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Liberty advance to WNBA playoff semis for first time since 2015 with 90-85 win over Mystics in OT

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:51 GMT

New York Liberty forward Breanna Stewart shoots the ball during pre-game warm-ups before a WNBA basketball game against the Washington Mystics, Friday, May 19, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)(AP/Terrance Williams) New York Liberty forward Breanna Stewart shoots the ball during pre-game warm-ups before a WNBA basketball game against the Washington Mystics, Friday, May 19, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)(AP/Terrance Williams) NEW YORK (AP) — Breanna Stewart scored 27 points and the New York Liberty beat the Washington Mystics 90-85 in overtime on Tuesday night to advance to the semifinals of the WNBA playoffs for the first time in eight years.New York hadn’t won a playoff se...

Basabe hits 2-run double in 4-run 8th as the Rays beat the Angels 6-2

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:51 GMT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Osleivis Basabe hit a tiebreaking two-run double in a four-run eighth inning and the playoff-bound Tampa Bay Rays beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-2 on Tuesday night.Tampa Bay loaded the bases with one out against Aaron Loup (2-3) before Basabe lined his hit to center. René Pinto followed with a single that drove in two more runs.Randy Arozarena homered for the AL wild card-leading Rays, who started the day 2 1/2 games behind first-place Baltimore in the AL East. The Orioles, who were playing the Houston Astros, hold the tiebreaker.Logan O’Hoppe and Zach Neto homered for the Angels, who have lost six in a row.Los Angeles left fielder Randal Grichuk departed with two outs in the ninth after being hit by a high pitch by Shawn Armstrong. Tampa Bay needed just five pitches to take a 2-0 lead in the first when Yandy Díaz had a leadoff double and Arozarena followed with his 23rd homer off Patrick Sandoval.Díaz had three hits to lift his batting average from from ....

Tigers outfielder Riley Greene will have surgery on his right elbow

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:51 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Detroit Tigers outfielder Riley Greene will have surgery on his right elbow on Wednesday in Dallas. The team termed the procedure as a “surgical intervention to address the elbow sprain.” The extent of the injury and rehab timetable will be known after the surgery by Texas Rangers team physician Dr. Keith Meister.Greene, the fifth overall pick in the 2019 amateur draft, throws left-handed.He was injured while making a diving catch on a line drive by Tim Anderson during the fifth inning of a Sept. 1 game against the Chicago White Sox.The 22-year old batted .288 with 11 homers and 37 RBIs in 99 games in his second major-league season. He missed 34 games earlier in the season due to a left fibula stress reaction. ___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlbSource

Man accused of attempted murder after truck rampage at Boulder Central Park

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:51 GMT

BOULDER, Colo. (KDVR) — Police in Boulder say a man living in his truck tried to run over several people at Central Park on Tuesday morning.“Just horrible. I can’t imagine that somebody would do that," one nearby resident told FOX31. Coach Prime ‘saddened’ by threats against CSU player Police confirm 44-year-old Bruce Alvey is in custody, charged with four counts of attempted first-degree murder.In a Tuesday afternoon press conference, police said Alvey drove his 2004 Ford pickup truck through Central Park near 13th Street and Canyon Boulevard, nearly hitting a person riding a bicycle and rolling the truck over sleeping bags."That’s why this is so scary to me, because the truck did run over these sleeping bags and so forth. ... We could have had significant injuries," Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said.Boulder police say they arrested the driver of this truck after he tried to crash into people at Central Park on Tuesday, Sept. 19. (Credit: Boulder Police Department)Central Pa...

Broward County School Board vote to increase pay for school employees; struggling teacher speaks out

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:51 GMT

The Broward County School Board has voted to increase the pay for several employees within the school system. On Tuesday, the board agreed to give employees that work with students in the district more money, which includes new hires. Cafeteria workers and bus drivers will now receive signing bonuses. “So the ayes have it on items one, two, three, four, five and six,” said Broward County School Board member Lori Alhadeff.Paychecks for teachers to bus drivers will immediately be bigger after a voter referendum that passed back in 2022.“This helps retain our staff and our employees to make sure that they know we respect them,” said Broward County Superintendent Peter Licata.The breakdown for how the money will be distributed for staff members includes the following: bus drivers, clerical staff, facilities staff, food service staff and skilled workers will all receive an additional 5.5%.The referendum also includes money for teachers too; an average of $10,600....

