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Person of interest detained after Thanksgiving Day house fire displaces 12 people in Montgomery Co.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:49 GMT

A fire that broke out in a home in Montgomery County, Maryland, Thursday night displaced 17 people — including five children — and a “person of interest” has been questioned by police, authorities said.Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesman Pete Piringer said that the fire broke out around 10 p.m. in the single-family located in the 2800 block Kingswell Drive off Judson Road in the Wheaton area. The fire was contained to the first floor and a sunroom.The home’s occupants were already outside the house by the time fire crews arrived. All told, 12 adults, five children and two cats were displaced by the blaze, Piringer said.Photos from the scene showed a brick rambler-style house covered in sootNo one was injured and the people who lived in the home were being tended to by the Red Cross.The cause of the fire is still under investigation. A person described as a “person of interest” in the fire was detained by police, then taken to the hospital and qu...

Corey Perry sits again as Blackhawks remain quiet about forward’s status

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:49 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Corey Perry is a healthy scratch for Chicago’s game against Toronto on Friday, and Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson is declining to provide any update on the forward’s status with the team.The 38-year-old Perry has four goals and five assists in 16 games in his first season with the team. He skated for almost 15 minutes during a 3-2 loss to Buffalo on Sunday, and then was a healthy scratch for Wednesday night’s 7-3 loss at Columbus.“He won’t be in the lineup today,” Richardson said before the matchup with the Maple Leafs, “and I’m unable to give any more information at this time.”Asked if Perry’s absence was his decision or coming from above him, Richardson responded: “That’s just going to be kept internal for now in the organization. Hopefully we’ll be able to give updates soon, but we can’t give a timeline on that.”Perry was acquired in a June trade with Tampa Bay. He then agreed to a $4 million, one-year contrac...

Returning Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri takes some of the credit for last season’s Serie A title

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:49 GMT

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Walter Mazzarri believes he contributed to Napoli’s runaway title run last season because of the progress he made coaching the southern club a decade ago.Napoli’s Italian Cup triumph in 2012 under Mazzarri was its first trophy since the days when Diego Maradona played for the club. He also coached the team to a runner-up finish in Serie A a season later.Now Mazzarri is back in charge, having replaced the fired Rudi Garcia, and will make his debut at Atalanta on Saturday with Napoli in fourth place, 10 points behind leader Inter Milan.“We did a lot. All the progress that the club has made started with me,” Mazzarri said Friday in his first news conference since the coaching change was made at the start of the international break. “Then the club did a good job of always improving every year.”So much so that Mazzarri — who has also managed Sampdoria, Inter Milan, Watford, Torino and Cagliari — already maintains that this is the best team he’s ever coached.So can he...

Davis has 26 points, Martin adds 25, No. 19 Florida Atlantic beats No. 12 Texas A&M 96-89

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:49 GMT

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Johnell Davis scored 26 points, Alijah Martin added 25 and No. 19 Florida Atlantic beat No. 12 Texas A&M 96-89 in a semifinal at the ESPN Events Invitational on Friday.Davis and Martin combined for 11 3-pointers as FAU (4-1) went 16 of 30 (53.3%) from behind the arc.Wade Taylor IV had 35 points for Texas A&M (5-1).Texas A&M played the second half without Henry Coleman III, who was hurt with three minutes left in the opening half and limped off the court. The forward led the Aggies with 24 points in a 89-77 win over Butler on Thursday.After trailing by 18 points, the Aggies got within 89-84 on Taylor’s 3-point play with 1:36 to go, but Texas A&M could get no closer.Jalen Gaffney hit a pair of long-range shots to key FAU’s 16-3 run to start the second half and take a 62-47 lead.Coleman had a pair of layups to spur a first half-ending 16-6 run that got Texas A&M within 46-44.Vladislav Goldin, a 7-foot-1 center who scored 19 points in Thu...

How major US stock indexes fared Friday, 11/24/2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:49 GMT

Stocks closed mixed Friday after a half-day trading session capped a holiday shortened week.The S&P 500 inched up 0.1% after wavering between small gains and losses much of the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.3% and the Nasdaq composite slipped 0.1%. The indexes notched their fourth straight winning week.Trading was muted as markets reopened following the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday. Gains in health care, financial, energy and other sectors helped temper losses in technology and communication services stocks.On Friday:The S&P 500 rose 2.72 points, or 0.1%, to 4,559.34.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 117.12 points, or 0.3%, to 35,390.15.The Nasdaq composite fell 15 points, or 0.1%, to 14,250.85.The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 11.96 points, or 0.7% to 1,807.50.For the week:The S&P 500 rose 45.32 points, or 1%.The Dow gained 442.87 points, or 1.3%.The Nasdaq is up 125.37 points, or 0.9%.The Russell 2000 rose 9.73 points, or 0.5%.For...

