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ECB lifts interest rates to record high

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:11 GMT

FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank raised its key deposit rate to an all-time high, but signaled that it thinks it has done enough to end the worst bout of inflation in four decades. “Based on its current assessment, the Governing Council considers that the key ECB interest rates have reached levels that, maintained for a sufficiently long duration, will make a substantial contribution to the timely return of inflation to the target,” the ECB said in a statement.The move showed that, in the near term at least, the bank is still more concerned about inflation staying above target than about risking a recession. “The ECB didn’t blink in the face of growing speculation that it would hit pause on the rate-hiking cycle,” said UBS economist Dean Turner after the announcement.  “We expect this to be the last hike from the ECB in this cycle, but that does not mean the era of tight monetary policy is over. Interest rates are likely to remain at...

Teen arrested, charged with murder in connection with fatal Lawrence shooting

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:11 GMT

A 14 year old is in custody and facing murder charges related to a shooting in Lawrence that left a 19-year-old woman dead, according to authorities.The Essex County District Attorney’s Office announced the arrest of Jobe Santiago on Thursday morning. In a news release, the DA’s office said the Lawrence resident was being charged with murder in connection with the death of Angie Aristy, 19, who was shot and killed on Howard Street on Sept. 6.“On Wednesday, September 6th, 2023, Lawrence Police received a 911 call for shots fired,” the release stated. “Officers arrived on scene and found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound. She was transported to Lawrence General Hospital and subsequently died from her injuries.”According to authorities, Santiago was found and arrested on Wednesday by a police force that included Massachusetts State Police, U.S. Marshals, local police and the Essex County State Police Detectives Unit.The DA’s office also sa...

Escaped Pennsylvania killer Danilo Cavalcante was planning to flee to Canada before he was captured, US marshal says

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:11 GMT

(CNN) — The convicted murderer who escaped a Pennsylvania prison late last month is once again behind bars, now facing additional charges, after a nearly two-week manhunt that captured national attention and put the surrounding community on edge.Police caught Danilo Cavalcante, 34, by surprise in the woods of South Coventry Township on Wednesday morning, where a police dog played a critical role in his dramatic capture.The escaped inmate was planning to leave the country, according to Robert Clark, supervisory deputy US marshal for Pennsylvania’s eastern district.“His endgame was to carjack somebody and to head north up to Canada and he intended to do that in the next 24 hours,” Clark told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Wednesday.Clark, who did not speak with Cavalcante, cited what deputy marshals told him about an interview that the prisoner had with law enforcement officials after his capture.“He said the law enforcement presence where he was, was immense and he fe...

NASA releases UFO report, says new science techniques needed to better understand them

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:11 GMT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA said Thursday that the study of UFOs will require new scientific techniques, including advanced satellites as well as a shift in how unidentified flying objects are perceived.The space agency released the findings after a yearlong study into UFOs.In its 33-page report, an independent team commissioned by NASA cautioned that the negative perception surrounding UFOs poses an obstacle to collecting data. But officials said NASA’s involvement should help reduce the stigma around what it calls UAPs, or unidentified anomalous phenomena.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the agency wants to shift the conversation about UAPs “from sensationalism to science.” Nelson added the panel found no evidence that UAPs had extraterrestrial origin.The 16-member panel noted that artificial intelligence and machine learning are essential for identifying rare occurrences, including UFOs.“NASA will do this transparently,” Nelson said.At the one and only public meeting earlier t...

Boston Herald’s High School football database

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:11 GMT

The Herald is following all the top passing, rushing and receiving leaders in high school football this season. Keep coming back right here for more. Coaches are encouraged to report their results each week to [email protected].(Tip use the database tools — arrows and more — to sort.)Here we go…Next up, rushing leaders:Next up, receiving leaders:Related ArticlesHigh School Sports | Thursday Pickorama High School Sports | Boston Herald weekly EMass divisional football rankings High School Sports | Sweet 16: Hanover finally downs Duxbury High School Sports | Stars of the Week High School Sports | Saturday’s high school football scores and highlights LC’s Aidan Virella falls backwards after pulling in the long pass under coverage of NEMV’s Isaiah Bueno as Lowell Catholic takes on Northeast/Mystic Valley in football on September 9, 2023 in , Wakefield, MA. (Stuart Cahill/Bos...

