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Archbishop Wenski officiates Palm Sunday Mass in Miami

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:28 GMT

The Archdiocese of Miami celebrated Palm Sunday with a special Mass.7News cameras captured Archbishop Thomas Wenski as he blessed the palms outside of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Miami.The Mass marked the beginning of Holy Week.“This week commemorates Jesus’ Passover from death to life and our Passover with Jesus, where we have died with Christ,” said Wenski. “We believe that we also shall rise with Him to new life.”

Coyle SO goal helps Boston beat St. Louis 4-3 for 60th win

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:28 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Charlie Coyle scored the game-winning shootout goal as the Boston Bruins recovered from blowing a 3-0 lead to beat the St. Louis Blues 4-3 for its 60th win of the season.Linus Ullmark made 35 saves and stopped all three St. Louis shootout attempts to lead Boston to its third straight win.Jake DeBrusk, Tyler Bertuzzi and Oskar Steen all scored in regulation for Boston.Jordan Kyrou scored a pair of goals, and Torey Krug also scored for St. Louis.Jordan Binnington made 28 saves for St. Louis which lost its second straight game.Dmitry Orlov appeared to have scored the game-winner 2:24 into overtime, but after a quick review the goal was overturned as David Pastrnak was off-side entering the St. Louis zone.Kyrou scored his second goal of the game and team-leading 36th of the season with 25 seconds remaining in regulation after Binnington was pulled for an extra attacker to tie the game 3-all.Krug buried a rebound from Brandon Saad past Ullmark for his seventh goal of the...

Sunny start to the work week

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:28 GMT

After an unsettled day Saturday, high pressure moved over New England Sunday, and will be with us through Monday as well. Monday afternoon the center of the high will be just off the coastline, keeping sunshine in the forecast, but also allowing a southerly breeze to warm things up.High temperatures Monday afternoon should reach the mid 50s for most, with some places on the Cape and Buzzard’s Bay in the low 50s. After Monday unsettled weather moves in again, with showers possible Tuesday through Thursday.

Teamsters President Sean O’Brien blasts UPS ahead of contract negotiations: ‘We are not afraid’ to strike

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:28 GMT

Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien tore into UPS on Sunday as he pumped up delivery drivers and other workers in Boston ahead of national contract negotiations, warning the shipping giant that the employees are “not afraid” to strike.O’Brien and other Teamsters officials rallied union workers in Charlestown while they gear up for the start of national negotiations impacting more than 340,000 package delivery drivers and warehouse logistics workers across the country.“We have 15 days before we go sit across the table from this white collar crime syndicate known as United Parcel Service,” O’Brien said during the rally at Teamsters Local 25.“We are not going to take and accept what UPS gives us,” he added. “We’re going to demand, take and punish if they don’t give us what we want moving forward.”The Teamsters’ national master agreement with UPS is the largest private-sector collective bargaining a...

Mets Notebook: Can Mets find production against lefty pitching?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:28 GMT

MIAMI — Last season, the Mets hit .246 against left-handed pitching. It was neither good nor bad, it was exactly in the middle, the 15th-best mark in the league. Or the 15th-worst mark, if you’re more of a glass-half-empty type of person. The .717 OPS was also toward the bottom half of the league.The struggles against southpaw pitching were well-documented last season and alarm bells sounded all over again this weekend after the Mets managed only two hits off Miami Marlins left-hander Jesus Luzardo on Friday night in a 2-1 loss to the Miami Marlins at loanDeport Park. They answered some questions over the weekend with two wins against lefties, but this particular storyline might be one that follows the Mets through the early part of the season if the trend continues.The Mets possess a very balanced lineup but the 2023 lineup is almost identical to the 2022 lineup. The club made a few tweaks to try and combat this problem. Right-handed DH Darin Ruf is no longer on the Maj...

