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Police in Worcester, Massachusetts, are asking for the public’s help in locating a teen who was last seen on Monday morning. Worcester police said they are looking for 14-year-old Michael Pitsillides, and asked anyone who lives in the area of Gate Lane to check their outdoor security cameras to see if it shows any activity of a person between midnight and 6 a.m. on Monday. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 508-799-8606 or 508-799-8651.

Two storied franchises will meet in Mile High on Sunday with a Super Bowl berth on the line. This year’s AFC Championship Game will feature the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos, two top seeds with unlikely paths to the conference title game. After winning just eight games combined over the last two seasons, Drake Maye and the Patriots earned the AFC’s No. 2 seed with a 14-3 regular season record in Mike Vrabel’s first season as head coach. While Maye was an MVP contender in the regular season, it’s been New England’s defense that has carried the team in the postseason with dominant performances against the No. 7 Los Angeles Chargers in the wild card round and No. 5 Houston Texans in the divisional round. On the other side, the Broncos earned the AFC’s top seed and coveted first-round bye with a 14-3 record. Sean Payton’s squad earned a thrilling overtime victory over the No. 6 Buffalo Bills in the divisional round but was dealt a devastating blow with Bo Nix suffering a season-ending ankle injury. The team will now turn to backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham, a 2019 Patriots draft pick, with sights set on Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California. Before the Patriots and Broncos square off, here is a look at which teams have won, lost and reached the most AFC Championship Games: Which team has won the most AFC Championship Games? The Patriots have far and away the most AFC Championship Game victories with 11. Nine of those wins came from 2001 to 2019, when Tom Brady was the team’s starting quarterback. Those nine wins translated to six Super Bowl victories for Brady, head coach Bill Belichick and the Patriots, tying the Pittsburgh Steelers for the most in NFL history. Speaking of the Steelers, they are tied with the Broncos for the second-most AFC Championship Game victories with eight. The Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins are next on the list with five conference title game wins. Super Bowl 8 hours ago Ranking the 4 potential Super Bowl matchups from best to worst NFL Jan 18 NFL Conference Championship Games: Schedule and broadcast info for AFC and NFC Which team has lost the most AFC Championship Games? Along with eight wins, the Steelers also have eight losses in AFC Championship Games, the most of any team. Second on the list for most losses are the Las Vegas Raiders with seven. After them, the Patriots, Indianapolis Colts, Tennessee Titans and New York Jets are tied for third with four losses apiece. Which team has the most AFC Championship Game appearances? The Patriots will tie the Steelers with their 16th AFC Championship Game appearance on Sunday. The Broncos (11) and Raiders (11) are the only other teams with double-digit appearances. Sixteen teams have reached an AFC Championship Game, but they are not the 16 teams that make up the current AFC. The Seattle Seahawks played in the AFC West from the time they joined the NFL as an expansion team in 1976 up until the 2002 season, when they joined the NFC West. Their AFC Championship Game appearance came in the 1983 season, when they lost to the Oakland Raiders 30-14. The Texans are the only present-day AFC team to never reach the conference title game. Here is the full list of teams listed by AFC Championship Game appearances: T-1. New England Patriots: 16 (11-4) T-1. Pittsburgh Steelers: 16 (8-8) T-3. Denver Broncos: 11 (8-2) T-3. Las Vegas Raiders: 11 (4-7) 5. Kansas City Chiefs: 8 (5-3) T-6. Miami Dolphins: 7 (5-2) T-6. Buffalo Bills: 7 (4-3) T-6. Indianapolis Colts: 7 (3-4) T-9. Baltimore Ravens: 5 (2-3) T-9. Tennessee Titans: 5 (1-4) T-11. Cincinnati Bengals: 4 (3-1) T-11. Los Angeles Chargers: 4 (1-3) T-11. New York Jets: 4 (0-4) T-14. Jacksonville Jaguars: 3 (0-3) T-14. Cleveland Browns: 3 (0-3) 16. Seattle Seahawks: 1 (0-1) T-17. Houston Texans: 0 T-17. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 0 (only played one season in the AFC) Most common AFC Championship Game matchups This will be the third Patriots-Broncos AFC Championship…