‘It’s almost like your twin brother’: Police apologize after fugitive task force takes down, mistakes man for murder suspect 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:51 GMT

A South Florida man who has never been in trouble with the law is traumatized after being mistaken for a murderer, and police body cameras were rolling.Karen Hensel has tonight’s 7 Investigates.Errol Leath reads his Bible everyday.He suffers from epileptic seizures and has difficulty speaking.Errol Leath/mistaken for murder suspect: “I couldn’t like, correct proper terms or read properly, so I’ll often always read.”Because of his epilepsy he can’t drive so he takes the bus. But his ride turned frightening when he got off the bus on July 19.Officer: “You right there! Don’t [expletive] move.” Within seconds, Errol is on the ground surrounded by a fugitive task force with rifles pointed down at him. Errol Leath: “What did I do?”Officer: “Don’t [expletive] move man.”Errol Leath: “What did I do? I got epilepsy, bro.” Officer: “It’s alright. Be cool, bro.” Errol Leath: “...

No injuries reported after home goes up in flames in Plantation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:51 GMT

Crews worked to put out a house fire in Plantation. The incident happened near Southwest Seventh Street and 56th Terrace, Tuesday afternoon.Heavy smoke poured out of the home after, firefighters said, a mattress caught fire.Crews rescued a dog and three other pets that were inside at the time.One person also got out safely.What sparked the fire is not yet known.

How conspiracy theories infected British politics

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:51 GMT

LONDON — Welcome to Britain, where an elected member of parliament openly rages against “crime against humanity” COVID vaccines and a £12.50-a-day pollution charge is a “trojan horse” for government “control.”Conspiracy theories are not a new force in British politics. But there’s mounting concern that, on a host of issues, once-fringe ideas are increasingly being ushered into the mainstream — with a little help from politicians.Such worries stepped up a notch earlier this year when Andrew Bridgen, a Conservative MP since 2010, lost the party whip after comparing the COVID-19 vaccine rollout to the Holocaust.Since being ousted from the Tories, Bridgen sits as the sole parliamentary member of TV actor Lawrence Fox’s avowedly “anti-woke” Reclaim Party. Although Fox and his other MP hopefuls have failed at every race they’ve run in, adopting Bridgen into the fold means Reclaim has achieved parliamentary representation without having to win an election.Rod Dacombe, a reader in politics ...

As Azerbaijan launches attacks in Nagorno-Karabakh, Moscow leans back

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:51 GMT

While Armenia called on Russian peacekeepers to intervene after Azerbaijan launched “anti-terrorist” operations in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Dmitry Medvedev, the chairman of Russia’s security council, wrote cryptically on Telegram about someone from a so-called brotherly country who had flirted with NATO.“Guess what fate awaits him …” added Russia’s former President Medvedev.The thinly veiled verbal jab reflected Russia’s current stance as Turkey-backed Azerbaijan escalated a three-decades-old conflict with Armenia. With a military base in the ex-Soviet country, Russia has long held the role of Armenia’s security guarantor, including managing tensions around Nagorno-Karabakh, which is inside Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized borders and has been held by its ethnic Armenian majority since the fall of the Soviet Union. In 2020, Russia negotiated a ceasefire agreement, monitored by Russian peacekeepers, between the two South Caucasus co...

We don’t know if Elon Musk brought Armageddon closer — all we know is uncertainty

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:51 GMT

Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has written extensively on the Cold War, nuclear history, and on Russian and Chinese foreign and security policies.In an opinion piece published this month, historian Timothy Snyder launched a fiery critique of tech billionaire Elon Musk for his apparent refusal to turn on Starlink satellite coverage for Crimea last year, which would have enabled a Ukrainian drone attack on Sevastopol.Snyder argued that the failure to provide Starlink coverage was inexcusable, and that the entrepreneur was “duped” by Russian nuclear blackmail, leading to needless casualties and making nuclear war more likely.Not only is this argument quite unsound, but its vehement presentation also falls far short of what academics — as opposed to political activists — should be aiming at.The key point in Snyder’s take is that Ukraine’s successful operations in Crimea against military ...