Column: Will Chicago Cubs ask starters to go longer this year? Despite short debut, Jameson Taillon says ‘innings are sexy again.’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:28 GMT

Jameson Taillon has a theory on the evolution of starting pitching.“Innings are making a little bit of a comeback,” the Chicago Cubs starter recently told me. “I think innings are kind of sexy again.”Well, it all depends on your definition of sexy.If Taillon is correct, it means more starters lasting later in games before giving way to the parade of relievers and the pendulum swinging back to the pre-analytics era.But we’re not quite there yet, and neither was Taillon in his Cubs debut Sunday. The team’s most prominent free-agent pitcher since Yu Darvish lasted only four innings in a 9-5 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers before 33,266 at Wrigley Field.Taillon wasn’t particularly sharp but didn’t think it was “anything too major.” Could it have been the added adrenaline of making his first start with a new team?“Yeah, maybe — there’s definitely some extra adrenaline,” he said. “But at this stage of ...

Seniors shoot it out in Mass-Connecticut game

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:28 GMT

FRAMINGHAM – Duxbury boys hockey coach Mike Flaherty has been a part of some special games coaching in the CT/MA Cross-Border All-Star Challenge. He admits that probably none will ever top the opportunity he received when he coached his son twice in years past.The most exciting game is a whole different story, though, and an epic comeback in the CT/MA Senior All-Star Game Sunday afternoon at Loring Arena takes the cake by far.After forcing a shootout with a late, three-goal rally in the first year the decade-old challenge took place in Mass., the home team finished off a 10-9 win when Charlie DiMartino (Braintree) and Aidan Brazel (Hingham) each tallied shootout scores as Wellesley goalie Reagan O’Neill stymied both Connecticut attempts in extra time. Brazel (two goals, two assists) proved exceptionally clutch by assisting on Frank DeTraglia’s (Lincoln-Sudbury) game-tying goal before scoring to give MA a brief 9-8 lead with 2:18 to go, eventually earning the team’s MVP honors with h...

Bay State hosts, wins All-Star hockey game

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:28 GMT

FRAMINGHAM — The annual Connecticut/Massachusetts Cross-Border High School Hockey All-Star Challenge has always provided some of the top athletes in New England an opportunity to play on a grand stage. For the past 10 years however, the showcase had always been held in the Constitution State.On Sunday, the Bay State had its first crack at hosting the events, and sent many of its fans home happy in the process. St. John’s (Shrewsbury) standout Luke Gerardi registered a hat trick, as Massachusetts won the sophomore/junior game in convincing fashion with a 6-2 drubbing.“It’s obviously a privilege to be here in the first place,” said Gerardi. “It’s amazing to do what I did. I just want to thank my coaches for nominating me, and giving me this opportunity.”It only took a few moments for Gerardi to leave a lasting impression, as he forced a turnover off a forecheck. The St. John’s junior spotted Central Catholic’s Tyler Hamilton racing up ice, and fed his teammate the puck. Like a pinball...

DiZoglio finds more examples of past legislative audits

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:28 GMT

State Auditor Diana DiZoglio said Sunday that auditing the legislature, an effort currently at the center of a standoff between Bacon Hill lawmakers and her office, is not such an unusual task after all.“We’ve been conducting a lot more research recently and I have here at least seven other audits that, in our research that we’ve been conducting in recent weeks…we’ve been able to find other times when the state Legislature has indeed been audited,” Auditor Diana DiZoglio said Sunday.During a live appearance with WCVB’s Sharman Sacchetti and Ed Harding, the state Auditor presented the hosts with a stack of folders she said her staff identified as proof her office has historically exercised oversight of the Legislature.“So this idea that there is not precedent — there most certainly is,” she said.DiZoglio, true to a long standing campaign promise, announced on March 7 that her office was in the midst of conducting an audit of the Legislature which she hoped legislative lea...

'Glimmer of hope': Twin Amur leopards born at San Diego Zoo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:28 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- The population of the world's most endangered big cat species has grown by a set of twins, born at the San Diego Zoo.The new cubs are Amur leopards, an Asian species of big cat that has fewer than 300 left on Earth, according to the Zoo. "A birth of twins is exceptional, no matter the species," the Zoo wrote in a press release. "However, when those twins are Amur leopards... the births are especially significant." Famous surfing & therapy dog makes ‘journey to the Rainbow Bridge’ The cubs have yet to be named, but they have left the birthing den with their mother, Satka, and are roaming about their enclosure. According to the Zoo, the wildlife care specialists took a hands-off approach to the birth of the twins, allowing them to bond and learn from their mother. Zoo staff closely monitored the cubs through a remote camera system to analyze their behaviors and document the cubs' development.“We are absolutely thrilled with the progres...