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Yahoo
13 hours ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
Delaware weekend weather forecast: Isolated severe storms possible, heat advisory issued
A classic summer weekend of weather is in the cards for Delaware's beaches. Low clouds and cool temperatures will eventually clear out, and the sun and its accompanying heat will break out on June 28. National Weather Service forecasts show gradual clearing into the early afternoon – about 1 or 2 p.m. The high temperature for June 28 in Rehoboth will be around 88 with partly sunny skies, but that does not factor in the high humidity. There will be a typical breeze from the south. The region is due for a cold front, which will swing through in the afternoon and evening for the entire state on June 28. National Weather Service meteorologist Nick Guzzo said isolated, severe storms with strong wind gusts cannot be ruled out. Precipitation chances are about 20%. Even though neither June 28 nor June 29 is close to a washout, the latter is the better bet for a dry and less humid day. Weather service forecasts for Rehoboth Beach show rain chances clearing up throughout the morning and showing a 21% chance of rain. The high temperature in Rehoboth remains at 88 for June 29 under sunnier skies with less humidity. DELAWARE'S SUMMER FORECAST: Here's what AccuWeather and Old Farmer's Almanac say Water temperatures in Lewes are a nice 73 degrees as of the morning of June 28, according to data from NOAA. Temperatures in Wilmington this weekend will be warmer than the beaches, obviously, with both days forecasted at 90 with heat indexes in the high 90s under partly sunny skies. A heat advisory is in effect for all of New Castle County from noon to 8 p.m. June 28. The weather service says rain chances are higher in New Castle County, topping out at 46% on June 28 at 7 p.m. in Wilmington. June 29 is likely to remain dry and slightly less humid under sunnier skies. DELAWARE SUMMER GUIDE: Ideas and tips for a fun time Dover's forecast from the weather service shows a more consistent chance of thunderstorms all afternoon on June 28, reaching 46% at 7 p.m. under similarly partly sunny skies. There is a 31% chance of storms at 2 p.m., and chances linger for the rest of the day. There is a 20% chance of rain on June 29 as well. Both days are expected to hit a high of 88 degrees, with June 28 feeling warmer. This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: Will there be thunderstorms in Delaware this weekend?
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Yahoo
First of two men charged with murder in 2021 Seekonk fatal shooting found guilty
The first of two Rehoboth men who were charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a 66-year-old man in Seekonk in 2021 was found guilty last week, the Bristol County District Attorney's Office announced. A Fall River Superior Court jury found 24-year-old Christopher Heron guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Seekonk resident Joseph Housely Sr. on June 18, the district attorney's office said in a press release. Joseph Housely Jr., also 24, faces the same charge in connection with his father's death, the district attorney's office said. He is set to be tried in September. Authorities began investigating Housley Sr.'s death after Seekonk police responded to a report of gunfire at 101 Forsyth Circle shortly after 9:50 p.m. on July 6, 2021, the district attorney's office said previously. At the scene, they found Housley Sr. with gunshot wounds inside an apartment. He was later declared dead. A Bristol County grand jury indicted Housley Jr. and Heron in connection with Housley Sr.'s death in September 2022, the district attorney's office said. Heron is scheduled to be sentenced on June 27. Man charged with assault with intent to murder after Worcester fatal shooting Medway police shoot 'projectile' at shirtless man waving machete near cemetery 15-year-old boy dies days after being found shot in Allston Man said over FaceTime he shot Worcester teen in the back, police say Medway street closed amid large police, SWAT presence near cemetery Read the original article on MassLive.
Irish Times
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Irish Times
The tragedy of Joe Biden is that he was poisoned by power
The denouement of Joe Biden is unbearably sad. The Irishman who could spend 45 minutes answering one question lost his gift of gab. The father who saw two of his children die and two spin into addiction wilted under the ongoing stress, especially when Hunter Biden – 'my only living son,' as Joe called him – got tangled in the legal system. The gregarious pol, who loved chatting up lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, ended up barricaded in his Rehoboth, Delaware, house with Covid, furious at everyone, proclaiming his oldest friends disloyal naysayers. He was fuming at nearly everyone except his wife Jill, Hunter and the cordon sanitaire of aides who had fuelled his delusions that he could be re-elected despite his feeble and often incoherent state at 81. And, saddest of all, the man known for his decency, empathy, humility and patriotic spirit was poisoned by power, losing the ability to see that in clinging to his office, he was hurting the party and country he had served for over half a century. And hurting himself, ensuring a shellacking in the history books. READ MORE It is the oldest story in tragedy: hubris. If presidents get reduced to their essence, Biden's is a chip on his shoulder. He did not want to hear from former president Barack Obama that he should pass the torch to someone younger, so Obama tried to work obliquely through others to ease him out. Biden saw Obama as the one who pushed him aside in 2015 for Hillary Clinton, a fellow member of the elite world of Ivy Leaguers, a world Biden always felt was sniffy toward him. Obama gave Biden a consolation prize in 2017, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, when Biden wanted a different piece of metal: Excalibur. Biden's chip grew larger. By the end, when he was bubble-wrapped in 2024, he trusted only his family and his closest aides. And they protected him with a damaging chimera. Sugarcoated interpretations of polls that were not reflected elsewhere. Extreme efforts to redesign the presidency to adapt to his ever more fragile state. Trashing Robert Hur for telling the truth. Refusing to do the cognitive testing that might have established a diagnosis. 