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2-year-old to be released from Holtz Children’s Hospital after spending 207 days, undergoing liver transplant

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:14:31 GMT

A family was heartbroken after their baby was born with a host of medical challenges, but the child’s future is much brighter after a stranger provided the gift of life.Two-year-old Noah Langlois is leaving Holtz Children’s Hospital on Thursday following a stay of a year and three months. Noah was born premature and hardly weighed a pound. He spent the next 207 days in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.As he turned 1, his mother found a strange lump on his stomach.It turned out to be a tumor that covered most of his liver. The tumor was so big, it was very difficult for the toddler to breathe and eat.“He, unfortunately at that time, had a lot of odds stacked against him. For one thing, he had been a preemie child. He had significant lung problems,” said Dr. Juan Pablo Solano, pediatric physical therapist at Holtz Children’s Hospital. The child received multiple rounds of chemotherapy, and doctors performed a minimally invasive procedure ...

18-year-old, infant hospitalized after shooting in Miramar neighborhood

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:14:31 GMT

Police are investigating a shooting in a Miramar neighborhood that sent an 18-year-old victim and an infant to the hospital.7Skyforce hovered above the scene along the 8000 block of West Heather Lane, near Palm Avenue, just after 6:10 p.m., Thursday.The infant was seen with her head bandaged as she was being carried into the back of a Miramar Fire Rescue truck, presumably by her mother.Video also showed several paramedics hoisting the gurney where the older victim lay and wheeling it into an ambulance.Police believe the shooting was domestic in nature. They said the adult victim was shot in the arm, and the infant’s injury was not caused by a gunshot.It’s unclear whether the incident happened inside a home or on the street.Miramar Police officers have cordoned off the street in front of a home, as they continue to investigate.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this breaking story.

Manchester, NH man allegedly stabbed woman, arrested in connection with her murder

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:14:31 GMT

A 54-year-old man was arrested for the murder of Laurie MacLellan, 59, in Manchester, New Hampshire, officials said.Robert Eastman was charged with second degree murder following an investigation in MacLellan’s death. Manchester police responded to Hanover Street around 2 a.m. Thursday morning where they found the victim with apparent stab wounds dead at the scene. Eastman allegedly caused her death by “manifesting an extreme indifference to the value of human life by stabbing her in the face and abdomen with a knife,” the attorney general reported.Eastman is set to be arraigned Friday.

Police arrest murder suspect in Raynham after chase, crash

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:14:31 GMT

A murder suspect was taken into custody Thursday after he allegedly led police on a chase and later crashed into another car in Raynham, leaving one of the car’s occupants with serious injuries, state police announced. State police said troopers initially saw David Lynch, 24, sitting in a BMW SUV in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn hotel in Middleborough around 3 p.m.When approached, police said Lynch rammed a pair of police vehicles and fled onto Route 44. State police said troopers pursued Lynch “for a short period of time” before they lost sight of the vehicle he was driving. Moments later, state police said troopers learned Lynch’s vehicle had hit the second car at the intersection of Orchard Street and Warren Street in Raynham. Police said Lynch and a passenger in the car he was driving fled the scene on foot but were soon taken into custody. Lynch, his passenger and one occupant of the car Lynch allegedly hit were taken to a hospital after th...

Energy Department among federal agencies breached by Russian ransomware gang

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:14:31 GMT

By FRANK BAJAK (AP Technology Writer)The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday.Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told reporters that unlike the meticulous, s tealthy SolarWinds hacking campaign attributed to state-backed Russian intelligence agents that was months in the making, this campaign was short, opportunistic and caught quickly. A senior CISA official said neither the U.S. military nor intelligence community was affected. Energy Department spokesperson Chad Smith said two agency entities were compromised but did not provide more detail.Known victims to date include Louisiana’s Office of Motor Vehicles, the Nova Scotia provincial government, British Airways, the British Broadcasting ...

