sunday.The 16-year-old Ngounoue became the second straight American — and 15th overall — to win the girls’ singles title at the All England Club by beating Nikola Bartunkova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-2. Liv Hovde won it last year, becoming only the second American in 30 years to do so.Ngounoue didn’t drop a set throughout the tournament en route to her first Grand Slam singles title.“I’m really excited that this is my first,” said Ngounoue, who lives in Orlando, Florida. “It was a battle out there.”Searle became the first British player in 61 years to win the boys’ singles title, defeating Yaroslav Demin 6-4, 6-4 in front of a partisan crowd on No. 1 Court.“It’s a pretty special feeling and it is not going to come too often and I am going to try and enjoy it,” Searle said. “It was amazing in front of this crowd today.”Ga...

Carlos Alcaraz wins second set against Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final. Djokovic won the first

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:27 GMT

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz won the second set of the Wimbledon final 7-6 (6) against Novak Djokovic on Sunday. Djokovic won the first set 6-1.Djokovic is bidding for his record-tying eighth Wimbledon singles championship and fifth in a row. Alcaraz is trying for his first trophy at the All England Club.Djokovic wants his 24th Grand Slam title. Alcaraz wants his second.There is plenty on the line when Djokovic and Alcaraz meet each other at Centre Court.There’s also this: Alcaraz, a 20-year-old from Spain, is ranked No. 1, and Djokovic, a 36-year-old from Serbia, is ranked No. 2. In addition to the Wimbledon trophy, the winner will have the top ATP ranking.This is a rematch of the showdown between Alcaraz and Djokovic in the French Open semifinals last month.The first two sets were terrific, and each man won one. But then Alcaraz was overcome by cramping — he said later he thought nerves were the main cause — and Djokovic took the anticlimactic last two sets 6-1, ...

Washington legal pot farms get back to work after pesticide concerns halted operations

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:27 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — A big mound of fresh dirt sits at Terry Taylor’s marijuana farm in the high desert of north-central Washington state. Each hole for a new plant gets filled with the clean soil.Large swaths of recently installed landscape fabric cover the ground, and soon the dirt roads on his property will be covered in crushed rock to keep contaminated dust from covering the crops.Taylor’s pot farm is one of several getting back to business after state regulators halted their operations in April, citing product testing that turned up unacceptable levels of chemicals related to DDT, a synthetic pesticide banned half a century ago. The affected growers haven’t used the pesticide themselves, but they are located on a 5-mile (8-kilometer) stretch of former fruit orchards along the Okanogan River where it was applied heavily and remains in the soil.The Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board announced last week it had lifted the holds on the businesses, which are now taking...

Alabama woman who disappeared after reporting child on highway returns home following two-day search

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:27 GMT

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — A 25-year-old Alabama woman returned home late Saturday after being the focus of a two-day search by police and family members who reported her missing after she stopped to check on a child who was walking along a highway.Police said Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell had returned to the home she shares with her parents in Hoover, AL.com reported late Saturday night.Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis said Russell arrived home alone and was brought to a hospital for evaluation, AL.com reported.Russell’s whereabouts were not immediately clear since around 10:45 p.m. Thursday when she called 911 and a family member to say she saw a young child walking on the side of Interstate 459.Police found Russell’s car and her cellphone but were unable to find her or a child in the area.Hoover Police Lt. Daniel Lowe said the family member on the phone with Russell lost contact with her even though the line remained open. A single witness reported possibly seeing a gray...

Weekend Gardening with Tim Joyce: Hydrangeas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:27 GMT

Check out Weekend gardening with Tim Joyce where we tackle how to deal with soggy hydrangeas.Love the WGN Morning News? We love you, too. And you can have all the hijinks delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. Sign up and subscribe to our WGN Morning News newsletter.