'The public should be informed of the whole truth. Not selective truth,' Dr Jonathan Reiner, an internist and cardiologist at George Washington University Hospital who has been a White House medical consultant for the last four administrations, told Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson for their compelling new book about Biden's Shakespearean fall, Original Sin. 'Selective truth' sounds disturbingly like 'alternative facts,' as Kellyanne Conway called Donald Trump 's modus vivendi. Tapper and Thompson show how Biden and his inner circle created an alternate universe that they tried to sell to the media and the public – the sort of corrosive mirage of unreality that Trump excels at building. It was painful and infuriating to watch, and it's painful and infuriating to read about. The nadir, of course, was Biden's cascade of caesurae at the debate. It was not, as his advisers insisted, merely a bad night. It was a stunning display of a steep mental decline. Witnesses behind the scenes said they were dismayed from the start, when Biden showed up less than a half hour before the debate started. He didn't want to do a walk-through and test the equipment. He already seemed out of it, even though his large staff contingent seemed – to some CNN folks – oddly sanguine. It was not just Joe and Jill Biden who wanted to hang on to power, with all the perks and trips and, for the former first lady, glamorous Vogue covers. It was also their advisers Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Anita Dunn, Anthony Bernal, Ron Klain and Annie Tomasini. The 'palace guard,' as Chuck Schumer derisively dubbed top Biden advisers, slid from sycophancy to solipsism. The more Biden was out of it, the more his hours and responsibilities were curtailed, the more of a vacuum there was at the top, the more power the advisers had. They treated his alarming deterioration like a political vulnerability, something to be concealed, not a matter of concern to all Americans, something we had a right to know. It took the Democrats far too long to acknowledge and push back against what Americans could see with their own eyes. Democratic pooh-bahs and lawmakers were silent when they should have been screaming – as the Republicans are now with Trump's egregious assaults on the Constitution, his cringey grifting, his crazed revenge moves against anyone who has crossed him and his loony Truth Social screeds attacking Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift. The Bidens and their allies still try to prove Joe Biden is all there. He has done interviews on The View with his wife, and on the BBC on his own, acting as if what happened was not a shocking tableau of duplicity. 'President Joe Biden got out of bed the day after the 2024 election convinced that he had been wronged,' Tapper and Thompson write. 'The elites, the Democratic officials, the media, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama – they shouldn't have pushed him out of the race.' The polls said he could have beaten Trump, Biden felt, and his team had always doubted Kamala Harris's abilities. But the polls Biden kept counting on never existed – except in Bidenworld's gauzy alternate universe. This article originally appeared in The New York Times .
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Yahoo
Man pleads guilty in Mass. State Police commercial driver's license scheme
A Rehoboth man this week became the fourth person tied to a commercial driver's license bribery scheme, including a pair of former Massachusetts State Police troopers, to plead guilty to federal criminal charges, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley said. Scott Camara, 44, pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to falsify records and perjury on Wednesday. He will be sentenced on July 21. In January 2024, Camara and five others were charged in a 74-count indictment accusing them of conspiring to pass unqualified drivers on the Commercial Drivers License skills test in exchange for bribes. Since then, Camara, and another civilian co-defendant, Eric Mathison, have pleaded guilty. A pair of former State Police troopers, Calvin Butner, and Perry Mendes, have also entered guilty pleas. The man accused of masterminding the scheme, State Police Sgt. Gary Cederquist, is on trial in federal court in Boston. According to federal prosecutors, in return for friendly driver's license tests, Cederquist received work on a repaved driveway valued at over $10,000, a $2,000 snowblower and other gifts. Another state trooper, Joel Rogers, of Bridgewater, has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the government, records show. The agreement itself is sealed, but indicates that prosecutors intend to drop the charges against Rogers should he meet certain conditions. The Massachusetts State Police Commercial Drivers License Unit is responsible for administering skills tests to applicants seeking commercial licenses. The test is a 'demanding,' in-person exam with three components, prosecutors said. Camara is accused of conspiring with Cederquist to give passing scores to four troopers who applied for Class A commercial licenses but did not actually take the skills test. Prosecutors say Cederquist gave the troopers preferential treatment, reporting they took and passed the test. In reality, Camara drove around the testing site with each of the four troopers in a truck cab, which did not qualify as a Class A vehicle because it did not have an attached trailer, Foley's office said. Neither Cederquist nor any other member of the unit gave the troopers a skills test, according to the statement. Camara put false information on each trooper's Road Test Application, including a make, model and registration for the non-existent trailer. He also falsely claimed to be a sponsor for each of the troopers, according to Foley's office. The perjury charge stems from false statements Camara made to a federal grand jury in May 2023. Testifying under oath, Camara said he had neither filled out the vehicle nor sponsor information sections on three of the applications and said he had not signed the forms, Foley's office said. All those who received commercial licenses who were identified as not qualified during the investigation were reported to the Registry of Motor Vehicles, Foley's office said. Camara faces a sentence of up to 20 years in prison on the conspiracy to falsify records charge, and a sentence of up to five years in prison for perjury. Three teens arrested after spray of bullets damages Salem street in targeted attack Car drove erratically in 5-vehicle crash on I-93 that killed 1, DA says UMass survey finds Americans unhappy with the economy and not buying Trump tariff policy UMass poll finds Americans split on Trump's immigration policies Thinking of adopting a dog? Shelters all across Mass. are waiving adoption fees