Mayhem erupts at Denver Nuggets parade; reports of shooting, cop hit by firetruck

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:14:31 GMT

The Denver Nuggets championship parade on Thursday was overshadowed by reports of a gunman wounding multiple victims, as well as an incident involving a police officer being hit by a firetruck.Two shooting victims were hospitalized and are currently in critical condition, said Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas during a press conference later in the day.Thomas said the shooting is believed to have been a targeted attack, and was unrelated to the parade celebration.Meanwhile, the officer whose leg was caught under the firetruck in a separate incident was identified as Sgt. Justin Dodge, who is also said to be in critical condition at the hospital.During the press conference at Denver Health, officials said Dodge suffered a limb-threatening injury as he attempted to protect people from the oncoming firetruck, which was carrying Denver Nuggets players.“There were people that had kind of made their way into the street and [Dodge] was trying to protect those individuals from the firetr...

The Revolution release veteran forward Jozy Altidore

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:14:31 GMT

The New England Revolution on Thursday released forward Jozy Altidore and exercised the club’s one buyout on the player’s Salary Budget change.Altidore, 33, was acquired from Toronto FC and signed to a three-year contract on Feb. 22, 2022. Altidore was brought in to help alleviate the loss of Tajon Buchanan, who left the Revs after the 2021 season to join Club Brugge of the Belgium First Division A.Altidore participated in Two FIFA World Cup’s and four Concacaf Gold Cup tournaments. Altidore spent part of the 2022 season on loan Liga MX side Clun Puebla. He appeared in 10 games this season with one start. He scored a goal on 10 shots.RICH THOMPSON

Federal judge won’t rule on Boston’s new redistricting map

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:14:31 GMT

The federal judge who deemed the city’s old redistricting map unconstitutional said there’s no need for her to weigh in on the new voting lines.U.S. District Court Judge Patti Saris, did, however, urge both sides to quickly resolve the lawsuit that resulted in her tossing the first map approved by the Boston City Council last fall, to avoid a disruption to the Sept. 12 preliminary election.“It’s important to bring some closure to this, and rebuild some trust, and move forward in the democratic process,” Saris said at a Thursday status hearing.She said the purpose of the day’s hearing was to “clear the air,” and stated outright that she had no intention to rule on anything.“There is, in fact, a serious question in my mind as to whether the case is moot,” Saris said. “The original complaint only addresses the old map. The City Council has adopted a new map, and with the possible exception of a request for attorneys’ fees, I don’t see anything active with respect to the old case.”Saris...

Breaking down the Chicago Bears’ growing number of options in their stadium search

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:14:31 GMT

Since the Chicago Bears hit a financial roadblock in their proposed move to Arlington Heights, other municipalities have been vying in a sort of roulette to attract — or in Chicago’s case, keep — the team.Naperville, Rockford, Chicago and, most recently, Waukegan have placed themselves in the running to land the white whale of the NFL — though some officials concede the team may be using them for leverage in negotiations with Arlington Heights.The franchise, a founding member of the league, valued at $5.8 billion by Forbes, is looking for a new home. Team officials hadn’t been planning an immediate move from Chicago’s Soldier Field until Arlington International Racecourse went up for sale in 2021. They jumped at the chance and closed the deal to buy the property for $197 million this year.But Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi raised the valuation of the 326-acre property to nearly the sale price, which would have quadrupled the taxes to about $16 m...

Massachusetts firefighters heading to Quebec to battle wildfires, smoke from fires has impacted East Coast

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:14:31 GMT

Nearly a dozen state wildland firefighters are heading to Quebec to battle some of the more than 124 wildfires that have burned since the start of June.The out-of-control wildfires have wreaked havoc on Canada, and the smoke from the wildfires has impacted the air quality across Massachusetts and along the East Coast.Gov. Maura Healey and other officials on Thursday sent off the 11 firefighters at the state Department of Conservation and Recreation’s Bureau of Forestry and Fire Control headquarters in Carlisle.“Over the last several years we have seen the impacts of the climate crisis here at home and around the world, in the forms of extreme weather and increasingly severe wildfires that continue to ravage our forests,” Healey said.“We are proud of these 11 Massachusetts wildland firefighters who are heading up to assist our Canadian partners in battling these intense wildfires,” the governor added.Related ArticlesLocal News | Massachusetts ...