First group of Israelis and Palestinians freed under breakthrough Israel-Hamas truce

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:49 GMT

Jerusalem (CNN) — The first groups of Israelis and Palestinians have been released under a truce brokered between Israel and Hamas that brought a temporary halt to fighting in Gaza after weeks of conflict, officials said.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed 13 Israeli hostages had returned to Israel on Friday, where they have undergone initial medical assessments.And Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, which helped broker the agreement, confirmed that the Palestinian prisoners released as part of the deal were on the way to the West Bank.The Red Cross, which transported the detainees on Friday from Gaza to the Rafah border with Egypt, said 24 hostages had been freed.Ten Thai citizens and one Filipino citizen have also been freed under a separate agreement.Among the Israelis freed are 5-year-old Emilia Aloni and Adina Moshe, who was seen being driven away on a motorbike after being abducted from her kibbutz during the October 7 Hamas attacks.“They’r...

Biden hails initial hostage release, says ‘we will not stop’ until all are brought home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:49 GMT

(CNN) — President Joe Biden welcomed the initial release of hostages held in Gaza, calling Friday’s release of 13 Israelis a positive start toward the goal in the coming days of securing at least 50 women and children hostages, including three Americans.“It’s only a start, but so far, it’s gone well,” Biden told reporters in Nantucket Friday afternoon. He also noted the release of several Thai nationals who had also been kidnapped by Hamas.The three American citizens who fall into the category of women and children, including now-4-year-old Abigail Edan, were not part of this first release, but Biden renewed his commitment to seek their return.“We also will not stop until we get these hostages brought home and an answer to their whereabouts,” he said.Biden said he expects to soon get the names of those among the second wave of hostages who will be released Saturday, saying he was “hopeful it’s as we anticipate.” He said he did not know when the three Americans would be released...

Runaway bull on Phoenix freeway gets wrangled back without injury

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:49 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona state troopers say nobody was injured when a runaway bull was found wandering around a Phoenix freeway early Friday.Video footage from a traffic camera shows the dark, long-horned bull mulling around the highway as troopers try to herd it from the safety of their vehicles.Sgt. Kevin Watt told AZfamily.com that he came face to face with the animal, which was standing in the high-occupancy vehicle lane.Watt tried scaring the bull off the road.“I had my sirens going, everything I could to scare him off the roadway, but he seemed like he wanted to take me on,” Watt said.Troopers managed to wrangle the animal off the highway and back to the cattle enclosure it escaped from. They discovered the gap in the enclosure that allowed the bull to escape and fixed it.Authorities say they still don’t know who owns an enclosure so close to the freeway.

FDA expands cantaloupe recall after salmonella infections double in a week

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:49 GMT

U.S. health officials recalled three more brands of whole and pre-cut cantaloupes Friday as the number of people sickened by salmonella more than doubled this week.Nearly 100 people in 32 states have gotten sick from the contaminated fruits. Arizona, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio have the highest number of cases. Two people have died of the infections in Minnesota, and 45 people are hospitalized nationwide.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s original recall included Malichita brand whole cantaloupe, Vinyard brand pre-cut cantaloupe and ALDI whole cantaloupe and pre-cut fruit products. Rudy brand whole cantaloupes and Freshness Guaranteed brand and RaceTrac brand pre-cut cantaloupes joined the list Friday.Health officials say anyone who bought the recalled fruits should throw them away and wash surfaces that touched them with hot, soapy water or in a dishwasher.Most people infected with salmonella develop diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps...

31-year-old man arrested in Worcester massage business shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:49 GMT

On Friday Worcester Police announced that 31-year-old Marcel Santos-Padgett, of Leicester, had been placed under arrest in Haverhill in connection with a suspicious death at a Pleasant Street massage business.The Worcester Police Department had issued an arrest warrant for Santos-Padgett for Armed Assault to Murder and worked in conjunction with the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Squad and the Haverhill Police Department to apprehend the individual. According to court documents, Santos-Padgett aimed a gun at the victim’s head and pulled the trigger, killing her.Police identified the suspect through surveillance video and license plate readers, which caught his vehicle in the area where the shooting took place. https://twitter.com/WorcesterPD/status/1728130301954781256Worcester Police Department said officers first responded to the Angie’s Bodywork Spa at 383 Pleasant Street around 11:30 a.m. on Thursday after receiving a report of a female &#x...