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SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass. — Police are searching for two missing 12-year-old boys who are believed to be driving a white Toyota Highlander brought from Southbridge to New York. The two boys, Amari Siders and Zyaire Siders, were last seen Monday in Southbridge, Southbridge police said Tuesday. The children are suspected of driving a white Toyota Highlander with Massachusetts license plate number 4AN622 and “possibly headed to New York,” police said. Police believe the boys, who went out last night, have been driving for more than eight hours. Police are looking for missing 12-year-olds who are driving in New York (Southbridge Police…

In a statement received by The Daily Independent on Tuesday afternoon, Ridgecrest Regional Hospital released a status update on the funding needed and steps forward to maintain services for our area residents and the Center for ‘China Lake naval weapons. Below is the unedited statement from the HR Board of Directors: As Ridgecrest Regional Hospital’s board, leadership and advocates continue to work toward financial strategies that will close cost-of-service gaps, we want to thank the many people in our community who have Contact support and questions about our challenges. Here’s an update on where we are and how we got…

BOSTON – The National Transportation Safety Board announced Tuesday that a short circuit in a train door was to blame for the death of a man who was swept by an MBTA Red Line train last year. Robinson Lalin, 39, of Boston, was killed when he got stuck in a Red Line door at Broadway Station and was dragged to his death on April 10, 2022. “The probable cause of the passenger’s death was a short circuit in the passenger door interlock circuit on the accident carriageway that allowed propulsion on train 1034 with the door obstructed by a passenger,…

A 22-year-old man has died after an early morning crash in Indiana County. Kohl Michael Beatty, of Indiana, died in the crash around 5:40 a.m. Tuesday, according to a statement from County Coroner Jerry L. Overman, Jr. The release says the Indiana Fire Association was dispatched to the 2300 block of South 6th Street in White Township for a tree and wires in the driveway. Shortly thereafter, the office learned of a motor vehicle accident at the same location. Beatty was driving a Saturn VUE traveling south and struck the back of a coal truck. The truck was moving very…

ROME, Italy – Boston Archdiocese Cardinal Sean O’Malley offers a special Mass in Rome for the victims of the Newton murder, with the religious leader calling the murders of a Catholic couple and their mother a his house “brutal and senseless murders”. O’Malley, who is in Rome, said Tuesday that prayers will be said during the special Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica for Gilda D’Amore, 73, her husband, Bruno D’Amore, 74, and the Gilda’s mother, Lucia Arpino. 97. All three were found stabbed to death Sunday in their home on Broadway Street in Newton’s Nonantum neighborhood, authorities said. Christopher Ferguson,…

a new one Report of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice details the failures that occurred starting a month before Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while in custody at the Bureau of Prisons. The report also makes it clear that foul play was not possible. When agents found Epstein unresponsive in his cell on Aug. 10, 2019, Agent Michael Thomas, who was charged criminally in the case, said, “Breathe, Epstein, breathe,” according to the new report issued on Tuesday. When Thomas saw Epstein hanging from the bed, he said, “We’re going to be in a lot of trouble,”…

Ryan Seacrest has signed a multi-year deal to host the game show “Wheel of Fortune” starting in 2024, Sony Pictures Television announced Tuesday. Seacrest will replace longtime host Pat Sajak, who announced he was leaving the show earlier this month. Sajak was at the helm for four decades. “I am truly honored to follow in the footsteps of the legendary Pat Sajak,” said Seacrest. in a statement on Tuesday. “I can say, along with the rest of America, that it has been a privilege and pure joy to see Pat and Vanna [White] on our TV screens for an unprecedented…

A New York man was arrested and charged with murder after allegedly shooting his 3-month-old daughter with a crossbow early Monday morning, according to the Broome County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to a Colesville home around 5:14 a.m. after reports that an infant and a woman had been shot with a crossbow. According to a preliminary investigation, Patrick D. Proefriedt, 26, allegedly got into a fight with his wife and shot her with a bolt while she was holding their 3-month-old daughter, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. The broadhead bolt struck the baby in the upper…