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Driver hospitalized after Brightline train and car collide in Deerfield Beach

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Rescue crews have taken one person to the hospital after they were injured in a crash in Deerfield Beach involving a Brightline train.Broward Sheriff’s Office and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the crash near the intersection of Southwest 10th Street and South Dixie Highway, just after 8 p.m., Wednesday.Witness Chris Schatz said he saw the crash.“It’s definitely a hard lesson learned, unfortunately. It’s not the first time; the residents know this as well,” he said. “They tried to beat the Brightline, Brightline wins every time.”First responders extricated the driver from the mangled car involved and transported him to an area hospital with serious injuries.7News cameras captured the victim’s car flipped on its side on the tracks as deputies investigates and worked to remove the vehicle from the tracks.Most of the cars damage is on the front.Cameras also showed passengers inside the train. Officials said no...

Panthers beat Bruins 4-3 in Game 5 OT to avoid elimination

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk scored six minutes into overtime to help the Panthers beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Wednesday night and force their first-round playoff series back to Florida for a sixth game.One game after Bruins goalie Linus Ullmark tried to fight Tkachuk, the Panthers forward took advantage of Ullmark’s sloppy puck play behind the net and cut the Presidents’ Trophy winners’ lead in the best-of-seven series to 3-2.Sergei Bobrovsky made 44 saves for Florida, which has won back-to-back games in Boston but lost twice at home. Anthony Duclair, Sam Bennett and Sam Reinhart also scored — each one giving the Panthers a lead.Patrice Bergeron scored in his return from an injury, and Ullmark stopped 21 shots for the Bruins. Brad Marchand and Taylor Hall had the other goals for Boston, which rallied from 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 deficits to force overtime.It was 2-1 Florida when Bergeron tied it five seconds into a Boston power play, tipping Marchand’s shot into the net. Seconds later,...

Fees taken from child’s bank account

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT

When her grandchildren turn 5, she opens a saving account for them. Then she noticed that money was being taken from one child’s account for maintenance, even though those accounts are supposed to be free. Can a bank charge a child fees? Let’s open the vault to a Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser episode.Having children is a joy. And then Maria had grandchildren.Maria Teresa Cerqueira: “My mom used to say, ‘The parents are here to train them, to teach them to discipline. Then grandparents need to spoil them.'”Maria is lucky enough to share a home with her family, including three grandchildren, helping out where she can.And just as she taught her sons to paint…Maria Teresa Cerqueira: “That’s my son. He likes big things. I do smaller ones.”She now shares her love of art with her grandchildren.Maria Teresa Cerqueira: “We started painting, and they really enjoyed it.”Something else Maria enjoys is opening savings accounts for ...

EU Parliament’s plush pension pot faces €300M hole

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT

BRUSSELS — EU taxpayers could soon be coughing up €23 million per year to bail out a pension scheme for hundreds of former European parliamentarians that is poised to implode.Top European Parliament officials are racing to try and rescue a legacy pension fund that faces a €308 million shortfall and could run out of money as soon as 2024.“The fund will run out of capital soon,” states an internal document prepared by the Parliament’s top civil servant Alessandro Chiocchetti, and seen by POLITICO, which says the fund benefiting hundreds of former EU lawmakers faces a “dramatic financial situation.”Senior MEPs discussed the document at a closed-door meeting in Strasbourg on Monday last week, but have not yet decided what to do.“The option of doing nothing about it is clearly off the table,” a Parliament spokesperson said.The Parliament set up the supplementary pension scheme in 1990, and it ran for 30 years until being closed for new members in 2009 when a...

When Russia is defeated in Ukraine, look to Chechnya

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT

When Russia is defeated in Ukraine, look to ChechnyaAs far as Chechen volunteers are concerned, Ukraine is the just the start of the fight against Russia.Jamie DettmerSerhiy Morgunov for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesKYIV — “After Ukraine, Chechnya,” says the Chechen commander fighting on Kyiv’s side.The Chechen soldiers are clear they’re in Ukraine to make up for around two centuries of Russian oppression of their mountainous and frequently mutinous homeland — from Joseph Stalin’s population deportation in the 1940s to Boris Yeltsin’s razing of their capital Grozny to the current, brutal rule of Moscow’s satrap in Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.“We are tired of Russia,” adds the 45-year-old commander, who asked to be identified only by his military call sign Torto, a reference to a castle near his hometown back in Chechnya, which he left as a young rebel soon after the Second Chechen War ended in 2009....

