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A hospital fire near Rome kills at least 3 and causes an emergency evacuation of all patients

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:45:00 GMT

ROME (AP) — A fire broke out in a hospital on Rome’s outskirts, killing at least three people and forcing the overnight evacuation of the smoke-filled facility and its nearly 200 patients, officials said Saturday.The blaze began in the ground floor emergency room of the St. John the Evangelist hospital in Tivoli at around 11 p.m. Friday, which was a holiday in Italy. The flames spread to a few other wards, “but the smoke went everywhere,” said chief prosecutor Francesco Menditto.Using fire truck ladders to reach patients on high floors, fire and police rescue crews worked through the night to evacuate the 193 patients. The ones in intensive care were transferred immediately to other hospitals in ambulances, while patients in less critical condition were moved into a nearby municipal gymnasium and then transferred to other facilities, officials said.The governor of the Lazio region, Francesco Rocca, said from the scene that three people were killed and an investigation would de...

University of Pennsylvania president resigns after her testimony to Congress on antisemitism draws sharp criticism

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:45:00 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — University of Pennsylvania president resigns after her testimony to Congress on antisemitism draws sharp criticism.Source

Fiscalía de San Juan no encuentra causa para formular cargos de agresión sexual contra Ricky Martin

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:45:00 GMT

(CNN Español) — El Departamento de Justicia de Puerto Rico informó este viernes que no hay base para acusar a Ricky Martin tras realizar una investigación entre la Fiscalía de San Juan y el Negociado de la Policía con relación a una querella de agresión sexual presentada contra el cantante puertoriqueno por su sobrino Dennis Yadiel Sánchez Martin.“No procede la formulación de cargos contra Enrique Martin Morales, conocido públicamente como Ricky Martin, como resultado de una querella de agresión sexual presentada en su contra en septiembre de 2022”, señala el comunicado enviado por la oficina de prensa de la institución.El documento detalla que la prueba obtenida por la Policía y el Ministerio Público en la investigación no es consistente con las alegaciones ni sustenta las imputaciones. “Ante esto, la Fiscalía de San Juan está impedida de iniciar un proceso criminal en el tribunal”, puntualiza el comunicado.José Andreu Fuentes, abogado de Martin, le dijo a C...

Oden’s 22 points leads DePaul past Louisville ending Blue Demons’ 5-game skid

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:45:00 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Jeremiah Oden scored 22 points and Chico Carter Jr. scored 14 points and DePaul ended its five-game losing streak by beating Louisville 75-68 on Saturday.Jaden Henley and Da’Sean Nelson each scored 10 points for the Blue Demons (2-7) who shot 51% (25 for 49) despite just 34.8% (8 for 23) from 3-point range.Mike James scored 18 points, Skyy Clark scored 16 points and reserve Ty-Laur Johnson 10 points for Louisville (4-5).Emmanuel Okorafor’s layup with 5:50 before halftime pulled Louisville into a 20-all tie and it was the closest Louisville found itself for the remainder. DePaul closed the half outscoring Louisville 18-2. Oden’s layup before time expired to intermission made it 38-22 at the break.In the second half, the Cardinals closed within 41-32, 48-40, and 53-47 — the latter with 9:33 left — on Tre White’s layups but they couldn’t get closer. Leading by six, Oden responded with a 3-pointer, Terry made a jumper and layup and in less th...

Two-time AL MVP Shohei Ohtani agrees to historic deal with Los Angeles Dodgers

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:45:00 GMT

(CNN) — The Los Angeles Dodgers have won the race to reach terms with Shohei Ohtani, baseball’s transcendent two-way star, to one of the richest contracts in professional sports.The two-time American League MVP announced on Instagram he had “decided to choose the Dodgers” as his next team; their historic deal is for 10 years and $700 million, according to ESPN, MLB.com and other media outlets citing Ohtani’s agent, Nez Balelo.The deal would see the Japanese phenom, who pitches and bats as a designated hitter, move across town from the Los Angeles Angels of the American League to the Dodgers, winners of 10 of the last 11 division titles in the National League West.The Dodgers declined to comment on the situation. CNN has reached out to Ohtani’s representatives to confirm the terms of the agreement.The star’s free agency has been the topic of fevered speculation in recent weeks, and his contract is reportedly the most expensive in North American sports history. He confirmed ...

