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Californians fear this thing the most, according to a new survey

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:00 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Halloween is a time for spooky frights, and there's nothing that will send a tingle down a spine quite like confronting one's biggest "irrational" fear."Phobias" can feel just as scary as a haunted house for some, even though they are unlikely to actually cause harm in the course of everyday life. Whether it's heights or spiders, these overwhelming fears come in varying forms and degrees of intensity.However, there's a few common phobias that keep more people up at night than others. One recent survey, conducted by online gaming site Casino.org, sought to figure out what some of the biggest fears of Americans are and how it breaks down by state.The survey found that Acrophobia, or the fear of heights, came in as the most widespread fear across the U.S., with respondents in 21 states putting that at the top of their list. California was among those states. San Diego has hundreds of ghost stories. Here are six you may not have known Social phobia came in the No. 2 spot ...

Fight shuts down Vallejo high school football game

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:00 GMT

VALLEJO, Calif. (KRON) – Several brawls broke out at a high school football game between Vallejo High School and Kennedy High School this past weekend. The fighting got so bad that referees stopped play with nearly 10 minutes left in the game. “This was not a good night for Vallejo,” said Thomas Grase, a sports writer for the Vallejo Times Herald. “Fights were flying everywhere, it was just crazy.”Grase says when he snapped a photo showing the Vallejo High team, the coaches were trying to calm the team down so that play could resume. But then, Grase says another fight occurred. Who is Danny Serafini? Bay Area native goes from top MLB draft pick to murder suspect “And the referees were saying, ‘Game over. Game over. It isn't safe,’” he recalled. On Monday, Corbus Field, where the game was held Friday night, was vacant as several investigations got underway. The Vallejo Unified School District sent KRON4 this statement:"Vallejo City Unified School District condemns any form of ...

Rangers slugger Adolis Garcia sets postseason record with 14 ALCS RBIs, extends HR streak to 4 games

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:00 GMT

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Rangers slugger Adolis García set a record for RBIs in a postseason series with his 14th in the AL Championship Series and extended his home run streak to four games after going deep in Game 7 against the Houston Astros on Monday night. García stretched his RBI streak to six games with a single in the first inning of the pennant-deciding game. He added an opposite-field solo homer in the third and a two-run single in the fourth that pushed the Rangers to an 8-2 lead. He’s also the first player with RBIs in six straight games within a postseason series.The Dominican slugger known as “El Bombi” broke the previous postseason record held by Nelson Cruz. Cruz had 13 RBIs for the Rangers in the 2011 ALCS against Detroit, which was the last time they went to the World Series. It has been an eventful series for García, who hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the sixth inning of Game 5, when he spiked the bat and took a slow trot after putting the Rangers ahead. In ...

Astros’ Abreu gives up 2-run homer in Game 7 after suspension upheld but pushed to next year

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:00 GMT

HOUSTON (AP) — Astros reliever Bryan Abreu gave up Nathaniel Lowe’s two-run homer in Game 7 of the AL Championship Series against the Texas Rangers on Monday night after his two-game suspension for intentionally throwing at Adolis García delayed until the start of next season.Abreu was suspended Saturday by MLB senior vice president Michael Hill, a day after the incident. The reliever appealed, allowing him to pitch in Game 6, and a hearing was held Monday before John McHale Jr., a special assistant to baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. McHale put off the suspension until the regular season.Abreu entered in the sixth inning of Game 7 with Houston trailing 8-2 and hit his second batter, Mitch Garver, on the left side with a 97.2 mph fastball. Lowe homered with two outs, raising Abreu’s postseason ERA from 2.45 to 4.32 in nine appearances. Abreu said before the game he was pleased with the discipline resolution because it allowed him to pitch this postseason despite the su...

U.S. climbers charge to Paris Olympics with teenager Watson, exercise science graduate Piper Kelly

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:00 GMT

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The United States sport climbing team is dominating the Pan American Games in Chile and giving a boost to a teenager from Texas and a 24-year-old exercise science graduate to bid for Olympic medals in Paris.The 17-year-old Samuel Watson and Piper Kelly won the men’s and women’s speed events in Santiago, and their U.S. teammates were among the favorites for the boulder and lead competitions, which combine two techniques of rock climbing.Texan Watson started climbing at age 5 at a local Lifetime Fitness health club. Last year, as he perfected his ritual of kicking the wall before the start, he brought home a gold medal in his first year on the circuit.In Santiago, Watson scaled the wall in just 5.37 seconds on Sunday to beat teammate Noah Bratschi and put his father Ray into tears as his son took the Pan American gold medal. “Now it is all about getting stronger and faster for Paris,” Watson told The Associated Press on Monday before his other teamma...

