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‘A wonderful young man’: Boston school mourns loss of teen killed in skiing accident

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:20 GMT

Excel Academy Charter High School in Boston is mourning the loss of a tenth grade student after the student died in a skiing accident over the weekend. The incident happened on Pats Peak in New Hampshire on Saturday night. On Monday, school community members grieved and remembered 15-year-old Christopher DiPrima as someone who was kind and smart, who loved movies, loved chess and who recently developed a passion for skiing. DiPrima’s cousin Steven Gingras said DiPrima hit a bump while skiing with his parents and his sister. Gingras said DiPrima landed wrong and complained he was having chest pains before he died a short time later at a hospital. “It’s definitely surreal,” Gingras said. “It’s something that we can’t really imagine happening.”“There was no warning,” Gingras said. Gingras said DiPrima had learned to ski last year. He said he was with Diprima along with his parents and sister during their ski trip this weekend. “The trail he was on, he...

Healey plan for housing secretariat finds welcome audience in Legislature

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:20 GMT

The governor’s plan to split the Department of Housing and Economic Development into a pair of separate secretariats found a welcoming audience to start the week, when a joint legislative committee sat to hear her plans for an entirely housing focused position in the executive branch.“It’s really no greater a topic, in terms of importance right now,” Gov. Maura Healey said during a Monday morning hearing by the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight. “You know the realities better than anyone — what you’re hearing from constituents — whether it’s seniors who can’t afford to stay or downsize, renters who can’t afford rent. People can’t think about home ownership. The disparities have only widened and exacerbated in this time.”Healey’s plan would create an entirely new Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities and rename the current secretariat simply the Executive Office of Economic Development. Both positions would be cabinet level and repor...

DeMar DeRozan’s increased 3-point volume an extra boost to the Chicago Bulls offense — but Billy Donovan has one tweak

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:20 GMT

When DeMar DeRozan sank a second-straight 3-point basket against the Los Angeles Lakers in Sunday’s win, the celebration that followed was automatic. All DeRozan had to do was stand still — his teammates came to him, bounding and bouncing off him to acknowledge something slightly rare.DeRozan has never been known as a 3-point shooter — nor does he want to be. He’s built an All-Star career on a brutal efficiency in the midrange and an incomparable ability to earn trips to the free-throw line, a unique style that continues to stand out even as the league becomes increasingly dependent behind the arc.But the last month saw a steep spike in DeRozan’s shooting volume from behind the arc. In the past 11 games of March, DeRozan is making 1.3 baskets on 2.9 attempts from 3-point range, doubling his typical production of 0.6 makes on 1.8 attempts on the season.DeRozan has always balanced his low attempt from 3-point range with high efficiency — so when he ...

Jalen Suggs gives Magic a spark in his return to the lineup

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:20 GMT

As the Orlando Magic attempt a late push toward the NBA Eastern Conference play-in tournament, the young team is learning a lot about itself down the stretch.One of the young players who has had to overcome a lot on and off the court, second-year guard Jalen Suggs returned on Sunday after missing four games due to a concussion. Suggs scored 16 points off the bench in Orlando’s 119-106 win over the Brooklyn Nets (40-35).“I was so eager to get back on the court,” Suggs said. “I think I’ve missed my fair share of time now and I don’t like missing much. I’m competitive, I want to be out there with my guys and help do what I can to get us wins.”Suggs was one of eight players for the Magic (32-43) to score in double-digits. Guard Cole Anthony led the team with 21 points, and forward Franz Wagner had a double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds.Suggs checked into the game with 2:55 left in the first quarter and quickly sank a 3-pointer on a...

Boston planning events for 10th anniversary of the Marathon bombing

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:20 GMT

Boston marks the somber decade anniversary this year of the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon, and the city’s planning on holding vigils honoring the victims of the bombing.Mayor Michelle Wu’s office rolled out two events coming April 15 the anniversary of the bombings: a private gathering in the morning with wreath layings for the families who lost loved ones, and then a public event dedicating a new finish line.The morning event near the finish line will include honors guards from Boston police, fire and EMS plus the sheriff’s department and will mainly be for the families of the five people who died in connection with the attacks.After the Boston Athletic Association 5K race later that day, the city will open Boylston Street between Dartmouth and Fairfield streets for members of the public to visit the memorial sites.At 2:30 p.m. — in time for the 2:49 p.m. specific anniversary of the bombing — the public is invited to join Gov. Maura Healey and Wu plus fi...