Designer blankets worth $10,000 stolen from Bonita home

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:11 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A reward is being offered for a burglar in the South Bay who was caught on camera stealing luxury designer Hermès blankets.“The irony is he waved to the other contractors as he was leaving," said Dr. James Graham, the owner of the home hit that was robbed. "To say that we're violated is an understatement. We feel extremely violated that this happened in broad daylight."Around 11:30 a.m. on Aug. 22, a suspected burglar made his way into a Bonita home on Carvalos Drive, despite nearly every door being locked. Lufthansa Airlines to expand nonstop flight service from San Diego “We left the door open for the contractors to use the restroom and he spent 20 minutes exploring our house,” said Dr. Graham.Due to renovations being done at the home that day, the electrical grid happened to be down, meaning the vast majority of security cameras weren’t on. However, there were back up cameras recording.Dr. Graham told FOX 5 the only room the man could make it into was a guest bedro...

Why is there a major mosquito bloom in San Diego?

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:11 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Mosquitoes are the pests that won’t go away after San Diego County experienced the rare tropical storm that left ponds puddles and lakes filled with water. Those standing bodies of water are now turning on a relatively new mosquito to our area called the Aedes Aegypti. The first Aedes mosquitoes were seen in 2014 and they are known for low level flying and attacking people’s ankles, giving them no buzzing warnings. Lufthansa Airlines to expand nonstop flight service from San Diego “They will take advantage any small source of water and even if it is as small as a bottle cap of water, if it’s there for a week or longer it has potential to breed mosquitos,” said Chris Conlan, a senior entomologist at San Diego County Vector control. This mosquito doesn’t travel very far so experts say to walk your property looking for standing water along with clearing out drainage pipes that might pooling water. Trash bags full of matches triggers fire inside warehouse in North Coun...

Russia expels 2 US diplomats, accusing them of ‘illegal activity’

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:11 GMT

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday declared two U.S. diplomats “persona non grata” and ordered them to leave the country within seven days as they were allegedly involved in “illegal activity.” The ministry charged in a statement that the first secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Russia, Jeffrey Sillin, and the second secretary, David Bernstein, “kept in touch” with a former employee of the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok who was arrested earlier this year. The ex-employee was accused of collecting information for U.S. diplomats about Russia’s military action in Ukraine and related issues.According to the statement, U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy was summoned to the ministry on Thursday and informed that Sillin and Berstein were being expelled. “It was also emphasized that illegal activities of the U.S. diplomatic mission, including interference in the internal affairs of the host country, are unacceptable and will be resolutely suppressed. The Russian...

Trump won’t be tried with Powell and Chesebro next month in Georgia election case, judge rules

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:11 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge ruled Thursday that former President Donald Trump and 16 others will be tried separately from two defendants who are set to go to trial next month in the case accusing them of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election.Lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro had filed demands for a speedy trial, and Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee had set their trial to begin Oct. 23. Trump and other defendants had asked to be tried separately from Powell and Chesebro, with some saying they could not be ready by the late October trial date.Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis last month obtained an indictment against Trump and the 18 others, charging them under the state’s anti-racketeering law in their efforts to deny Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over the Republican incumbent.Willis had been pushing to try all 19 defendants together, arguing that it would be more efficient and more fair. McAfee...

Hurricane watches issued for southwestern Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:11 GMT

HALIFAX — Residents of western Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick are being warned to prepare for power outages and localized flooding as hurricane Lee is expected to become a powerful post-tropical storm on Saturday when it makes landfall in the region.The Canadian Hurricane Centre in Halifax issued a tropical cyclone statement this morning saying Lee’s track could take the storm through an area anywhere between New Brunswick’s Grand Manan Island and Nova Scotia’s Shelburne County on Saturday night.The centre has repeatedly stressed that even though Lee is expected to transition from a Category 1 hurricane to a post-tropical storm, it will remain a threat, because the storm will expand and maintain much of its strength.Environment Canada has issued hurricane watches for the southwestern Nova Scotia counties of Digby, Queens, Shelburne and Yarmouth, where hurricane-strength winds could gust as high as 120 kilometres per hour.As well, a hurricane watch remains i...