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Yahoo
29-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Boston Police ID suspect in connection with hospital lobby stabbing
The Boston Police Department has identified the suspect arrested in connection with the stabbing of a person in Massachusetts General Hospital's lobby. John Huddleston, 56, of Boston, was arrested on Thursday and is expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on the charges of mayhem and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, according to a Boston Police Department spokesperson. At about 8:32 a.m., officers responded to a radio call for a person with a knife, the spokesperson said. While traveling to the hospital, the call was upgraded to a report of a stabbing. The officers were also provided with a description of the suspect. When they arrived, the police located and apprehended the suspect, who was identified as Huddleston. Additional members of the department entered the hospital and found an adult male victim receiving treatment for non-life-threatening stab wounds. A crime scene was set up in the vestibule of the hospital's lobby, which is where the stabbing took place, the spokesperson told MassLive. The victim's name was not given. In a statement provided to MassLive, the hospital confirmed that the victim was treated and released. 'The hospital is safe, open, and operating normally,' the statement reads. 'We are grateful to our staff and Boston Police for their quick response in bringing this incident to a close.' Stabbing takes place in Mass. General Hospital lobby in Boston Giggity, giggity: 'Family Guy'-themed pop-up coming to Boston this summer New outdoor restaurant brings modern Asian creations, cocktails to Somerville Boston woman sentenced for identity theft in drug trafficking scheme Boston shooting suspect didn't get a court-appointed attorney — and you might not either Read the original article on MassLive.
Daily Mirror
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mirror
BBC Question Time audience in hysterics as Fiona Bruce skewers Tory MP
The audience on BBC Question Time erupted in laughter as Fiona Bruce shot down a Tory MP during a discussion about immigration. Nigel Huddleston's claims the Labour Party had failed to build on the Conservative government's work on immigration were slammed by the presenter of the programme. Ms Bruce pointed out the Tories "didn't actually get anyone to Rwanda," in a nod to the long-running policy which cost the British taxpayer £700million and was hit by multiple snags. The audience in Aldershot, Hampshire, applauded and laughed as Ms Bruce interrupted Mr Huddleston to state: "Just one minute, just one minute... Nigel, even when you were in government, you didn't actually get anyone to Rwanda. I think it's worth pointing that out." Mr Huddleston, co-chairman of the Conservative Party, tried to continue his bluster but Ms Bruce allowed other panelists to chip in, including author and broadcaster Sonia Sodha. She also took aim at Mr Huddleston, blaming the state of immigration on his party after their long tenure. Keir Starmer outlined the country's immigration stance this week, a delivery which has divided opinion. Speaking at a major press conference in Albania on Thursday, he said the UK is in talks to send failed asylum seekers to "return hubs" in other countries. It led to the exchange on Question Time, which Ms Bruce had to end as tensions became heated. Mr Huddleston, MP for Droitwich and Evesham, had said: "The reality is that Labour had virtually no plans for anything. They spent 14 years in opposition and came into power and didn't have a clue what they wanted to do, whether it was on immigration, or the economy or a whole host of other things. "I think it a bit reach for Peter (Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, also on the panel) to talk about empathy for care homes and everything else... In terms of what has changed over the last few weeks, I think what has changed for the Labour Party is quite simple - they lost the Runcorn by-election. That's the reason for the change in policy. "They failed to support all (our) measures... The first thing they did when they came into government was scrap the disincentive, scrap any deterrent (for migrants)." It was at this point when Ms Bruce, presenter of the show since 2019, raised her hands - and voice - to silence the politician and remind him of the failed Rwanda scheme, which Mr Starmer quickly axed after taking power last year. It is thought some £700million of taxpayers' money went into the Tories' plan, including £290million in payments to Rwanda, as well as the costs of chartering flights that never left the ground. It also cost the taxpayer to detain hundreds of people and then release them, and to pay for more than 1,000 civil servants to work on the scheme.
