Boston’s Airport Has A New Voice. He’s Wicked Excited To Welcome You.

British Columbia officials investigating a bear attack that left a mother and daughter dead in Bella Coola said that it is possible more than one grizzly was involved and that they are carrying out “highly dangerous work” to try to capture and assess local bears.

“We do not know if more than one bear may have been involved in the attack,” Inspector Jeff Tyre, of the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service, said during a news conference Wednesday. “Numerous” grizzly bears live in the valley, he added.

The victims — identified as Jennifer Balcarras, 48, and Selah Reed, 20 — were reported missing Sunday. The first body was found on Monday; the second was discovered Tuesday.

Last year, a grizzly attacked a school group in Bella Coola, hospitalizing three students and a teacher.

Tyre said it was too early to establish how the attack unfolded and difficult to determine whether issues such as food shortages could have influenced bear behavior in the valley.

Kim Titchener, founder of a Calgary-based bear safety training group, told the Associated Press that habitat loss and drought and climate change had led to more bear-human conflicts in British Columbia.

Bear-human encounters have also been rising across the United States and Japan.

A deep-voiced pipe fitter from the Boston suburbs bested thousands of excellent accents to win a new honor: the Voice of Logan.

Chris Donisi, announced as the winner Thursday morning after a public vote, will record public service announcements to play at Boston Logan International Airport in time for the holiday travel season. He did a round of press interviews Thursday wearing a Boston Bruins hoodie.

Some 6,000 people submitted auditions for consideration in the contest put on by Massachusetts Port Authority, and more than 35,000 votes were tallied. The winner is not paid but earns a level of local fame.

Massport CEO Richard Davey called Donisi “a pipe fitter with pipes.”

“It’s a voice that’s gonna greet people who are not from Massachusetts,” Davey said in a radio interview Thursday morning. “But also, I think the voice will make us — me and others who are Bostonians — when we land, [feel] like, oh, yeah, we’re home.”

Donisi wrote on the contest website that people have always told him to do voice work.

“So when I seen this I said what a perfect opportunity to give it a shot and how perfect it would be in my home town at Logan,” he wrote.

Joshua Wong, who became the face of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement as a teen before being ensnared in China’s crackdown on the territory, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A Hong Kong court on Thursday found Wong, now 30, guilty of conspiring to collude with foreign entities, including calling for U.S. sanctions on Hong Kong, a charge that human rights organizations have decried as baseless and cruel. Wong has been in custody since 2020 and was set to be released early next year under previous sentences. He will now remain in prison for nearly a decade longer.

Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, formerly held a measure of political and legal independence from Beijing. But amid massive pro-democracy protests in 2019 and 2020, Chinese authorities enacted a national security law sharply curtailing civil liberties and personal freedoms there. Wong’s latest charge is under a provision of that law.

Wong was a mainstay of the Hong Kong activism scene for years. As a 15-year-old, he attracted global attention in 2012 when he protested the government’s push for pro-Communist school curriculums. Later, he was a leading figure in the 2014 Umbrella Movement, a precursor to the pro-democracy protests of 2019 and 2020.

At the height of those later protests, Wong sought asylum at the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong, a plea seriously considered by then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before it was denied.

If the Senate race in Mississippi remains nail-bitingly close, it could quickly turn into an unusual, freewheeling legal and political dispute.

Mississippi, unlike most other states, has no provision for recounts, as University of Notre Dame election law professor Derek Muller noted in a blog post Wednesday.

A candidate who comes out behind by a thin margin and wants to challenge the tally could file a lawsuit to try to count or invalidate certain ballots. They also could ask the Senate to decide who should be seated.

So far, Democrat Scott Colom leads Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by 1,724 votes, according to unofficial results as of early Thursday afternoon. More votes will be counted in coming days as election officials process provisional ballots and late-arriving mail ballots.

Provisional ballots, known as affidavit ballots in Mississippi, are cast when there is an issue with a voter’s ID or registration status. Colom’s campaign estimated late Tuesday that there were 10,000 to 15,000 outstanding affidavit ballots, according to Mississippi Today.

Election officials in Mississippi count mail ballots that arrive within five days of Election Day as long as they are postmarked by Election Day. There are about 3,600 mail ballots that have not yet been returned, according to the secretary of state’s office.

Both campaigns are preparing for a drawn-out count. Colom said Wednesday that his campaign had sent lawyers across the state to monitor local officials as they process the remaining ballots. Hyde-Smith’s campaign said in a statement that it expects she will be reelected once every legally cast vote is counted.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized senators for not approving his plan for year-round daylight saving time, saying they could have averted this week’s “ridiculous” clock changes.

Trump has championed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would stop the process of “springing forward” in March and “falling back” in November by permanently advancing the nation’s clocks by one hour. The bill passed the House in July with bipartisan support but has stalled in the Senate.

If the bill is enacted now, it would lead to an immediate midwinter time jump — which has not dissuaded the president.

“I will keep fighting for this!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, complaining about this week’s early sunsets after the clocks moved back one hour on Sunday.

Trump had hoped to tout that he had ended the nation’s clock changes before the midterm elections, The Washington Post previously reported. He criticized senators who held up the legislation.

“I didn’t want to make a big deal out of this prior to the Election because I didn’t want to have certain Senators lose their Race, in a landslide,” Trump wrote.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), the bill’s chief critic, won reelection by about 12 percentage points Tuesday.

A U.S. Marine has died during a training incident in Okinawa, Japan, the U.S. military has confirmed.

Lance Cpl. Devin J. Hernandez, a 25-year-old combat engineer from Maryland, was injured during fast-rope training at Camp Schwab on Tuesday evening, the 3rd Marine Division said in a statement Thursday.

He was taken to receive medical treatment but later died of his injuries, the statement said without providing further details. The circumstances of his death are under investigation.

“The Marines and Sailors of 3rd Marine Division mourn the loss of one of our own,” Maj. Gen. Kyle Ellison, commanding general of the 3rd Marine Division, said. “We extend our deepest condolences to Lance Cpl. Hernandez’s family, friends, and fellow Marines.”