Colorado veteran reunited with the B-52 he flew over Vietnam 50 years ago

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:00 GMT

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (KDVR) — It all came together in a hurry.Fellow veterans and friends, arranging a caravan to Colorado Springs. Thompson Valley EMS freeing up a transport van. The Air Force Academy rallying its airmen. All to help check off the most important item on Kenneth Curry’s bucket list."How’s it feel?" friend Steven Mulvihill asked Curry.“Kinda weird,” Curry said. WWII photographer honored for 100 years of service to country, community Captain Curry, as he was known a half-century ago in Vietnam, just entered palliative care a week ago. Hard to say how many days, or how few, he has in front of him.“The last six months, he has declined very quickly,” Mulvihill said.But he had one last wish before he dies: seeing a B-52 bomber one last time. 157 B-52 missions over VietnamIt’s the aircraft he flew during 157 missions over Vietnam, including one that nearly killed him in April 1972. He was in the commander’s seat over North Vietnam when a surface-to-air missile explod...

Flames engulf nature preserve in Coconut Creek

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:00 GMT

A brush fire burned in a wooded area in Coconut Creek.Heavy smoke billowed in a nature preserve along Hillsborough Boulevard and Lyons Road on Monday night.There is a residential neighborhood across the street from the fire, however, officials said none are threatened.Police closed off the road and access to the community as firefighters doused the flames.They believe they have it under control at this hour.

2 accused of robbing postal worker in Miami Beach arrested in St. Lucie County

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:00 GMT

Suspects inside a vehicle were wanted for a crime after a hot pursuit took place through the streets of Port St. Lucie. The men are accused of robbing a mail carrier on Miami Beach.The cross-county getaway would end with both of the suspects getting caught and cuffed.“They’re doing a felony stop right now,” said an officer. “Driver’s out of the vehicle.”Police chopper footage captured the takedown of the suspected Miami Beach crooks in St. Lucie County.“One in custody,” an officer.The two were arrested Sunday after their vehicle was identified as the one officers were looking for, which was connected to a strong-arm robbery of a postal worker in Miami Beach on Saturday.7News was told that the pair struck there.According to sources with knowledge of the investigation, they told 7News that the initial crime happened near Drexel and 16th Street, close to the Lincoln Road Mall. A postwoman was said to be the victim when she was robbed of ...

ECB set to take its foot off the brake in Athens

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:00 GMT

FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank is set to end a year-long sequence of interest rates hikes this Thursday and usher in a policy pause that is expected to stretch well into next year.The base case for all 85 economists in a recent Reuters survey is that the pause will ultimately come to represent the start of a plateau for interest rates, as a weakening economy removes the need for further hikes. The bank raised its key deposit rate to a record 4 percent in September with a 10th straight hike — by far the most aggressive tightening of monetary policy in its 25-year existence. With the Eurozone economy now expected to stagnate or even contract in the second half of this year, the majority of economists expect the ECB’s next move to be a cut — albeit not until the third quarter of next year. Against that backdrop, President Christine Lagarde is expected to play for time at her regular press conference after the meeting. That’s partly because uncertainty over the outlo...

Boston College has score to settle with UConn

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:00 GMT

The Boston College Eagles have an opportunity to close an open wound when they host the UConn Huskies in a regional rivalry clash on Saturday (noon) at Alumni Stadium.BC is riding high after winning its third straight with last Saturday’s 38-23 victory over Georgia Tech in an ACC match in Atlanta. The Eagles improved to 4-3 overall and 2-2 in the ACC while the Huskies are 1-6 after a 24-21 loss at South Florida.The situations were reversed last season when the bowl-bound Huskies humiliated the Eagles 13-3. BC would lose nine games in 2022, but the Eagles’ season bottomed out in all three phases at UConn.“We talked about it and last year there was a feeling nobody was proud of playing there and playing the way we did,” said BC middle linebacker Vinny DePalma.“I think it is a great opportunity for us with the chance to redeem ourselves and we are going in the right direction now. On paper it is a little bit of a trap game for us. But this is about as important of a game as this team h...