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Curiosity rover captures dramatic new portrait of Martian landscape

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:28:55 GMT

(CNN) — The Curiosity rover has captured a stunning new mosaic that reveals the dramatic, colorful hues of morning and afternoon light on the surface of Mars.The robotic explorer used its black-and-white navigation cameras to take panoramas of the Marker Band Valley on April 8 before leaving the site. One panorama was taken at 9:20 a.m., while the other was taken at 3:40 p.m., both local Mars time.The black-and-white panoramas captured how different the landscape looks at two different times of day, and color was added in post-processing by a team at NASA. The blue light signifies the morning, while the yellow light indicates the afternoon.The image is similar to another postcard taken by Curiosity in November 2021.“Anyone who’s been to a national park knows the scene looks different in the morning than it does in the afternoon,” said Curiosity engineer Doug Ellison at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in a statement. “Capturing two times of day pro...

Staff member lost consciousness for 1-2 minutes after attack by student at Henderson School in Dorchester, police say

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:28:55 GMT

A staff member at the Henderson K-12 Inclusion School in Dorchester lost consciousness for between one and two minutes Tuesday after being attacked while trying to break up a fight between students, a Boston police report said. According to the report, police were told the staffer approached a student after he heard the student “saying something inappropriate to another student.” Police said “some words were exchanged” before the student allegedly attacked the staff member. Multiple staff members stepped in and were able to pull the student off the staff member who was attacked “after several minutes,” according to the police report. Police said the staffer fell to the floor during the incident. Once he regained consciousness, police said he drove himself to a hospital. The employee, according to police, suffered “a possible head injury” and a chipped tooth. The student is now being charged with aggravated assault.While multiple students saw the incident unfold, Interim He...

Solve It 7: Dishwasher Dilemma 

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:28:55 GMT

A South Shore woman bought an extended warranty for her dishwasher but says when she couldn’t get paid for her claim, she contacted Solve It 7. Brandon Gunnoe has the story.Anne was forced to wash her dirty dishes by hand for weeks…“I really don’t enjoy this at all. I’m a little older, and my back doesn’t feel so good standing at the sink,” Anne said.She had a dishwasher but it broke down.“There was just water in the bottom of the dishwasher. Everything was filthy. And I’m like, oh, my goodness,” Anne said.Anne put in a claim on the extended warranty she purchased.“It seems like nowadays when things break, the whole thing breaks. It’s not a small inexpensive part that you need to replace,” Anne said.The warranty company sent a repair person and told Anne:“It’s too expensive to repair. So we’ll just give you a check for the depreciated value of the dishwasher,” Anne said.Ann...

Kyle Bradish’s gem runs into José Berríos’ no-hit bid as Orioles fall to Blue Jays, 3-1, ending 5-game winning streak

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:28:55 GMT

Under the surface of one of their best offensive performances of the season, the Orioles ended Tuesday night quietly. Adam Frazier’s RBI single in the sixth inning marked their season-high 17th hit. They did not record another.That streak extended late into Wednesday night’s 3-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. Adley Rutschman’s single to open the seventh inning marked Baltimore’s first hit off right-hander José Berríos, who largely cruised over 7 2/3 scoreless frames to end the Orioles’ five-game winning streak.Baltimore (42-25) threatened in the ninth, with three straight two-out singles off Blue Jays closer Jordan Romano doubling their hit total and plating their first run. But the late effort wasn’t enough for Baltimore right-hander Kyle Bradish to avoid being a hard-luck loser. Despite allowing only one run in seven innings, Bradish fell to 0-9 in 17 career starts against American League East opponents.The lone run off him came in the...

‘A circus’: Mississippi Supreme Court Justice decries efforts to keep him in lawsuit

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:28:55 GMT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In a rare address to a federal court Wednesday, Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike Randolph called efforts to attach him to a lawsuit challenging a new state law a “circus” with “no legal precedent in U.S. history.”Randolph was named a defendant in the lawsuit challenging House Bill 1020. The legislation was signed into law by Republican Gov. Tate Reeves in April. The new state law, which U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate has temporarily prevented from taking effect, expands the state’s role in courts and policing in Jackson. Speaking before Wingate, Randolph said Wednesday was the first day in over 19 years that he addressed a courtroom from the podium rather than from the judge’s bench.“I have never seen a circus like this one,” Randolph said. “I can’t find a case in U.S. history like this.”The lawsuit, filed by the national, state and local chapters of the NAACP, says “separate and unequal policing” will return to Mississippi’s majority-Black...