Trump who? Farage’s party cozies up to DeSantis as White House hopeful lands in UK

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT

LONDON — Nigel Farage’s new right-wing party Reform UK is making overtures to Donald Trump’s presidential rival Ron DeSantis as the Florida governor flies into Britain for high-level talks.DeSantis, who is expected to announce his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential candidacy in the coming weeks, will hold meetings with senior British ministers in London on Friday as a part of a four-country “trade mission” to promote Florida on the world stage.But also chasing a meet-up will be key allies of Farage, who is honorary president of Reform UK and who first met DeSantis at last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida.The pair have spoken about U.S. and European politics, despite Farage’s previous long-standing alliance with DeSantis’ arch-rival Donald Trump, who remains the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination.Reform UK leader Richard Tice confirmed to POLITICO he was “working on” cultivating links with the Florida governor, who ...

The EU lacks a credible economic security strategy

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Tom Keatinge is the founding director of the Center for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute.In the summer of 2014, newspaper headlines were unanimous: Western nations had responded to the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea and its complicity in shooting down a Malaysian passenger airliner in Ukrainian airspace by imposing sweeping economic sanctions against Russia. The reality of the European Union’s actions, however, is rather different.The EU provides a handy timeline of the restrictive measures it’s imposed on Russia over the past nine years — and it is a record of inaction and failure.Compared to the sanctions imposed over the past 12 months to “cripple the Kremlin’s ability to finance the war,” the 2014 measures were far from sweeping. And, in a lesson for today’s political leaders, interest in maintaining economic pressure on Russia and its war machine evaporated quickly, with key members of the bloc doubling down on economic engagement with...

Hyde5: Tkachuck keeps Florida Panthers season alive with a dramatic goal in overtime

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT

The Matthew Tkachuk trade keeps getting better and better with each night. His overtime goal in Wednesday’s 4-3 win against Boston didn’t just keep the Florida Panthers season going in Game 5. It established him more as the face of this franchise. He’s not only a scorer but an edgy physical presence that has caught Boston’s full attention this series. On a team that doesn’t play as cute as last season but still doesn’t have enough grit, Tkachuk brings the personality you hope rubs off on others. He has three goals and three assists this series to lead the team. He also leads in being an instigator against Boston. You know how the Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill was a star who played beyond hopes? Tkachuk is the same idea for the Panthers.2. Goalie Sergei Bobrovsky had a big game in an odd post-season for him. He had 44 saves on Wednesday, none bigger than when a strange sequence at the end of regulation gave Boston star a chance for a breakawa...

Bruins can’t close the deal, lose to Panthers 4-3 in OT

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT

The Bruins picked a heck of a time to lose their second straight game at the Garden.The B’s had not lost consecutive games on Causeway Street all season but, after dropping Game 2 here last week – then winning both Games 3 and 4 in Sunrise – the B’s had a chance to end the Florida Panthers’ season in Game 5 at the Garden on Wednesday.Instead, they gave the Panthers life in the most painful way possible, losing in OT, 4-3, on a Matthew Tkachuk goal.In overtime, Linus Ullmark and Matt Grzelcyk misplayed the puck behind their net and Sam Bennett pounced on it. As Ullmark scrambled to get back in net, Bennett threw the puck at him and it deflected out front to Tkachuk, who backhanded the winner home.The B’s outshot the Panthers, 47-26, but the goals allowed were again self-inflicted.The Bruins tied the game for the third time at 9:16 of the third when Taylor Hall dug out a puck in the slot, backed up and then beat goalie Sergei Bobrovsky with a high wrist s...

‘Hostile nation’ could help accused leaker Jack Teixeira run if he’s set free: Feds

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT

The feds warn that Jack Teixeira, accused of leaking classified documents on the war in Ukraine, could still expose more secrets if he’s released from prison with the potential for a “hostile nation” offering him sanctuary.The explosive accusations are contained in a 50-page motion for pre-trail detention shared with the Herald Wednesday night.Teixeira, 21, an E-3/Airman First Class stationed at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod, was arrested at his family home in North Dighton earlier this month and has a detention hearing Thursday in federal court in Worcester.Prosecutors say he should not get out because the risk is too great.“In the first place, the Defendant poses a serious flight risk,” U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins said in the motion.She added Teixeira “currently faces 25 years in  prison—and potentially far more—and … he accessed and may still have access to a trove of classified information that  would be of...