Updated: 11:54 PM EST Mar 10, 2021 New England Patriots star Julian Edelman has extended an invitation to meet with an NBA player who recently used an anti-Semitic slur during a video game livestream.Edelman, who is Jewish, offered to join Miami Heat center Meyers Leonard for a Shabbat dinner in Miami through an open letter that was shared on the Patriots wide receiver s Twitter account Wednesday morning.Leonard can be heard using the slur in a video that surfaced Tuesday on social media. He has since apologized through an Instagram post, but the Heat says the 29-year-old will be away from the team indefinitely as the NBA conducts an investigation.In his open letter, the 34-year-old Edelman expressed a desire to meet Leonard for the first time one day soon and to offer perspective to the situation instead of more criticism. I get the sense that you didn t use that word out of hate, more out of ignorance. Most likely, you weren t trying to hurt anyone or even profile Jews
Updated: 5:48 PM EST Mar 11, 2021 A teenager is dead after he was involved in a violent motor vehicle crash on Route 1A in East Boston Wednesday night, according to the victim s mother.Boston police said two vehicles collided just before 8:15 p.m. near the intersection of McClellan Highway and Addison Street. One of the vehicles slammed into a telephone pole and the other into a guardrail. The driver of the vehicle that hit the pole was pronounced dead at the scene, he was identified by the DA s office Thursday as 18-year-old Jonathan Hernandez. A female juvenile passenger suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.The victim s family said he was a teenager, however police have not released his identity. A friend of the victim said the two people inside the car were boyfriend and girlfriend. Chaos, one witness said. It s really sad. Any car accident or situation like this is not a good thing, and if it affected a whole neighborhood to lose their power, that mean
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