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Bruins, Trent Frederic agree to deal, avoid arbitration

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:57 GMT

While awaiting the arbitration award for goalie Jeremy Swayman, the Bruins came to terms with restricted free agent Trent Frederic, who’d been scheduled for a Tuesday arbitration hearing of his own.Frederic was signed to a two-year deal worth an average annual value of $2.3 million, according to multiple reports. In an exchange of pre-arbitration numbers, Frederic’s camp was seeking $2.9 million while the B’s were at $1.4 million.Frederic will be earning more than twice his salary from last season – $1.05 million – on the strength of his breakout 17-goal season in 2022-23 while skating primarily at right wing with center Charlie Coyle and left wing Taylor Hall. The contract leaves the B’s with approximately $3.1 million in salary cap space.With Hall traded to Chicago and Coyle expected to bump up in the lineup with the retirement Patrice Bergeron and the expected departure of David Krejci, it’s not clear where Frederic will slot in the lineup for the up...

Patriots OT Trent Brown sitting out second straight practice Tuesday, 8 others missing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:57 GMT

FOXBORO — Patriots offensive tackle Trent Brown was a non-participant for a second straight training camp practice Tuesday, heading down to a lower field for conditioning work while the rest of the team engaged in positional drills and walk-through team periods.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Patriots extra points: Trent Brown reported to training camp ‘lighter than he’s been’ New England Patriots | Bill Belichick: Mac Jones had a ‘good offseason,’ Patriots QBs will compete in training camp New England Patriots | Patriots training camp Day 6: ‘D’ makes goal-line stand, Rhamondre Stevenson sits New England Patriots | Patriots have a secret offensive weapon on defensive side of the ball New England Patriots | Patriots still counting on young running backs as depth is tested in training camp Starting left guard Cole Strange was present, but did not stre...

Shaky Americans avoid upset to reach Women's World Cup knockout round after 0-0 draw with Portugal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:57 GMT

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — A goal post saved the United States from elimination at the Women's World Cup. Ana Capeta nearly scored for Portugal in stoppage time but her shot hit the left post and the United States escaped with a uninspiring 0-0 draw Tuesday night that got them through — just barely — to the knockout round. The U.S. won only one game in group play for the first time in tournament history, scoring just four goals over three games. With the scoreless draw, the United States fell to second in the group behind the Netherlands and will head to Melbourne, Australia, for a round of 16 match on Sunday. “We should have put some in the back of the net and we didn't. We own that,” Alex Morgan said. “We're not happy with the performance we put out there. But at the same time, we're moving on.” The Americans, the most successful team ever at the World Cup with four titles, have never been eliminated in the tournament's group stage. But they looked shaky against the Portuguese, ...

Rex Heuermann, the architect accused of killing 3 women found at Gilgo Beach, is due back in court

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:57 GMT

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Rex Heuermann, the architect accused of murdering at least three women and leaving their bodies along a remote stretch of coastline near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach, is due back in court on Tuesday for the first time since his arraignment.Heuermann is charged with killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello, who disappeared in 2009 and 2010. Prosecutors also say he’s suspected in the death of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who vanished in 2007.All of the women were sex workers whose remains were discovered near each other on a barrier island off Long Island’s southern coast.Investigators spent nearly two weeks combing through Heuermann’s home in Massapequa Park, across a bay from where the remains were found.The search included digging up the yard, dismantling a porch and a greenhouse and removing many contents of the house for testing. Heuermann’s wife, Asa Ellerup, told the New York Post that the search left t...

Job openings fall to lowest level in 2 years as demand for workers cools

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:57 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers posted fewer jobs in June, a sign that the red-hot demand for workers that has been a key feature of the post-pandemic economy is cooling a bit. Job openings dropped to 9.6 million in June, the Labor Department said Tuesday, down slightly from the previous month but much lower than the 10.3 million in April and the fewest in more than two years. The government’s report also showed that the number of people who quit their jobs in June fell sharply to 3.8 million from 4.1 million, another sign the job market is slowing. The Federal Reserve is seeking to cool the job market, because if cpompanies are less desperate to hire, and fewer workers are quitting to seek higher-paying positions elsewhere, then businesses will be under less pressure to raise pay to find and keep workers. Smaller pay hikes could help lower inflation, since businesses won’t have to lift their prices to offset higher labor costs.Tuesday’s report means there are 1.6 jobs ...

