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Rap legend Ice Cube, who voices Superfly in upcoming ‘Ninja Turtles’ movie, talks about current projects, BIG3 league

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:59 GMT

You think you’re busy? Your schedule’s got nothing on Ice Cube.Whether it’s on-screen, on-stage, or on the basketball court, the man’s lucky to find time to breathe. Somehow, the rap legend took a few minutes to check in with Deco and lay out his to-do list.Ice Cube (as Superfly, voice): “Humans are never gonna like us, so we gonna let mutants rule the earth.”Recognize that voice? That’s Ice Cube as Superfly in the upcoming animated feature, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.”He didn’t need convincing to take the gig.Ice Cube: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is, you know, that’s next level. The type of stuff that, you know, you want to be a part of. Like, they’ve always been cool.”Playing the head of a mutant crime syndicate was a definite no-brainer.Ice Cube: “And being able to be a villain, and to be able to be a cool character like Superfly, like, I don’t know who could turn t...

Driver taken into custody after police chase, crash in the South End

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:59 GMT

A driver was taken into custody Wednesday after a traffic violation led to a police chase that ended in the South End in Boston, MBTA transit police said. Law enforcement officials were seen responding to an area along Tremont Street in the South End Wednesday afternoon where they, at one point, surrounded a black SUV that appeared to be stuck on a roadway median. While transit police did not provide any further information on the incident, witnesses said two men appeared to take off from the car and run down the street after the SUV got stuck on Tremont Street.SKY7-HD captured video of police on scene on Tremont Street around 4:30 p.m. Roughly 15 minutes later, around 4:45 p.m., several officers were spotted documenting the SUV’s interior, taking photographs and appearing to pull up floorboards in the vehicle. The SUV had been towed away as of around 6 p.m., leaving behind some debris in the area.This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the l...

Investigation underway after police say man shot at couple with pellet gun

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:59 GMT

A police investigation got underway in Groveland over the weekend after two people walking near Main Street and Elm Park were shot at with pellets fired from a pellet gun in a passing car, police said. Groveland police said the couple was walking Saturday night when a red Honda Civic with four passengers drove by. A man wearing a mask and leaning out the window of the moving vehicle shot the husband and wife with pellets, police said.“It’s a very, very unusual event to take place in Groveland,” said Groveland Police Chief Jeffrey Gillen.Gillen said the pellets hit the man’s jacket and hit the woman’s umbrella. While no one was injured, police were still looking for the people in the car as of Wednesday. “That’s kind of scary,” said Dawn Martinez, who works in the area near where this incident took place. “Usually, it’s really quiet.”Martinez was working at the time of the incident. She said she saw “a lot of police presence going back and forth.”Martinez, who walks home fr...

Police investigating vandalism at synagogue and home in Taunton

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:59 GMT

An investigation continued Wednesday after police in Taunton said they received reports of hateful vandalism at a home and a synagogue in town.Police said officers first responded to a home on Everett Street around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, where they found “homophobic and racist graffiti spray-painted on a vehicle and recycling bin.”While on scene, police said they received calls reporting additional vandalism at the Congregation Agudath Achim of Greater Taunton synagogue on Winthrop Street. At the synagogue, police said officers found a swastika and “other hateful references spray-painted on the side of the synagogue.” Police said the handwriting in the vandalism at the synagogue appeared similar to the handwriting in the vandalism found on Everett Street. Rabbi Colman Reaboi discovered the graffiti at the synagogue and said the incident occurred on the day of a scheduled bat mitzvah.Still, Reaboi said the community would not let the hate ruin its celebrations. “We had a...

Jake Bauers hits homer, Jhony Brito pitches 5.2 scoreless innings in win over Mariners

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:59 GMT

With some of the Yankees’ highest-paid hitters continuing to struggle or on the bench Wednesday, a pair of non-roster invitees carried the offense against Mariners ace Luis Castillo.Jake Bauers struck first in the Yankees’ 4-2 win, planting a Castillo fastball into Yankee Stadium’s right field seats with a two-run homer. With Anthony Volpe on first, Bauers watched as his sixth home run of the year towered over the porch.Bauers, who played for the Mariners in 2021, now has eight doubles, four home runs and 12 RBI since the Yankees began a series in Seattle on May 29. The April 29 call-up has also hit .274 over that span.Billy McKinney, meanwhile, has now reached base in all 12 of the games he’s played in since joining the Yankees on June 7, and he’s recorded a hit in 11 of them. On Wednesday, that included his second home run in as many days, a 414-foot shot off Castillo that landed in the second deck.McKinney totaled two hits and raised his average to ....

