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Alvarez, Tucker lead Astros past Pirates 8-2

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:49 GMT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Yordan Alvarez had three hits and boosted his RBI total to a major-league-leading 16 by driving in two runs in the Houston Astros’ 8-2 win over Pittsburgh on Monday night.Kyle Tucker added two hits and drove in three runs for the Astros. Maruicio Dubón singled three times to extend his hitting streak to a career-best six games as the reigning World Series champions sent the fast-starting Pirates to the second loss in their last seven games.Framber Valdez (1-1) kept the Pirates in check for seven innings, allowing two runs on three hits with five walks and five strikeouts as Houston won consecutive games for the second time this season.Ji Man Choi hit his first home run for Pittsburgh. Rodolfo Castro added an RBI single in his first start at shortstop while filling in for injured Oneil Cruz, who is out four months after undergoing surgery to repair a fractured left ankle suffered in a loss to the Chicago White Sox on Sunday.Roansy Contreras (1-1) struggled wit...

Una avalancha en los Alpes franceses deja al menos 6 muertos

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:49 GMT

(CNN) — Al menos seis personas murieron y varias más resultaron heridas en una avalancha que sacudió los Alpes franceses durante el fin de semana.El ministro del Interior, Gerald Darmanin, tuiteó este domingo que se desplegaron equipos de emergencia tras el incidente en el glaciar de Armancette, cerca del Mont Blanc, en el sureste de Francia. Las labores de rescate continúan.Nubes de nieve se deslizaron por la ladera de la montaña, según un video que compartió la agencia Reuters y tuiteó una estación de esquí cercana, Contamines-Montjoie.La vista después de una avalancha mortal en el glaciar Armancette, a la sombra del Mont Blanc, el domingo. (Crédito: jpclement38/Twitter/Reuters)La avalancha se produjo en el glaciar este domingo. Las condiciones en la montaña se describieron como “no demasiado alarmantes”, y el presidente del sindicato francés de guías de montaña, Dorian Labaeye, declaró a France Info que no sabía cómo pudo ocurrir una tragedia semejante en “...

Bohm has 6 RBIs, Phillies power past Alcantara, Marlins 15-3

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:49 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Alec Bohm homered and had six RBIs and the Philadelphia Phillies tagged NL Cy Young Award winner Sandy Alcantara for nine runs in a 15-3 win over the Miami Marlins on Monday night.Brandon Marsh and Jake Cave added solo homers, and the Phillies pounded out 20 hits.Alcantara (1-1) had pitched a 1-hour, 57-minute shutout in his last start against Minnesota, then struggled to get anyone out in Philadelphia.Alcantara scuffled with a 1-3 record, 3.16 ERA last season against the Phillies, and it seems as if the NL champs have figured something out against the Marlins’ ace.The Phillies pounded him for five runs in the third inning and four more in the fifth — whopping totals considering Alcantara did not allow more than six runs in a game in 32 starts last season.Cave, claimed off waivers in December, rocked a solo homer off the second-deck facade in right to lead off the fourth for a 1-0 lead. Alcantara retired the next two batters.Then the bats got hot. The Phill...

Former principal, secretary accused of embezzling $100,000 from high school

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:49 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Nearly two years after he retired while under investigation, a former high school principal and his secretary could soon be arrested on accusations of embezzling more than $100,000 from Gateway High School in Aurora.The Problem Solvers have learned that 57-year-old Ronald Fay could soon face charges of embezzlement, theft and destruction of evidence. His long-time school secretary and alleged accomplice, 62-year-old Jill Watkins, could be arrested on counts of embezzlement and theft.Police in Aurora say the charges relate to conduct from October 2019 to July 2021, a two-year period when Fay served as principal at the academically struggling high school.Anonymous tip, deleted evidence, funneled cashAccording to a 338-page police report obtained by the Problem Solvers, Watkins had been Fay's loyal school secretary and bookkeeper since his time at Rangeview High School and followed him over to Gateway High School in the summer of 2019.On June 28, 2021, Aurora Pub...

Who pays when rental truck hits you?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:49 GMT

Her car got hit by a rental truck. They said make the company who rented it from us pay for your damage. That company said we didn’t rent the truck. After hitting that deadline, the South Florida woman turned where so many people have for 25 years, to Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.When I spoke to Maudell on the phone, I said, “I have to meet this woman,” and I am glad I did.Maudell Smith: “I love people. I love talking. Talk all night.”Maudell is a character, and her story begins when she drove in between a truck and gas pumps to fill up.Maudell Smith: “So I pulled in because it didn’t really seem that close.”As you can see, Maudell started to open her door then closed it as the large Penske truck moved forward, backed up a little, then swerved and took off, smashing into the side of Maudell’s SUV.But let her describe it.Maudell Smith: “Oh, it hit it. It was like lightning. It happened so fast. It hit me. Bam! And eve...

