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‘See the world just like anybody else’: Disability, chronic disease not keeping older travelers from taking off

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:05:15 GMT

This summer, WTOP is taking you on a tour and exploring how adults 50 and older are spending their travels.Southwest Virginia resident Sharon Moore Myers has traveled extensively using a wheelchair. As a four-time Paralympian, she once traveled around the world competing and winning medals in swimming, javelin, the discus and other sports.Myers, now 76, continued her travels after retiring from wheelchair sports and in 1998, she became involved with the Society for Accessible Travel and Hospitality, which works with travel agents and the industry on training to meet the travel needs of people with disabilities.“I want to see the world just like anybody else,” Myers said. So she sought people who were willing to figure out a way, and “made it possible,” she said.Myers has traveled to Peru several times, visiting the jungle and Machu Picchu and going whitewater rafting in the Urubamba River. She has gone on a safari in South Africa, and has traveled to India, Dubai and to severa...

Dan Evans wins his second career ATP title by beating Tallon Griekspoor in Washington

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:05:15 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dan Evans won his second ATP Tour title by beating Tallon Griekspoor 7-5, 6-3 in a rain-interrupted D.C. Citi Open final on Sunday.Evans, a 33-year-old from Britain, saved four break points in the last game before ending the match with a service winner. He is the oldest champion in Washington since Jimmy Connors was 35 when he won the event in 1988.Evans arrived in Washington with an 8-18 record this season before going 5-0.“I had to keep telling myself it was match-by-match and not so long ago I wasn’t playing great,” he said. “It was a good effort mentally to just stay in the present and keep fighting for each point. And I did a great job of that this week.”Action was suspended Sunday at 2-all in the second set because of a thunderstorm. After play eventually resumed in front of just a smattering of spectators, Evans needed about 25 minutes to wrap up his first championship at a 500-level tournament.Rain returned shortly after the match concluded.“Any title is sp...

Guardiola has won the treble and now Man City manager is aiming for 4 Premier League titles in a row

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:05:15 GMT

Ticker tape was still strewn across the field inside Istanbul’s Ataturk Olimpiyat Stadium and Manchester City fans weren’t done partying in the stands when Pep Guardiola issued an ominous warning to his rivals. Far from feeling sated after finally transferring Man City’s domestic dominance to Europe by winning the Champions League for the first time last season, the City manager was looking to build on his club’s historic treble of trophies. “I don’t want after one Champions League to disappear, so work harder next season and be in there.”Guardiola had completed his ultimate mission by conquering Europe with City, having done so twice as coach of Barcelona, but he made it clear that his ambition was to achieve more. And there are new boundaries for him to break ahead of the new campaign. He can become the first manager to win four straight Premier League titles — something even Alex Ferguson could not do during his dominance with Manchester United. Indeed, no...

Spain election: Far-right Vox vows to back conservative Feijóo ‘for free’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:05:15 GMT

Spain’s far-right Vox party on Sunday backed down from its long-held position on being included in any national government requiring its support, saying it’s willing to back a minority government headed by the center-right Popular Party even if a future cabinet doesn’t include any of its members.In a statement, the group said its deep concern over Socialist Pedro Sánchez’s plans to remain Spain’s prime minister had led it to revise its position and offer the unconditional support of its 33 MPs to conservative leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who needs a simple majority in the country’s parliament to back his bid to form a government.“We will not be an obstacle to avoid a government of national destruction,” Vox said in its statement.The far-right party said Sánchez’s willingness to forge a support pact with Basque and Catalan separatist groups like EH Bildu, the Basque Nationalist Party, the Republican Left of Catalonia and Junt...

Putin to visit Erdoğan at end of August: Turkish media

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:05:15 GMT

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could visit his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the end of this month, Turkish media reported Monday, as Ankara seeks to revive the Black Sea grain deal.Erdoğan’s Cabinet will meet Monday to discuss “Russian President Vladimir Putin’s possible visit to Turkey at the end of this month,” pro-government daily Hürriyet reported.During Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Istanbul last month, the Turkish president announced Putin would travel to Turkey in August to discuss extending the deal that allowed Ukraine to continue to export its agricultural goods through the Black Sea after the full-scale Russian invasion.Bu the agreement, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in the wake of last year’s invasion, ended last month after Russia unilaterally withdrew from the deal.Erdoğan has played a strategic balancing act over the course of Russia’s war. While broadly c...