Just one year into his second term, President Donald Trump has pardoned an unusually high number of wealthy people accused of financial crimes, according to an NBC News analysis of the last four administrations. Over half of Trump’s 88 individual pardons are for white-collar offenses, with money laundering, bank fraud and wire fraud among the most frequent crimes the president has wiped clean. Additionally, about half of the pardon recipients are either business executives or politicians. Included in the latest round of pardons, issued Thursday and Friday, were a former health care CEO, the former governor of Puerto Rico and a pair of siblings who were convicted on fraud charges — one of whom Trump previously freed for a different crime. A few pardon recipients are billionaires, including Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering on his crypto platform; longtime English soccer club owner Joe Lewis, who pleaded guilty last year to insider trading charges; and Venezuelan-Italian banker Julio M. Herrera Velutini, whom Trump pardoned last week while he awaited sentencing on campaign finance violations. These are aside from the group of roughly 1,500 convicted Jan. 6 rioters he pardoned on his first day back in office and additional symbolic pardons for those involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. While net worth statistics for other pardon recipients aren’t easily available, the amount of fines and restitution that had been imposed on them is a rough signal of their wealth. The 87 people and one corporation pardoned by Trump in the last year had been ordered to pay more than $298 million in fines and restitution — $20 million more than the total owed by all of the pardon recipients in his entire first term, and vastly more than the totals previously owed by those who received pardons during recent Democratic administrations. “We have a very thorough review process here that moves with the Department of Justice and the White House counsel’s office,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a recent briefing, citing a team of attorneys who review every request that makes its way to Trump. She added: “And he was very clear when he came into office that he was most interested in looking at pardoning individuals who were abused and used by the Biden Department of Justice and were overprosecuted by a weaponized DOJ.” Fines, which are owed to the government, and restitution, which is owed to victims, are intended to make up for the harm caused by crime. While Trump in his second term has so far granted clemency to a broad range of people convicted of federal crimes, the pardons have often favored political allies or business interests. White House officials have consistently said the president is not focusing on fraud pardons but is focused, as Leavitt said, on cases where he thinks there was a political motivation for the case or an issue of overprosecution. Asked in an interview with CBS News last year about his pardoning of Zhao, Trump said, “I have no idea who he is. I was told that he was a victim, just like I was and just like many other people, of a vicious, horrible group of people in the Biden administration.” The president said in the interview he was “not concerned” about the appearance of corruption. “I’d rather not have you ask the question.” “I only care about one thing,” said the president. “Will we be No. 1 in crypto?” The wealth and status associated with many of those pardoned have raised concerns about potential financial and political influence on the clemency process. NBC News previously reported that the White House temporarily paused the pardon process in order to tighten its review following concerns from top officials that the process had become a lucrative business for lobbying and consulting firms during Trump’s second term. In the last year, 23 people pardoned by Trump owed more than $100,000 each in fines, restitution or both, with the total…

A woman was critically injured in an explosion at her home in Friendship, Maine, on Monday night, officials say. Around 9:44 p.m. on Monday, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call reporting an explosion and fire at a single-family residence at 36 North Harbor Cemetery Lane in Friendship, the State Fire Marshal’s Office said. The Friendship Fire Department responded to the scene along with firefighters from several nearby departments. When they arrived, they found a woman outside the residence who was identified as an occupant of the home. The woman had suffered substantial, life-threatening injuries, officials said. She was treated at the scene and then flown by medical helicopter to Maine Medical Center in Portland. Her name has not been released. Investigators from the State Fire Marshal’s Office responded to the scene and were able to determine that a small explosion had occurred. The residence did not have electricity, and generators were being used to supply power to the home. The home was also being heated by a fireplace, and propane gas was being used for cooking purposes, with several propane cylinders of varying sizes located in and around the residence. The investigation into the cause of the explosion is ongoing, but officials said they do not believe it to be suspicious in nature. No further details were released.

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