What students should keep in mind when shopping for a laptop

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:57 GMT

Amanda Round’s parents splurged on a high school graduation present for her: a $3,000 Microsoft Book 3 laptop.With such a high price tag, Round’s mom made sure to show the store her daughter’s McMaster University acceptance letter, so she could get the approximately $500 student discount. Round, now an incoming fourth-year student in McMaster’s integrated science program, advises other students to pull the same move as her mom.“I don’t think I’ve ever paid full price for any computer,” Round says. “If there’s not a back-to-school discount, there’s an education discount.”Laptop prices range from $300 to $3,000, according to Toronto-based tech consultant Avery Swartz. But now is a good time to buy.“August is the best time of year to buy a laptop because it’s when all the deals are on,” she adds.Swartz believes the most important questions that students ask themselves before even beginning to research laptops is: What am I using this for? And how much money am I...

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver still hospitalized, Scutari is acting governor

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:57 GMT

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver remained unable to carry out her duties as acting governor on Tuesday after she was hospitalized for an undisclosed medical issue.Oliver was acting as governor while Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy is out of the country of vacation.Senate President Nicholas Scutari, a fellow Democrat, is acting in Oliver’s place as mandated under the state constitution. No public events are currently on his schedule. Oliver, 71, was taken to Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston on Monday, according to Murphy’s spokesperson Mahen Gunaratna. Gunaratna said Oliver was receiving “medical care,” but declined on Tuesday to elaborate further.Murphy’s office has said he’s out of the country on a family vacation in Italy, where he owns a home. He is set to return Aug. 13.Oliver has served as the state’s second lieutenant governor since 2018. She concurrently serves as the head of the Department of Community Affairs, which coordinates s...

Palestinian opens fire in West Bank settlement, wounding 5 people before being killed

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:57 GMT

MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian gunman opened fire in an Israeli settlement east of Jerusalem on Tuesday, wounding at least five people before being shot and killed, Israeli police said. The shooting outside a shopping mall in the sprawling Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim, in the occupied West Bank, was the latest in the most violent stretch of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the territory in nearly two decades. An off-duty police officer in Maale Adumim heard the gunshots and rushed to the scene, where police said the Palestinian assailant turned his gun on him. The officer opened fire in response, killing the Palestinian, who was dressed as a security guard in a neon vest.The Islamic militant groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad praised the attack as “heroic” but stopped short of claiming responsibility.In an audio clip purportedly recorded by the assailant and shared on social media, he vows to “die for the sake of Allah” and asks that his attack “not be ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:57 GMT

BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company they sued in 2021, accusing its leaders of reaping billions of dollars from a racist medical system.Tissue taken from the Black woman’s tumor before she died of cervical cancer became the first human cells to be successfully cloned. Reproduced infinitely ever since, HeLa cells have become a cornerstone of modern medicine, enabling countless scientific and medical innovations, including the development of the polio vaccine, genetic mapping and even COVID-19 vaccines.Despite that incalculable impact, the Lacks family had never been compensated.Doctors harvested Lacks’ cells in 1951, long before the advent of consent procedures used in medicine and scientific research today, but lawyers for her family argued that Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., of Waltham, Mass...

Firefighters contain a quarter of massive California-Nevada wildfire

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:57 GMT

MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters had managed to partially contain a massive wildfire by Tuesday morning after the blaze ignited in a California wildland preserve and spread into Nevada, its smoke blotting out the sun across Las Vegas while flames scorched tens of thousands of acres of desert scrub, juniper and Joshua tree woodland.The York Fire was mapped at roughly 125 square miles (323.7 square kilometers) on Tuesday, with 23% containment, making it the largest wildfire of the season in California.The blaze erupted Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the vast wildland preserve, crossed the state line into Nevada on Sunday and sent smoke further east into the Las Vegas Valley. Midday Monday, a smoky haze on the Las Vegas Strip obliterated views of mountains surrounding the city and suburbs. Because of low visibility, the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas reported departure delays of nearly two hours.Firefighters battled “fire whirls” on M...