‘He’s my best friend’: Dog owner’s desperate plea after beloved pet stolen from Back Bay

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:05:15 GMT

A Boston dog owner is making a desperate plea to whoever was caught on camera walking with her dog after it was stolen on Saturday. Shelly Vermani tells 7NEWS she just wants her 8-year-old Chihuahua Alejandro back unharmed after it was stolen around 10:30 a.m. in the area of 15 Westland Ave. It was last seen about a half-hour later in the area of Mass. Ave. and Melnea Cass Boulevard.Vermani said she left the 8-year-old dog outside the Whole Foods while she grabbed some items and was shocked to find that he was gone when she came out.“People were all around, I thought it was a safe area, and I turn around and he’s gone,” she said. “My kind naïve heart doesn’t even think that anybody would ever steal a dog .. I looked around, I was beside myself, crying, I finally called 911.” Vermani’s plea comes as Boston police are turning to the public for help identifying a person who was spotted walking with her pet.A traveling nurse, Vermani said Alejan...

20-year-old to be arraigned in deadly shooting in Myles Standish Forest in Plymouth

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:05:15 GMT

A 20-year-old man is set to be arraigned Monday in connection with a shooting in Myles Standish State Forest last month that left one man dead. John Geovanni Pires Monteiro Macedo, 20, was arrested in New Bedford Sunday without incident, according to the Plymouth District Attorney’s Office.Monteiro Macedo is accused of shooting and killing Robert Aponte-Flores, 25, on July 12. Police said before the shooting, multiple witnesses saw Monteiro Macedo and the victim in an altercation in the state forest.Monteiro Macedo is slated to be arraigned in Plymouth District Court on one count of murder.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Police investigating shooting overnight in Revere

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:05:15 GMT

Revere police are investigating a shooting overnight on North Shore Road near the Lynn line.A large police presence could be seen gathered at the scene of the shooting.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Orioles reset: The cases for and against Jorge Mateo as a piece of the team’s playoff push

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:05:15 GMT

Jorge Mateo, manager Brandon Hyde believes, still has a role to play for the Orioles. The veracity of that largely depends on what the role is.If it’s to be a right-handed-hitting shortstop who faces left-handed pitching and plays above-average defense, then the Orioles have an upgrade available in prospect Joey Ortiz. But if it’s to be a versatile, occasionally deployed bench piece with elite speed that could be vital as a pinch-runner in the postseason, Baltimore lacks a clear alternative.Such is the dichotomy of Mateo, who was the Orioles’ best hitter in April and one of baseball’s worst since. His defense at shortstop still rates well but has dropped from the elite level he played at last season. He remains one of the sport’s fastest runners, but he reaches first base too infrequently to fully showcase that skill.After posting a team-best 1.062 OPS through the first month of the season, Mateo entered Sunday — when he started in center field fo...

2 Southern California firefighters and a pilot were killed after a midair collision, officials say

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:05:15 GMT

CABAZON, Calif. (AP) — Three people were killed after two firefighting helicopters collided in Southern California on Sunday while fighting a blaze in Riverside County, emergency officials said.One of the helicopters landed safely. “Unfortunately, the second helicopter crashed and tragically all three members perished, which included one Cal Fire Division chief, one Cal Fire captain and one contract client pilot,” Cal Fire Southern Region Chief David Fulcher said during a news conference early Monday. Fulcher did not identify the victims.Cal Fire and Riverside County Fire Department resources were dispatched to a reported structure fire near the intersection of Broadway Street and South Ronda Avenue in the community of Cabazon, Fulcher said.Shortly after the arrival of the first engine company, the fire was reported to have extended into the vegetation and a full wildland fire dispatch was initiated, which included fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.While battling the blaze, the tw...