Vote for your favorite Padres to MLB All-Star Game

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:59 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego Padres have several players on this year's Major League Baseball All-Star Ballot.Those players include first baseman Jake Cronenworth, second baseman Ha-Seong Kim, third baseman Manny Machado, shortstop Xander Bogaerts, catcher Austin Nola, designated hitter Matt Carpenter and outfielders Trent Grisham, Juan Soto and Fernando Tatis Jr.As of Tuesday, the Padres tweeted a standings update on the All-Star votes:Bogaerts ranks third amongst National League shortstopsMachado ranks fifth amongst National League third basemenSoto ranks fifth amongst National League outfieldersTatis Jr. ranks sixth amongst National League outfielders Wave FC’s Naomi Girma, Alex Morgan named to USWNT World Cup roster The first phase of the voting process, which helps your favorites advance to the All-Star team, ends Thursday at 9 a.m. PST. In phase two, which happens from June 26-29, fans will then vote for the starters. Fans can vote for one player for each infield position, th...

Details on new federal infrastructure funding expected this fall: LeBlanc

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:59 GMT

WHISTLER, B.C. — Details on the “next generation” of federal infrastructure funding programs are on track to be released this fall, Infrastructure Minister Dominic LeBlanc said after meeting with his provincial and territorial counterparts in British Columbia.LeBlanc said Wednesday that the conversations were a “very positive step in making sure that those programs are the right ones for the whole country, that we have long-term, predictable funding and the flexibility to respond to different priorities.”That’s after Canada’s premiers wrote a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week pushing for more information on what would replace the $33-billion Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program, which has been fully allocated as of March. The letter said provinces, territories and communities are facing unprecedented cost pressures on existing projects, while the absence of an announcement in this year’s federal budget has created uncer...

Apple engaged in ‘coercive’ interviews and other anti-union tactics at New York store, judge rules

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:59 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple illegally subjected employees to “coercive” interviews and interfered with the distribution of union leaflets at a New York City Apple Store, a U.S. labor board judge ruled Tuesday. The finding represents the first time that an administrative law judge at the National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency, has ruled against Apple. But it is not the last word on the subject; Apple is free to appeal the ruling to the agency’s full board or to federal appeals court.Apple had no comment on the ruling Wednesday.Lauren Esposito, the judge in the case, found that an Apple Store supervisor at the World Trade Center location had improperly asked an employee about his discussions with other workers about wage levels and about the employee’s opinion of unionization efforts across the company. Such activities ran afoul of U.S. labor law that protects the right of workers to organize, the judge wrote.Similarly, Esposito ruled that Apple managers had singl...

Larry Tanenbaum close to selling some of MLSE to an Ontario pension plan: report

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:59 GMT

Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment chairman Larry Tanenbaum is closing in on a deal to sell some of his shares in the company to an Ontario pension plan for an enterprise value of more than $8 billion, Sportico’s Scott Soshnik and Kurt Badenhausen reported Wednesday.OMERS, a pension plan for 540,000 Ontario municipal employees, is poised to buy an undisclosed amount of Tanenbaum’s shares.Sportico says the $8-billion value would be a record value for sports teams. The NBA and NHL would have to approve any deal.Tanenbaum owns 25 per cent of the company with Rogers Communications and Bell controlling the other 75 per cent. Sportico reports Rogers and Bell have right of first refusal to buy any shares in MLSE.Rogers has not yet responded to a request for comment.MLSE owns the Toronto Maple Leafs, Raptors, Argonauts, Marlies, Toronto FC and Scotiabank Arena, along with other propertiesTanenbaum’s company, Kilmer Sports Inc., increased its stake in MLSE to 25 per cen...

Navajo Nation declares widespread Medicaid scam in Arizona a public health state of emergency

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:59 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — A widespread Arizona Medicaid scam that has left an unknown number of Native Americans homeless on the streets of metro Phoenix is being declared a public health state of emergency by the Navajo Nation as fraudulent sober living homes lose their funding and turn former residents out onto the streets. The emergency declaration was issued late last week by the Navajo Nation Commission on Emergency Management and signed this week by Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, according to documents posted on the Facebook page of the tribe’s Operation Rainbow Bridge, which was created to deal with the scam’s effects on its enrolled members. “There are significant concerns about the impacts to Navajo Nation lives from abrupt displacement that have affected an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 Navajo individuals, particularly in the exacerbation of medical, and public health risks associated with lack of immediate intervention and preventive services,” the declaration reads. The...