Sky News
08-04-2025
- Sky News
Graduated driving licences for young people 'could have saved my daughter', says bereaved mother
A mother whose daughter was killed in a car crash has said tougher laws for new drivers could have saved the teenager's life. Speaking on The UK Tonight With Sarah-Jane Mee, Sharon Huddleston called on the government to bring in new laws to "help save young lives [and] give teenagers a future". Caitlin Huddleston, 18, was a passenger in a vehicle which collided with a van in July 2017. The crash killed both Caitlin and the driver, her friend Skye Mitchell, also 18. A backseat passenger and the van driver were left with severe injuries. Skye had passed her test just four months before the crash, which occurred after she "entered a bend slightly too fast for her experience and lost control", Ms Huddleston said. The car then spun on to the opposite carriageway and in front of a van travelling in the opposite direction. Ms Huddleston later "found out about a law called a graduated driving licence which could have saved my daughter's life". In 2023, around a fifth of people killed or seriously injured in Great Britain in car collisions involved a young driver. Graduated Driving Licences (GDLs) have been introduced in a number of other countries including Canada, where it takes at least 20 months for a new driver to gain a full driving licence by earning in stages. Young drivers working towards their full licence face extra rules such as not being allowed on the roads between midnight and 5am, and a limit on the number of under 19-year-old passengers. 2:18 As reported by Sky News' Dan Whitehead, evidence shows deaths among 16 to 19-year-old drivers in Canada have fallen by 83%. But the government has previously stated it has no plans to introduce GDLs, saying they could "unfairly" penalise young drivers. "Our children have been penalised from living their lives," Ms Huddleston said in response. "We want this implemented to help save young lives, to give teenagers a future. Our children's futures were taken from them. "These children who are killed on the roads, they're being penalised from living their lives, we shouldn't have to bury our children," she continued. Ms Huddleston was joined on The UK Tonight by Dr Ian Greenwood, whose daughter Alice died at the age of 12 after a speeding, young driver crashed into a car she was travelling in with her mother and sister. Dr Greenwood said: "They were speeding, they were distracted, it's a rural road. "It's almost like doing a bingo for the risk factors of a graduated driving licence - other than alcohol, they were all present in that crash." The driver of the car and his passenger also died, he said. 1:57 A Department for Transport spokesperson told Sky News: "Every death on our roads is a tragedy and our thoughts remain with the families of everyone who has lost a loved one in this way. "Whilst we are not considering Graduated Driving Licences, we absolutely recognise that young people are disproportionately victims of tragic incidents on our roads, and we are exploring options to tackle the root causes of this without unfairly penalising young drivers."
CBS News
05-04-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Shoppers brace for higher prices on imported bananas, coffee and more due to tariffs
Next time you run to the grocery store, you might notice that the prices of certain items have gone up. Bananas coming from Guatemala will have a 10% tariff, as will coffee beans from Colombia or Brazil. The change in prices comes after President Trump imposed new tariffs on all goods coming from outside the U.S. Gary Huddleston with the Texas Retailers Association says, thankfully, a lot of the produce sold at your local grocery store comes from within the U.S. "Supermarkets sell a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables," Huddleston said. "Many of those come domestically, especially here in the state of Texas, where we grow a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables in South Texas and from Florida and California, but there is a fair amount that's imported from Mexico, especially avocados and tomatoes." The good thing is that produce coming from Mexico and Canada is exempt from these tariffs due to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on free trade. "This agreement replaced the old NAFTA agreement, which was a free trade agreement," Huddleston said. Asian supermarkets, on the other hand, will be hit hard by these new tariffs. Fruit coming from Vietnam will have a 46% tariff added, and spices from India will see a 27% tariff. With the changes just coming down this week, Huddleston believes it may take time before customers notice any price jumps. "I think it's a little too early to tell what impact it would have on any produce or any Asian product that would be imported from Southeast Asia," Huddleston said.
CBC
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
This man wants to sell his home. He's using a Lego replica to help
When selling a house, it's not unusual to have detailed photos taken, or to nicely stage the rooms. But including photos of a Lego replica of your home is a little outside the norm. "I think we have a really great house and I think converting it into a Lego project, I hope I really did it justice in terms of making it look real and look nice," Andrew Huddleston, a homeowner and Lego enthusiast, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. When Huddleston decided to sell his four-storey townhouse in Washington, D.C., which goes on the market Friday, he already had the Lego custom design built. All he had to do was add the photos to his post on the real estate site Zillow. His real estate agent was all for it. "He thought it was creative and original, that it might be a way to to get people's attention and do something different," said Huddleston. Adding the detail It wasn't his first big Lego project. While stuck inside during the COVID-19 pandemic, Huddleston rediscovered his love of the plastic bricks and created some larger art pieces. He did two Lego portraits of characters from the television series Dallas, done in a pixilated style. But the three-bedroom, four-bathroom mini replica house was his first venture into designing a Lego building. "I thought it would be a fun project to try to recreate the space as realistically as possible, to build the four-storey townhouse and decorate it in the way that we had it decorated and furnished at the time," said Huddleston. Huddleston started with the base design and blueprints of the house. Once he had the foundation laid out using pieces from his personal Lego collection, he ordered bricks that would match the colour of his home. With the help of stickers, he was able to get the art on the wall just right. Huddleston even built an additional, mini-scale version of the project house to sit within the Lego build itself. He says overall, the project took several months to complete. The flexibility of Lego bricks Graeme Dymond, a certified Lego professional in Toronto, says the project shows both Huddleston's innovation and how flexible a Lego brick can be. "This kind of build highlights the amazing potential Lego bricks have to create detail-focused experiences that can be customized to meet a variety of needs," said Dymond. Dymond, who organizes the Bricks in the Six Lego fan event, has made similar projects through his company Dymond Bricks. "I've had many agents approach me with similar requests to help build awareness of their properties," said Dymond. Huddleston has already moved to Portland, Ore., and is still getting settled into his new home there. But once he's unpacked, he plays on displaying the Lego version of his old townhouse. And there might be another build in the future.