Robbins: Citizens stand up for democracy around the world

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:20 GMT

The fight to preserve democracy around the world has come to resemble a game of Whack-A-Mole, with autocrats wielding power or chasing it emerging on the global scene only to be faced down, then to emerge again. The biggest battle of them all is playing out in Ukraine, where a conscience-less war criminal unrepentant about committing mass murder has sought to lay waste to civilians indiscriminately, and where a historically brave population is showing the world, quite simply, what it means to fight and die for freedom.In Iran, tens of thousands of citizens protesting in the wake of the killing of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian-Kurdish woman who died in the custody of that regime’s “morality police,” have been detained. According to Human Rights Activists in Iran, an organization that tracks the government’s repression of dissidents, at least 530 demonstrators have been killed by the mullahs’ enforcers. That is likely an underestimation, and does not include those summarily executed by...

Boston boy killed in skiing accident at Pats Peak ‘brought joy to everyone he met’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:20 GMT

The 15-year-old Boston boy who was killed in the skiing accident at Pats Peak over the weekend was “a kind and caring person who brought joy to everyone he met.”Christopher DiPrima has been identified as the Boston teenager who died following the incident at New Hampshire’s Pats Peak on Saturday evening.DiPrima attended Excel Academy High School in East Boston.“Excel Academy grieves the loss of our student, Christopher DiPrima, who died in a skiing accident this weekend,” Excel Academy Charter Schools said in a statement.“Christopher was a 10th grader at XLHS and graduated from XLGW in 2021,” Excel added. “Christopher was a kind and caring person who brought joy to everyone he met. He will be truly missed.”The accident happened on the Duster Ski Trail at around 6:35 p.m. on Saturday.The Pats Peak Ski Patrol arrived at the scene shortly after the accident, and they brought the boy to the base area — where the Henniker, N.H.,...

Two boys, ages 14 and 15, accused of stealing rifle from Massachusetts State Police cruiser

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:20 GMT

Two Malden boys have been arrested in connection with allegedly stealing a patrol rifle, high-capacity magazine and ammunition from a Massachusetts State Police cruiser last week.During the overnight hours of March 23, the two juveniles — ages 14 and 15 — allegedly went to an apartment complex’s parking garage located on Overlook Ridge Drive in Malden, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.The two boys are accused of breaking into the marked cruiser in the parking garage, and the 14-year-old took the rifle, the DA’s Office said. That firearm and other stolen items were later found in a Malden home connected to the 15-year-old boy.The 14-year-old boy has been charged with breaking and entering a vehicle in the nighttime to commit a felony, larceny of a firearm, possession of a firearm and conspiracy to commit a crime.The 15-year-old boy has been charged with breaking and entering a vehicle in the nighttime to commit a felony, larceny of a...

Healey administration finds someone crazy enough to take MBTA GM job

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:20 GMT

The MBTA’s new General Manager was equal parts jovial and serious sounding promises of readiness to tackle the tough tasks ahead when he joined the governor alongside the Green Line Monday afternoon to announce he would take the helm of the state’s apparently rudderless transportation network.“I’d like to start off by addressing the big elephant in the room: no I’m not a Yankees fan,” the former President of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Long Island Rail Road, Phillip Eng, said at Riverside Station.Eng, who also served as interim president of New York City Transit system, on Monday morning was announced by Gov. Maura Healey and Transportation Secretary Gina Fiandaca as the much anticipated new chief of the MBTA. An engineer from New York with four decades of experience in mass transit, Eng will be relocating to Massachusetts before he starts his new $470,000-a-year job on April 10.“I take great pride in public service and I cherish the opportunity to again work in publ...

Father arrested in death of 7-week-old baby girl

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:20 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A father has been arrested after the death of his seven-week-old baby girl, who was found not breathing at a home in the University City neighborhood, authorities said.The incident occurred Mar. 18 around 10 p.m. in the 3700 block of La Jolla Village Drive, when officers responded to a call of a non-breathing infant at a townhome, Lt. Adam Sharki with the San Diego Police Department stated in a news release Monday. While at the scene, police contacted the parents of the infant, a 36-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man, per SDPD. The infant was taken to a hospital, where she died from her injuries three days later, Sharki said. Two arrested in Chula Vista after police pursuit Investigators found that the infant suffered serious traumatic internal injuries that suggested physical child abuse, according to police. Detectives believe the infant's death appears to be a "tragic domestic-related incident where the infant's father inflicted the fatal injuries upon his daught...