Tavares scores late in OT as Maple Leafs edge Panthers 2-1

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:49 GMT

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — John Tavares scored with 21.3 seconds remaining in overtime and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat Florida 2-1 on Monday night to snap the Panthers’ six-game winning streak.Auston Matthews also scored for Toronto, netting his 40th of the season. Ilya Samsonov made 46 saves.Brandon Montour scored for Florida and tied the franchise record for goals by a defenseman in a season with his 16th. Goalie Alex Lyon made 23 saves and lost for the first time in seven straight starts in place of Sergei Bobrovsky.The Panthers managed to gain a point and moved closer to a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Florida has gone 6-0-1 since losing in Ottawa on March 27.“That game could have gone either way,” Montour said. “They played well, both goalies played well and we ended up getting a point out of it. It obviously would have been better to get the extra point, but we are alright.”After a scoreless opening 37-plus minutes, the Maple Leafs took a 1-0 lead when Matthews deflected ...

Florida rep. faces backlash after controversial comments about transgender community

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:49 GMT

A Florida lawmaker is facing criticism after making controversial comments about the transgender community during a Florida State House committee.“The Lord rebuke you, Satan, and all of your demons and all of your imps who come and parade before us. That’s right. I called you demons and imps,” said Republican representative Webster Barnaby.The comments were made Monday during a committee meeting that debated a bill that would restrict restrooms according to reproductive function.“It’s like we have mutants living among us on planet earth,” he continued, “and this bill is about public safety…People that when you watch the X-men movies.”Barnaby unloaded on those who testified against the bill, activists and advocates in the transgender community who fear further harassment if the bill becomes law.“How dare he feel the need to use that kind of language,” said Jasmine McKenzie.McKenzie, who calls herself “The Voice of the ...

EU needs to be more vocal about repression and violence to its south

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:49 GMT

Nathalie Tocci is director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Europe’s futures fellow at IWM, Vienna, and a board member of ENI. Her new book, “A Green and Global Europe,” is now out with Polity.Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European foreign policy has hardly been idle.Over the last year, the European Union has passed unprecedented sanctions, revived enlargement, offered refugees protection, approved billions in financial and military assistance, and — linked to the latter — mobilized the European Peace Facility as an EU defense procurement platform in the making. And its diplomatic efforts have revolved around the war too, whether by strengthening transatlantic ties, nudging China and reaching out to the “Global South.”As such, it would be unfair to criticize the bloc for inaction. And understandably, this action has focused on the most devastating war on the Continent since World War II. But this doesn’t mean that other corners of Europe’s neighborhood are stable or unwo...

On Turkey, Sweden balances NATO aspirations against fighting crime at home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:49 GMT

STOCKHOLM — Last month, a bomb destroyed the front of a house at the edge of the Swedish capital Stockholm, injuring one and terrifying scores of others. At the scene of the bombing, hours after it had occurred, dazed-looking residents collected bits of wood and tile that had flown across nearby pathways and a children’s playground. “I can still smell gunpowder and I’m still finding glass splinters in my hair,” a 17-year-old resident of a house near the targeted home told reporters. “It feels like a nightmare,” she said. “I still feel like I am going to wake up in my bed like normal.”Over recent weeks, tit-for-tat attacks on homes in Stockholm with links to gang members have intensified, and the bombing in March is thought to have been an attack on family members associated with a suspected drug lord.But the alleged narcotics kingpin won’t be answering questions from t...

Biden salutes a Good Friday Agreement that just isn’t working any more

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:49 GMT

BELFAST — President Joe Biden arrives in Northern Ireland on Tuesday to salute the 25th anniversary of its U.S.-brokered peace accord. But it will be a hollow celebration.Power-sharing between British unionists and Irish nationalists, the central vision of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, is failing.Northern Ireland has for nearly a year had no elected government at Stormont, the grand parliament building overlooking Belfast. It has no annual budget either — only red ink, rising in a sea of dysfunction. And thanks to Brexit, the U.K.’s most socially divided region this month lost tens of millions in annual European Union funds that had sustained the poorest communities.Northern Ireland’s fiscal council, created two years ago to advise Stormont following a previous government shutdown, estimates an extra £808 million is needed this year just to keep existing services running at a time of rising energy bills and wage demands. Instead, the British government in London wants immediate...