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Can the Chicago Bulls balance rest — and rhythm — in their final two regular-season games?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:02 GMT

With their play-in position secured as the No. 10 seed in the Eastern Conference, the Chicago Bulls enter the final weekend of the regular season with the goal of balancing rest and preparation.After losing to the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday, the Bulls are set to travel to face the ninth seed Wednesday.Before that single-elimination game, the Bulls will face the Mavericks in Dallas on Friday night and then play host the Detroit Pistons on Sunday.Coach Billy Donovan said veteran stars DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine and Nikola Vučević likely will sit out Friday. But Donovan aims to play the entirety of the roster for at least part of Sunday’s game to get the Bulls into rhythm for the play-in tournament.“My feeling would be that Zach, DeMar, Vooch, those guys who have logged a lot of minutes would sit down with medical to determine the game against Dallas,” Donovan said.“My feeling is they have to play some against Detroit, unless someone’s got an i...

Alleged impaired driver charged after crashing suspected stolen car in Mississauga

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:02 GMT

A female driver is in custody after she crashed the vehicle she was driving into a light pole on Saturday morning.Peel police say the driver was seen running away from the scene at Dundas Street West and Glen Erin Drive around 6 a.m. and was arrested a short time later.The vehicle she was driving was allegedly stolen and she is facing impaired driving charges.No injuries were reported.Lanes at the intersection have been reduced as crews clean up the area.

1 dead, 1 seriously injured in 2-vehicle crash in Brampton

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:02 GMT

One person has died and another was seriously injured after a two-vehicle crash in Brampton in the early hours of Saturday morning.Ontario Provincial Police say the two vehicles collided in the southbound lanes of Highway 410 near Steeles Avenue around 1 a.m.Both victims were travelling in the same vehicle. The passenger died of their injuries and the driver is in critical condition in hospital.No one in the second vehicle was seriously hurt.The eastbound Steeles ramp on the southbound 410 is closed for the investigation.

Police: Dissidents may try attacks as N. Ireland marks peace

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:02 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Police have warned that armed dissident groups are planning violent attacks over the Easter holiday weekend as Northern Ireland marks 25 years since the peace accord that ended three decades of bloodshed.U.S. President Joe Biden is due to visit Belfast next week as Northern Ireland commemorates the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998. The U.S.-brokered deal got Irish republican and British loyalist paramilitary groups to lay down their arms and setup a power-sharing government for Northern Ireland.The peace accord largely ended 30 years of violence, known as “the Troubles,” in which 3,600 people died, but small splinter groups mount occasional gun or bomb attacks on the security forces.The Police Service of Northern Ireland Assistant Chief Constable Bobby Singleton said police had received intelligence about planned violence around a parade in Londonderry on Easter Monday commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland.He said th...

5 tax tips for older adults

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:02 GMT

More than half of older taxpayers (57%) are worried they’ll have to pay more taxes this year because of the 5.9% Social Security cost-of-living adjustment in 2022, according to a January survey by The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan seniors group.Taxes for the over-65 set can feel more complicated for a variety of reasons: There are often multiple streams of income, some retirees still work part time, and people may be managing required minimum distributions from retirement accounts.“It can happen that people have more income in their later life than they did when they were working,” says Barbara O’Neill, a certified financial planner in Ocala, Florida, and the author of “Flipping a Switch : Your Guide to Happiness and Financial Security in Later Life.”For older adults, here are some items to keep in mind this tax season:1. MEDICARE THRESHOLDS MATTERYour income can affect your Medicare Part B and Part D premiums in the future because of the income-related monthly adjustment am...

N.S. mass shooting: how gun smuggling happened, and the inquiry’s call for reforms

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:02 GMT

HALIFAX — A decade before a Nova Scotia man used smuggled guns to murder 22 people in the province in 2020, police information systems had labelled him as a firearms risk.Yet those records never found their way to the Canada Border Services Agency, and they didn’t prevent the mass shooter from obtaining a Nexus card — granting him status as a low-risk traveller.The final report of the public inquiry into Canada’s worst mass shooting, released last week, details troubling breakdowns in information sharing and recommends reforms to develop “fully interoperable systems” for exchanging records between police and the federal border agency.The report also describes how red flags about the killer didn’t lead to detection of his illegal activities during any of his 21 border crossings between 2016 and the April 18-19, 2020, killings.It was during that time that Gabriel Wortman — a wealthy, 51-year-old denture maker — is believed to have smuggled three semi-auto...

Family of Indian migrants who died in Quebec shocked by river crossing attempt

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:02 GMT

An Indian national who died with his family last week when a boat capsized in the St. Lawrence River during an attempt to enter the United States was “mortally afraid of water,” says his cousin.Pravinbhai Chaudhari, 49, was found in a marshy area in Akwesasne, Que., with his wife Dakshaben, 45, their 23-year-old daughter, Vidhi and their 20-year-old son, Meet. A couple of Romanian descent and their two Canadian-born children, aged one and two, also died during the failed March 29 crossing.“He would never sit in a boat,” Jasubhai Chaudhari said of his cousin. “I don’t understand. How did he sit in that boat? He was very afraid of the water.”Chaudhari said in a phone interview that he and other family and friends held special evening prayers on Thursday at his home in Gujarat for his deceased cousins. He said he won’t be able to come to Canada to perform last rites for the family and hopes the Gujarati community in the area will undertak...

Greek far-right party seeks to defy election ban

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:02 GMT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A retired senior prosecutor in Greece was named Friday as the new leader of a far-right party as it seeks to sidestep a ban on its participation in an upcoming general election. Participation of the Greeks Party could potentially change the outcome of the May 21 parliamentary election as poll margins tighten between the leading incumbent New Democracy party and a left-wing opposition party, Syriza. The Greeks Party is vying to field candidates despite the ban the Greek Parliament approved in February on the grounds that the party’s founder, Ilias Kasidiaris, is serving a 13-year prison sentence for membership in a criminal organization.Kasidiaris founded the Greeks Party after receiving his sentence in 2020. He was convicted as a leading member of an extreme right party, Golden Dawn, which was blamed for multiple attacks against migrants and left-wing political activists. The party was founded as a neo-Nazi group in the 1980s but later claimed to represen...

Woman found fatally shot inside apartment on Chicago's South Side; 1 in custody

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:02 GMT

CHICAGO — A man is in custody after a woman was found fatally shot inside an apartment building in the city's Auburn Gresham neighborhood.Police said officers responded to a gun call in the 7700 block of South Bishop around 12:50 a.m. Friday. Upon arrival, officers discovered a 46-year-old woman unresponsive on a bed.According to police, the woman sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead on the scene. Her identity has not yet been released.Moments later, police said a man was seen running from the rear of the residence and was detained by police. A handgun was recovered in the area. 2 teens shot near Illinois Institute of Technology campus No charges have been announced yet. Area Two detectives are investigating.

Friday Forecast: Temps in low 50s, cooler lakeside

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:02 GMT

CHICAGO — Temperature in low 50s Friday with abundant sun and cooler lakeside.Mostly clear tonight with chilly and dry conditions, temperatures in the mid-30s. Interactive Radar: Track showers and storm here Saturday Forecast: High temps in low 60s, cooler lakeside.Full forecast details at the WGN Weather Center