Vigil to be held for National Grid worker killed in crash at Waltham job site

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:45:00 GMT

A vigil will be held in Cambridge on Saturday in honor of a National Grid worker who lost his life in a crash at a work site in Waltham on Wednesday.The vigil for 36-year-old Roderick Jackson will be held at Hoyt Field in Cambridge. Jackson was working at a utility project when he was struck by a driver. Two other National Grid workers were injured and Waltham Police Officer Paul Tracey was also killed.Jackson is being remembered by his loved ones as the heart of his family. His mother called him “her treasure.” His brother called him his “everything.” This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

University of Pennsylvania president resigns as antisemitism testimony draws backlash

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:45:00 GMT

The University of Pennsylvania’s president has resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.The departure of Liz Magill, in her second year as president, was announced by the the Ivy League school late Saturday afternoon. The statement said Magill will remain a tenured faculty member at the university’s Carey Law School. She has agreed to keep serving as Penn’s leader until the university names an interim president.Calls for Magill’s resignation exploded after Tuesday’s testimony in a U.S. House committee on antisemitism on college campuses, where she appeared with the presidents of Harvard University and MIT.Universities across the U.S. have been accused of failing to protect Jewish students amid rising fears of antisemitism worldwide and fallout from Israel’s intensifying war in Gaza, whic...

Bergeron fades, finishes 7th at Foot Locker Nationals

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:45:00 GMT

The prestigious Foot Locker Nationals lived up to its pre-race billing as the most competitive cross country event in the country and Westford Academy’s Paul Bergeron made it a point to be right in the thick of things in his final schoolboy race.After finishing 15th last year, the two-time Div. 1 All-State champion’s goal was to go all in and garner a gold medal Saturday over the hilly, 3.1-mile layout at Balboa Park in San Diego, CA. The entire field was out fast at the gun and Bergeron, who will attend Stanford, was as high as fourth place, that position coming at the 2-mile, which he passed in 9:50 after a 4:45 opening mile.Bergeron ran hard over the hilly portions of the course and used his 8:51 2-mile speed on the final descent to take seventh at 15 minutes, 25.3 seconds. Bergeron qualified for the finals with an impressive third-place finish at the Northeast Regionals at Franklin Park two weeks ago.“It was a solid effort,” said Bergeron. “I felt p...

Republican presidential candidates share stories of family and faith in Iowa

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:45:00 GMT

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (AP) — A trio of Republican presidential candidates shared stories of family and faith before hundreds of voters in northwest Iowa on Saturday, in congenial individual conversations with their hosts not long after the campaign’s latest fractious debate. But off the stage at a small Christian college in Sioux Center, the rivals’ sharp edges reemerged.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy leaned on their families to drive home their origin stories, without other candidates interrupting, at the event held in a rural, conservative corner of a state that holds the leadoff contest on the election calendar in about a month.Later, DeSantis and Ramaswamy both went after Haley, a further sign that her opponents see her as a growing threat in the 2024 race where former President Donald Trump, who skipped the event, is the front-runner in polls of Republicans nationwide and Iowa, where the caucuses are set fo...

'It feels violating': Suspects break into 35 storage units at Lemon Grove Public Storage

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:45:00 GMT

LEMON GROVE-- San Diego County Sheriff’s have one person in custody after more than two dozen storage units were broken into at the Public Storage in Lemon Grove. Detectives are investigating the commercial burglary.FOX 5 spoke to one of the victims, Matthew Rosenberg, who said this is more than stolen items; instead they are priceless memories he and his fiancé collected during their worldwide travels.“I broke down. When we opened the door to the unit yesterday, I broke down, I cried hysterically. I think I cried for a good two hours, cried when we got in the car, cried when we got home,” said Matthew Rosenberg, whose storage unit was broken into.One phone call from Public Storage Lemon Grove turned nightmare. Rosenberg and his fiancé, Dina’s unit was broken into Wednesday night. What was stolen was priceless to them. Man suspected of pointing gun at several people in parking lot arrested “That was all my stuff. Those are my comic books that they were walking out with,” Rosenberg...