Arizona woman alleges sexual assault by Trevor Bauer; he denies allegation and countersues

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:28:55 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman has accused former major league pitcher Trevor Bauer of sexual assault, alleging in a lawsuit updated this week that he held a knife at her throat and choked her until she passed out during a rape that left her pregnant in late 2020.Bauer was never arrested or charged and he has countersued, denying the allegations and accusing the woman of faking a pregnancy and trying to extort money from him.“Trevor Bauer categorically denies this woman’s unhinged allegations,” the player’s co-agents, Jon Fetterolf and Rachel Luba, said in a statement Wednesday. They said she had made several million-dollar demands against Bauer over two years, prompting him to file a criminal complaint against her. Scottsdale Police Officer Aaron Bolin confirmed Wednesday that Bauer filed a criminal complaint on Jan. 24 alleging the woman was trying to extort him, but detectives did not recommend charges to Maricopa County prosecutors. Bolin said there were also no charges recomme...

Remains found stuffed in garment bag 45 years ago in rural Nevada ID’d as Ohio woman

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:28:55 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In 1978, a garment bag containing a woman’s heavily decayed remains was discovered in a remote area of northern Nevada. The case soon went cold — and the victim remained nameless for 45 years.But on Wednesday, Nevada State Police announced that advancements in DNA testing have finally led to an identification. She was Florence Charleston, a Cleveland, Ohio, woman in her late 60s who had moved to Portland, Oregon, shortly before her death.How Charleston wound up dead and buried in a shallow grave 535 miles (860 kilometers) away from her new home is still a mystery. Police said Wednesday in a news release announcing the DNA match that the investigation into her death is ongoing.Diane Liggitt, one of Charleston’s few surviving relatives, said she was around 18 when she learned from her father that her aunt had left for the Pacific Northwest with a new boyfriend sometime in the early 1970s. Decades passed. The family never heard from Charleston again.Throughout th...

Barbara Kingsolver wins Women’s Prize for Fiction with Appalachian novel ‘Demon Copperhead’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:28:55 GMT

LONDON (AP) — American novelist Barbara Kingsolver won the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction Wednesday with “Demon Copperhead,” the Dickens-inspired tale of a boy’s struggle against the odds in a corner of America scarred by opioid addiction. Kingsolver’s Appalachian coming-of-age tale was announced as winner of the 30,000 pounds ($38,000) award at a ceremony in London.Kingsolver, 68, also won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the novel, which transplants Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield” to modern-day southwest Virginia, where the author lives.It was a second victory for Kingsolver, who previously won the Women’s Prize in 2010 for “The Lacuna.”“Lightning strikes twice,” she said as she accepted the award.Kingsolver said she wrote the book to tell stories from a part of the United States — the mountainous Appalachia region — that is often overlooked or regarded as “just a joke.”“We’re the last demographic in the U.S. that progressive people are allowed...

Pregnant woman fatally shot in car at Seattle intersection

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:28:55 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — A woman who was eight months pregnant died after a man shot multiple times into a car she was in while stopped at an intersection in central Seattle, authorities said. The 34-year-old woman’s baby was delivered at a hospital and but died soon after, The Seattle Times reported Wednesday, citing a probable cause statement. A 37-year-old man who was in the car with the woman was wounded in the arm and remained hospitalized. The motivation for the Tuesday morning shooting in the Belltown neighborhood was unclear. A man approached the car, fired at the driver’s side with a handgun and ran away, the statement said. Video from the neighborhood showed no previous interaction with the victims. A 30-year-old man who matched witnesses’ description was located by police soon after. Approached by officers, he raised his arms and said, “I did it, I did it,” according to police. Police said he told investigators he saw a firearm in the vehicle and reacted by firing...

Drug syndicate hid meth in Canadian maple syrup, canola oil bound for Down Under, authorities say

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:28:55 GMT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A drug syndicate that tried to smuggle tons of methamphetamine from Canada to Australia and New Zealand by hiding it in shipments of maple syrup and canola oil has been busted, authorities said Thursday.Authorities from the three nations said they had worked together for more than five months to unravel the elaborate scheme that was worth billions of dollars. Australian police said they had intercepted four separate hauls of meth weighing more than six tons and filed charges against six men. They said that in January, Canadian authorities alerted them that 2,900 liters (766 gallons) of liquid meth had been hidden in 180 bottles of canola oil bound for Australia. They said Canadian authorities swapped out the meth for a harmless substance and allowed the shipment to continue. Australian police said that two men then moved what they believed were the drugs to storage locations around the city of Melbourne. Two more shipments came in May and June, and the...